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Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English

Author : Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516789
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English by : Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen

Download or read book Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English written by Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over the world, such as: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, A. S. Byatt, Tabish Khair, David Mitchell, Alice Munroe, Harry Parker, Caryl Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Alan Spence, Tim Winton and Kenneth White. The volume offers a thorough questioning of the concept of the transmodern, as well as an informed insight into the future formal and thematic development of literatures in English.

Transcending the Postmodern

Author : Susana Onega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000060144
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcending the Postmodern written by Susana Onega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on the theories of Transmodernity propounded by Rosa María Rodríguez Magda, Enrique Dussel, Marc Luyckx Ghisi and Irena Ateljevic, inter alia, it investigates the links between Transmodernity and such categories as Postmodernity, Postcolonialism and Transculturalism with a view to help define a new current in contemporary literary production. The chapters either follow the main theoretical drives of the transmodern paradigm or problematise them. In so doing, they branch out towards various issues that have come to inspire contemporary novelists, among which: the presence of the past, the ascendance of new technologies, multiculturalism, terrorism, and also vulnerability, interdependence, solidarity and ecology in a globalised context. In so doing, it interrogates the ethics, aesthetics and politics of the contemporary novel in English.

Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature

Author : Madalina Armie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000832147
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature by : Madalina Armie

Download or read book Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature written by Madalina Armie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the twenty-first century and beyond. These artistic manifestations connect tradition and modernity, debunk myths, break the silence with the exposure of uncomfortable realities, dismantle stereotypes and reflect reality with precision. Women’s issues and female experiences depicted in contemporary fiction may provide an explanation for past and present gender dynamics, revealing a pathway for further renegotiation of gender roles and the achievement of equilibrium and equality between sexes. These works might help to seal and heal wounds both old and new and offer solutions to the quandaries of tomorrow.

Weaving Tales

Author : Paula García-Ramírez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000988090
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Weaving Tales written by Paula García-Ramírez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.

Symbolism 2020

Author : Rüdiger Ahrens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110717050
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Symbolism 2020 by : Rüdiger Ahrens

Download or read book Symbolism 2020 written by Rüdiger Ahrens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been variously rendered in symbolic terms? How do symbols and symbolic reference shape our ideas of the future? To what extent are symbols constitutive of futures, and to what extent do they restrain communication about what is possible and the imagination of fundamental change? Moreover, how have symbolic practices shaped not only artistic representations of the future, but also scientific attempts at forecasting and modelling it? What, then, is the relevance of symbolism for negotiations of the future in cultural and academic production? In essays ranging from literary and film studies to the philosophy of art and ecological modelling, the volume seeks to lay groundwork in theorizing and historicising ‘symbols of the future’ as much as ‘the future of symbolism’.

Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives

Author : Anna M Brígido-Corachán
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609177460
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives by : Anna M Brígido-Corachán

Download or read book Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives written by Anna M Brígido-Corachán and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing from a vantage point that respects tribal specificities and Indigenous sovereignty, the essays in this volume consider the relational place-worlds crafted by the Native American authors Louise Erdrich, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gordon Henry Jr., Louis Owens, James Welch, Heid E. Erdrich, Ofelia Zepeda, and Simon J. Ortiz. Each is set in conversation with kindred writers and larger sociopolitical debates in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. The shared aim is to decolonize academic methodologies and disciplines across the Atlantic by tracing the creative, spiritual, and intellectual networks that Native writers have established with other communities at home and around the world. Key issues to arise include Native American/Indigenous theories and literary practices that center on relationality, the planetary turn, grounded normativity, trans-Indigeneity, transborder identities, movement, journeying, migration, multilingualism, genomic research, futurity, ecology, and justice.

The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Author : Susana Onega
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000750264
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by : Susana Onega

Download or read book The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction written by Susana Onega and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography. Situating themselves in the wake of Judith Butler’s work on (un-)grievablability, the essays collected in this volume seek to cast new light on these issues by delving into the socio-cultural constructions of grievability and other types of vulnerabilities, invisibilities and inaudibilities linked with the neglect and/or abuse of non-normative individuals and submerged groups that have been framed as disposable, exploitable and/or unmournable by such determinant factors as sex, gender, ethnic origin, health, etc., thereby refining and displacing the category of subalternity associated with the poetics of postmodernism.

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction

Author : Roberto del Valle Alcalá
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000750892
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction by : Roberto del Valle Alcalá

Download or read book Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction written by Roberto del Valle Alcalá and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.

The Future of the Policy Sciences

Author : Anis B. Brik
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800376480
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Policy Sciences written by Anis B. Brik and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This forward-thinking book examines the future of public policy as a discipline, both as it is taught and as it is practiced. Critically assessing the limits of current theories and approaches, leading scholars in the field highlight new models and perspectives.

The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature

Author : Michael Bryson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000606503
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature by : Michael Bryson

Download or read book The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature written by Michael Bryson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study, Michael Bryson argues for this renewal of perspective by covering literature written in different languages, times, and places, calling for a return to a humanism, which focuses on literary characters and their psychological and existential struggles—not struggles of competition, but of connection, the struggles of fragmented, incomplete individuals for integration, wholeness, and unity.

The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction

Author : José M. Yebra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527546438
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction written by José M. Yebra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on Naomi Alderman’s literary production, and highlights the writer’s transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The four novels analysed here prove to be relevant, not only from a literary viewpoint, but also from the fields of ethics, spirituality and politics. The analysis thus focuses on issues such as alterity and respect towards the other in a globalized context. As such, the book will be of interest to literary critics, researchers, and students in the fields of literature, ethics, and social and cultural studies. The reader will find in the text a comprehensive approach to a young writer who undoubtedly deserves attention given her interrogation of varied and socially relevant topics, including gender and sexual orientation in the early twenty-first century, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and the discourse of feminist posthuman dystopias.

Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel

Author : Eileen Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429535813
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel written by Eileen Pollard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida’s thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher’s preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study of Mantel’s writing, not just in terms of Derrida’s thought, but through any critical perspective or lens to date.

David Foster Wallace and the Body

Author : Peter Sloane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100000869X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Foster Wallace and the Body written by Peter Sloane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author’s works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a ‘human being’. A large part of what that means is having a body, and being conscious of the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a fact with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we all desire ‘to be reconciled’. Given the ubiquity of the themes of embodiment in Wallace’s work, this study is an important addition to an expanding field. The book also opens up the themes addressed to interrogate aspects of contemporary literature, culture, and society more generally, placing Wallace’s works in the history of literary and philosophical engagements with the brute fact of embodiment.

Haruki Murakami

Author : Chikako Nihei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000021181
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haruki Murakami written by Chikako Nihei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to "cross" into a different context, through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His belief in the importance of monogatari is closely linked to his generation’s experience of the counter-‐‐culture movement in the late1960s and his research on the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack caused by the Aum shinrikyo cult, major events in postwar Japan that revealed many people’s desire for a stable narrative to interact with and form their identity from.

Urban Captivity Narratives

Author : Heather Hillsburg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000606546
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Urban Captivity Narratives written by Heather Hillsburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre, which she names Urban Captivity Narratives. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the texts examined in the study follows a female protagonist who has survived abduction, been held captive for months or even years, and subjected to sexual, emotional, and physical abuse by their captor. Hillsburg contextualizes these narratives, and takes into consideration our current political atmosphere, the role of patriarchy, and various social anxieties that come into play when discussing the kind of oppression seen in these narratives.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat

Author : Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000012522
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat starts out by exploring diasporic categories and postcolonial themes such as gender constructs, cultural nationalism, cultural and communal identity, and moves to investigate Danticat’s human rights activism, the immigrant experience, the relationship between the particular and the universal, and the violence of hegemony and imperialism in relationship with society, family, and community. The Editors of the collection have carefully compiled works that show how Danticat’s writings may help in building more compassionate and relational human communities that are grounded on the imperative of human dignity, respect, inclusion, and peace.

George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form

Author : Joseph Rex Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351384597
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form written by Joseph Rex Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the frameworks of literary theory relevant to modern fantasy, Dr. Joseph Young undertakes a compelling examination of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and his employment of the structural demands and thematic aptitudes of his chosen genre. Examining Martin’s approaches to his obligations and licenses as a fantasist, Young persuasively argues that the power of A Song of Ice and Fire derives not from Martin’s abandonment of genre convention, as is sometimes asserted, but from his ability to employ those conventions in ways that further, rather than constrain, his authorial program. Written in clear and accessible prose, George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form is a timely work which encourages a reassessment of Martin and his approach to his most famous novels. This is an important work for both students and critics of Martin’s work and argues for a reading of A Song of Ice and Fire as a wide-ranging example of what modern fantasy can accomplish when employed with an eye to its capabilities and purpose.