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Traversing Transnationalism

Author : Pier Paolo Frassinelli

Publisher : Rodopi

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 43,4 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9042033088

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Preliminary Material -- TRAVERSING TRANSNATIONALISM /Pier Paolo Frassinelli , Ronit Frenkel and David Watson -- FRICTION AND FRAGMENTS: LOCAL COSMOPOLITANISM IN POSTCOLONIAL MOZAMBIQUE /Pamila Gupta -- VELVET AND VIOLENCE: PERFORMING THE MEDIATIZED MEMORY OF SHANGHAI'S FUTURITY /Amanda Lagerkvist -- TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY: ASIAN AMERICANS IN A DECOLONIZING HAWAI'I /Bianca Kai Isaki -- IMMIGRATION AND “OPERATIONS”: THE MILITARIZATION (AND MEDICALIZATION) OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER /Sang Hea Kil -- “I HAD FORGOTTEN A CONTINENT”: COSMOPOLITAN MEMORY IN DEREK WALCOTT'S OMEROS /Shane Graham -- LOCAL TRANSNATIONALISMS: ISHTIYAQ SHUKRI'S THE SILENT MINARET AND SOUTH AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL IMAGINARY /Ronit Frenkel -- NOMADIC NARRATIVES: TAWADA YOKO'S JAPANESE-GERMAN FICTION /Tomoko Kuribayashi -- PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION: UNWRITING DIASPORA IN LAVANYA SANKARAN'S THE RED CARPET /Melissa Tandiwe Myambo -- THE IDENTITY OF IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE: MODERNISM AND AFRICAN LITERATURE /Nicholas Brown -- WORLD LITERATURE: A RECEDING HORIZON /Pier Paolo Frassinelli and David Watson -- THE ADVENTURES OF A TECHNIQUE: DODECAPHONISM TRAVELS TO BRAZIL /Fabio Akcelrud Durão and José Adriano Fenerick -- WHAT REVOLT IN THE POSTCOLONY TODAY? /Ashleigh Harris -- COSMOPOLITAN SENSUS COMMUNIS: AESTHETIC JUDGMENT AS MODEL FOR POLITICAL JUDGMENT? /Ulrike Kistner -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.



Race and Transnationalism in the Americas

Author : Benjamin Bryce

Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 44,80 MB

Release : 2021-05-04

Category : History

ISBN : 082298816X

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National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Americas examines the ways that race and its categorization have functioned as organizing frameworks for cultural, political, and social inclusion—and exclusion—in the Americas. Because racial categories are invariably generated through reference to the “other,” the national community has been a point of departure for understanding race as a concept. Yet this book argues that transnational forces have fundamentally shaped visions of racial difference and ideas of race and national belonging throughout the Americas, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Examining immigration exclusion, indigenous efforts toward decolonization, government efforts to colonize, sport, drugs, music, populism, and film, the authors examine the power and limits of the transnational flow of ideas, people, and capital. Spanning North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, the volume seeks to engage in broad debates about race, citizenship, and national belonging in the Americas.



Literary Transnationalism(s)

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 21,99 MB

Release : 2018-10-16

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004370862

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Literary Transnationalism(s) offers a series of reflections on how literary texts move between cultures via translation, adaptation, and intertextual referencing, and enter the field of world literature.



Transfigurations of the European Identity

Author : Zsolt Almási

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 195 pages

File Size : 39,40 MB

Release : 2014-03-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1443858056

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European identity is as much a problem as an opportunity. Although it is impossible to provide an all-encompassing definition of what it means to be European, historicising and contextualising this problem may well lead to the clarification and even creation of a European identity. This is the contention of this volume, which approaches this complex notion from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective, examining facets ranging from the citizen to cultural politics, from literature to traditional and digital media, from the US to China. As complex as this idea is, this volume will extend the reader’s understanding of the timely and promising problematisation of what may be termed “European identity.”



Transnational Chinese Theatres

Author : Rossella Ferrari

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 17,82 MB

Release : 2020-02-17

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 3030372731

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This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.



Transnational East Asian Studies

Author : Kevin Cawley

Publisher : Liverpool University Press

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 47,73 MB

Release : 2022-12-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1802079106

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Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.



Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe

Author : Christina Bezari

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 24,79 MB

Release : 2022-12-30

Category : History

ISBN : 1000828190

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This book explores women’s editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnières to engage with foreign cultures, launch the careers of promising young authors and advocate for modernization and social change. By examining a neglected body of periodicals edited between 1860 and 1920, this book sets out to explore women’s editorial agendas and their interest in creating a connection between salon life and the print press. What purpose did this connection serve? How did women editors use their periodicals and their salons to create opportunities for cross-cultural exchange? In what ways did women use their double role as editors and salonnières to promote modernization and social progress in Southern Europe? By addressing these questions, this monograph contributes to the recent expansion of scholarship on nineteenth and twentieth-century periodicals and opens new avenues for theoretical reflection on European modernity. It also invites scholars and non-specialist readers to question the center vs. periphery model and to consider Southern European counties as cultural hubs in their own right.



Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities

Author : Andy Carolin

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 23,31 MB

Release : 2020-12-30

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1000332276

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This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within the specific context of post-apartheid South Africa, it also looks outwards towards transnational connectivity and cultural flows. The author uses the idea of restlessness to refer to the uneven flow of cultural tropes, political sentiment, ideas, ideologies, and representational modes across geographical boundaries, across time and space, and between genres, presenting sexual cultures as simultaneously rooted and transnational. He focuses on how notions of race and gender, in the shadow of colonialism and apartheid, play out in the present and shape how sexualities are represented. This interdisciplinary book offers a conceptual entry point to several areas of study, including transnationalism, literary and cultural studies, critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies, and African studies, and will be of interest to students and researchers across these fields. Its inclusion of a range of textual genres extends its reach into visual culture, film and media studies, history, and politics.



Postcolonial Parabola

Author : Jay Rajiva

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 18,99 MB

Release : 2017-09-21

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1501325353

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Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma interrogates the relationship between the literary representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experience of reading. As the conditions from which postcolonial literatures have emerged require a break from “proper” ways to represent trauma, postcolonial writers expand and complicate the practice of reading itself. Though postcolonial literature's capacity to represent trauma has received considerable scrutiny in recent years, Postcolonial Parabola is innovative in its consideration of the postcolonial text as a literary object. Working within a phenomenological framework that ties together disparate postcolonial periods, Jay Rajiva explores how narrative structure shapes the experience of reading the postcolonial literatures of South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka. He argues that these texts enmesh the reader in an asymptotic tactility: though readers might approach the disclosure of trauma, they cannot arrive at it. Awareness of the asymptotic nature of reading such works is crucial to a meaningful, ethical engagement with literary representations of postcolonial trauma.



Post Celtic Tiger Ireland

Author : Estelle Epinoux

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 11,19 MB

Release : 2016-12-14

Category : History

ISBN : 144385557X

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This collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. The different cultural fields of interest studied in this book include theatre, photography, poetry, painting, and cinema, as well as commemorative spaces. These different cultural voices enable one to explore Ireland, as a country located at a crossroads, in a kind of in-between space, and to wonder about the various political, economic, historical and social forces present in the country. The contributions interrogate Irish society within its present context, which is deeply impregnated by movement and transition but also strongly connected to time, to past and to memory. This collection of essays also presents the way in which these artistic works intertwine with various approaches, artistic, aesthetic, sociologic, cinematographic, historical, and literary, in order to pinpoint the transformations induced by both the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. The issues of globalisation, identity, place and creativity are all dealt with. In assessing the aftermath of the post Celtic Tiger period, its impact and influences on today’s Irish society, the contributors also allude, incidentally, to its future evolution and trends.