Описание: This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"-specifically, a foreign culture or nation-as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
Автор: Goyal Название: The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature ISBN: 1107085209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107085206 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12514.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a clear, substantive, and authoritative guide to transnationalism in American literature. Leading scholars provide a history of the field, key debates, and instances of literary readings, identifying key modes by which writers have responded to major historical, political, and ethical issues prompted by globalization.
Автор: Patterson Название: Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms ISBN: 0521349567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521349567 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6811.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Anita Patterson examines cross-currents of influence among American, African American and Caribbean authors. This bold and imaginative work of transnational literary and historical criticism sets canonical figures in fascinating contexts and will be of interest to scholars of American literature, modernism, postcolonial studies, and Caribbean literature.
Описание: Presents a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. This book juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir.
During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wright, and Paul Bowles—who found themselves prompted to seek experiences outside of their home country, experiences that profoundly changed their self-understanding and creative imagination as they encountered alternative points of views and cultural practices in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Alexa Weik von Mossner offers a new perspective on the affective underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism by drawing on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies. She analyzes how physical dislocation, and the sometimes violent shifts in understanding that result from our affective encounters with others, led Boyle, Buck, Smith, Wright, and Bowles to develop new, cosmopolitan solidarities across national, ethnic, and religious boundaries. She also shows how, in their literary texts, these writers employed strategic empathy to provoke strong emotions such as love, sympathy, compassion, fear, anger, guilt, shame, and disgust in their readers in order to challenge their parochial worldviews and practices. Reading these texts as emotionally powerful indictments of institutionalized racism and national violence inside and outside of the United States, Weik von Mossner demonstrates that our emotional engagements with others—real and imagined—are crucially important for the development of transnational and cosmopolitan imaginations.
Описание: Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of ""religion"" and ""secularism"" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, Khaled Mattawa, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Mounir Fatmi, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir. Looking at multiple genres and modes of aesthetic production, including AIDS narratives, visual art, and digital media, Haque explores how their conventions are used to subvert the ideals tied to secularism and the various anxieties and investments that support secularism as a premise. These authors and artists critique Western iterations of secular thought in spaces such as art exhibits, airports, borders, and literary discourses to capture how the secularism thesis reproduces the exclusivity it intends to remedy.
Описание: This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"-specifically, a foreign culture or nation-as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
Описание: This is an edited volume that seeks to elaborate new methodologies and forge new questions in research about Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Название: Mexican transnational cinema and literature ISBN: 1787070662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787070660 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 11807.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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It was a great night for Mexico, as usual. Donald Trump's words about Alejandro Gonz lez I rritu on Oscars' night 2014 were a preview of his now-notorious attitude toward Mexicans: He's walking away with all the gold? Was it that good? I don't hear that. It was certainly a big night for them. Although the future president's comments were offensive, for scholars interested in transnational film and literature his words were pure gold, for they raise questions about nation as a category of representation. When we invoke Mexican cinema , we imply that some kind of national cinema exists - but what is a national cinema? Is the cinema made in the US a national cinema in the same way as that of Mexico's? And is a film made by a foreigner in Mexico part of Mexican cinema? What does it mean for a film or a literary work to cross a border? And are borders to be defined in geographical terms only, or can they also be cast in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race, or language itself? This book, in short, reflects on the implications of the term transnational in relation to film and literature conceived - in any way, shape, or form - as Mexican .
Описание: The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex relationships between place, displacement and belonging, and illuminates the ways in which these writings have shaped a global Lebanese identity. Combining history with sociology, Bayeh examines how the literature borne out of this expatriate community reflects a Lebanese diasporic imaginary that is sensitive to the entangled associations of place and identity. Paving the way for new approaches to understanding diasporic literature and identity, this book will be vital for researchers of migration studies and Middle Eastern literature, as well as those interested in the cultures, history and politics of the Middle East.
Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas-whether chosen or forced-motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to understand belonging, that reverberates through narratives of the Americas. The volume brings together essays written from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary perspectives to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas. Drawing on international scholars from the seemingly disparate regions of the Americas-North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America-this book extends critical theories of life writing beyond limiting national boundaries. The scholarship included approaches narrative inquiry from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, art history, sociology, anthropology, political science, pedagogy, gender studies, critical race studies, and indigenous studies. As a whole, this volume advances discourse in auto/biography studies, life writing, and identity studies by locating transnational themes in narratives of the Americas and placing them in international and interdisciplinary conversations.
Описание: Tara Stubbs is a University Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing in the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University, UK. Doug Haynes is a Lecturer in American Studies at the School of English, University of Sussex, UK.
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