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Migration Literature and Hybridity reinvigorates the study of postcolonial hybridity by offering a way out of the theoretical deadlock of pitting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity. The book theorises hybridity primarily in terms of time and develops Bakhtin's notions of organic and intentional hybridity in ways that enable us to work with several speeds of becoming, hybridisation and cultural change. Through Deleuze's theory of becoming and Lotman's cultural semiotics, the book proposes intentional and organic hybridity as two extremes on a continuum ranging from transcultural change as fast and highly visible to transcultural change as largely obscured and very slow - the latter being the condition of any supposedly pure culture. The theory of the first part of the book is expounded in three detailed studies of Mukherjee's Jasmine, Mahjoub's The Carrier and Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival that engage the entire spectrum of hybridity from the enunciation of delirious transcultural change to hybridity as a slow 'changing sameness'. The readings illustrate how a more comprehensive engagement with transcultural literature is enabled once we leave behind the mere celebration of contemporary migration and its hybrid heroes.
Cultural fusion in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- 82.015 --- 820 "19" --- 82.04 --- Hybridity (Social sciences) in literature --- 82.015 Literaire stromingen --- Literaire stromingen --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- Acculturation --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs
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Literature's Sensuous Geographies offers a study of place in postcolonial literature and theory from other than the socio-cultural and political angles that have traditionally dominated the field. Moslund explores "sensuous geographies" (something that has so far been neglected in the study of place in literature) as opening up other than discursive relations to the world - other, non-territorial modes of being-in-the-world. The book develops a sense-aesthetic mode of reading (a "topo-poetics") and in close-readings of Conrad, Blixen, Coetzee and Achebe (among others), Moslund explores dimensions in literature that open up the place world as produced by desubjectified intensities of smell, sound, sight, touch, etc. Sense-aesthetic qualities of literary language are shown in this way as radically challenging the rationalizing logic of modernity (the inner logic of imperialism), at the heart of which Moslund identifies a disciplining of the senses and a reduction of the sensuous openness of reality. With his study of sensuous geographies in literature, Moslund makes a notable shift in the field of postcolonial studies and geocriticism from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.
Geography and literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Geocriticism. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Geocriticism --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Geography and literature
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Apartheid in literature. --- Literature and history --- South African fiction (English) --- History and criticism. --- South Africa --- In literature.
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Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways.
Fiction. --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Materialism in literature.
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Arts and society --- Arts and society. --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism. --- Emigration and immigration in art. --- Europe. --- Emigration and immigration in art
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How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally renowned experts, this manual, for the first time, provides answers as to what consequences the interaction of migration and globalization has on research in the field of the science of art, on curatory practice, and on artistic production and theory. The objective of this multi-vocal anthology is to open up an interdisciplinary discourse surrounding the increased focus on the phenomenon of migration in art history.
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