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Book SynopsisThe pervading theme of this book is the construction and allocation of identity, especially through images and imagery. The essays analyse how the dominant social discourses and imageries construct identity or assign subject positions in relation to the categories of race, nation, region, gender and language. The volume is designed to inform the study of those categories in cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy and history. Its coverage is geographically global, multidisciplinary, and theoretically eclectic, but also accessible. The authors include both established and rising scholars from historical, literary, media, gender and cultural studies. This innovative collection will appeal to all those who are interested in the mechanisms of constructing and evolving personal and group identities, in past and present.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introductory 1. John OSBORNE and Michael WINTLE: The Construction and Allocation of Identity through Images and Imagery: an Introduction 2. Joep LEERSSEN: The Downward Pull of Cultural Essentialism Immigration and Race 3. Brigitte ADRIAENSEN: Coming to Terms with Franco’s Legacy: Trauma and Cultural Difference in the Work of Juan Goytisolo 4. Henriette LOUWERSE: Killing an Arab? Ghostlier Demarcations in Hafid Bouazza’s ‘Spookstad’ and ‘Abdullah’s Feet’ 5. Jacqueline MAINGARD: Cast in Celluloid: Imag(in)ing Identities in South African Cinema 6. Angeline MORRISON: Black Skin, Big Hair: the Cultural Appropriation of the Afro National and Regional Identity 7. Paul GILBERT: Republics, Tribes and National Identities 8. Tom VERSCHAFFEL: ‘Par les Yeux Parler à l’Intelligence’: the Visualization of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Belgium 9. Marnix BEYEN: The Schizophrenia of an Icon: the Impact of Thyl Uylenspiegel on National and Gender Identities in Belgium in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. Adrian CHAN: On Being Chinese Gender 11. Stef CRAPS: How to Do Things with Gender: Transgenderism in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando 12. Mary ANNE FRANKS: (Porno)Graphic Depictions: Image and Sexual Identity 13. Nuria LÓPEZ :Women’s Image and National Identity in the Indian Nationalist Movement Text and Identity 14. Ann DAVIES: Resurrecting Carmen: Sexual and Ethnic Identity in the Cinema 15. Phil POWRIE: Embodying the Nation: Viviane Romance in Carmen (1945) and Rita Hayworth in The Loves of Carmen (1948) 16. Joy JAMES: Becoming Butterfly: Apparatuses of Capture and Evasion 17. Gay MCAULEY : Translation in the Rehearsal Room: Serious Play at the Cultural Interface Index

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Book SynopsisThis book aims at offering a broad survey of the encounter between word and image studies and anthropology and to demonstrate the mutual benefits of this dialogue for both disciplines in the three fields of the image (Marin), the social history of writing (Petrucci), and memory (Yates). The themes discussed by the contributors to this volume, all specialists in their field, highlight each in their specific field one or more aspects of the agency of both text and image. Bridging the gap between the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin research traditions, this bilingual volume focuses on three major questions: What do we do with texts and images? How do texts and images become active cultural agents? And what do texts and images help us do? Contributions cover a wide range of topics and disciplines (from visual poetry to garden theory and from ekphrasis to new media art), and represent therefore the best possible overview of what cutting-edge analysis in word and image studies stands for today.Table of ContentsBéatrice Fraenkel: Introduction Summaries/Résumés Efficacy of Premodern Words and Images/Efficacité des mots et images prémodernes Isabelle Saint-Martin: L’image “Bible des pauvres”, du postulat grégorien au mythe romantique, l’efficacité d’un argument fondateur Corneliu Dragomirescu: La production d’un sens nouveau: images et rubriques face au texte dramatique dans les manuscrits médiévaux Massimo Leone: (In)efficacy of Words and Images in Sixteenth-Century Franciscan Missions in Mesoamerica: Semiotic Features and Cultural Consequences Eric T. Haskell: Versailles and Its Others: Efficacy and the Arts in the Absolutist Agenda James J. Yoch: Royal Inefficacy: Pastoral Subversions in the Scenes of Versailles Efficacy of Words and Images in Literature/Efficacité des mots et images en littérature Maria Ignez Mena Barreto: L’impact de la représentation iconique dans l’économie de l’écriture autobiographique de Stendhal Serge Linares: Après Mallarmé: l’héritage du Coup de dés dans l’avant-garde poétique française des années dix Anna Estera Mrozewicz: Ekphrasis in the Presence of the Image: Inger Christensen on Painting and Jørgen Leth on Film Matthijs Engelberts: Showing/Telling: The Social and Medial Context of a Malleable Notion Efficacy and Space/Efficacité et espace Thomas Golsenne: L’intensification du lieu: la puissance expressive de la saturation ornementale Shigeru Oikawa: Efficacités de la caricature: Georges Bigot et le salon des beaux-arts à l’Exposition intérieure de Kyoto en 1895 Kate Kangaslahti: Absence/Presence: The Efficacy of Text, Image, and Space at the 1937 Exposition internationale Danielle Leenaerts: L’œuvre comme dispositif réflexif dans l’art d’Alfredo Jaar, de 1979 à 1986 Dangerous Efficacy/Dangereuse éfficacité Bernward Schmidt: La censure dans l’image—des images de la censure: l’Index des livres interdits Bernard Vouilloux: De l’efficacité des images érotiques à l’efficience érotique des œuvres Stéphane Lojkine: Érotique de l’effondrement scénique: efficacité sadienne de l’image William Olmsted: Improper Appearances: Censorship and the Carriage Scene in Madame Bovary Lauren S. Weingarden: Manet’s Realism and the Erotic Gaze: Photography, Pornography, and Censorship Contributors/Contributeurs Index.

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Book SynopsisThe island, because of its supposed isolation, and its apparent small scale, has historically been a privileged site of colonial aggression and acquisitiveness. Yet the island has also been imagined as a uniquely sovereign space, and thus one in which the colonial enterprise can be seen as especially egregious. ‘Islandedness’ takes on a particular charge in the early twenty-first century, in the supposedly postcolonial period. While contemporary media offer a simulacrum of proximity to others, the reality is that we are ever more distant, inhabiting islands both real and conceptual. Meanwhile migrants from today’s ‘postcolonial’ islands are routinely denied access to the perceived ‘mainland’. And, in islands freed from overt colonialism, but often beset by neocolonial forces of domination and control, identities are constructed so as to differentiate insider from outsider – even when the outsider comes from within. This is the first volume devoted explicitly to the postcolonial island, conceived in a broad geographical, historical, and metaphorical sense. Branching across disciplinary parameters (literary studies, anthropology, history, cultural studies), and analyzing a range of cultural forms (literature, dance, print journalism, and television), the volume attempts to focus critically on three areas: the current realities of formerly colonized island nations; the phenomenon of ‘foreign’ communities living within a dominant host community; and the existence of (local) practices and theoretical perspectives that complement, but are often critical of, prevailing theories of the postcolonial. The islands treated in the volume include Ireland, Montserrat, Martinique, Mauritius, and East Timor, and the collection includes more broadly conceived historical and theoretical essays. The volume should be required reading for scholars working in postcolonial studies, in island studies, and for those working in and across a range of disciplines (literature, cultural studies, anthropology). Contributors: Ralph Crane, Matthew Boyd Goldie, Lyn Innes, Maeve McCusker, Paulo de Medeiros, Burkhard Schnepel, Cornelia Schnepel, Jonathan Skinner, Anthony Soares, Ritu Tyagi, Mark WehrlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations Introduction Matthew Boyd Goldie: Island Theory — The Antipodes Maeve McCusker: Writing Against the Tide? — Patrick Chamoiseau’s (Is)land Imaginary Jonathan Skinner: A Distinctive Disaster Literature — Montserrat Island Poetry under Pressure Ritu Tyagi: Rethinking Identity and Belonging — ‘Mauritianness’ in the Work of Ananda Devi Burkhard Schnepel and Cornelia Schnepel: From Slave to Tourist Entertainer — Performative Negotiations of Identity and Difference in Mauritius Ralph Crane: “Amid the Alien Corn” — British India as Human Island Mark Wehrly: Journalism and Identity — The Red-Top Hangover and Erosions of ‘Island Mentality’ in Postcolonial Ireland Anthony Soares: Western Blood in an Eastern Island — Affective Identities in Timor-Leste Lyn Innes: “No Man is an Island” — National Literary Canons, Writers, and Readers Paulo de Medeiros: Impure Islands — Europe and a Post-Imperial Polity Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisClones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication explores cloning and related phenomena that inform each other, like twins, fakes, replica, or homogeneities, through a cultural prism. What could it mean to think of a cloning mentality? Could it be that a “cloning culture” has made biotechnological cloning desirable in the first place, and vice versa that biotechnological cloning then enforces technologies of social and cultural cloning? What does it mean to say that a culture replicates? If biotechnological cloning has to do with choice and repetitive reproduction of selected characteristics, how are those kinds of desires expressed socially, politically and culturally? Lifting the issue of cloning above the biotechnological domain, we problematize the cultural context, including modernity’s readiness to imitate and manipulate nature, and the skewed privileging of desirable socialities as a basis for exclusive replication. We also explore possible relations between a cloning mentality and a consumer society that fosters a brand-name mentality. The construction and (coercive) implementation of copy-prone technological and symbolic items are at the very heart of the consumer society and its modes of mass production as they have emerged from and seek to articulate, define, and refine modernity and modernization.Table of ContentsPhilomena Essed and Gabriele Schwab: Introduction: Cloning and Cultures of Replication Technologies, Fantasies and Philosophies of Life Verena Stolcke: Homo Clonicus Heleen van den Hombergh: Gentech Agriculture Rosi Braidotti: Transposing Life Gabriele Schwab: Replacement Humans Cultural Cloning Philomena Essed and David Theo Goldberg: Cloning, Cultures, and the Social Injustices of Homogeneities Ross D. Parke, Christine Ward Gailey, Scott Coltrane, and M. Robin DiMatteo: The Pursuit of Perfection Philomena Essed: Cloning the Physician Ackbar Abbas: Cloning Disappearance, Consuming Fakes Replicating and Marketing Faith Eileen Luhr: Marketing Religion Rebecca Kugel: Civilizing Missions Toby Miller: The Yanqui Makeover The Cloning Imaginary: Proliferations of a Fantasy Gabriele Schwab: Twin Enemies Carole-Anne Tyler: Dead Ringer – Knock Off Nancy Postero: Destiny – Eternity The Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis volume will be of interest to scholars examining the relationship between culture and identity, concepts of individual and group agency in multicultural settings, and the effect that our globalising world has on regional cultural systems and local communities. From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward grew out of research presented at the 3rd Global Conference of Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging held by Inter-Disciplinary.net at Mansfield College, Oxford University in September 2009. The conference provided a platform for researchers from diverse regions of the world and a variety of fields to present their work and engage each other on the major cultural transformations and epistemological shifts occurring in the current global paradigm. A unique aspect of the volume is its dialogic structure: each author refers to the work of other authors in the book; thus forming threads through-out the work, which link what are often perceived as unrelated issues. The volume is comprised of thirteen chapters divided into four thematic sections: Rights, Culture and Recognition; Complex Stories of Identity Formation; The Interweaving of Self and Other – Being and Belonging; and Crossing Boundaries and the Language of the Aesthetic.Table of ContentsMichael Kearney: Introduction Rights, Culture and Recognition Giorgio Bertolotti: Identity, Recognition and Conflict Omid Hejazi: Two Liberal Theories of Minority Rights: Universal or Particular? Puja Kapai: The Doctrine of Substantive Equality and the Democratisation of Diversity Complex Stories of Identity Formation Michael Kearney and Setsuko Adachi: Mapping Hybrid Identities: A Matrixing Model for Transculturality Elmé Vivier: Construction of Identity in the Philosophy of Hannah Arendt Caroline Duvieusart-Déry: Reification in the Census? Multiculturalist Policies and Identity Markers in 36 Democracies Janyne Sattler: Belonging to the World: Cosmopolitanism as a Remedy against Strangeness The Interweaving of Self and Other: Being and Belonging Paul Prinsloo: Being an African: Some Queer Remarks from the Margins Na’ama Sheffi and Amir Har-Gil: Entangled in Memory: Six Variations on the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict Meghna Haldar: ‘Dirt’: A Social Mirror Crossing Boundaries and the Language of the Aesthetic Katherine Wilson: The Space of Salsa: Theory and Implications of a Global Dance Phenomenon Tina Rahimy: The Potentiality of the Faceless: A Minor Reflection of Philosophy and Cinema Stephanie-Alice Baker: Social Tragedy: Zidane’s Role in France’s Tragic Epic Index Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe content of this volume reflects theoretical and practical discussions on cultural issues influenced by increased adoption of information and communication technologies. The penetration of new forms of communication, such as online social networking, internet video-casting, and massive online multiplayer gaming; the experience and exploration of virtual worlds; and the massive adoption of ever-emergent ICT technologies; are all developments in desperate need of serious examination. It is not surprising that these new realities, and the questions and issues to which they give rise, have drawn increasing attention from academics. Those engaging these issues do so from a wide range of academic fields. Accordingly, the authors contributing to this volume represent an impressive array of academic disciplines and varied perspectives, including philosophy, sociology, religion, anthropology, digital humanities, literature studies, film science, new media studies and still others. Thus, the subsequent chapters offer the reader a multidimensional examination of this volume’s unifying theme: the ways and extent to which current and anticipated cybernetic environments have altered, and will continue to shape, our understandings of what it means to be human.Table of ContentsDaniel Riha: Introduction Critical Philosophies Imre Bárd: The Doubtful Chances of Choice Tamar Sharon: Technoscience and Schizophrenia: The Technological Production of Nature and Biology under Control Leighton Evans: A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Networking Cyber-Identity Melissa de Zwart and David Lindsay: My Self, My Avatar, My Rights? Avatar Identity in Social Virtual Worlds Jordan J. Copeland: Too Faced? Reconsidering Friendship in the Digital Age Ewan Kirkland: Experiences of Embodiment and Subjectivity in Haunting Ground Virtual Environments and Academia Peter Ludes: Trans-Generational Dialogues: Social Sciences as Multimedia Games Daniel Riha: Interactive 3-D Documentary as Serious Videogame Anna Maj and Michal Derda-Nowakowski: Ecosystem of Knowledge: Strategies, Rituals and Metaphors in Networked Communication Cyberpunk Literature and Film Katherine Harrison: Gender Resistance: Interrogating the ‘Punk’ in Cyberpunk Laura Schuster: What Does a Scanner See? Techno-Fascination and Unreliability in the Mind-Game Film Michael J. Klein: Modern Myths: Science Fiction in the Age of Technology Merger of Cyberspace and Art Elizabeth Borst: ‘Cyborg Art’ as a Critical Sphere of Inquiry into Increasing Corporeal Human-Technology Merger Zeynep Gündüz: Digital Dance: Encounters between Media Technologies and the Dancing Body

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries at the start of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, painting as well as photography, architecture and design, film, radio, and performing arts like music, theatre and dance. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective which includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field, but in a broader cultural context. It examines the social and cultural context of the avant-garde: its media, its locations, its reception and audiences, the transmissions between Scandinavia and Europe, and its cultural consequences. The essays trace the connections between the avant-garde and the cultural discourses of contemporary currents such as revolutionary socialism, radical nationalism and occultism, and discuss questions of gender, ideology and politics, geographical location and technological innovation. The cultural history thus focuses on the role of the avant-garde in shaping the ideas of cultural modernity in the Nordic countries.Trade Review"With The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925, the Nordic Network for Avant-garde studies has presented a generally impressive first volume of a cultural history of the avant-garde in Northern Europe on which continuation we will wait with excitement. We really wish for both the network and the publisher that they will have the necessary long breath to bring cultural history of northern European avant-garde to its end." By Stephan Michael Schröder (Köln), Nordeuropaforum, 2014 pp. 42-46. Full tekst available: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2014-/schroeder-stephan-michael-42/PDF/schroeder.pdfTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Hubert van den Berg: The Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde and the Nordic Countries – An Introductory tour d’horizon Nordic Icons in the European Avant-Gardes Per Stounbjerg: Rebels and Renegades – Strindberg, Artaud and the Avant-Garde Erik Mørstad: Munch’s Impact on Europe Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen: Die Asta and the Avant-Garde Geert Buelens: “the manifold in one/and the one manifold” – Asta Nielsen as an Icon for the European Avant-Garde Nordic Artists in the European Metropolises Frank Claustrat: Nordic Writers and Artists in Paris before, during and after World War I Shulamith Behr: Académie Matisse and its Relevance in the Life and Work of Sigrid Hjertén Frank Claustrat: Jean Börlin and Les Ballets Suédois Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann and Anne M. N. Sokoll: “From the North comes the light to us!” – Scandinavian Artists in Friedrichshagen at the Turn of the Century Jan Torsten Ahlstrand: Berlin and the Swedish Avant-Garde – GAN, Nell Walden, Viking Eggeling, Axel Olson and Bengt Österblom Hubert van den Berg and Benedikt Hjartarson: Icelandic Artists in the Network of the European Avant-Garde – The Cases of Jón Stefánsson and Finnur Jónsson Locations of the Nordic Avant-Garde Sven-Olov Wallenstein: The Avant-Garde and the Market Andrea Kollnitz: Promoting the Young – Interactions between the Avant-Garde and the Swedish Art Market 1910-1925 Vibeke Petersen: The Avant-Garde and the Danish Art Market Dorthe Aagesen: Art Metropolis for a Day – Copenhagen during World War I Margareta Tillberg: Kandinsky in Sweden – Malmö 1914 and Stockholm 1916 Stefan Nygård: The National and the International in Ultra (1922) and Quosego (1928) Natalia Baschmakoff: Avant-Garde Encounters on Karelian Bedrock (1890s-1930s) Øivind Storm Bjerke: The Pavilion of De 14 Claes-Göran Holmberg: flamman Bjarne S. Bendtsen: Copenhagen Swordplay – Avant-Garde Manoeuvres and the Aesthetics of War in the Art Magazine Klingen (1917-1920) Torben Jelsbak: Dada Copenhagen Transmission, Appropriations and Responses Claes-Göran Holmberg: The Reception of the Early European Avant-Gardes in Sweden Rikard Schönström: Pär Lagerkvist’s Literary Art and Pictorial Art Fredrik Hertzberg, Vesa Haapala and Janna Kantola: The Finland-Swedish Avant-Garde Moments Per Stounbjerg and Torben Jelsbak: Danish Expressionism Lennart Gottlieb: Avant-Gardism Danish Style – Jais Nielsen as a Modern Genre Painter 1916-18 Kristín G. Guðnadóttir: Jóhannes Kjarval’s Appropriation of Progressive Attitudes in Painting between 1917 and 1920 Andreas Engström: The Modern Breakthrough in Swedish and Scandinavian Art Music Karen Vedel: Dancing across Copenhagen Politics, Ideology, Discourse Torben Jelsbak: Avant-Garde Activism – The Case of the New Student Society in Copenhagen (1922-24) Timo Huusko: Finnish Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Julia Tidigs: Multilingualism and (De)territorialisation in the Works of Elmer Diktonius Anna Maria Bernitz: Hilma af Klint and the New Art of Seeing Thomas Henrikson: Art as a Revolutionary Dionysian Jaguar – Otto Ville Kuusinen, Elmer Diktonius and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Poetry in Finland Benedikt Hjartarson: The Early Avant-Garde in Iceland Epilogue Legacies of the Early Nordic Avant-Gardes Abstracts Index

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Book SynopsisThe sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop and the sites at which they are received have undergone profound transformations within the last decades. This book traces the accelerating emergence of cultural crossovers and overlaps in a global perspective and through a variety of disciplinary approaches. It starts from the premise that after the ‘spatial turn’ human action and cultural representations can no longer be grasped as firmly located in or clearly demarcated by territorial entities. The collection of essays investigates postcolonial articulations of various genres and media in their spatiality and locatedness while envisaging acts of location as dynamic cultural processes. It explores the ways in which critical spatial thinking can be made productive: Testing the uses and limitations of ‘translocation’ as an open exploratory model for a critically spatialized postcolonial studies, it covers a wide range of cultural expressions from the anglophone world and beyond – literature, film, TV, photography and other forms of visual art, philosophy, historical memory, and tourism. The extensive introductory chapter charts various facets of spatial thinking from a variety of disciplines, and critically discusses their implications for postcolonial studies. The contributors’ essays range from theoretical interventions into the critical routines of postcolonial criticism to case studies of specific cultural texts, objects, and events reflecting temporal and spatial, material and intellectual, physical and spiritual mobility. What emerges is a fascinating survey of the multiple directions postcolonial translocations can take in the future. This book is aimed at students and scholars of postcolonial literary and cultural studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, transnational studies, globalisation studies, critical space studies, urban studies, film studies, media studies, art history, philosophy, history, and anthropology. Contributors: Diana Brydon, Lars Eckstein, Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Lucia Krämer, Gesa Mackenthun, Thomas Martinek, Sandra Meyer, Therese-M. Meyer, Marga Munkelt, Lynda Ng, Claudia Perner, Katharina Rennhak, Gundo Rial y Costas, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, Silke Stroh, Kathy-Ann Tan, Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Jessica Voges, Roland Walter, Dirk Wiemann.Trade Review"Wide-ranging in subjects and scope, yet engaging and insightful... Postcolonial Translations is a collection that will certainly encourage scholars to think outside of methods and modes of interpretation considered central to their discipline." - Ruksana Abdul-Majid, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations and Permissions Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, and Silke Stroh: Introduction: Directions of Translocation – Towards a Critical Spatial Thinking in Postcolonial Studies Conceptual Interventions and Disciplinary Transgressions Diana Brydon: ‘Difficult Forms of Knowing’: Enquiry, Injury, and Translocated Relations of Postcolonial Responsibility Claudia Perner: Dislocating Imagology. And: How Much of It Can (or Should) Be Retrieved? Dirk Wiemann: Distant Reading: Cosmopolitanism as Unconditional Reception Space, Time, and Narration Roland Walter: Transculturation and Narration in the Black Diaspora of the Americas Lucia Krämer: Far Away, So Close: Translocation as Storytelling Principle in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission Gesa Mackenthun: American Antebellum Cosmopolitanism: Herman Melville’s ‘Postcolonial’ Translocations Lynda Ng: Translocal Temporalities in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria Daria Tunca: “We die only once, and for such a long time”: Approaching Trauma through Translocation in Chris Abani’s Song for Night Translation and Cultural Rewriting Sandra Meyer: “The Story that gave this Land its Life”: The Translocation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Therese–M. Meyer: Reading “Upstream!”: Implications of an Unconsidered Source Text to Julian Barnes’ Eighth Chapter of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters Marga Munkelt: Myths of Rebellion: Translocation and (Cultural) Innovation in Mexican-American Literature Diasporas, Identifications, Resistance Paloma Fresno–Calleja: Trans/locating Pacific Identities: From the Small Island to the Largest Polynesian City in the World Thomas Martinek: Writing (in) the Migrant Space: Discursive Nervousness in Contemporary Nigerian Short Stories Katharina Rennhak: Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover! and the Limits of the Translocal Petra Tournay–Theodotou: “I love Cyprus but England is my home”: Eve Makis’ Eat Drink and Be Married Jessica Voges: Laughter Movens: Functions and Effects of Laughter in Black British Literature Transmigration: Multiple Migration, and Cultural Transgression Silke Stroh: Theories and Practices of Transmigration: Colonial British Diasporas and the Emergence of Translocal Space Markus Schmitz: Blurring Images: Articulations of Arab-American Crossovers Media and Performance Lars Eckstein: Filming Illegals: Clandestine Translocation and the Representation of Bare Life Gundo Rial y Costas: Translating the American Dream? A Brazilian Vision of the Promised Land Kathy–Ann Tan: Curio(us) Translocations: Site-Specific Interventions in Banglatown, London Notes on Editors and Contributors

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Book SynopsisLocating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions is part of a series of books that examines cross-cultural processes between Britain and Italy. The volume explores for the first time British-Italian exchanges in terms of East-West, rather than North-South. In so doing, it reveals that Italy has long been a meeting point of East and West as much as one of North and South. Comprising essays from the fields of history, politics, the philosophy of language, linguistics, literature, and the arts, the collection illustrates that the dynamics of British–Italian transactions have long been shaped by a fascinating process of location and relocation. Locating Italy is pathbreaking in questioning the traditional categories of North, South, East, and West in interactions between these two countries and their respective cultures.Table of ContentsIntroduction Kirsten Sandrock and Owain Wright: Locating Italy: East and West in British–Italian Transactions Processes of Othering in Intercultural Exchanges Jean–Jacques Lecercle: Othering the Other: English and Italian in Transaction Owain Wright: Orientalising Italy: The British and Italian Political Culture Ting Zheng: ‘East or West, Home is Best’? An Examination of European Images of China as the Cultural Other Painted Art as Intercultural Medium Emily Eells: Viewing the Mona Lisa ‘under a strange mixture of lights’ Nick Pearce: A Casualty of War: Laurence Binyon, Raphael Petrucci and Chinese Painting Occident and Orient in British–Italian Literature Sharon Ouditt: Eastern Promise in Puglia: Janet Ross on Frederick II and his Muslim Court Kirsten Sandrock: Venice in Coryat’s Crudities (1611): Between Multicultural Community and Christian Archetype Martin Stannard: Venice Observed: East Meets West in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights Intercultural Translations in Language Transactions Carla Dente: Theory and Practice of Translation between East and West. The Location of Some Cultural Issues Antonella De Nicola: Sharing Eastern Visions: Reflections upon Fausta Cialente’s Translation of The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Daniele Franceschi: ‘Languaging’ and the Construction of Tuscan Identity in Jeff Shapiro’s Renato’s Luck Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisIndigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives – particularly when cross-culturally produced or edited – can remain haunted by colonially grounded assumptions about orality and literacy. Through an examination of key moments in the theorizing of orality and literacy and key texts in cross-culturally produced Indigenous life-writing, Entangled Subjects explores how some of these works can sustain, rather than trouble, the frontier zone established by modernity in relation to ‘talk’ and ‘text’. Yet contemporary Indigenous vernaculars offer radical new approaches to how we might move beyond the orality–literacy ‘frontier’, and how modernity and the a-modern are productively entangled in the process.Trade Review"This fascinating work is the most subtle and complete account of one of the most significant periods of the production of Indigenous Australian writing to date. The traces of the oral and the written are equally complex and signifying, performative and fixed; they are both the product of and engender ‘messy’ social and textual relations. Editing, cleaning up the textual mess, is examined here as a textual politics, and Grossman never takes her eye off the ball as a series of texts are analysed from the 1980s to the end of the twentieth century. It is these possibilities and expanded productions – enabled by new theories, new technologies, and more democratic race relations – that this work pays critical homage to." — Stephen Muecke, University of New South Wales "Part of the interest here is that Grossman can look back over more than a decade of intensive activity, academic and otherwise, in this field, in which she is already a key player. This project develops a sophisticated, intricate, and subtle inquiry which practises academic prose at its best. There is here a rigorous and generous attention to the work of other scholars, in Australia and elsewhere, to the diverse forms of cultural expression adopted by Indigenous Australians, and to the long and difficult process of learning that has produced this fine piece of scholarship." — Gillian Whitlock, University of Queensland "This superb book will become essential and pleasurable reading for any scholar interested in Indigenous Australian writing in general, despite its particular focus on life-writing. Grossman’s prolonged thinking about issues of self-representation, collaborative texts, orality and literacy, and the engagement of interested white people with texts produced by Aboriginal people, participates in so many debates concerning the practice and theorization of Aboriginal Australian textuality that even informed readers will be stimulated." – David Callahan, University of Aveiro "The vexed terms of orality and literacy provide a fertile site, as Grossman’s work illustrates, for a discussion of the complexities of the ‘entangled’ and intertwined spaces that the two occupy. Entanglement is fluid and dynamic. A confused space is a good place to begin a conversation. [..] Entangled subjects offers a rigorous interrogation of Western discourses surrounding orality and literacy that challenges ideas of where the ‘centre’ might be located and how multiple centres of truth and textuality may exist and operate simultaneously. Vexation is a catalyst for Grossmann — a sign to move beyond current constraints and ‘ready-made’ concepts that have governed critical approaches to both collaborative Indigenous life writing and modernity’s positioning of orality and literacy." – Jeanine Leane, Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: When They Write What We Read Unsettling Subjects: Critical Perspectives on Selves in Writing and Writing Selves (Re)Writing Histories: The Emergence and Development of Indigenous Australian Life-Writing ‘The Pencil and the Mouth’: Anthropology, Orality, Literacy, and Modernity ‘A Tape-Recorder and an Editor’: The Politics and Practices of Cross-Cultural Collaborative Text-Making Crowded House: Gularabulu: Stories of the West Kimberley Troubling Relations: Nyibayarri: Kimberley Tracker, Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs, and The Sun Dancin’ Fighting With Our Tongues, Fighting For Our Tongues: Warlpiri karnta karnta-kurlangu yimi/Warlpiri Women’s Voices: Our Lives, Our History and Auntie Rita Conclusion: Reading the Word, Reading the World: Re-Reading Orality, Literacy, and Modernity Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisBesides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African women’s poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period, along with studies of J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera. The bulk of this issue, however, is given over to coverage of cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary North Africa, two contributions on Kenyan naming ceremonies and initiation songs, and three studies of the function of Shona and Ndebele proverbs, to national history in Zimbabwean autobiography, traditional mourning dress of the Akans of Ghana, and the precolonial origins of traditional leadership in South Africa. Contributors: Jude Aigbe Agho, Nasima Ali, Uchenna Bethrand Anih, Aboneh Ashagrie, Francis T. Cheo, Gordon Collier, Abdel Karim Daragmeh, Geoffrey V. Davis, Nozizwe Dhlamini, Kola Eke, Phyllis Forster, Frances Hardie, James Hlongwana, Pede Hollist, John M. Kobia, Samuelson Freddie Khunou, Mea Lashbrooke, María J. López, Brian Macaskill, Evans Mandova, Richard Sgadreck Maposa, Michael Mazuru, Corwin L. Mhlahlo. Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize, Kobus Moolman, Thamsanqa Moyo, Felix M. Muchomba, Collins Kenga Mumbo, Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, Bhekezakhe Ncube, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, Ode S. Ogede, H. Oby Okolocha, Wumi Raji, Dosia Reichhardt, Rashi Rohatgi, Kamal Salhi, Ekremah Shehab, Faith Sibanda, John A Stotesbury, Nick Mdika Tembo, Kenneth Usongo, Wellington Wasosa.Trade Review"Der Band enthält Informationen zu den Beiträgern und ist für alle an Afrika interessierten Leser zu empfehlen. " – Till Kinzel, QUELLETable of ContentsLiterature: General Kola Eke: Responses to Patriarchy in African Women’s Poetry Francis T. Cheo: A Mirror of Convergence: Association and Racism in Anglophone Cameroonian Literature Thamsanqa Moyo, Faith Sibanda, and Michael Mazuru: Angles of Telling and Angles on Reality: Representations of the Gukurahundi Period in Selected Zimbabwean Fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English Literature: Individual Authors Jude Aigbe Agho: Class Conflict and the Rise of the ‘Proletarian’ Novel in Africa Nick Mdika Tembo: History, Religion, and the Dramaturgy of Victimization and Betrayal: Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Ngũgĩ wa Mirii’s I Will Marry When I Want Kenneth Usongo: Resisting Oppression: I Will Marry When I Want and the (Re)Writing of History Corwin L. Mhlahlo: Advocating a Nameable Desire: Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name Uchenna Bethrand Anih: A Womanist Reading of Douceurs du bercail by Aminata Sow Fall Rashi Rohatgi: Postcolonial Hindi Translation in Mauritius: The Case of Kalpana Lalji’s Amargeet Brian Macaskill: Entr’acte: Cannibalism, Semiophagy, and the Plunk-Plink-Plonk of Banjo Strings in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Abdel Karim Daragmeh and Ekremah Shehab: Signs Tell Their Own Stories: Rethinking the Status of Writing and Speech in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe Creative Writing Pede Hollist: Resettlement Showcase South Africa Dosia Reichardt: Introduction Kobus Moolman: What He Did/One Version of the Road Mea Lashbrooke: letter to sacred ibis Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize: The long walk home Frances Hardie: To Whom It May Concern/Pipe Dream Nasima Ali: Uprooted H. Oby Okolocha: BlackBerry Tabitha Wanja Mwangi: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall Felix M. Muchomba: On the Road to Change African Societies and Cultural Expression Phyllis Forster: Traditional Mourning Dress of the Akans of Ghana Samuelson Freddie Khunou: The Origin and Nature of Traditional Leadership in South Africa: A Precolonial Perspective James Hlongwana, R.S. Maposa, and Thamsanqa Moyo: Sithole, Nkomo, Muzorewa, and the Birth of Zimbabwe: A Reconsideration of Autobiography as a Literary Mode of National History Thamsanqa Moyo, Bhekezakhe Ncube, and Nozizwe Dhlamini: Peace, Conflict Management, and the Ndebele Proverb Evans Mandova: The Shona Proverb as an Expression of Unhu/Ubuntu Wellington Wasosa and Evans Mandova: The Role of Proverbs in the Shona Judicial System with Special Reference to Nhango Dzokusuma Nyaya Padare Collins Kenga Mumbo: Artistic Techniques of Expression in the Performance of the Mijikenda Naming Ceremony Vyalusa of Kenya John M. Kobia: Gender Roles in African Oral Literature: A Case Study of Initiation Songs Among the Igembe People of Meru of Kenya Kamal Salhi: Recontextualizing and Reconfiguring Cultural Identity in Contemporary North Africa Aboneh Ashagrie: African Cinema: The 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, 7–14 November 2011 Wumi Raji: The Amphibian’s Dilemma: An Interview with TIJAN M. SALLAH Reviews Gordon Collier: Reference Galore Ode Ogede: Crossing Cultures Ode Ogede: Teaching the African Novel Geoffrey V. Davis: Swimming Against the Tide Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: East Africa Reclaimed Geoffrey V. Davis: “Urging Readers to Know the Books Written Earlier” John A Stotesbury: A Remarkably Rich History María J . López: A Different Southern Africa Books Received Notes on Contributors Notes for Contributors

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Book SynopsisCollage Culture develops a comprehensive theory of the origins and meanings of collage and readymades in modern and postmodern art, literature, and everyday life. Demonstrating that the origins of collage are found in assembly line technologies and mass media forms of layout and advertising in early twentieth-century newspapers, Collage Culture traces how the historical avant-garde turns the fragmentation of Fordist production against nationalist, fascist, and capitalist ideologies, using the radical potential unleashed by new technologies to produce critical collages. David Banash adeptly surveys the reinvention of collage by a generation of postmodern artists who develop new forms including cut-ups, sampling, zines, plagiarism, and copying to cope with the banalities and demands of consumer culture. Banash argues that collage mirrors the profoundly dialectical relations between the cut of assembly lines and the readymades of consumerism even as its cutting-edges move against the imperatives of passive consumption and disposability instituted by those technologies, forms, and relations. Collage Culture surveys and analyzes works of advertising, assemblage, film, literature, music, painting, and photography from the historical avant-garde to the most recent developments of postmodernism.Trade ReviewThe Design Observer published an interview with David Banash on Collage Culture – an inspiring introduction to the book.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Fragments: Production, Consumption, and the Readymade Invention: Newspapers, Advertising, and the Origins of Collage Critique: Collage and the Politics of the Cut Nostalgia: Collage, Collecting and the Paste Gleaning: Everyday Life in Collage Culture Conclusion: From the Twentieth-Century’s Cutting Edge to the Twenty-First-Century Copy Notes Bibliography Image Credits Index

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Book SynopsisSince the 1990s we witness a rise in public apologies. Are we living in the ‘Age of Apology’? Interesting research questions can be raised about the opportunity, the form, the meaning, the effectiveness and the ethical implications of public apologies. Are they not merely a clever and easy device to escape real and tangible responsibility for mistakes or wrong done? Are they not at risk to become well-rehearsed rituals that claim to express regret but, in fact, avoid doing so? In a joint interdisciplinary effort, the contributors to this book, combining findings from their specific fields of research (legal, religious, political, linguistic, marketing and communication studies), attempt to articulate this tension between ritual and sincere regret, between the discourse and the content of apologies, between excuses that pretend and regret that seeks reconciliation.Table of ContentsIntroduction Daniël Cuypers: When Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word: An Apology with a Legal Disclaimer Regret and Sincerity Nick Smith: An Overview of Challenges Facing Collective Apologies Danielle Celermajer: Apology and the Possibility of the Ethical Nation Raymond Cohen: A Time to Heal: Pope John Paul II’s Penitential Gesture at Jerusalem’s Western Wall Benjamin R. Bates and Jason A. Edwards: An Attempt to Heal Rifts in Medicine: Collective Apology and the American Medical Association’s Attempts at Reconciliation with the African-American Community Davide Denti: Public Apologies in the Western Balkans: The Shadow of Ambiguity Daniela Bolivar, Ivo Aertsen and Inge Vanfraechem: The Ritual of Apology and Restorative Justice: Exploring the Victim’s Perspective Ritual and Discourse Zohar Kampf: The Discourse of Public Apologies: Modes of Realization, Interpretation and Mediation Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler: Post-Transitional Apology: Expressing Contrition Whilst Addressing the Holocaust Transitional Justice’s Failure Willemine Willems: From Apology to Excuse: Abuse Cases within the Catholic Church as Public and Scientific Objects of Research Lisa S. Villadsen: The Regretful Acknowledgement: A Dignified End to a Disgraceful Story? W. Timothy Coombs: An Overview of Challenges Facing Collective Apologies: Their Use in the Corporate World Daniel Janssen: Apologies in Written Messages: What Are the Effects?

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Book SynopsisJust as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves critical essays on Coetzee’s works with an autobiographical narrative detailing MacFarlane’s more personal response to her reading and writing. The presentation of elements of the creative with the critical, and the critical within the creative, aims to challenge the traditional boundary between the two. This kind of methodology derives from the idea (and practice) of embodiment: that an idea or philosophy does not ‘float free’, but is tied to the idiosyncrasies, divergences, and subjective ‘travel’ of its speaker or writer. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year explicitly address themes which abide more surreptitiously throughout his oeuvre: the divisions and paradoxes which occur the moment pen gains page, the value of literature, and the ethics of embodiment. In revealing the dialogue between writer-self and reader-self, and between author and character, these recent novels invite a rereading of Coetzee’s previous literature. Reading Coetzee explores Coetzee’s preoccupation with the act of writing using his recent books as a lens through which to view his eight previous novels as well as his memoirs and essays.Trade Review”My impression is that this is a significant and daring work. It is a rare and refreshing pleasure to read an academic book where the writer is willing to put herself on the line, not only through her assessment of someone else, but by writing stories and creative non-fiction that relate to her main line of investigation. (It turns out that some of those who teach also can do). This makes everything matter to the reader because it all clearly matters to and affects Elizabeth MacFarlane. Her enterprise is not a pursuit of status but a pursuit of understanding and fuller living.” – Per K. Brask, University of Winnipeg, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction This Book is Irregular: On the critical-creative nexus The middle voice ‘I have beliefs but I do not believe in them’ The voice of the literary critic The critical landscape Coetzee’s recurring blank page The written is always a compromise Metaphor as Contagion: On the Postscript of Elizabeth Costello Elizabeth Costello as Postscript to Coetzee’s oeuvre Lord Chandos’s total renunciation of literary activity Lady Chandos and the problem of metaphor The Author Divided in Coetzee’s Novels A moment of rupture: The white-haired woman Time, tense, and aspect Singing birds Divided and divined ‘A going against’: Coetzee, postmodernism, and late style Where is Coetzee? Authors and characters Her man and she The Ethics of Embodiment The ethics of embodiment: Philosophy and literature Costello’s progress, human to ape The dark chamber: Ethics and ambiguity Two suspended elements: sentence, narrative, text The metaphor of the real Short fiction The Nature of It Museum The Scar Triptych Conclusions Foreground and background Late style The wrong question Postscript: A Bad Year References Index

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Book SynopsisTales about treacherous Jesuits and scheming popes are an important and pervasive part of European culture. They belong to a set of ideas, images, and practices that, when grouped under the label anti-Catholicism, represent a phenomenon that can be traced back to the Reformation. Anti-Catholic movements and sentiments crossed boundaries between European countries, contributing to the early modern consolidation of national identities. In the nineteenth century, secularist movements adopted and transformed confessional criticism in a new internationalist dimension that was articulated across the whole Western world. A variety of liberal, conservative, secular, Protestant, and other forces gave shape to this counter-image, taking on the function of a pattern from which one’s own ideals and beliefs could be chiselled out. The contributions to this volume show how different national contexts affected the proliferation of anti-Catholic messages over the course of four centuries of European history, and demonstrate that anti-Catholicism constituted a powerful European cross-cultural phenomenon.Table of ContentsAuthors in this volume Yvonne Maria Werner and Jonas Harvard: European Anti-Catholicism in Comparative and Transnational Perspective – The Role of a Unifying Other: An Introduction General Perspectives John Wolffe: North Atlantic Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Overview Manuel Borutta: Settembrini’s World: German and Italian Anti-Catholicism in the Age of the Culture Wars Anti-Catholicism and National Identity Laura M. Stevens: Healing a Whorish Heart: The Whore of Babylon and Protestant Interiority in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain Clare Haynes: How to look? Roman Catholic Art in Britain – 1700-2010 Edwina Hagen: Dutch Civic Virtues, Protestant and Enlightened: Anti-Catholicism and Early Cultural Nationalism in the Netherlands Around 1800 Olaf Blaschke: Anti-Protestantism and Anti-Catholicism in the 19th Century: A Comparison Yvonne Maria Werner: ‘The Catholic Danger’: The Changing Patterns of Swedish Anti-Catholicism – 1850-1965 Kristin Norseth: Arousing Anti-Catholic Sentiments on a National Scale: The Case of Marta Steinsvik and Norway Anti-Catholicism and Political Culture Jes Fabricius Møller and Uffe Østergård: Lutheran Orthodoxy and Anti-Catholicism in Denmark 1536-2011 Ainur Elmgren: The Jesuit Stereotype – An Image of the Universal Enemy in Finnish Nationalism Bernt T. Oftestad: Norway and the Jesuit Order: A History of Anti-Catholicism Jonas Harvard: Catholicism and the Idea of Public Legitimacy in Sweden Andrew G. Newby: Scottish Anti-Catholicism in a British and European Context: The ‘North Pole Mission’ and Victorian Scotland

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Book SynopsisLiterature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility. From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry, the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the history of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Ingo Berensmeyer and Christoph Ehland: Movement and Mobility: An Introduction Part One: Movement and the Making of Space Christian Huck: The Total Mobility of the Dime Novel Detective Renate Brosch: Mapping Movement: Reimagining Cartography in The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Chris Thurgar-Dawson: Reality Mining and Meaningful Motion Patterns: A Critical GIS for Literary Studies Klaus Benesch: Places of Beginning: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s Walden and Douglass’s Narrative Anna Beck: Subjective Spaces - Spatial Subjectivities: Movement and Mobility in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Ian McEwan’s Saturday Part Two: Conceptual Spaces Birgit Neumann: Patterns of Global Mobility in Early Modern English Literature: Fictions of the Sea Philipp Erchinger: Mobility, Movement, Method and Life in G.H. Lewes Peter Merriman: Unpicking Time-Space: Towards New Apprehensions of Movement-Space Sven Strasen, Timo Lothmann, and Peter Wenzel: On the Move: Discursive Integration of New Mobility Technologies through Poetry Timo Lothmann and Antje Schumacher: Automobility in Poetry: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLiterature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural’ literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature’ and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as a function of the specific language situations in these countries as well as the various political, institutional, and discursive contexts. This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries.Table of ContentsWolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, Liesbeth Minnaard: Preface Theoretical and Methodological Reflections Wolfgang Behschnitt and Magnus Nilsson: “Multicultural Literatures” in a Comparative Perspective Elien Declercq and Michael Boyden: Multilingualism and Diglossia in Migration Literature: The Case of Flemish Songs in Northern France Discourses on Multiculturalism, Language and Literature in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders Magnus Nilsson: Literature in Multicultural and Multilingual Sweden: The Birth and Death of the Immigrant Writer Dörthe Gaettens: New Voices Wanted: The Search for a Danish Multicultural Literature Liesbeth Minnaard: Every Carpet a Flying Vehicle? Multiculturality in the Dutch Literary Field Sarah De Mul: “The Netherlands is doing well. Allochtoon writing talent is blossoming there”: Defining Flemish Literature, Desiring “Allochtoon” Writing (Multi)lingual Interventions: Exemplary Analyses of Literary and Linguistic Strategies of Literary Texts Peter Leonard: Bi- and Multilingual Aspects in the Literary Writing of Translingual Authors in Sweden Wolfgang Behschnitt: The Rhythm of Hip Hop: Multi-ethnic Slang in Swedish Literature After 2000 Søren Frank: Is There or Is There Not a Literature of Migration in Denmark? Marjan Nijborg and Fouad Laroui: The Emergence of a Dutch-Moroccan Literature: An Institutional and Linguistic Explanation Henriëtte Louwerse: “We are not bodies only, but winged spirits”: Metamorphosis in the Work of Hafid Bouazza Yves T’Sjoen: About the (Non-)Existence of “Migrant Literature” in the Netherlands: or, Why Mustafa Stitou Is a Dutch Author Sarah De Mul and Thomas Ernst: Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Contemporary Prose in Flanders: Chika Unigwe, Koen Peeters, and Benno Barnard A Comparative View Wolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, and Liesbeth Minnaard: Conclusion: A Comparative View Index

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Book SynopsisThis book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies has seen a temporal expansion, to the extent that scholars in the field have come to turn to both the pre- and posterior history of Modernism. Second, the field has witnessed a spatial expansion, in that increasingly so researchers have also come to scrutinize the Modernisms of regions at the fringes of Europe, and beyond. Thirdly, a vertical expansion too has marked Modernist studies in recent decades, not only by further expanding the canon of women writers and exploring the continuum between high- and lowbrow, but also by looking at the artistic and mediatized hierarchies and cross-fertilizations operative in the period. A fourth conceptual expansion of the field shows that whereas concepts such as “middlebrow”, “arrière-garde”, and to some extent even “avant-garde”, were once exotic notions of at best marginal importance in European Modernist studies, they now form part and parcel of the field, complicating and expanding it conceptually.Table of ContentsSascha Bru and Dirk de Geest: What Modernism Was and Is: By Way of an Introduction Hans Bertens: Towards Modernism Peter Liebregts: “The World Is a Fine Adventurous Place”: Graham Greene in the 1930s Sjef Houppermans: Sorties or Entrenchment: Roussel, Crevel and Aragon between Avant-garde and Arrière-garde Jacqueline Bel: Intellectual Scepticism versus Avant-garde Bragging: Modernism in Dutch Literature Geert Buelens: “The Final Catholic”: Paul van Ostaijen, and the Catholic Réveil around the First World War Koen Rymenants, Tom Sintobin and Pieter Verstraeten: Arrière-garde Perspectives on the History of Modern Literature: The Case of the Netherlands (1880-1940) Arthur Langeveld: How Modernism Disappeared from Fedor Gladkov’s Cement between 1924 and 1958 Otto Boele: Biocosmism and the Russian Avant-garde: A Literary Cul-de-sac or the Road to Immortality? Paulo de Medeiros: Ten Times Pessoa Hero Hokwerda: Modernism in Greek Literature (1910-1940) Jan Baetens: Fun Home: Ithaca, Pennsylvania Peter Verstraten: A Modernist “Attempt at Cinema”: The “Impurity” of Pierrot le Fou Peter de Voogd: Modernism and the Art of Printing: transition and Carolus Verhulst Marcel Cobussen: The (Post)Modern Music of Edgard Varèse Notes on Contributors Index

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