Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel, Dinter, Sandra

Автор: Arne De Boever
Название: States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald
ISBN: 1623569524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623569525
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception.

Название: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain
ISBN: 0367884852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367884857
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Focusing on the late 20th and the early 21st centuries, this collection assembles contributions concerned with current political, social, and cultural dimensions of childhood in the UK. Chapters address a broad spectrum of contemporary childhood issues, including debates on child protection, school dress codes, the media, p

Автор: Demirturk Emine Lale
Название: Contemporary African-American Novel
ISBN: 1611475309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611475302
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Описание: Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities in the Contemporary African American Novel: Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the "neo-urban novel," developing a new urban discourse for the 21st century on how the city as a social formation impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in a racial context is o important in considering diverse forms of the lived reality of black everyday life in the novelistic representations of the white dominant urban order. Even if the African American novels, studied in this book, are not all published in post-9/11, they help us see where the lack of interactional social relations has led Americans to where they are, namely the culture of fear, seeing all people of color as an ominous threat. African American fictional representations of the city have political significance in that the "neo-urban novel" explores the nature, indeed the very possibility of a dialogic communication with the American society at large. The book explores the need to understand how whiteness works, what it forecloses, and what it occasionally opens up in everyday life in American society. The book consists of seven chapters on Walter Mosley s Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) and Little Scarlet (2004), John Edgar Wideman s Two Cities (1998), Percival Everett s I am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), Martha Southgate s The Fall of Rome (2002), Asha Bandele s Daughter (2003), and Michael Thomas Man Gone Down (2007) that explore how the strategic employment of blackness can offer ways of subverting the discursive power of the white embodied self. These novels also probe how the relationship of a white person to his/her own self changes, once s/he is undone, and becomes, to a certain extent unknowable. All in all, it is impossible to erase the color-lines by all means in the US as much as across the globe, but this book may contribute to finding new ways/strategies of deconstructing, hopefully unconstructing in the long run, racial hierarchies in an attempt to expand the boundaries of the ongoing critique of racism, neocolonialism, and globalization (built upon the white supremacist vision) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Автор: Khanna Stuti
Название: Contemporary Novel and the City
ISBN: 1137336242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137336248
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major `world authors` at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay.

Автор: Will H. Corral, Juan E. De Castro, Nicholas Birns
Название: The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolano and After
ISBN: 1441142592 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441142597
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolano, Castellanos Moya, Vasquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.

Автор: Benson Josef
Название: Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin
ISBN: 1442237600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442237605
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities.