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Parker, Joshua ; Tunkrová, Lucie ; Bakari, Mohamed

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2009

Online Ressource (277 pages)

Englisch

IntroductionThe Legacy of Arthur Raper -- "Transmuted by Time's Handling": Metamorphosis in James Branch Cabell's Jurgen -- Places in Metamorphosis and Representations of Aging in Brazil -- Metamorphosis of Sacral Places in Sofia -- City Perception in Transit: The Prague Experience -- The Psychoanalytic Tourist: Displacement and Place of the Other -- Reconstructions of Place: Osman Hamdi, Ottoman Imperial Visual Culture and the Territorialization of the Gaze -- Constantinople and the Slavs -- Identity and Loss of Place in the Love Song: On Cosmopolitanism, Forgiveness and New Citizens -- Sephardic Places in Sephardic Songs -- Language and Identity in United Europe -- Language Policy of the European Union -- Metamorphosis of Civic Identity within Campanella's Walls and on More's Island -- Hemingway's Hispanic Vision in For Whom the Bell Tolls -- We'll always have Paris: Metamorphosed Places in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris and Wolfgang Sebald's Austerlitz -- Dickens's David Copperfield: Worlds, Landscapes and Narrative -- Caribbean Metamorphosis: De-essentialized Colonial Identities in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- Finding New Sites: Transformations of Place and Identity in the Post-Apartheid Fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Zakes Mda -- Armed, Dangerous, and Walking the Streets: The Women of Fanon's"Algeria Unveiled" -- The Desert as Catalysis: A Reading in the Persona of Al-Shanfara's"Lamiyyatu'l Arab" -- Struggling to Return Home: Post-colonial Perspectives on Lithuanian Deportation -- Across the Zodiac: Lexicographical Travels through Space, Time, Infinity and Beyond -- Playing the World: Postcolonial Computer Games as Spatial Stories -- Sybille Lammes Contributors.

Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record

Erscheint auch als: Parker, Joshua : Metamorphosis and Place. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2009 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4438-1185-9 ; 1-4438-1185-8 ; 978-1-4438-1104-0 ; 1-4438-1104-1

1-4438-1104-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4438-1104-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 828303034 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GN491.7 ; GN491.7 .M48 2009

910.01 ; 304.23 ; 304.23     Ähnliche Literatur

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If personal and national identity is often constructed in terms of place, how do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? What happens to the spaces in which we live as societal values and identities change? These questions can be asked of almost any discipline, whether one is taking a photograph or mapping a literary topography, tracing linguistic change in a geographic region or language's importance to our conception of a political territory, building a house