Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces, Cecily Raynor
Автор: Cecily Raynor Название: Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces ISBN: 1684482569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684482566 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31730.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bola?o, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, Jo?o Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region's transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors' representations of everyday place and modes of belonging.
Автор: Zheng Yiran Название: Writing Beijing: Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films ISBN: 1498531016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498531016 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 156330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: One of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing was an imperial capital for centuries. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing became not only the political center of the new communist country, but also the signifier of socialist ideol-ogy and revolutionary culture. Now, in the 21st century, Beijing embodies global conflicts and global connections. Over the course of the last century, then, Beijing moved from the quintessential "traditional" capital to the symbol of communist urban form and finally to a cosmopolitan metropolis. These three stages in the history of Beijing and its shifting representations are the topic of this study. Like other capitals, Beijing is much more than its physical entity. It also functions as a concept, a representation. As city planners have (and continue to) present Beijing to the world as a model, the fluctuating images of Beijing have become solidified in urban space. Today, the urban form of Beijing juxtaposes diverse spaces that span centuries, embodying the various representations of the city by its planners in different eras. These representations of space also provide possibilities for writers to rethink and rebuild the city in their literary works. Chinese writers and filmmakers often essentialize those urban spaces by making them symbols of different urban cultures, the old houses representing "traditional," "patriarchal" Chinese culture while soviet-style buildings reflect revolu-tionary culture. Finally, the more recent sprouting of apartments, condos, and townhouses stands for the invasion of western modernity and provides evidence of global capitalism in contemporary China. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this study establishes a framework that connects urban spaces (representations of space) to writers and literary productions (representational space). I analyze the three major urban spatial forms of traditional, communist, and glob-alized Beijing and examine what these urban spaces mean to Chinese writers and filmmakers as well as how they use them to configure particular images of Beijing. I argue that these different configurations are actually the projections of those writers and filmmakers' own cultural imaginations; they provoke a form of emotional catharsis and also produce alternative visions of the cityscape.
Название: Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature: The Struggle to Self-Define in a Global Era Where Space, Capitalism, and Power Rule ISBN: 1498508413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498508414 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 84280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study examines works that address the spatial location of Latinidades, especially Latina, identity by subverting literary history and literary theory through testimonio, hybrid genres, social activism, metafiction, and solidarity.
Автор: Majstorovic Gorica Название: Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America ISBN: 1498576176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498576178 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 84150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book engages with Latin American interwar thought and culture from the vantage point of the Global South. By placing anti-imperialism, Blackness, and indigeneity at the center of decolonial analysis, the author offers new ways of approaching modernist literature and the avant-garde in Latin America.
Автор: Katharine A. Burnett, Scott Romine Название: Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860 ISBN: 0807169307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807169308 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 45270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offering a compelling intervention in studies of antebellum writing, Katharine Burnett`s Cavaliers and Economists examines how popular modes of literary production in the South emerged in tandem with the region`s economic modernization.
Автор: Edited By Russell We Название: The global south and literature ISBN: 1108415261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108415262 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 102430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Global South and Literature explores the historical, cultural and literary applications of the term applied to twenty-first-century flows of transnational cultural influence, tracing their manifestations across the Global Southern traditions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Автор: Wolfgang Funk Название: The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium ISBN: 1501306162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501306167 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Winner of the 2016 ESSE Junior Scholar Book Award in Literatures in the English Language The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of ‘postmillennial reconstruction’ to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretical and philosophical development that led to the demise of postmodernism by relating it to the idea of ‘authenticity’: immediate experience that eludes direct representation. In addition, he provides a clear formal framework with which to identify and classify the features of ‘reconstructive literature’ by updating the narratological category of ‘metafiction’, originally established in the 1980s. Based on Werner Wolf’s observation of a ‘metareferential turn’ in contemporary arts and media, he illustrates how the specific use of metareference results in a renegotiation of the specific patterns of literary communication and claims that this renegotiation can be profitably described with the concept of ‘reconstruction’. To substantiate this claim, in the second half of the book Funk discusses narrative texts that illustrate this transition from postmodern deconstruction to postmillennial reconstruction. The analyses take in distinguished and prize-winning writers such as Dave Eggers, Julian Barnes, Jennifer Egan and Jasper Fforde. The broad scope of authors, featuring writers from the US as well as the UK, underlines the fact that the reconstructive tendencies and strategies Funk diagnoses are of universal significance for the intellectual and cultural self-image of the global North.
Winner of the 2016 ESSE Junior Scholar Book Award in Literatures in the English Language
The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretical and philosophical development that led to the demise of postmodernism by relating it to the idea of 'authenticity': immediate experience that eludes direct representation. In addition, he provides a clear formal framework with which to identify and classify the features of 'reconstructive literature' by updating the narratological category of 'metafiction', originally established in the 1980s. Based on Werner Wolf's observation of a 'metareferential turn' in contemporary arts and media, he illustrates how the specific use of metareference results in a renegotiation of the specific patterns of literary communication and claims that this renegotiation can be profitably described with the concept of 'reconstruction'.
To substantiate this claim, in the second half of the book Funk discusses narrative texts that illustrate this transition from postmodern deconstruction to postmillennial reconstruction. The analyses take in distinguished and prize-winning writers such as Dave Eggers, Julian Barnes, Jennifer Egan and Jasper Fforde. The broad scope of authors, featuring writers from the US as well as the UK, underlines the fact that the reconstructive tendencies and strategies Funk diagnoses are of universal significance for the intellectual and cultural self-image of the global North.
Автор: Michael F Shaughnessy, Diana Sheets Название: The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity & Consciousness in the New Millennium ISBN: 1536102814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536102819 Издательство: Nova Science Рейтинг: Цена: 215410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New Millennium examines pairs of writers, 28 in all, to compare and contrast their books, their personalities, and their responses to the age in which they lived. In the case of the chapter devoted to the black experience, it also includes an overview of some of the greatest African-American writers of the 20th century and their most memorable work. The scope of The Doubling extends from the inception of the modern novel through the present. The book is presented in a Q & A format with Diana Sheets responding to questions posed by Michael F. Shaughnessy. Their conversation offers penetrating insights in light of recent scholarship and established criticism. The Doubling is uniquely suited to serve as a textbook in high school and college classrooms, in libraries, and educational institutions.
The contributions in this collection underline the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the exploration and understanding of ethnicity and gender. The book aims at contributing to the research already taking place within American Studies, while opening up the texts discussed to further literary and cultural evaluations and interpretations. America is viewed here not in isolation but as part of a fluctuating as well as geographically and culturally expansive reality as testified by the Asian, European, and American background of the volume contributors.
Автор: Robin Fiddian Название: Jorge luis borges in context ISBN: 1108470440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108470445 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 108770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is for an academic readership in Latin American and world literatures. It offers unprecedented coverage of the principal contexts in which leading Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) read and wrote, including family and Argentine history, the Western cultural tradition, both learned and popular, and the Middle East.
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