The Many worlds of Anglophone literature : transcultural engagements, global frictions
The Many worlds of Anglophone literature
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
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| Omfang | xii, 296 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : the many worlds of Anglophone literatur : the mobilising potential of transcultural world literature / Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler -- Foreword : on excentric proximity : some thoughts for Frank / Homi K. Bhabha -- 'World literature'? A perspective from the centre, a perspective from the edge / Michael Chapman -- Traversal, transversal : a poetics of migrancy / Robert JC Young -- On transcultural globalectics : Ngũgĩ Meets Schulze-Engler / Tanaka Chidora -- Not-so-happy families : Durell, Goodall, and the myth of Africa / Graham Huggan -- The "Makings of a diasporic self" : transcultural life writing, diaspora and modernity in Stuart Hall's Familiar stranger (2017) / Katja Sarkowsky -- Toward re-centring the senescent : pedagogical possibilities of Anglophone short fiction / Mala Pandurang and Jinal Baxi -- Notes from a classroom : teaching Anglophone transculturality amidst environmental devastations / Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Michelle Stork -- Transculturality and the law : Witi Ihimaera's The whale rider and a river with personhood / Mita Banerjee -- 'Mobility at large' : Anglophone travel writing as a medium of transcultural communication in a global context / Nadia Butt -- The transcultural imaginary : South Asian writing from Aotearoa New Zeland / Janet Wilson -- Passages to India : from colonial tourists to Jewish refugees / Flora Veit-Wild -- Afterword : "objects in the rear-view mirror" / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. - "Featuring contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational and planetary connections articulated in it"--
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| ISBN | 9781350374072. - 9781350374119
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