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"Explores the disparate creative works that are characterized as "Afropolitan literature," contextualizing them within the fundamental questions of world literature, such as translation, circulation, and cultural specificity while also examining Afropolitan ideology itself as a new African way of seeing and being."--

African literature (English) --- Comparative literature. --- Literary studies: post-colonial literature --- History and criticism.

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"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative,this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel ishaunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection andinferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating.Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottishnovels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction inorder to investigate the underlying discursive power relations thatshape the Scottish literary imagination. The study consequentlydemonstrates that the analysis of Scottish national identity profitsfrom this new angle of interpretation of the Scottish novel as postcolonial.The analysis of discourses such as those of gender, class,space and place, and race reveals how the construction of the Scottishas marginalised permeates the width of the contemporary Scottishnovel, by referring to diverse examples, such as James Kelman’sHow late it was, how late or genre fiction such as Ian Rankin’s Set inDarkness. Thus, this study provides an insightful reading in the wakeof current political developments such as the Scottish independencereferendum."

United Kingdom, Great Britain --- Scotland --- Literature & literary studies --- Literary studies: post-colonial literature --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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"The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety through examining what kinds of genre-specific means of world-making narratives use to express these two affectivities. The articles also show how important it is to study these themes in order to understand challenges in times of global threats, such as the climate crisis, and - to imagine a better future. The main themes of the book are approached from various theoretical perspectives as related to their literary and cultural representations. Recent trends in research, such as affect and risk theory, serve as the basis for the discussion. Many of the articles in the volume discuss apocalyptic and dystopian narratives that currently permeate the entire cultural landscape. Dystopian narratives do not only deal with future threats, such as totalitarianism, technocracy, or environmental disasters, but also suggest alternative ways of being and new hopes in the form of political resistance. The articles in the volume also draw from disciplines such as gender studies and trauma studies to examine the threats posed by collective fears and aggression on individuals' lives and propose ways of coping with fear. These themes are addressed also in articles analysing new adaptations of old myths that retell stories of the past."

Literary studies: post-colonial literature --- literary research --- comparative literature --- cultural studies --- fiction --- cinematic art --- cultural policy --- fear --- safety --- affects --- traumas --- dystopias --- catastrophes --- ecocriticism --- Europe --- Africa --- Industrial safety. --- kirjallisuudentutkimus. --- vertaileva kirjallisuudentutkimus. --- narratiivisuus. --- kaunokirjallisuus. --- elokuvataide. --- aiheet. --- pelko. --- turvallisuus. --- kulttuuripolitiikka. --- traumat. --- katastrofit. --- dystopiat. --- ekokritiikki. --- englanninkielinen kirjallisuus. --- ranskankielinen kirjallisuus. --- puolankielinen kirjallisuus. --- suomenkielinen kirjallisuus. --- portugalinkielinen kirjallisuus. --- ukrainankielinen kirjallisuus. --- Eurooppa.

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Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary British writers Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, yet their return to this past arises from an urgent need to understand the racial anxieties of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Britain. This book examines the ways in which their literary explorations of slavery may shed light on current issues in Britain today, or what might be thought of as the continuing legacies of the UK’s largely forgotten slave past. In this highly original study, Abigail Ward looks at a range of novels, poetry and non-fictional works by Phillips, Dabydeen and D’Aguiar in order to consider their creative responses to slavery. This is the first study to focus exclusively on contemporary British literary representations of slavery, and thoughtfully engages with such notions as the history, memory and trauma of slavery and the ethics of writing about this past. Written for students, academics and the general reader interested in contemporary British or Caribbean writing, this authoritative work offers a clear, accessible and interesting guide to the ways in which the transatlantic slave trade is represented in recent postcolonial literature.

Phillips, Caryl --- Dabydeen, David --- D'Aguiar, Fred, --- Aguiar, Fred d', --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Slavery in literature. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- English literature --- Caribbean literature --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Ireland --- Phillips, Caryl (1958-....) --- Dabydeen, David (1955-....) --- D'Aguiar, Fred (1960-....) --- Esclavage --- Littérature anglaise --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Britain. --- Caryl Phillips. --- David Dabydeen. --- Fred D'Aguiar. --- ethics of writing. --- memory. --- postcolonial literature. --- slavery. --- transatlantic slave trade. --- trauma.

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Das Buch hat die Darstellung deutsch-jüdischer Identität in ausgewählten Prosatexten des zeitgenössischen, deutsch-jüdischen Autors Maxim Biller zum Thema. Seit 1989 ist jüdisches Leben in Deutschland «sichtbarer» und heterogener geworden. Das liegt maßgeblich an der veränderten Selbstrepräsentation vieler jüngerer Juden. In und mit seinen Texten Der gebrauchte Jude (2009), Esra (2003), Die Tochter (2000) und seinen Kurzgeschichten (1990/1994) bricht Maxim Biller – der kontroverseste Vertreter der sogenannten Zweiten Generation – mit den Tabus, die den Diskurs über deutsch-jüdische Identität nach wie vor bestimmen. Wie, warum und mit welchen Effekten er das macht, analysiert die Autorin mithilfe von Michel Foucaults Diskurstheorie und Judith Butlers Theorie der Performativität.

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