This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is,? a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism.
Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment.
Автор: Caroline A. Brown; Johanna X. K. Garvey Название: Madness in Black Women`s Diasporic Fictions ISBN: 3319863282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319863283 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Chapter 1. Introduction: Women, Writing, Madness: Reframing Diaspora Aesthetics - Caroline A. Brown
Part I: Revisiting the Archive, Re-inscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation
Chapter 2. Resisting Displacement in Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe - Nancy Caronia
Chapter 3. Madness and Translation of the Bones-as-text in Marlene NourbeSe Philip's Experimental Zong! - Richard Douglass-Chin
Chapter 4. Embodied Haunting: Aesthetics and the Archive in Toni Morrison's Beloved - Victoria Papa
Part II: The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony
Chapter 5. Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of Marronnage in Haitian Women's Fiction - Johanna X. K. Garvey
Chapter 6.Dark Swoops: Trauma and Madness in Half of a Yellow Sun - Seretha D. Williams
Chapter 7. "We Know People By Their Stories" Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! - Raquel D. Kennon
Part III: Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm
Chapter 8. Sharazade's Sisters and the Harem: Reclaiming the Forbidden as a Site of Resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Majda R. Atieh
Chapter 9. Magic, Madness and the Ruses of the Trickster: Healing Rituals and Alternative Spiritualities in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring - Caroline A. Brown
Chapter 10. "Recordless Company" Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl - E. Kim Stone
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Moving Beyond Psychic Ruptures - Johanna X. K. Garvey
Описание: A dissemination of the figure of the `Afropolitan` from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.
In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet entrances that are designed to ensure they are seen being photographed. Throughout the United States and Jamaica friends pose in front of hand-painted backgrounds of Tupac, flashy cars, or brand-name products popularized in hip-hop culture in countless makeshift roadside photography studios. And visual artists such as Kehinde Wiley remix the aesthetic of Western artists with hip-hop culture in their portraiture. In Shine, Krista Thompson examines these and other photographic practices in the Caribbean and United States, arguing that performing for the camera is more important than the final image itself. For the members of these African diasporic communities, seeking out the camera's light—whether from a cell phone, Polaroid, or video camera—provides a means with which to represent themselves in the public sphere. The resulting images, Thompson argues, become their own forms of memory, modernity, value, and social status that allow for cultural formation within and between African diasporic communities.
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process.
Beyond the Nation considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. Ponce elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, Ponce proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.
Автор: Liao Pei-Chen Название: `Post`-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction ISBN: 0230349684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230349681 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by exploring the themes of uncanny terror through a close reading of four "post" -9/11 South Asian diasporic fictions.
Автор: Ranasinha Название: Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women`s Fiction ISBN: 1137403047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137403049 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.
Автор: Caroline A. Brown and Johanna X. K. Garvey Название: Madness in black women`s diasporic fictions. ISBN: 3319581260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319581262 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the "madwoman" as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach.
The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance.
Автор: Universite de Caen Basse-Normandie Название: Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature ISBN: 1349305979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349305971 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Kral takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Monica Ali.
Описание: Offering the first comparative literary history of Hebrew and Yiddish modernist prose, Diasporic Modernisms argues that these two literary histories can no longer be separated by nationalist and monolingual histories.
Chapter 1: Introduction: A Prefatory "Postscript".- Chapter 2: "Saor an tSeanbhean Bhocht!" Moving from Cailleach to Spйirbhean.- Chapter 3: Nuala Nн Dhomhnaill's Traumatic/Erotic Map: Transubstantiating the Body of Ireland.- Chapter 4: Sexing the Changeling: Magic Realism and Queer Geography in the Oeuvres of Yeats and French.- Chapter 5: Coda: Thinking Globally and Geopolitically on Irish Grounds.
Автор: Arezou Zalipour Название: Migrant and Diasporic Film and Filmmaking in New Zealand ISBN: 9811313784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811313783 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is the first ever collection on diasporic screen production in New Zealand. Through contributions by a diverse range of local and international scholars, it identifies the central characteristics, histories, practices and trajectories of screen media made by and/or about migrant and diasporic peoples in New Zealand, including Asians, Pacific Islanders and other communities. It addresses issues pertinent to representation of migrant and diasporic life and experience on screen, and showcases critical dialogues with directors, scriptwriters, producers and other key figures whose work reflects experiences of migration, diaspora and multiculturalism in contemporary New Zealand. With a foreword by Hamid Naficy, the key theorist of accented cinema, this comprehensive collection addresses essential questions about migrant, multicultural and diasporic screen media, policies of representation, and the new aesthetic styles and production regimes emerging from New Zealand film and TV. Migrant and Diasporic Film and Filmmaking in New Zealand is a touchstone for emerging work concerned with migration, diaspora and multiculturalism in New Zealand’s screen production and practice.
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