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Wopko Jensma's poetry constitutes an interesting and idiosyncratic response to the strife and turmoil in South Africa in the seventies. Jensma's experimental poetry harnesses the signatures of jazz lyrics, concrete poetry, the avant-garde as well as African dance forms in bizarre cameos of underclass misery and racial oppression. In lieu of metrical regularity and rhyme, the aesthetic experience is simulated by asemantic qualities of speech, sound, and rhythmic undulations in what is best described as a "withdrawal of semantic crutches". Jensma's private idiomatic language, mixing of dialects, the use of syncopation, ellipsis, and experimental topography have no doubt contributed to the cryptic and arcane aberrations associated with schizophrenia. This is the first study that explores the link between Jenma's poetry and schizophrenia and in which image, diction, and story coalesce to voice the anguish and alienation of underclass suffering.
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De nombreux écrivains ont débuté leur vie professionnelle dans des domaines très divers avant d’embrasser l’écriture, ou au contraire de s’en éloigner. Ce volume cherche à explorer la relation complexe entre cette « autre vie » et l’écriture. L’objectif est de déterminer si l’« autre vie » d’un écrivain figure dans son œuvre, l’influence voire la façonne, et si tel est le cas, dans quelle mesure. Quelle est la part de la gestation et celle de la rupture ? Est examinée l’œuvre d’écrivains aussi différents que Patrick Chamoiseau, J. M. Coetzee, Jan J. Dominique, Janet Frame, Amitav Ghosh, L. K. Johnson, Wilson Harris, Dany Laferrière, Yannick Lahens, NourbeSe Philip, Emmelie Prophète, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, mais aussi Bartolomé de las Casas et E. L. Grant Watson. Deux essais autobiographiques et un poème inédits sont inclus, spécialement écrits pour le volume par Marie-Célie Agnant, Cyril Dabydeen et Fred D’Aguiar. Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of gestation and that of rupture? A diversity of writers is examined: Patrick Chamoiseau, J. M. Coetzee, Jan J. Dominique, Janet Frame, Amitav Ghosh, L. K. Johnson, Wilson Harris, Dany Laferrière, Yannick Lahens, NourbeSe Philip, Emmelie Prophète, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, but also Bartolomé de las Casas and E. L. Grant Watson. Unpublished autobiographical essays and a poem are included, especially written for the volume by Marie-Célie Agnant, Cyril Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar.
Literature, Romance --- Literature (General) --- critique génétique --- Caraïbe --- littérature postcoloniale --- littérature caribéenne --- genetic criticism --- Caribbean --- postcolonial literature --- Caribbean literature
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Due to the large-scale global transformations of the 20th century, migration literature has become a vibrant genre over the last decades. In these novels, issues of transcultural identity and belonging naturally feature prominently. This study takes a closer look at the ways in which the idea of family informs processes of identity construction. It explores changing roles and meanings of the diasporic family as well as intergenerational family relations in a migration setting in order to identify the specific challenges, problems, and possibilities that arise in this context. This book builds on insights from different fields of family research (e.g. sociology, psychology, communication studies, memory studies) to provide a conceptual framework for the investigation of synchronic and diachronic family constellations and connections. The approach developed in this study not only sheds new light on contemporary British migration literature but can also prove fruitful for analyses of families in literature more generally. By highlighting the relevance and multifaceted nature of doing family, this study also offers new perspectives for transcultural memory studies.
Families in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Family in literature --- Family. --- contemporary British literature. --- memory. --- postcolonial literature.
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As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they manifest themselves in the English-speaking world, and whether there is a specifically postcolonial kind of haunting. The twenty-two articles deal with textual, translational or historical ghosts, and take us to Canada, Australia, Africa, India or the Caribbean. Poems by Gerry Turcotte literally haunt the volume, which thus juxtaposes theory and practice in a dynamic and fruitful way. De par leur liminalité, les fantômes semblent particulièrement adaptés pour définir, interroger ou remettre en question des cultures hybrides où coexistent plusieurs identités apparemment inconciliables. Ce volume explore leurs diverses manifestations dans le monde anglophone, se demandant s’il existe une hantise proprement postcoloniale. Les vingt-deux articles nous présentent des fantômes historiques ou textuels, et nous emmènent du Canada à l’Australie, de l’Afrique à l’Inde ou à la Caraïbe. Des poèmes de Gerry Turcotte hantent littéralement le volume, qui juxtapose ainsi théorie et pratique de façon dynamique et féconde.
Literature (General) --- traduction --- politique --- mythologie --- intertextualité --- spectralité --- littérature postcoloniale --- fantôme --- commonwealth --- translation --- politics --- mythology --- intertextuality --- spectrality --- postcolonial literature --- ghost --- ghostwriting
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website andthrough Knowledge Unlatched.
Emotions in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Literary Criticism --- Subjects & Themes --- General --- World literature --- Narratology --- Affect studies --- Structure of feeling --- Colonial and postcolonial literature --- Emotion
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Lange Zeit galten Reiseberichte als Wegbegleiter des Kolonialismus. Dies ändert sich im Lateinamerika der 1920er Jahre, wovon die in Vergessenheit geratenen Feuilletonartikel, Tagebücher und Aufzeichnungen der chilenischen Nobelpreisträgerin Gabriela Mistral, des »Papstes des brasilianischen Modernismus« Mário de Andrade und des belgisch-französischen Avantgardisten Henri Michaux zeugen. Marília Jöhnk geht dem wissensgeschichtlichen Interesse der drei Reisenden am Kontinent und ihrem Spiel mit etablierten Formen literarischer Wahrnehmung nach. Mit dem tief in der aztekischen Mythologie verankerten Kolibri eint deren kleine Reiseprosa nicht nur die kompakte Größe, sondern auch die Mobilität und Geschwindigkeit.
Henri Michaux; Gabriela Mistral; Mario De Andrade; Reisebericht; Postkoloniale Literatur; Literatur; Kulturgeschichte; Kultur; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Literaturtheorie; Romanistik; Literaturwissenschaft; Travelogue; Postcolonial Literature; Literature; Cultural History; Culture; Literary Studies; Theory of Literature; Romance Studies --- Cultural History. --- Culture. --- Gabriela Mistral. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Mario De Andrade. --- Postcolonial Literature. --- Romance Studies. --- Theory of Literature. --- Travelogue.
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Transnational literature maintains a focus on new literatures in English, but has expanded its portfolio to consider all literatures that deal with cross-cultural contact and interaction.
Commonwealth literature (English) --- English literature --- Intercultural communication in literature --- English literature. --- Intercultural communication in literature. --- History and criticism --- English-speaking countries. --- transnational cultural studies --- postcolonial literature --- cross-cultural literature --- migration --- creative writing --- Literature
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This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this 'new' generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the
Oriental fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Oriental literature (English) --- British writers. --- South Asian descent. --- black British literature. --- diasporic literature. --- gender. --- migrant literature. --- national identity. --- post-9/11 Britain. --- postcolonial literature. --- religious identity.
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Dans une approche innovante associant l'écocritique, les théories postcoloniales et le posthumanisme à l'analyse littéraire, cet ouvrage part de l'étude des questions environnementales dans la fiction pour exposer les effets spécifiques de la crise écologique mondiale sur des communautés particulières. In an innovative approach that combines ecocriticism, postcolonial theories, posthumanism and literary analysis, this book studies the inscription of environmental issues in fiction and exposes the specific effects of the global ecological crisis on particular local communities. "English summary: Cohabiter l'espace postcolonial focuses on the importance of ecological issues in African fiction. The book highlights the complex and diverse strategies deployed in French speaking Africa to incorporate environmental subjects in literary productions. Using ecocriticism, postcolonial and posthumanist theories to analyse a wide variety of novels, it brings to the fore, through the diversity of the issues it addresses, some contextual inflections of the relationship between the human and the non-human. From its discussion of animal otherness, cultural significance of plants, environmental racism, environmental justice, the fragility of the rural world and the survival in urban environments, the book demonstrates how ecological issues translate into socio-cultural and political challenges for local communities in Africa. French summary: Cohabiter l'espace postcolonial s'interroge essentiellement sur les enjeux écologiques dans le roman africain en français. Cet ouvrage met en lumière les stratégies complexes et diverses par lesquelles les questions environnementales s'inscrivent dans la fiction. Recourant à l'écocritique, aux théories postcoloniales et posthumanistes pour analyser un corpus romanesque large et varié, il mène le lecteur, à travers la diversité des problématiques abordés, à la découverte des nuances contextuelles du rapport entre l'humain et le non-humain. De la précarité du monde rural à la survie en milieu urbain et autres écosystèmes hostiles, en passant par l'altérité animale, l'importance du végétal, le racisme environnemental et la justice environnementale, ce livre montre comment, à l'échelle de la localité, les questions écologiques se déclinent en réels défis socioculturels et politiques"--
Comparative Studies & World Literature --- Criticism & Theory --- French & Francophone --- Literature and Cultural Studies --- Postcolonial Literature & Culture --- African fiction (French) --- African fiction (French). --- African fiction --- African fiction. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 1900-2099.
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Based on a study of V. S. Naipaul's postcolonial writings, this book explores the process of postcolonial subjects' special route of identification. This enables the readers to see how in our increasingly diverse and fragmented post-modern world, identity is a vibrant, complex, and highly controversial concept. The old notion of identity as a prescribed and self-sufficient entity is now replaced by identity as a plural, floating and becoming process. Min Zhou shows how postcolonial literature, among other artistic forms, is one of the most representative reflections of this floating identity.
Exiles in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- General Literature Studies. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Postcolonial Literature. --- Postcolonialism. --- V. S. Naipaul. --- Identität --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Nachkoloniale Literatur --- Entkolonialisierung --- Kolonialliteratur --- Motiv --- Cultural Identity; Postcolonial Literature; V. S. Naipaul; Literary Studies; Literature; Postcolonialism; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Cultural Studies
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