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Universitatsverlag Winter Am Ende: Lebensbilanzen in Der Zeitgenossischen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Poetische Berge: Alpinismus Und Literatur Nach
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Ibidem Press Encounters avec l'Autre in Contemporary Montreal
Book SynopsisA peculiar war is raging in Quebec's largest city: one talks about linguistic battles' being fought daily in the streets of Montreal, where Anglophones are concentrated in the otherwise predominantly French-speaking province. The language dichotomy lies at the heart of Montreal's cultural history and reflects a relationship fraught with tensions between Canada's so-called Founding Nations. Following a history of francophone conquest, defeat, and reconquest, the two linguistic communities have at last reached a more harmonious modus vivendi at the turn of the twenty-first century. Writers have always engaged in and contributed to the debate. But how does contemporary literature broach English-French relations years after such pivotal events in Québécois history as the Quiet Revolution, the FLQ crisis, the implementation of Bill 101 and the two referenda on independence? Neil Bissoondath and Monique Proulx, two authors presently living and writing in Quebec, have scrutinised interactions between Anglophones and Francophones in present-day Montreal and translated cultural memory in their works of narrative fiction. Reading Montreal literature as a contact zone where Self and Other meet and grapple with each other, Stefanie Rudig's study shows how the clashes with l'Autre leave each side modified, usually for the better. In Bissoondath's novel Doing the Heart Good, the protagonist and first-person narrator Alistair Mackenzie takes a retrospective look at his life, during which the monolingual Anglophone has frequently been forced to deal with Francophones. Proulx also places her characters in situations in which they encounter alterity and alienation in her short story collection Les Aurores montréales. In addition to the anglophone or francophone Other, Proulx depicts migrants in her short narratives and how they participate in Montreal's linguistic duality. Though neither of the two texts is overtly didactic, both Proulx and Bissoondath suggest ways to overcome all remnants of the historically conditioned English-French antagonism and promote an effectively multilingual and pluriethnic Quebec society that thrives on difference. This edition also includes a ten-page summary in French.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Orhan Pamuk -- Critical Essays on a Novelist
Book SynopsisThis collection of new essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who -- despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him -- remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation to the cultural divide between East and West has been the subject of a debate going back to the beginnings of the modern Turkish state and earlier. The present essays, written mostly by literary scholars, range widely across Pamuks novelistic oeuvre, dealing with how the writer, often adding an allegorical level to the personages depicted in his experimental narratives, portrays tensions such as those between Western secularism and traditional Islam and different conceptions of national identity.
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V&R unipress GmbH Deutschsprachige Pop-Literatur von Fichte bis
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V&R unipress GmbH Entfremdung in der Arbeitswelt des 21.
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V&R unipress GmbH Frei-Zeit in der Gegenwartsliteratur:
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Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd Postcolonial Indian Fiction in English and
Book SynopsisVarious scholars analyze representations of masculinity in Indian literature, exploring themes of queerness, sexual violence, power dynamics, and cultural influences in works by authors such as Desani, Deshpande, Ghosh, and Roy. The collection delves into complex portrayals of gender and identity in post/colonial society.
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Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd Ruth Prawer Jhabvala'S Novels Woman Amidst Snares
Book SynopsisPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Cultural Backgrounds vis- -vis Feminine Sensibility; 3. Early Phase: The Indian Women; 4. Middle Phase: The Western Women in Love with India and Indians; 5. Final Phase: Women in the Cross-cultural Amalgam of the American Milieu; 6. Summing-Up; Select Bibliography
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Prestige Books Arundhuti Roy: The Novelist Extraordinary
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UAM Ediciones Estudios de literatura cultura e historia
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Brill Nationalism and the Postcolonial
Book SynopsisOften thought of as a thing of the past, nationalism remains surprisingly resilient in the postcolonial era, especially since the concepts of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism have lost authority in recent years. The contributions assembled in Nationalism and the Postcolonial examine various forms, representations, and consequences of past and present nationalisms in languages, popular culture, and literature in or associated with Australia, Canada, England, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago Bringing together perspectives from linguistics, political science, cultural studies, and literary studies, the collection illustrates how postcolonial nationalism functions as a unifying mechanism of anti-colonial nation-building as well as a divisive force that can encourage discrimination and violence. Contributors: Natascha Bing, Prachi Gupta, Ralf Haekel, Kathrin Härtl, Idreas Khandy, Theresa Krampe, Lukas Lammers, Arhea Marshall, Hannah Pardey, Sina Schuhmaier, Hanna Teichler, Michael WestphalTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors and Editors Nationalism and the Postcolonial: An Introduction Sandra Dinter PART 1 The Languages of Nationalism 1 The Nationalist Ideology of Monolingualism in Postcolonial Theory Michael Westphal 2 Talking Kenya*n Dynamic Practices for a Heterogeneous Nation Natascha Bing 3 The Hindi Language and the Imagination of the Indian Nation Ramchandra Shukla’s Construction of Indian Civilization Prachi Gupta PART 2 The Songs and Sounds of Nationalism 4 Singing the Postcolonial Independent in Trinbagonian Calypso Arhea Marshall 5 Singing the Nation The Condition of Englishness in the Lyrics of PJ Harvey and Kate Tempest Sina Schuhmaier PART 3 Nationalisms in Postcolonial Popular Culture 6 Pop Culture A Vehicle of State Nationalism in India Idreas Khandy 7 Meet the ‘Holy Family’ From Multicultural Australia to Enforced Reconciliation in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia (2008) Hanna Teichler 8 Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and National Identity in BioWare’s Mass Effect Theresa Krampe PART 4 Nationalisms in Postcolonial Literatures 9 Blind Spots Nationalism and the Photographic Gaze in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief Ralf Haekel 10 Emotional Nationalism in the New Nigerian Novel Hannah Pardey 11 The British Empire and the ‘Laureate of Its Demise’ Postimperial Nostalgia in Jane Gardam’s Old Filth Trilogy Lukas Lammers 12 ‘Bastardizing’ National Belonging Derek Walcott and Joseph Conrad Kathrin Härtl Index
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Brill Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in response to global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by climate change. It builds upon, and extends, previous studies in postcolonial ecocriticism to demonstrate how the growing awareness of human-caused global warming has begun to permeate literary consciousness, praxis and analysis. The breadth of the volume’s coverage – the diversity of its focal locations, cultures, genres and texts – serves as a salient reminder that, while climate change is global, its impacts vary, effecting peoples from place to place unequally, and often in accordance with their particular historical experience of colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as their ongoing marginalisations. “Demonstrating the urgency of invoking novel epistemological approaches combining the scientific and the imaginative, this book is a “must read” for those concerned about the present and potential impacts of climate change on formerly colonised areas of the world. The comprehensive and illuminating Introduction offers a crucial history and current state of postcolonial ecocriticism as it has been and is addressing climate crises.” - Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong “The broad focus on the polar regions, the Pacific and the Caribbean – with added essays on environmental justice/activism in India and Egypt – opens up rich terrain for examination under the rubric of postcolonial and ecocritical analysis, not only expanding recent studies in this field but also enabling new comparisons and conceptual linkages.” - Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London “The subject is topical and vital and will become even more so as the problem of how to reconcile the demands of climate change with the effects on regions and individual nations already damaged by the economic effects of colonisation and the subsequent inequalities resulting from neo-colonialism continues to grow.” - Gareth Griffiths, Em. Prof. University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors and Editors Dear Matafele Peinam, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 1 Introduction Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds 2 “The Imagining of Possibilities” Writers as Activists Geoffrey V. Davis 3 River Writing Culture, Law and Poetics Chris Prentice 4 Which Island, What Home? Plantation Ecologies and Climate Change in Australia and Nauru Paul Sharrad 5 Island Life and Wild Time Crossing into Country in Tim Winton’s Island Home Stephen Harris 6 Islands Within Islands Climate Change and the Deep Time Narratives of the Southern Beech John C. Ryan 7 Refashioning Futures with Sargassum A Caribbean Poetics of Hope Kasia Mika and Sally Stainier 8 “Kāne and Kanaloa Are Coming” Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry and Climate Change Craig Santos Perez 9 Monsoonal Memories and “the Reliable Water” Reading Climate Change in Selected Malaysian Literature Agnes S. K. Yeow 10 Aswan High Dam and Haggag Oddoul’s Stories from Old Nubia Redefining the Line between Immediate Catastrophe and Slow Violence Amany Dahab 11 Caring for the Future Climate Change, Kinship and Inuit Knowledge Renée Hulan 12 Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change To the Ends of the World Hanne E.F. Nielsen 13 Ice Islands of the Anthropocene The Cultural Meanings of Antarctic Bergs Elizabeth Leane Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1997. Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature here - finally - available in English, is devoted to the origins of Greek tragedy. In it, Freidenberg develops the notion that it was the very transition from thinking based on mythological images to the kind of thinking that makes use of formal-logical concepts that resulted in the appearance of literature. With the transition from mythological thinking to conceptual thought, the content of mythological images became the texture of the new concepts. The inherited mythological forms now were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, abstracted. This reinterpretation, in turn, brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, philosophy, ethics, literature, and art. Yet, differentiated and reinterpreted as it was, the folkloric material remained formally preserved in poetic image, structure, and plot.Trade Review"Olga Freidenberg, a classic philologist and literary theorist active in Leningrad, has been known in the west mainly for her corroespondence with her cousin Boris Pasternak. That situation is undergoing radical change, as Freidenberg's rich and difficult works are being brought to a wider public by scholars....The present publication is an important addition to the corpus....The rewards are great. Moss does a good job in his introduction of distinguishing Freidenberg's ideas....Given the difficulties of Freidenberg's style, Moss's translation is an impressive accomplishment."Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Explanation of the Theme; Chapter 2 Metaphor; Chapter 3 The Origin of Narrative; Chapter 4 Mime; Chapter 5 Excursus on Philosophy; Chapter 6 Old Comedy; Chapter 7 Tragedy;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1997. Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature here - finally - available in English, is devoted to the origins of Greek tragedy. In it, Freidenberg develops the notion that it was the very transition from thinking based on mythological images to the kind of thinking that makes use of formal-logical concepts that resulted in the appearance of literature. With the transition from mythological thinking to conceptual thought, the content of mythological images became the texture of the new concepts. The inherited mythological forms now were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, abstracted. This reinterpretation, in turn, brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, philosophy, ethics, literature, and art. Yet, differentiated and reinterpreted as it was, the folkloric material remained formally preserved in poetic image, structure, and plot.Trade Review"Olga Freidenberg, a classic philologist and literary theorist active in Leningrad, has been known in the west mainly for her corroespondence with her cousin Boris Pasternak. That situation is undergoing radical change, as Freidenberg's rich and difficult works are being brought to a wider public by scholars....The present publication is an important addition to the corpus....The rewards are great. Moss does a good job in his introduction of distinguishing Freidenberg's ideas....Given the difficulties of Freidenberg's style, Moss's translation is an impressive accomplishment."Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Explanation of the Theme; Chapter 2 Metaphor; Chapter 3 The Origin of Narrative; Chapter 4 Mime; Chapter 5 Excursus on Philosophy; Chapter 6 Old Comedy; Chapter 7 Tragedy;
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Bloomsbury India Kannagi Through the Ages: From the Epic to the
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Bloomsbury India Work, Word and the World: Essays on Habitat,
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Bloomsbury India Kazi Nazrul Islam's Journalism: A Critique
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Bloomsbury India Negotiating Culture: Writings from Mizoram
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Bloomsbury India Imagining a Postcolonial Nation: Hindi Novels and
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Bloomsbury India Sanskrit Poetics in the Postcolonial Space:
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Bloomsbury India Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters
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Bloomsbury India Performing Shakespeare in India
Book SynopsisThis book is envisaged as an intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into questions of what constitutes Indianness for the colonial and the postcolonial subject and the role that Shakespeare plays in this identity formation.Performing Shakespeare in India presents studies of Indian Shakespeare adaptations on stage, on screen, on OTT platforms, in translation, in visual culture and in digital humanities and examines the ways in which these construct Indianness. Shakespeare in India has had multiple local interpretations in different media and equally wide-ranging responses, be it the celebration of Shakespeare as a bishwokobi (world poet) in 19th-century Bengal, be it in the elusive adaptation of Shakespeare in Meitei and Tangkhul tribal art forms in Manipur, or be it in the clamour of a boisterous Bollywood musical. In the response of diasporic theatre professionals, or in Telugu and Kannada translations, whether resisted or
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Bloomsbury India Polycoloniality: European Transactions with
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Bloomsbury India India in Translation, Translation in India
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Bloomsbury India Remember, Repeat, Inhabit: A Study of Antonin
Book SynopsisRemember, Repeat, Inhabit looks at three questions in relation to the idea of the viewer: What happens when one reads someone else''s reading of someone else?What happens when something repeats itself in Kieslowski''s work?Is there a possibility of an ontology of space?The book attempts to understand the idea of ''viewing'' from the inside, not simply as an ontological premise but definitely affected by it. Three differing contexts are looked at-a French madman''s notion of the ''self'', a Polish filmmaker''s notion of the ''everyday'' and an Indian performance artist''s notion of ''memory''. Through these on-the-surface contrasting artists and texts, a particular idea of a ''viewer'' emerges. This viewer is the key to an understanding of something almost elemental in the nature of the idea of ''viewing'' in the contemporary context of twenty-first-century Delhi.
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Bloomsbury India Ruskin Bond's Desh: Celebrating Root and Defining
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Bloomsbury India Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire:
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Bloomsbury India Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures,
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Bloomsbury India The New Normal: Trauma, Biopolitics and Visuality
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Bloomsbury India The First Naipaul World Epics: From The Mystic
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Leuven University Press Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics
Book Synopsis"Artists such as Zeina Abirached, Baru and Boudjellal have been impressive in their efforts to decolonize French comics and set the record straight on migration, by telling stories about migrants and postcolonial minority groups from the inside, as it were.", Mark McKinneyProfound analysis of French comics through a postcolonial lens Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954–62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic-minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria and Armenia), José Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and Roland Monpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyzes comics representing a gamut of perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including avant-gardism, undocumented migrants in comics, and racism in far-right comics. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Listen to an interview with Mark McKinney at New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/postcolonialism-and-migration-in-french-comicsTrade ReviewDans une analyse nuancée, McKinney démontre comment les artistes « ont redessiné l’histoire et la culture impériale pour représenter la France postcoloniale », et ce « de nombreuses manières, et parfois contradictoires » . Il génère des pistes d’analyse pertinentes, en adaptant des concepts formels à une analyse socio-littéraire autour du postcolonial et de la migration. Sa conclusion invite, par ailleurs, à réfléchir au paradigme du postcolonial, et à la possibilité de l’étendre à de nouvelles formes néocoloniales (continuation de l’exploitation impérialiste, tourisme occidental en Afrique, soutien de régimes autoritaires, migrations climatiques…). [...] Cet ouvrage prouve, néanmoins, l’immensité d’un champ de recherche qui permet de mieux comprendre les représentations d’une société postcoloniale interculturelle, et l’urgence de l’étudier.Alicia Lambert, French Studies in Southern Africa No. 52 (2022): 194-250Bandes dessinées and graphic novels are essential texts in university French courses, and McKinney’s insightful study is a welcome addition to the critical literature on these works. His book traces the shifting portrayals of migration and transculturation in postcolonial France. [...] This expansive and erudite study of BD shows how the genre creates new spaces for representation and dialogue on postcolonial migration in France.Patricia Geesey,The French Review, vol. 96 no. 1, 2022, p. 202-202, doi:10.1353/tfr.2022.0182Along with McKinney’s previous publications, the present monograph is the fruit of nearly three decades of research. As such, 'Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics' makes several noteworthy contributions to the field. Among its many positive aspects, this study refers to wellknown and previously un(der)studied works; identifies areas of further inquiry such as the developing role of female artists; provides a well-documented historical context that draws important parallels between French (post)colonial history and the evolution of French comics; and establishes a constructive dialogue between the author’s own research and that of recognized experts and emerging scholars. Not only does McKinney trace the history of postcolonial themes in French comics, but he also provides a summative overview of past and current scholarship, which will undoubtedly serve undergraduates, graduates, and academics in future years.Jennifer Howell, H-France Review, vol. 21, no. 168, September 2021Extremely well researched and well explained, alternating explanation of concepts and application of these concepts to many diverse examples, the volume mixes some well-known authors with others much less famous (and actually many out of print) and still others simply unknown (at least new to me). This is the best book one can write about comics. [...] The cherry on the French cake [or if you don’t like cakes, the dressing on the fresh mixed salad]: as usual, this publisher (Leuven U.P.) provides high quality paper and binding, and beautiful reproductions of pictures, some in color, and in this case also a full precise index of 20p. and an extraordinary rich and diverse bibliography of 35p. What else can a humanist fan scholar could wish for? Again, this is the type of books that we see once a decade.Christian Reyns-Chikuma, IMAGE [&] NARRATIVE Vol. 22, No.3 (2021)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on translations and terminology 1. Introduction: three postcolonial turning points in French comics 2. Postcolonialism and migration in comics after “Cauchemar blanc” 3. Farid Boudjellal’s realist comics 4. The voyage in through Baru’s pastiches 5. “Citadel culture” in French comics 6. Comics from the far right through the 1990s 7. Comics from the far right from the 2000s to the present 8. Avant-gardism, migration and postcolonialism in Alagbé’s comics 9. Across the affrontier with Abirached 10. Sans-papiers in comics 11. Coda: postcolonialism and beyond Works cited Index
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Leuven University Press Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial
Book SynopsisColonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael Haneke, Chandna analyzes the depiction of ever-changing borders and spatial grammar within the colonial project. In so doing, he also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders. Through its analyses Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces shows that colonialism is not a finished project relegated to our past. Colonialism is present in the here and now, and exercises its power through the borders that define us. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse.Trade ReviewIt is worth noting that Leuven has published Chandna’s book under a non-commercial licence, making it freely available in PDF format. Doing so should help it secure the extensive readership and reach it undoubtedly deserves. Edward Welch, L'Esprit Créateur, VOL. 62, NO. 2One of the strengths of the book is its detailed and helpful historical, political, and cultural contextualization of each location examined in the study. In addition, Chandna demonstrates excellent close reading skills – he takes care to draw out the key themes and ideas of the novels and films while also analysing their formal and stylistic features in relation to colonial spatiality. Chapters are well structured and subheadings are used effectively to guide the reader through the diverse arguments. [...] Overall, though, this is a well-researched study of Francophone colonial and postcolonial cultural production which makes a unique contribution to scholarship. The fact that quotations are given in French and also translated into English ensures that the study is accessible to non-Francophone scholars, although it is perhaps mostly aimed at postgraduates and researchers, given the complex theoretical ideas explored in the book. Above all, Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces shows how the French colonial project continues to shape identities and subjectivities today.Antonia Wimbush, Literary Geographies 8(2) 2022 241-243This book is an insightful and well-researched academic volume that explores the intersection between space(s), colonial subjectivities, and Francophone literatures and films. [...] overall a well-written, thorough study of different spatial elements in colonial and postcolonial Francophone fiction.Alex Lenoble, The French Review, Volume 96, Number 2, December 2022, p. 256, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2022.0261At times, Mohit Chandna succeeds brilliantly, drawing on Doreen Massey and Henri Lefebvre to further develop a theoreticalapproach to understand how “complex layered spatial legacies of colonialism are embedded in and contested by creative works” that he understands as “creative geographers of colonialism”. Chapter 2, which takes up Jules Verne’s Le tour du monde dans quatre-vingt jours, demonstrates some of the strengths of this approach.Christopher Lizotte, Political GeographyTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Charting CourseAnchoring Space - Doing Space - Geographies of Literature - Postmodern Spaces – Material - HistoriesChapter 2: Around the World in Eighty (One) DaysSection 1. Understanding Verne: Laying the GroundworkVerne and the World - Verne’s Geography - Geography on Verne - Reading Verne’s Geographies - Rounding up the World - Capital Repetitions: MonghirSection 2. Opium Silence and Nineteenth-Century French Literature Colonizing Hong Kong - Illegal Opium and Colonial Wealth - Opium Cities - Opium Race Chapter 3: Dislocating the Indian Nation: Ananda Devi’s Homelands Global Pathways - Along a Local Road - Dislocating Location - Grounding Identity - Patriarchal Homelands - Tango with India - Delhi’s Underbelly - Antipodal Itineraries - Desert Safari - Producing Dissent - Rediscovering India Chapter 4: Martinique: Space, Language, Gender Section 1. Contextualizing Texaco Texaco and its Significations - A Spatial Metaphor - Literary Margins: City and Language - Marie-Sophie as Texaco - Chamoiseau and Feminism - Reinventing the City Section 2. Martinique’s Literary Identity and French BordersMartinique: Colonial History, Postcolonial Literature - French Borders, Martinican TextSection 3. Text, Texaco and LandscapeTexaco: Space and Language - Rewriting l’En-villeSection 4. France, Martinique and Marie-Sophie’s BodyMarie-Sophie and Texaco - Marie-Sophie’s body and MartiniqueChapter 5: Out of Place: French Family at (Algerian) War 205Immaterial Differences - Locating Caché - White Lies - Hidden Agenda - Colonial Family; National Lies - Colonial Past; Cinematic Present - Escaping Images - Deadly ImagesEpilogue: Interjecting PassagesNotesBibliography
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Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica The George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of Decolonisation
Book SynopsisGeorge Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming's writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and literary life. Credited as a part of that group of Caribbean activists who awoke the Caribbean to its identity and more specifically to its cultural identity, his works have focused on finding new political and social identity. Indeed, Lamming was a seminal figure in the Caribbean 20th century intellectual tradition and radical anti-colonial tradition. Lamming is best known for his novels. In the Castle of My Skin and The Emigrants take place in England and are largely autobiographical. Of Age and Innocence and Season of Adventure are set on the fictional Caribbean island of San Cristobal. In Water with Berries, the plot of Shakespeare's The Tempest is used to unmask the imperfections of West Indian society while his final novel, Natives of My Person, gives account of the voyage of a slave-trading ship on the triangular trade route from Europe to Africa to the New World colonies. In The Aesthetics of Decolonisation, friend and colleague Anthony Bogues pulls together Lamming's critical works, some previously published, some given as addresses, lectures and interviews. This is accompanied by critical reflections on Lamming's work by noted scholars such as Andaiye and Sandra Pouchet Paquet. This much needed reader on Lamming and his work examines the history of the Caribbean and the categories which continue to shape and influence Caribbean identity in our contemporary world.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics:
Book SynopsisThis book examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG, GAO Xingjian, DAI Sijie, and SHAN Sa. They were all born in China, moved to France in their adulthood to pursue their literary and artistic ambitions, and have enjoyed the highest French and Western institutional recognitions, from the Grand Prix de la Francophonie to the Nobel Prize in Literature. They have established themselves not only as writers, but also as translators, calligraphers, painters, playwrights, and filmmakers mainly in their host country. French has become their dominant—but not only—language of literary creation (except for Gao); yet, linguistic idioms, poetic imagery, and classical thought from Chinese cultural heritage permeate their French texts and visual artworks, reflecting a strong translingual and transmedial sensibility. The book provides not only distinctive literary and artistic examples beyond existing studies of intercultural encounter, French postcolonial, and Chinese diasporic enquiries; more importantly, it formulates a theoretical model that captures the creative dynamics between the French/francophone and Chinese/sinophone spaces of articulation, thereby contributing to contemporary debates about literary and artistic production, interpretation, and circulation in the global development of comparative/world literature, as well as intermediality studies.Trade Review“The book is overflowing with trendy concepts. … Li’s scintillating monograph is a must read for all those interested in a singular body of non-postcolonial, diasporic literature/ visual arts by a group of authors who straddle the Francophone and the Sinophone, yet stubbornly resist labels of any sort.” (Yunfei Bai, Recherche littéraire - Literary Research, Vol. 38, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Diverse Forms of Travel and Translation in Franco-Chinese Fiction.- Chapter 3: Translingual Rewriting and Transhistorical Fabulation.- Chapter 4: Sinograph, Calligraphy, and Novelistic Aesthetics.- Chapter 5: Translational (Anti-)Storytelling and Transmedia Aesthetics.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
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