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The Atlantic slave trade continues to haunt the cultural memories of Africa, Europe and the Americas. There is a prevailing desire to forget: While victims of the African diaspora tried to flee the sites of trauma, enlightened Westerners preferred to be oblivious to the discomforting complicity between their enlightenment and chattel slavery. Recently, however, fiction writers have ventured to 're-member' the Black Atlantic. This book is concerned with how literature performs as memory. It sets out to chart systematically the ways in which literature and memory intersect, and offers readings of three seminal Black Atlantic novels. Each reading illustrates a particular poetic strategy of accessing the past and presents a distinct political outlook on memory. Novelists may choose to write back to texts, images or music: Caryl Phillips's Cambridge brings together numerous fragments of slave narratives, travelogues and histories to shape a brilliant montage of long-forgotten texts. David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress approaches slavery through the gateway of paintings by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and J.M.W. Turner. Toni Morrison's Beloved , finally, is steeped in black music, from spirituals and blues to the art of John Coltrane. Beyond differences in poetic strategy, moreover, the novels paradigmatically reveal distinct ideologies: their politics of memory variously promote an encompassing transcultural sense of responsibility, an aestheticist 'creative amnesia', and the need to preserve a collective 'black' identity.
Morrison, Toni --- English. --- Literature --- Roman. --- Black literature --- Negro literature --- British --- Ethnology --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Black authors. --- Dabydeen (david) --- Phillips (caryl), 1958 --- -Morrison, Toni --- -Dabydeen (david) --- -English literature --- Phillips, Caryl --- Dabydeen, David --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- Phillips (caryl), 1958-
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English literature is a global affair. Many of the most widely read and critically acclaimed writers of our time - such as Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee or Salman Rushdie - write from diverse literary and cultural traditions in many parts of the world. This companion provides readers with a systematic framework to place and understand these various traditions of writing in English - from Britain to South Africa, from Canada to the Caribbean, from Australia to the USA. It critically assesses recent literary theories of transcultural exchange, and provides introductions to all major English literatures across the globe. To facilitate orientation and enable comparative perspectives, each chapter offers concise historical and political background information, an extensive overview of literary developments, and discussions of representative key texts, dealing with the legacies of colonial encounter, with postcolonial revisions, but also with literary explorations of today's global challenges.
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Reading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly neglected in literary, music, and, to a lesser degree, cultural studies, partly as it cuts squarely across institutional boundaries. The first part of this book accordingly introduces a thoroughly transdisciplinary interpretive framework. It outlines theoretical approaches to issues such as performance and performativity, generic convention and cultural capital, sound and songfulness, mediality and musical multimedia, and step by step applies them to the example of a single song. The second part then offers three extended case studies which showcase the larger cultural and historical viability of this model. Probing into the relationship between lyrics and the ambivalent performance of national culture in Britain, it offers exemplary readings of a highly subversive 1597 ayre by John Dowland, of an 1811 broadside ballad about Sara Baartman, 'The Hottentot Venus', and of a 2000 song by 'jungle punk' collective Asian Dub Foundation. Reading Song Lyrics demonstrates how and why song lyrics matter as a paradigmatic art form in the culture of modernity.
Lyric writing (Popular music) --- Songs --- Texts --- History and criticism. --- Songs -- Texts -- History and criticism. --- Songs -- Texts. --- Songs. --- Music --- Music History & Criticism, Vocal --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- History and criticism --- Lyric writing (Popular music). --- Arias --- Ariettas --- Art songs --- Lieder --- Solo songs --- Solo vocal music, Secular --- Songs with various acc. --- Lyric poetry --- Vocal music --- Recorded accompaniments (Voice) --- Poetry --- Popular music --- Musicals --- Revues --- Authorship --- Writing and publishing --- Chansons --- Textes --- Histoire et critique --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Study and teaching.
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"Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity. Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novelists Patrick Neate and Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ showcases how artistic representations in literature, film, music and the visual arts reflect and respond to social and political discourses, and how they contribute to our understanding of the current (trans)cultural situation in Britain. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of writers such as Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay, Nadeem Aslam, Gautam Malkani, Nirpal Dhaliwal and Monica Ali; films ranging from Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice to Michael Winterbottom’s In This World and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men; paintings and photography by innovative black and Asian British Artists; and dubstep music.
Immigrants in literature. --- Immigrants in motion pictures. --- Immigrants in art. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Ethnic relations. --- Immigrants. --- Race relations. --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Motion pictures --- Immigrants as literary characters --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Inter-ethnic relations --- Interethnic relations --- Relations among ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic groups --- Race relations --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Colonization --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Arts and society --- English literature --- Ethnic arts --- Minorities in art --- Minorities in literature --- Minorities in motion pictures --- Multiculturalism in art --- Multiculturalism --- History --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Cultural policy --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Minorities in films --- Minorities in the arts --- Arts --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- MULTICULTURALISME --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- Anthropologie culturelle --- Art --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- AUTEURS APPARTENANT A DES MINORITES --- Artistes appartenant à des minorités --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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Postcolonial Justice addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in "utopian ideals" of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world.
Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Law
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