Precarious Figurations: Shylock on the German Stage, 1920–2010, Zeno Ackermann, Sabine Schulting

Автор: Sandeep Banerjee
Название: Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony
ISBN: 1138393681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138393684
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways.

Автор: Liam Connell
Название: Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel
ISBN: 3319639277 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319639277
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society.

Автор: Mark Christian Thompson
Название: Kafka`s Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic
ISBN: 0810132869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810132863
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Kafka’s Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the “Negro” (a term he used in English). Indeed, this bookdemonstrates that cultural assimilation and bodily transformation in Kafka’s work are impossible without passage through a state of being “Negro.” Kafka represents this passage in various ways—from reflections on New World slavery and black music toevolutionary theory, biblical allusion, and aesthetic primitivism—each grounded in a concept of writing that is linked to the perceived congenital musicality of the “Negro,” and which is bound to his wider conception of aesthetic production. Mark ChristianThompson offers new close readings of canonical texts and undervalued letters and diary entries set in the context of the afterlife of New World slavery and in Czech and German popular culture.

Автор: Anne Fuchs
Название: Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture
ISBN: 1501735101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501735103
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In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment.

The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. While some celebrate this 24/7 culture, others see it as profoundly destructive to the natural rhythm of day and night—and to human happiness. Have we entered an era of a perpetual present that depletes the future and erodes our grasp of the past?

Beginning its examination around 1900, when rapid modernization was accompanied by comparably intense reflection on changing temporal experience, Precarious Times provides historical depth and perspective to current debates on the "digital now." Expanding the modern discourse on time and speed, Fuchs deploys such concepts as attention, slowness and lateness to emphasize the uneven quality of time around the world.