201 results on '"*TRANSNATIONALISM in literature"'
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2. Verses without Borders: Vikram Seth's Transnational Poetry.
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PUTTAIAH, VENKATESH
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POETRY writing ,TRANSNATIONALISM in literature - Abstract
This article concentrates on the transnational nature of Vikram Seth's poetry by analyzing his poems that have China as their background. The poems under consideration are based on Seth's experience of living in China from the collection The Humble Administrator's Garden; his English translations of Chinese poets from Three Chinese Poets; and his two fables built around Chinese culture from Beastly Tales from Here and There. The three varied poetic forms are analyzed here for their common concern with China, but their variety is a pointer to Seth's versatile literary career that encompasses poetry, fiction, memoir, and libretto. Understanding Seth's poems of Chinese background from Indian standpoint is the aim of this article. The author's literary endeavor in these poems offers his readers in India a closer look at China: its people and their ways; its terrain, flora and fauna; and its heritage. The article goes on to note some of the challenges for, and relevance of, humanities in the universities at present while it highlights the example of Vikram Seth's poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
3. Past Spaces and Revisits in Transnational Poetry: The Sojourning Returnee of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Do You Live In?
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Wagner, Tamara S.
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Lim ,Shirley Geok-lin ,Southeast Asia in literature ,Postcolonial poetry ,Transnationalism in literature ,Peranakans in literature - Abstract
This essay explores the shifting vantage-point of a temporary returnee and an observant sojourner in the poetry of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. Situating Lim’s recent collection, Do You Live In? (2015) both in the context of her renewed migrations to different places in Asia and within a widening transnational project of reconceptualizing traditional dichotomies of the diasporic, a critical discussion of her latest poetry enables us to trace how reflections on memory and place in a world of growing global change and exchanges can contribute to an awareness of the everyday experiences of the transnational. The lyric form allows Lim to express the emotional experience of the moment, and the collection as a whole consequently produces a juxtaposition of divergent emotions: snapshots of returns and the reordering of memory. While the bounded self is located in what Lim terms a “place of nomadism,” the heteroglossia of individual lyrics expresses the multiplicity of influences and their re-appropriation. In her seemingly most localized poems, personal memories encounter – and rip apart – heritage nostalgia to engage self-consciously with transnational experience.
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- 2019
4. Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
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Robert Hampson and Robert Hampson
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- Cosmopolitanism in literature, Transnationalism in literature
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In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a ‘cosmopolitan'vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings of the term ‘cosmopolitan'. It then considers the multinational world of Conrad's ships – and of the Merchant Marine more generally – to differentiate multinationalism from cosmopolitanism. Subsequent chapters then address nationalism, nation-formation and the concept of the nation through a reading of Nostromo; cosmopolitanism and internationalism in The Secret Agent; nationalism, internationalism and transnational activism in relation to Under Westen Eyes; and Conrad's own transnational activism in his later essays. While drawing distinctions between cosmopolitanism, internationalism and transnationalism as the appropriate conceptual framings for Conrad's works, this book traces Conrad's own engagement with nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnational activism in relation to the political events of his time.
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- 2024
5. Emancipating the Bracketed Self: Articulating Transcultural and Transnational Identity in Sunetra Gupta's Memories of Rain.
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Hossain, Mujaffar and Panda, Prasenjit
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POSTCOLONIALISM in literature ,NATIVE American women authors ,ACCULTURATION in literature ,TRANSNATIONALISM in literature - Abstract
The postcolonial diasporic writers' favourite trend is diaspora, dislocation, and memory. Women Indian writers living in host countries are far more advanced in this discipline than male writers. Their narratives are reminiscent of the past they left behind, as well as a reflection of the challenges they face in articulating new identities in the host country. Memories of Rain (1992) by Sunetra Gupta is a complicated and difficult postcolonial novel about numerous facets of migration and diaspora, including displacement, acculturation, transculture, and transnationality. Gupta illustrates interculturality and cultural hybridity through the protagonist's marriage to a foreigner. The goal of this research is to investigate the transcultural and transnational aspects of Gupta's Memories of Rain by applying postcolonial cultural theory of Homi K. Bhabha and Avtar Brah. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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6. States of Disconnect : The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century
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Adhira Mangalagiri and Adhira Mangalagiri
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- Transnationalism in literature, Indic literature--20th century--History and criticism, Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism, Comparative literature--Indic and Chinese, Comparative literature--Chinese and Indic
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In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of relating with others? Comparative literature has long been under the spell of circulation, contact, connectivity, and mobility—what if it instead sought out their antitheses?States of Disconnect examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Focusing on practices of comparison, Adhira Mangalagiri considers how these texts articulate the undesirability or impossibility of relating with national others, tracing portrayals of violence, silence, and distance. She proposes the concept of “disconnect”: a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed. Despite their apparent insularity, texts of disconnect offer possibilities for relating ethically across national borders while resisting both narrow nationalisms and globalized habits of thought. Reading a variety of largely untranslated twentieth-century Chinese and Hindi short stories, novels, and poems, Mangalagiri develops three new strategies for comparison—friction, ellipses, and contingency—that together comprise a critical vocabulary of disconnect. Foregrounding transnationalism's discontents, States of Disconnect offers a different path by which literary texts can cultivate a critical sensibility for making sense of a world rife with division.
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- 2023
7. Women Writers of the New African Diaspora : Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency
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Pauline Ada Uwakweh and Pauline Ada Uwakweh
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- African diaspora in literature, Transnationalism in literature, Women, Black, in literature, Fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, Fiction--Black authors--History and criticism, Fiction--21st century--History and criticism, Emigration and immigration in literature
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This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences. The book inspires critical readings of these writers'works by revealing emerging trends in women's literature as they are being determined and redefined by immigration. As transnational subjects, the writers engage various meanings of mobility and exhibit innovative aesthetic styles; they create awareness on gender identities and transformations, constructions of home and belonging, as well as the politics of citizenship in the hostland. The book also highlights the importance of reverse migrations and performance returns to the homeland as an expression of human desire for home and belonging, and taken as a whole, it enhances our understanding of how migration and transnational existence are (re)shaping immigrant subjects. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and researchers of African Diaspora literatures and gender studies, who will find this book beneficial for investigating critical trends, approaches to transnational literature, and for comprehending the diasporic burdens that transnational immigrants bear.
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- 2023
8. Cosmopolitan Love : Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang
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Sijia Yao and Sijia Yao
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- Love in literature, Transnationalism in literature, Cosmopolitanism in literature, Sex in literature
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Love, and the different manifestations of it, is a common theme in literature around the world. In Cosmopolitan Love, Sijia Yao examines the writings of D. H. Lawrence, a British writer whose literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships in domestic settings, and Eileen Chang, a Chinese writer who migrated to the United States and explored Chinese heterosexual love in her writing. While comparing the writings of a Chinese writer and an English one, Yao avoids a direct comparison between East and West that could further enforce binaries. Instead, she uses the comparison to develop an idea of cosmopolitanism that shows how the writers are in conversation with their own culture and with each other. Both D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang wrote stories that are influenced by—but sometimes stand in opposition to—their own cultures. They offer alternative understandings of societies dealing with modernism and cultural globalization. Their stories deal with emotional pain caused by the restrictions of local politics and economics and address common themes of incestuous love, sexual love, adulterous love, and utopian love. By analyzing their writing, Yao demonstrates that the concept of love as a social and political force can cross cultural boundaries and traditions to become a basis for human meaning, the key to a cosmopolitan vision.
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- 2023
9. Invisibility, Transnationalism, and Filipino Canadian Comics.
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Tromly, Lucas
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FILIPINO diaspora , *COMICS publishing , *TRANSNATIONALISM in literature , *CANADIAN literature , *INVISIBILITY in literature - Abstract
This article discusses the neglect of Filipino Canadian comics in Canadian comics studies, despite the growing demographic significance of Filipinos in Canada and the rich body of work produced by Filipino Canadian creators.It discusses some Filipino Canadian comics, highlighting their transnational sensibility and engagement with global spaces and histories. It also explores the invisibility of diasporic Filipinos.
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- 2022
10. Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art
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John A. Lent, Wendy Siuyi Wong, Benjamin Wai–ming Ng, John A. Lent, Wendy Siuyi Wong, and Benjamin Wai–ming Ng
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- Communication and culture, Comic books, strips, etc.--East Asia--History and criticism, Comic books, strips, etc.--Southeast Asia--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature
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This book explores various aspects of transnationalism and comics art in six East Asian and seven Southeast Asian countries/territories. The 14 richly illustrated chapters embrace comics, cartoons, and animation relative to offshore production, transnational ownership, multinational collaboration, border crossings of comics art creators and characters, expansion of overseas markets, cartoonists in political exile, colonial underpinnings, adaptation of foreign styles and formats, representation of other cultures, and more. Using case studies, historical accounts, descriptive overviews, individual artists'profiles, and representational analyses, and fascinatingly told through techniques as document use, interviews, observation, and textual analyses, the end result is a thorough, interesting, and compact volume on transnationalism and comics art in East and Southeast Asia.
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- 2022
11. The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
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Sarah M. Quesada and Sarah M. Quesada
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- American literature--21st century--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature, Group identity in literature, American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism, American literature--Caribbean American authors--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism
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The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah Quesada argues that these canonical works evoke textual memorials of African memory. She shows how the African Atlantic haunts modern Latinx and Caribbean writing, and examines the disavowal or distortion of the African subject in the constructions of national, racial, sexual, and spiritual Latinx identity. Quesada shows how themes such as the 19th century'scramble for Africa,'the decolonizing wars, Black internationalism, and the neoliberal turn are embedded in key narratives. Drawing from multilingual archives about West and Central Africa, she examines how the legacies of colonial French, Iberian, British and U.S. Imperialisms have impacted on the relationships between African and Latinx identities. This is the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature.
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- 2022
12. Transforming Family : Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature
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Jocelyn Frelier and Jocelyn Frelier
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- French fiction--21st century--History and criticism, Moroccan fiction (French)--History and criticism, Families in literature, Kinship in literature, Queer theory, Transnationalism in literature, Algerian fiction (French)--History and criticism, Emigration and immigration in literature
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One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas. This alternate understanding, which imagines a category of “trans-” families, relies on decolonial and queer intellectual thought to mobilize or transform power across borders. In Transforming Family Jocelyn Frelier examines a selection of novels penned by francophone authors in France, Morocco, and Algeria, including Azouz Begag, Nina Bouraoui, Fouad Laroui, Leïla Sebbar, Leïla Slimani, and Abdellah Taïa. Each novel contributes a unique argument about this alternate understanding of family, questioning how family relates to race, gender, class, embodiment, and intersectionality. Arguing that trans- families are always already queer, Frelier opens up new spaces of agency for both family units and individuals who seek representation and fulfilling futures. The novels analyzed in Transforming Family, as well as the families they depict, resist classification and delink the legacies of colonialism from contemporary modes of being. As a result, these novels create trans- identities for their protagonists and contribute to a scholarly understanding of the becoming trans- of cultural production. As international political debates related to migration, the family unit, and the “global migrant crisis” surge, Frelier destabilizes governmental criteria for the “regrouping” of families by turning to a set of definitions found in the cultural production of members of the francophone, North African diaspora.
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- 2022
13. Bridges to Self: Material Culture and Emotional Transnationalism in Grace Lin's Picture Books.
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Deborah De Rosa, Deborah
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PICTURE books , *TRANSNATIONALISM in literature , *CHINESE American children - Published
- 2022
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14. Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture : Central Europe and the West
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Ágnes Györke, Imola Bülgözdi, Ágnes Györke, and Imola Bülgözdi
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- National characteristics, Central European, Motion pictures--Hungary--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature, Central European literature--20th century--History and criticism, Affect (Psychology) in literature, Central Europeans, Cities and towns in literature, Cities and towns in motion pictures
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Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture opens a dialogue between the literary and filmic works produced in Central Europe and in the Anglophone world. It relies on the concept of translocality to explore this corpus, offering new readings of contemporary Hungarian films as well as urban fiction and poetry in English. Calling attention to the role of affect in imagining city space, the volume investigates György Pálfi's Taxidermia, Béla Tarr's Family Nest, Teju Cole's Open City, Toni Morrison's Jazz, China Miéville's Un Lun Dun, Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah, and Patrick Neate's City of Tiny Lights, among many other urban narratives. Contributors examine both widely explored emotions and under-researched affects, such as shame, fascination, and the role of withdrawal in contemporary literature and culture. Contributors: Tamás Bényei, Imola Bülgözdi, Fanni Feldmann, Zsolt Győri, Ágnes Györke, Brigitta Hudácskó, György Kalmár, Anna Kérchy, Márta Kőrösi, Jennifer Leetsch, Katalin Pálinkás, Miklós Takács, Pieter Vermeulen.
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- 2021
15. Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo
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Bernadine Hernández, Karen Roybal, Bernadine Hernández, and Karen Roybal
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- Mexican Americans in literature, American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature, Feminist literature--History and criticism, Hispanic Americans in literature
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For more than forty years, Chicana author Ana Castillo has produced novels, poems, and critical essays that forge connections between generations; challenge borders around race, gender, and sexuality; and critically engage transnational issues of space, identity, and belonging. Her contributions to Latinx cultural production and to Chicana feminist thought have transcended and contributed to feminist praxis, ethnic literature, and border studies throughout the Americas. Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo is the first edited collection that focuses on Castillo's oeuvre, which directly confronts what happens in response to cultural displacement, mixing, and border crossing. Divided into five sections, this collection thinks about Castillo's poetics, language, and form, as well as thematic issues such as borders, immigration, gender, sexuality, and transnational feminism. From her first political poetry, Otro Canto, published in 1977, to her mainstream novels such as The Mixquiahuala Letters, So Far From God, and The Guardians, this collection aims to unravel how Castillo's writing impacts people of color around the globe and works in solidarity with other third world feminisms.
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- 2021
16. Ocean Passages : Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures
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Erin Suzuki and Erin Suzuki
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- American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism, Pacific Island literature--History and criticism, Ocean travel in literature, Decolonization in literature, Transnationalism in literature
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In her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through—and travel across—the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars have emphasized the importance of the ocean to Indigenous activism, art, and theories of globalization and how Asian American studies might engage in a deconstructive interrogation of race in conversation with this Indigenous-centered transnationalism. The ocean passages that Suzuki addresses include the U.S. occupation and militarization of ocean space; refugee passage and the history and experiences of peoples displaced from the Pacific Islands; migratory circuits and the labors required to cross the sea; and the different ways that oceans inform postcolonial and settler colonial nationalisms. She juxtaposes work by Indigenous Pacific and Asian American artists and authors including James George, Maxine Hong Kingston, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, lê thi diếm thúy, Ruth Ozeki, and Craig Santos Perez. In Ocean Passages, Suzuki explores what new ideas, alliances, and flashpoints might arise when comparing and contrasting Asian and Pacific Islander passages across a shared sea.
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- 2021
17. Rejection of Victimhood in Literature : By Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea
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Sean James Bosman and Sean James Bosman
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- Immigrants in literature, Victims in literature, Marginality, Social, in literature, Transnationalism in literature, Agent (Philosophy) in literature
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Transnational writers are increasingly opposed to representations of refugees, exiles, migrants, and their descendants as emblematic victims. With the rise of populist nationalisms in the USA and the UK in the eras of Trumpism, Brexit, and their aftermath, targets of nationalist groups have increasingly been represented, and thus constituted, as individual suffering victims. Certain groups embrace such representations. They use them to secure help and protection for themselves. Less scrupulous individuals may even embrace these representations to elide their own accountability and further nefarious goals. This book examines an intriguing selection of writers to show how they are attempting to recalibrate such stories to reject victimhood. It explores how just memory is deployed to ascribe agency to transnational characters.
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- 2021
18. Transnational Jean Rhys : Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight
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Juliana Lopoukhine, Frédéric Regard, Kerry-Jane Wallart, Juliana Lopoukhine, Frédéric Regard, and Kerry-Jane Wallart
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- Electronic books, Transnationalism in literature, Modernism (Literature)
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This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer is due for reassessment.Transnational Jean Rhys argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with Rhys's writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign – especially French – authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in myriad directions. Including an interview with Black Atlantic novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.
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- 2020
19. HAUNTING PERENNIAL GIRLHOODS: INFANTILIZATION AND THE TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN GOTHIC FROM GILMAN TO CÉSAIRE.
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ROSZAK, SUZANNE MANIZZA
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INFANTILIZATION of older people , *AMERICAN gothic fiction (Literary genre) , *TRANSNATIONALISM in literature , *AMERICAN literature , *WHITE supremacy - Abstract
The Gothic conceit of American womanhood as a nightmarish form of perennial childhood assumes new layers of meaning when viewed in transnational perspective. Haunting portrayals of infantilized women-children give canonical American works like Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' an unlikely kinship with postcolonial texts like Paz's La hija de Rappaccini and Césaire's Une tempête. While echoing Gilman's critique of patriarchal superstructures, Paz and Césaire also confront white women's role in upholding systems of white supremacy, slavery, and (neo-)imperialism. Taken together, Gilman, Paz, and Césaire speak to the shifting significations and the staying power of unending Gothic girlhoods in transnational American literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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20. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism : Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature
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Aleksandar Stevic, Philip Tsang, Aleksandar Stevic, and Philip Tsang
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- Globalization--Social aspects, Cosmopolitanism in literature, Transnationalism in literature, Literature, Modern--21st century
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This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such diverse locales as England, Algeria, Sweden, former Yugoslavia, and the Sudan, the essays in this collection interrogate the tensions and impasses in our prison-house of cosmopolitanism.
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- 2019
21. Richard Wright and Transnationalism : New Dimensions to Modern American Expatriate Literature
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Mamoun Alzoubi and Mamoun Alzoubi
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- Transnationalism in literature
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Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in transnational contexts, formed by the new nations surfacing from colonial rule. Richard Wright and Transnationalism demonstrates how Wright, beginning with his work in the 1950s, began to hypothesize the shared history of suffering that linked the experience of slavery, Jim Crow and racism in African American life with the impact of colonialism and neocolonialism on the large communities of Africa, Asia and Europe.
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- 2019
22. Relationality, Discontinuity, and (Hi)stories: The Errantry and Opacity of Maryse Condé's Desirada.
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Izquierdo, Amanda González
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DISCONTINUITY (Philosophy) ,PHILOSOPHY in literature ,SUICIDAL behavior ,TRANSNATIONALISM in literature - Abstract
This article examines the ways in which Maryse Condé's Desirada is rhizomatic both thematically and formally. It argues that by portraying a protagonist in a multinational quest within a polyphonic narrative, Condé's text is reminiscent of Édouard Glissant's theories of errantry, Relation , opacity and transparency, and root and rhizome. I posit that the novel takes shape in, as, and through extension as it examines the ways in which rhizomatic thinking enables the construction of multiple, converging histories. Moreover, I demonstrate that these histories are valid and meaningful not in spite of their divergences, ambiguities, silences, and inaccessibilities, but precisely because of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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23. Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella's Slippery Steps.
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Nyman, Jopi
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SOCIAL mobility ,MALTESE ,FICTION writing ,CREATIVE writing ,TRANSNATIONALISM in literature - Abstract
This article examines the representation of European peripheries in contemporary postcolonial writing through a study of the centre–periphery relationship in the English-language novel Slippery Steps: A Maltese Odyssey (2011) by the Maltese writer Vincent Vella. The article argues that Vella's novel is embedded in transnational mobility and shows that Maltese identity is constituted by constant movement between Malta and Britain, periphery and centre, as well as in interaction with other Mediterranean and European spaces. This reading of the novel suggests that its representation of Maltese identities is ambiguous. While the experience of mobility in the novel emphasizes the importance of contact zones as sites of hybridity in both the centre and the periphery, by locating its central characters in the contexts of diaspora and migration, the novel also shows how its diasporic identities signify trauma and loss, thus problematizing the centre–periphery relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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24. Strasbourg, the crossroads and the borderline: Poetics of heterotopia in contemporary literature.
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Frank Wygoda, Tsivia
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POSTCOLONIALISM ,TRANSNATIONALISM in literature ,LITERATURE & transnationalism - Abstract
A city defined by centuries of geographical displacement, historical mobility, and linguistic hybridity, Strasbourg has a long literary tradition as a site of transaction, translation, and travel. Recent writings in French and German reveal a new imaginary that envisions the crossroads city as a postcolonial heterotopia. The novels Les nuits de Strasbourg (The nights of Strasbourg, 1997) by Assia Djebar and Soharas Reise (Zohara's Journey, 1996) by Barbara Honigmann, and Jacques Derrida's philosophical essay "The Place Name(s) – Strasbourg" (2004) encapsulate this imaginary. Taking Strasbourg as an object more than a location, they draw multilateral trajectories from Germany to France and from Algeria to Alsace, exploring traumatic memories, colonial legacies, and postcolonial identities. This article analyses representations of Strasbourg in which the double-sided geographical peripherality and cultural liminality of a border-city that is also a symbol for transnational Europe challenge traditional spaces of belonging and transcend the boundaries of national literatures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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25. The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji : Diaspora, Literature, and Culture
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Asma Sayed, Karim Murji, Asma Sayed, and Karim Murji
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- Transnationalism in literature
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The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji is a collection of scholarly articles that engages with, analyzes, and appreciatively critiques the fiction and nonfiction writing of M. G. Vassanji, a multiple award-winning author. Vassanji's works have a sense of multiple connections across four continents: Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. He challenges the imperial centers of Western powers through the content of his work and his deeply-felt humanist engagements with the politics of displacement, settlement, partition and postcolonialism. Ranging across almost his entire oeuvre, the contributors to this book argue that Vassanji's work should be read as one emerging from a transnational space that connects people, places and issues across the world. Collectively, the chapters in this book, using a range of theoretical frameworks, claim that Vassanji's work both fits into and goes beyond the usual categorizations, structures and styles of analysis applied to writers from the colonies.
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- 2018
26. Poezie ve dvojím ohni
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Quinn, Justin and Quinn, Justin
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- Cold War in literature, Literature and transnationalism, Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature
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Irský básník a prozaik Justin Quinn (• 1968), který od počátku devadesátých let žije v Praze a přeložil do angličtiny mimo jiné básně Petra Borkovce, Bohuslava Reynka či Jana Zábrany, předkládá v této monografii souvislý výklad obousměrných kontaktů východoevropské (především české a ruské) a anglicky psané poezie v období studené války. Na české straně zde významnou roli hraje především Jan Zábrana jakožto překladatel amerických levicových básníků a Miroslav Holub jakožto zprostředkovatel beatnické poetiky v etablovaných kruzích americké literární kritiky; dalšími důležitými jmény jsou Allen Ginsberg, Josif Brodskij či Seamus Heaney. Monografie kriticky staví na půdorysu takzvané transnacionální poetiky, jejíž teoretický výklad podává v rozsáhlé úvodní kapitole.
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- 2018
27. Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction
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Michael Walonen and Michael Walonen
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- Fiction--21st century--History and criticism, Fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Globalization in literature, Transnationalism in literature
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We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant large-scale social and ecological consequences of these are drastically remaking our world, cultural producers from across the globe are seeking to make sense of, and provide insights into, these complex changes. Imagining Neoliberal Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction takes a broad cross-cultural approach to analyzing the literature of our increasingly transnationalized world system, considering how its key constituent features and local-level manifestations have been thematized and imaginatively seized upon by literary fiction produced from the perspective of the periphery of the capitalist world system. Textual renderings of globalization are not simply second-order approximations of it, but constitutive elements of globalization that condition how it will be understood and responded to, and so coming to terms with the narrativizations of globalization is vital scholarly work, as, among other things, it allows us to see to what extent it is currently possible to imagine alternatives to globalization's more baleful aspects. This work will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of areas including contemporary literary/cultural studies, globalization studies, international relations, and international political economy.
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- 2018
28. Transitive Cultures : Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
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Christopher B. Patterson and Christopher B. Patterson
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- Literature and transnationalism--Philippines, Literature and transnationalism--Malaysia, Southeast Asian literature (English)--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature
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Winner of the 2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize from the American Studies Association Texts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of multiculturalism—with its emphasis on authenticity and identifiable cultural difference—is precisely what this literature resists? Transitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic writers enact a variety of hybrid, transnational identities and intimacies. Examining literature from Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as from Southeast Asian migrants in Canada, Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland, this book considers how these authors use English strategically, as a means for building interethnic alliances and critiquing ruling power structures in both Southeast Asia and North America. Uncovering a wealth of texts from queer migrants, those who resist ethnic stereotypes, and those who feel few ties to their ostensible homelands, Transitive Cultures challenges conventional expectations regarding diaspora and minority writers.
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- 2017
29. The World, the Text, and the Indian : Global Dimensions of Native American Literature
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Scott Richard Lyons and Scott Richard Lyons
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- Colonization in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Transnationalism in literature, Indian authors--Political and social views, American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Indians in literature, Indians--Attitudes
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Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study, recovery, and teaching of Native American literary and cultural production. For the past few decades the dominant framework has been nationalism, a critical perspective placing emphasis on specific tribal nations and nationalist concepts. While this nationalist intervention has produced important insights and questions regarding Native American literature, culture, and politics, it has not always attended to the important fact that Native texts and writers have also always been globalized. The World, the Text, and the Indian breaks from this framework by examining Native American literature not for its tribal-national significance but rather its connections to global, transnational, and cosmopolitan forces. Essays by leading scholars in the field assume that Native American literary and cultural production is global in character; even claims to sovereignty and self-determination are made in global contexts and influenced by global forces. Spanning from the nineteenth century to the present day, these analyses of theories, texts, and methods—from trans-indigenous to cosmopolitan, George Copway to Sherman Alexie, and indigenous feminism to book history—interrogate the dialects of global indigeneity and settler colonialism in literary and visual culture.
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- 2017
30. Transnacionalidad e hibridez en el ensayo hispánico : Un género sin orillas
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Reindert Dhondt, Dagmar Vandebosch, Reindert Dhondt, and Dagmar Vandebosch
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- Spanish American essays--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature, Nationalism and literature
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Transnacionalidad e hibridez en el ensayo hispánico. Un género sin orillas examines how the essay, a privileged genre for the articulation of national identities in Latin America and Spain for decades, is being reconfigured in the present age of globalisation and transnationalisation. The articles included in this volume pay particular attention to the discursive forms and the practices of publishing that question old national categories, without disregarding their relevance.Starting from some theoretical considerations about the contemporary Latin American essay, the book concentrates especially on three dimensions of transnationalising the essay: the experience of exile, the tensions between the national and the transnational in the redefinition of Hispanic identities, and its relation with the genre's formal hybridisation, in the work of authors such as Bolaño, Piglia and Vila-Matas. Transnacionalidad e hibridez en el ensayo hispánico. Un género sin orillas estudia cómo el ensayo, que durante décadas ofreció un foro privilegiado a la articulación de identidades nacionales en Latinoamérica y España, se está reconfigurando en una era de globalización y transnacionalización. Este volumen dedica atención especial a las formas discursivas y los modos de publicación que ponen en entredicho las antiguas categorías nacionales, sin descartar la relevancia de éstas.Partiendo de unas reflexiones más teóricas sobre el ensayo latinoamericano contemporáneo, el libro se centra en tres dimensiones de transnacionalización, a saber, la experiencia del exilio, las tensiones entre lo nacional y lo transnacional en la redefinición de identidades hispánicas, y la relación con la hibridación formal del género. Se estudian obras de autores como Bolaño, Piglia y Vila-Matas.
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- 2017
31. Experiments in Life-Writing : Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction
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Lucia Boldrini, Julia Novak, Lucia Boldrini, and Julia Novak
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- Transnationalism in literature, Biography, Biography as a literary form, Autobiography
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This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character's story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
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- 2017
32. Haunting Encounters : The Ethics of Reading Across Boundaries of Difference
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Joanne Lipson Freed and Joanne Lipson Freed
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- Memory in literature, Difference (Philosophy) in literature, Psychic trauma in literature, Ghosts in literature, Supernatural in literature, Transnationalism in literature, Commonwealth fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism, Commonwealth fiction (English)--21st century--History and criticism, American fiction--21st century--History and criticism, Ghost stories--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism
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Acts of cross-cultural reading have ethical consequences. In Haunting Encounters, Joanne Lipson Freed traces the narrative strategies through which certain works of fiction forge connections with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed uses the idea of haunting—an intense, temporary, and transformative encounter that defies rational understanding—as a metaphor for the kinds of ethical relationships that such works cultivate with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed points out how such works as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things strike a delicate balance between empathy and alterity. Their engaging narratives, Freed argues, bring unfamiliar characters and distant settings to life for readers who encounter them as'other,'but they also highlight the limits of fiction, holding in check the impulse to colonize another's experience with one's own. Haunting Encounters is a sensitive and perceptive application of theory to real-world concerns. It draws together the fields of postcolonial fiction and narrative ethics and suggests original modes of engagement between readers and books that promise new ways of looking at the world.
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- 2017
33. Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
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Robert S. Levine and Robert S. Levine
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- Transnationalism in literature, African Americans in literature, American literature--19th century--History and criticism, Race in literature, Black nationalism in literature, American literature--African American authors--History and criticism, Black people in literature
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Inspired by Toni Morrison's call for an interracial approach to American literature, and by recent efforts to globalize American literary studies, Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies ranges widely in its case-study approach to canonical and non-canonical authors. Leading critic Robert S. Levine considers Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, and other nineteenth-century American writers alongside less well known African American figures such as Nathaniel Paul and Sutton Griggs. He pays close attention to racial representations and ideology in nineteenth-century American writing, while exploring the inevitable tension between the local and the global in this writing. Levine addresses transatlanticism, the Black Atlantic, citizenship, empire, temperance, climate change, black nationalism, book history, temporality, Kantian transnational aesthetics, and a number of other issues. The book also provides a compelling critical frame for understanding developments in American literary studies over the past twenty-five years.
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- 2017
34. Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile
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Catalina Florina Florescu, Sheng-mei Ma, Catalina Florina Florescu, and Sheng-mei Ma
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- Expatriate authors, Emigration and immigration--Social aspects, English literature--History and criticism, Literature and transnationalism, Transnationalism in literature, Exiles in literature, Linguistic change, Languages in contact
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Monolingual, monolithic English is an issue of the past. In this collection, by using cinema, poetry, art, and novels we demonstrate that English has become the heteroglossic language of immigration – Englishes of exile. By appropriating its plural form we pay respect to all those who have been improving standard English, thus proving that one may be born in a language as well as give birth to a language or add to it one's own version. The story of the immigrant, refugee, exile, expatriate is everybody's story, and without migration, we could not evolve our human race.
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- 2017
35. Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century
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Stuart Taberner and Stuart Taberner
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- Transnationalism in literature, German literature--21st century--History and criticism
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This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of a new cosmopolitanism. The book proceeds through a series of close readings of key texts of the last twenty years, with an emphasis on the most recent works. Authors include Terézia Mora, Richard Wagner, Olga Grjasnowa, Marlene Streeruwitz, Vladimir Vertlib, Navid Kermani, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, Ilija Trojanow, Christian Kracht, and Christa Wolf, representing the diversity of contemporary German-language writing. Through a careful process of juxtaposition and differentiation, the individual chapters demonstrate that writers of both minority and nonminority backgrounds addresstransnationalism in ways that certainly vary but which also often overlap in surprising ways.
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- 2017
36. Comparative North American Studies : Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture
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Reingard M. Nischik and Reingard M. Nischik
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- Modernism (Literature)--Canada, National characteristics, American, in literature, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Transnationalism in literature, Short stories, American--History and criticism, Short stories, Canadian--History and criticism, Comparative literature--Canadian and American, National characteristics, Canadian, in literature, Comparative literature--American and Canadian
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Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels.
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- 2016
37. Ancestral Recall : The Celtic Revival and Japanese Modernism
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Aoife Assumpta Hart and Aoife Assumpta Hart
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- Irish literature--Japanese influences, Irish literature--Appreciation--Japan, Comparative literature--Irish and Japanese, Japanese literature--Irish influences, Irish literature--Translations into Japanese--History and criticism, Irish literature--20th century--History and criticism, Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism, Comparative literature--Japanese and Irish, Japanese literature--History and criticism--20th century, Transnationalism in literature, Transnationalism--Histo
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Despite distance and differences in culture, the early twentieth century was a time of literary cross-pollination between Ireland and Japan. Notably, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats had a powerful influence on Japanese letters, at the same time that contemporary and classical Japanese literature and theatre impacted Yeats's own literary experiments. Citing an extraordinary range of Japanese and Irish texts, Aoife Hart argues that Japanese translations of Irish Gaelic folklore and their subsequent reception back in Ireland created collisions, erasures, and confusions in the interpretations of literary works. Assessing the crucial roles of translation and transnationalism in cross-cultural exchanges between the Celtic Revival and Japanese writers of the modern period, Hart proves that interlingual dialogue and folklore have the power to reconstruct a culture's sense of heritage. Rejecting the notion that the Celtic Revival was inward and parochial, Hart suggests that, seeking to protect their heritage from the forces of globalization, the Irish adapted their understanding of heritage to one that exists within the transnational contexts of modernity – a heritage that is locally produced but internationally circulated. In doing so, Hart maintains that the cultural contact and translation between the East and West traveled in more than one direction: it was a dialogue presenting modernity's struggles with cosmopolitanism, gender, ethnic identity, and transnationalism. An inspired exploration of transpacific literary criticism, Yeats scholarship, and twentieth-century Japanese literature, Ancestral Recall tracks the interplay of complex ideas across languages and discourses.
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- 2016
38. The Woman Warrior
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Moser, Linda Trinh, West, Kathryn, Moser, Linda Trinh, and West, Kathryn
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- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, Feminism in literature, Chinese Americans in literature, Transnationalism in literature
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Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.
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- 2016
39. Postcolonial Studies : An Anthology
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Pramod K. Nayar and Pramod K. Nayar
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- Transnationalism in literature, Transnationalism, Globalization, Postcolonialism in literature, Postcolonialism, Globalization in literature
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This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies. Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established domains such as nation, history, literature, and gender Engages with contemporary concerns such as globalization, digital cultures, neo-colonialism, and language debates Includes wide geographical coverage – from Ireland and India to Israel and Palestine Provides uniquely broad coverage, offering a full sense of the tradition, including significant essays on science, technology and development, education and literacy, digital cultures, and transnationalism Edited by a distinguished postcolonial scholar, this insightful volume serves scholars and students across multiple disciplines from literary and cultural studies, to anthropology and digital studies
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- 2016
40. Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays : Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre
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Mary Mazzilli and Mary Mazzilli
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- Transnationalism in literature, Literature and transnationalism
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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese nor French, but as transnational. In this comprehensive study of his post-exile plays, Mary Mazzilli explores Gao's plays as examples of postdramatic transnationalism: a transnational artistic and theatrical trend that is fluid, flexible and encompasses a variety of styles and influences. As such, this innovative interdisciplinary investigation offers fresh insights into contemporary theatre. Whereas other publications have considered Gao's work as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, Gao Xingjian's Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre is the first study to relate his plays to postdramatic theatre and to provide close textual and dramatic analysis that will help readers to better understand his complex work, and also to see it in the context of the work of contemporary playwrights such as Martin Crimp, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek. Among the plays discussed are: The Other Shore, written just before he left China in 1987; Between Life and Death (1991) - compared in detail to Martin Crimp's Attempts on her life; Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), and its relationship to Beckett's Happy Days; Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), Weekend Quartet (1995), and the latest plays Snow in August (1997), Death Collector (2000) and Ballade Nocturne (2010).
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- 2015
41. Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction : The Anxieties of Post-Nationalism and Counter Terrorism
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Scott McClintock and Scott McClintock
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- Terrorism--Prevention, Violence in literature, Terrorism in literature, Fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Fear in literature, Transnationalism in literature
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The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature.
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- 2015
42. The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora : Representations of Place and Transnational Identity
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Jumana Bayeh and Jumana Bayeh
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- Lebanese--Foreign countries, Transnationalism in literature, Lebanese literature--21st century--History and criticism, Lebanese literature--20th century--History and criticism
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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.
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- 2015
43. Singularity and Transnational Poetics
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Birgit Mara Kaiser and Birgit Mara Kaiser
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- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature, Literature--Philosophy, Poetics, Transnationalism in literature
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Over the past decade ‘singularity'has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its various implications, proposing to explore the term for its specific potential in the study of literature.Singularity and Transnational Poetics brings together scholars working in the fields of literary and cultural studies, translation studies, and transnational literatures. The volume's central concern is to explore singularity as a conceptual tool for the comparative study of contemporary literatures beyond national frameworks, and by implication, as a tool to analyze human existence. Contributors explore how singularity might move our conceptions of cultural identity from prevailing frameworks of self/other toward the premises of being as ‘singular plural'. Through a close reading of transnational literatures from Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and South Africa, this collection offers a new approach to reading literature that will challenge a reader's established notions of identity, individuality, communicability, and social cohesion.
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- 2015
44. Between Two Fires : Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry
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Justin Quinn and Justin Quinn
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- Transnationalism in literature, Cold War in literature, Literature and transnationalism
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Between Two Fires is about the transnational movement of poetry during the Cold War. Beginning in the 1950s, it examines transnational engagements across the Iron Curtain, reassessing US poetry through a consideration of overlooked radical poets of the mid-century, and then asking what such transactions tell us about the way that anglophone culture absorbed new models during this period. The Cold War synchronized culture across the globe, leading to similar themes, forms, and critical maneuvers. Poetry, a discourse routinely figured as distant from political concerns, was profoundly affected by the ideological pressures of the period. But beyond such mirroring, there were many movements across the Iron Curtain, despite the barriers of cultural and language difference, state security surveillance, spies, traitors and translators. Justin Quinn shows how such factors are integral to transnational cultural movements during this period, and have influenced even postwar anglophone poetry that is thematically distant from the Cold War. For the purposes of the study, Czech poetry--its writers, its translators, its critics--stands on the other side of the Iron Curtain as receptor and, which has been overlooked, part creator, of the anglophone tradition in this period. By stepping outside the frameworks by which anglophone poetry is usually considered, we see figures such as Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Allen Ginsberg, and Seamus Heaney, in a new way, with respect to the ideological mechanisms that were at work behind the promotion of the aesthetic as a category independent of political considerations, foremost among these postcolonial theory.
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- 2015
45. Transcultural Encounters in South-Asian American Women’s Fiction: Anita Desai, Kiran Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri
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Adriana Elena Stoican, Author and Adriana Elena Stoican, Author
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- Immigrants in literature, Transnationalism in literature, American fiction--South Asian American authors--History and criticism, Asian American women in literature, American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism
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This book offers captivating insights into the interaction between the Indian and the American cultural worlds. A fascinating work of research, it illustrates an extraordinary capacity to employ the details of literary texts as significant clues in understanding the configuration of transcultural identities. The book constructs an exciting dialogue between complex theoretical notions and the vibrant fictional worlds populated by Indian, American and European characters. Its original and multi-layered approach illustrates how complex theories of culture can help the reader understand contemporary processes of migration, cultural change and gender identity that interfere with daily life.
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- 2015
46. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered : Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past
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Winfried Siemerling and Winfried Siemerling
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- Culture in literature, Black people in literature, Canadian literature--History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature, History in literature
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Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783'Book of Negroes'through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.
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- 2015
47. Literatura y diálogos trasatlánticos
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Neira Palacio, Edison, von Werder, Sophie Dorothee, Neira Palacio, Edison, and von Werder, Sophie Dorothee
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- Transnationalism in literature, Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism
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Este libro es un resultado de investigación del Grupo de Estudios Literarios de la Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia). En él se analizan temáticas relacionadas con los diálogos trasatlánticos de las literaturas europeas y latinoamericanas. Los resultados de esta investigación integran perspectivas propias de los estudios literarios, con otras provenientes de las ciencias sociales y de los estudios culturales. Se destacan, entre otros aspectos: globalización, alteridad, recepción, poética, identidad, reportaje, periodismo literario, crónica, medios de comunicación, intermedialidad, novela visual, ciencia ficción, exilio, memoria, mudejarismo, mitopoiesis, cosmopolitismo, conquista, posconflicto.
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- 2015
48. American Studies As Transnational Practice : Turning Toward the Transpacific
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Yuan Shu, Donald E. Pease, Yuan Shu, and Donald E. Pease
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- Culture in literature, Transnationalism, Imperialism in literature, American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism, Literature and transnationalism--United States, Transnationalism in literature
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This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localizations, epistemological perspectives, ecological imaginaries, and politics of translation. The volume elaborates on the causes of the transnational paradigm shift in American studies and describes the material changes that this new paradigm has effected during the past two decades. The contributors hail from a variety of postcolonial, transoceanic, hemispheric, and post-national positions and sensibilities, enabling them to theorize a “crossroads of cultures” explanation of transnational American studies that moves beyond the multicultural studies model. Offering a rich and rewarding mix of essays and case studies, this collection will satisfy a broad range of students and scholars.
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- 2015
49. Transnational Na(rra)tion : Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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John Dolis and John Dolis
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- American literature--19th century--History and criticism, National characteristics, American, in literature, Transnationalism in literature
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This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of'American'identity involves the incorporation of a'foreign body'as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself. This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely insofar as both citizen/subject and national identity depend upon a certain alterity, an'other'which constitutes the secondary term of a binary structure.'American'identity thus finds itself ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual chapters are devoted to Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.
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- 2015
50. Past Spaces and Revisits in Transnational Poetry: The Sojourning Returnee of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Do You Live In?
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Tamara S. Wagner
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lim, shirley geok-lin ,southeast asia in literature ,postcolonial poetry ,transnationalism in literature ,peranakans in literature ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
This essay explores the shifting vantage-point of a temporary returnee and an observant sojourner in the poetry of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. Situating Lim’s recent collection, Do You Live In? (2015) both in the context of her renewed migrations to different places in Asia and within a widening transnational project of reconceptualizing traditional dichotomies of the diasporic, a critical discussion of her latest poetry enables us to trace how reflections on memory and place in a world of growing global change and exchanges can contribute to an awareness of the everyday experiences of the transnational. The lyric form allows Lim to express the emotional experience of the moment, and the collection as a whole consequently produces a juxtaposition of divergent emotions: snapshots of returns and the reordering of memory. While the bounded self is located in what Lim terms a “place of nomadism,” the heteroglossia of individual lyrics expresses the multiplicity of influences and their re-appropriation. In her seemingly most localized poems, personal memories encounter – and rip apart – heritage nostalgia to engage self-consciously with transnational experience.
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- 2019
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