Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature Between Critique and Utopia, David Johnson

Автор: Anna Bonola
Название: Vasily Grossman : a writer`s freedom
ISBN: 0773554475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773554474
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) was a successful Soviet author and journalist, but he is more often recognized in the West as Russian literature's leading dissident. How do we account for this paradox? In the first collection of essays to explore the Russian author's life and works in English, leading experts present recent multidisciplinary research on Grossman's experiences, his place in the history of Russian literature, key themes in his writing, and the wider implications of his life and work in the realms of philosophy and politics. Born into a Jewish family in Berdychiv, Grossman was initially a supporter of the ideals of the Russian Revolution and the new Soviet state. During the Second World War, he worked as a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper and was the first journalist to write about the Nazi extermination camps. As a witness to the daily violence of the Soviet regime, Grossman became more and more aware of the nature and forms of totalitarian coercion, which gradually alienated him from the Soviet regime and earned him a reputation for dissidence. A survey of the remarkable accomplishments and legacy left by this controversial and contradictory figure, Vasily Grossman reveals a writer's power to express freedom even under totalitarianism.

Автор: Govind Nikhil
Название: Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel
ISBN: 1138664057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138664050
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Описание: This book investigates the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in the literary tradition of the Bengali novel from the 1880s to the 1920s, as well as its location in the historical world of the 1920s in the debate between Gandhi and the revolutionaries, through an exploration of narrative, sexuality and politics.

Автор: Forter, Greg (professor In The Department Of English, University Of South Carolina)
Название: Critique and utopia in postcolonial historical fiction
ISBN: 0198830432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198830436
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This volume explores how postcolonial historical fiction can be a valuable resource for thinking about the prehistory of our present. It examines how novels from, and about, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds present specific historical and oceanic instances of colonialism and highlights the continuities between the colonial era and our own.

Автор: Thembela Kepe, Melissa Levin, Bettina von Lieres
Название: Domains of Freedom: Justice, Citizenship and Social Change in South Africa
ISBN: 1775822044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781775822042
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Описание: This collection of essays acknowledges the enormous expectations placed on the shoulders of the South African revolution to produce an alternative political regime in response to apartheid and global neo-liberalism. It does not lament the inability of South Africa`s democracy to provide deeper freedoms, or suggest that since it hasn`t this is some form of betrayal.

Автор: Elaine Ostry
Название: Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale
ISBN: 0415866987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415866989
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Описание: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Автор: Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Название: Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique
ISBN: 1623564271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623564278
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse circulating in the United States. Poe’s satirical and fantastic mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In retrospect, Poe’s work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally interprets Poe’s life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies, finding Poe to be neither the poete maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it. Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe’s varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.

Автор: Chernaik
Название: Milton and the Burden of Freedom
ISBN: 1107153182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107153189
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Wide-ranging in its treatment of Milton`s works in verse and prose, with particular attention to Paradise Lost, Milton and the Burden of Freedom examines the unresolved tensions in Milton`s writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful, demanding God.

Автор: Levy-Hussen Aida
Название: How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation
ISBN: 1479890944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479890941
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Описание: How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s argument develops on two levels: as a textual analysis of black historical fiction, and as a critical examination of the reading practices that characterize the scholarship of our time.                 Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and feminist and queer theory, Levy-Hussen examines how works by Toni Morrison, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, and others represent and mediate social injury and collective grief. In the criticism that surrounds these novels, she identifies two major  interpretive approaches: “therapeutic reading” (premised on the assurance that literary confrontations with historical trauma will enable psychic healing in the present), and “prohibitive reading” (anchored in the belief that fictions of returning to the past are dangerous and to be avoided). Levy-Hussen argues that these norms have become overly restrictive, standing in the way of a more supple method of interpretation that recognizes and attends to the indirect, unexpected, inconsistent, and opaque workings of historical fantasy and desire. Moving beyond the question of whether literature must heal or abandon historical wounds, Levy-Hussen proposes new ways to read African American literature now.   

Автор: Levy-Hussen Aida
Название: How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation
ISBN: 1479884715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479884711
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Описание: How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s argument develops on two levels: as a textual analysis of black historical fiction, and as a critical examination of the reading practices that characterize the scholarship of our time.                 Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and feminist and queer theory, Levy-Hussen examines how works by Toni Morrison, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, and others represent and mediate social injury and collective grief. In the criticism that surrounds these novels, she identifies two major  interpretive approaches: “therapeutic reading” (premised on the assurance that literary confrontations with historical trauma will enable psychic healing in the present), and “prohibitive reading” (anchored in the belief that fictions of returning to the past are dangerous and to be avoided). Levy-Hussen argues that these norms have become overly restrictive, standing in the way of a more supple method of interpretation that recognizes and attends to the indirect, unexpected, inconsistent, and opaque workings of historical fantasy and desire. Moving beyond the question of whether literature must heal or abandon historical wounds, Levy-Hussen proposes new ways to read African American literature now.   

Автор: Smith, Victoria Ford
Название: Between generations
ISBN: 1496813375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496813374
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Описание: Between Generations is a multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a tradition of creative, collaborative partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. The intergenerational collaborations documented here provide the foundations for some of the most popular Victorian literature for children, from Margaret Gatty’s Aunt Judy’s Tales to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Examining the publication histories of both canonical and lesser-known Golden Age texts reveals that children collaborated with adult authors as active listeners, coauthors, critics, illustrators, and even small-scale publishers. These literary collaborations were part of a growing interest in child agency evident in cultural, social, and scientific discourses of the time. Between Generations puts these creative partnerships in conversation with collaborations in other fields, including child study, educational policy, library history, and toy culture. Taken together, these collaborations illuminate how Victorians used new critical approaches to childhood to theorize young people as viable social actors. Smith’s work not only recognizes Victorian children as literary collaborators but also interrogates how those creative partnerships reflect and influence adult-child relationships in the world beyond books. Between Generations breaks the critical impasse that understands children’s literature and children themselves as products of adult desire and revises common constructions of childhood that frequently and often errantly resign the young to passivity or powerlessness.

Автор: Warren Chernaik
Название: Milton and the Burden of Freedom
ISBN: 1316607119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316607114
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Wide-ranging in its treatment of Milton`s works in verse and prose, with particular attention to Paradise Lost, Milton and the Burden of Freedom examines the unresolved tensions in Milton`s writings, as he grapples with the paradox of freedom in a universe ruled by an all-powerful, demanding God.

Автор: Shirley Foster
Название: Victorian Women`s Fiction: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual
ISBN: 0415524113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415524117
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Описание: Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of imaginative representation in Victorian women’s literature. Making extensive use of letters and non-fiction, this study relates the opinions expressed there to the themes and methods of the fictional narratives. The first chapter outlines the social and ideological framework within which the authors were writing; the subsequent five chapters deal with the individual novelists, Craik, Charlotte Bronte, Sewell, Gaskell, and Eliot, examining the works of each and also pointing to the similarities between them, thus suggesting a shared female ‘voice’. Dealing with minor writers as well as better-known figures, it opens up new areas of critical investigation, claiming not only that many nineteenth-century female novelists have been undeservedly neglected but also that the major ones are further illuminated by being considered alongside their less familiar contemporaries.