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The shapes of silence
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ISBN: 9780773534551 0773534555 9786612867330 0773576894 1282867334 9780773576896 Year: 2009 Publisher: Montreal Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press

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Drawing from the insights of subaltern studies and postcolonial feminisms, Proma Tagore brings together the work of a diverse group of writers - Toni Morrison, Shani Mootoo, Louise Erdrich, M.K. Indira, Rashsundari Debi, and Mahasweta Devi. She focuses on the visceral, affective nature of their narratives and explores the way that personal and historical trauma, initially silenced, may be recorded across generations, as well as across complex national, racial, gender, and sexual lines.


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Uncertain mirrors : magical realisms in US ethnic literatures
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ISBN: 9789042026001 9042026006 9042026014 9789042026018 9781441617057 1441617051 1282594427 9786612594427 Year: 2009 Volume: 3 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,

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Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term “mimesis” as both a “world-reflecting” and a “world-creating” mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different “location of culture” and “direction of culture;” they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical.


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Multi-Ethnicity as a Resource for the Literary Imagination : The Creative Achievements of Women Artists, Poets, and Novelists
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ISBN: 9780773407411 0773407413 9780773438934 0773438939 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Through an analysis of culturally specific constructions of gender and spirituality in the verbal and visual texts, this study reveals syncretic presences and a new paradigm for reading. Furthermore, this project argues that these women create and install cultural citizenship, which proposes alternatives to postcolonial and global feminist paradigms.


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Postcolonial studies : modes d'emploi : [ouvrage issu du colloque "Postcolonial studies : modes d'emploi", organisé par le Laboratoire Jeunes Chercheurs "Littératures et études postcoloniales" (ENS, Lyon) les 3 et 4 juin 2010]
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ISBN: 9782729708573 272970857X Year: 2013 Publisher: Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon,

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Les études postcoloniales sont envisagées ici à partir de leurs sources (French theory, subaltern studies de Delhi, cultural studies, écrits anticoloniaux de Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Aimé Césaire, Albert Memmi) et de leurs liens avec d'autres champs de recherche (queer studies, Black studies). Le nom du collectif fait référence à un ouvrage fondateur : The Empire writes back (1989).

The invention of ethnicity
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ISBN: 0195050479 9780195050479 0195045890 1280440074 0198021496 1601296665 9780195045895 9780198021490 0197724698 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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These essays chart the cultural constraints of `ethnicity' in American history and culture. Sollors' introductory essay sets the framework for the discussion of ethnicity and the individual essays cover a wide range of topics: Native American, Latin-American, historical Jewish, nineteenth-century American German, American Jewish, Italian, and Afro-American.


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On making sense
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ISBN: 0804784019 9780804784016 080478339X 0804783403 9780804783392 9780804783408 Year: 2013 Publisher: Stanford, California Stanford University Press

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On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960's novel Another Country to Margaret Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to "make sense," these writers and artists argue against merely being accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to confront epistemic injustice--an injustice that affects people in their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known. The book speaks directly to critical developments in feminist and queer studies, including the growing ambivalence to antirealist theories of identity and knowledge. In so doing, it draws on decolonial and realist theory to offer a new framework to understand queer writers and artists of color as dynamic social theorists.


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Literature, language, and multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries
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ISBN: 9789042037335 9789401209854 9042037334 130631559X 9401209855 Year: 2013 Volume: 71 Publisher: Amsterdam

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Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural' literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature' and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as a function of the specific language situations in these countries as well as the various political, institutional, and discursive contexts. This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries..Back cover.

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Sociology of literature --- Netherlands --- Scandinavia and Iceland --- Belgium --- Scandinavian literature --- Dutch literature --- Flemish literature --- Multiculturalism --- Multilingualism --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Multilingualism and literature --- Immigrants' writings --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Communication interculturelle --- Multiculturalisme --- Dans la littérature --- Ethnic groups in literature -- Study and teaching. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Multicultural education -- Netherlands. --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- 82:3 --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatur. --- Sprache. --- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft. --- Skandinavien. --- Beneluxländer. --- Multiculturalisme in de letterkunde --- Scandinavische letterkunde --- Nederlandstalige letterkunde --- Meertaligheid --- Nederland --- Vlaanderen --- Scandinavië --- auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Multiculturalisme in de letterkunde. --- Nederland. --- Vlaanderen. --- Scandinavië. --- auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen. --- Auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Communication interculturelle. --- Dans la littérature. --- Scandinavian literature. --- Writings of immigrants --- Literature --- Literature and multilingualism --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Belgian literature (Dutch) --- Belgian literature --- Government policy --- Scandinavian literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Dutch literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Flemish literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Multiculturalism - Scandinavia - Congresses --- Multiculturalism - Benelux countries - Congresses --- Multilingualism - Scandinavia - Congresses --- Multilingualism - Benelux countries - Congresses --- Multiculturalism in literature - Congresses --- Multilingualism and literature - Congresses --- Immigrants' writings - History and criticism - Congresses --- Emigration and immigration in literature - Congresses

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