ISBN:
9789042039155
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (246 p)
Series Statement:
Cross / Cultures
Series Statement:
Cross/Cultures Ser. v.179
Parallel Title:
Print version Transculturation and Aesthetics : Ambivalence, Power, and Literature
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Postcolonialism in literature
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
;
Immigrants in literature
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
;
Immigrants in literature
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in globalization, transculturation, oriented to (new) aesthetics, seeks new cultural formations, and, with its heterogeneous author- and readership, enlists active participation by the individual
Description / Table of Contents:
Transculturation and Aesthetics Ambivalence, Power, and Literature; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I THEORIZING TRANSCULTURATION; Digging Far and Deep: Archaeological Sites, Dislocations, and Heterotopoi in Postcolonial Writing; Salman Rushdie's Transcultural 'Jesture' in The Enchantress of Florence; II DIASPORIC AND IMMIGRANT LITERATURES; Transculturation, Postcolonial Literature, and the Global LiteraryMarket: The Case of Yvonne Vera's American Literary Career
Description / Table of Contents:
The Erotics of Queer Diaspora in Chiang Hsun's Yu ai shu:xie gei Ly's M (Epistles of Eros: Letters to Ly's M)Dual Lives? Constructing Individuality in Contemporary British Multicultural Memoirs; III AFRICAN LEGACIES; Negotiating Transcultural Identities in African Literature: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The River Betweenand Timothy Wangusa's Upon This Mountain; The Aesthetics of Indigenizationin Post-Apartheid Black South African Literature; "In this time brown did not stick around": Fred D'Aguiar's Poetics of Slavery; IV LOCALIZED READINGS; Australian Aboriginal Literature on the European Market
Description / Table of Contents:
The Aesthetics of the Tide: The Ecosystem as Matrixfor Transculturation in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide"Whither goest thou, America?"Deterritorialization, Identity, and the Fellahin Ideal in Jack Kerouac's On the Road; Notes on Contributors; Index
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