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If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible, necessary or desirable. This collection of essays, which celebrates the achievement of the Swedish Af...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Helgesson, Stefan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 130.
Temas:
African literature (English) > History and criticism.
Exiles' writings, African (English) > History and criticism.
Transnationalism in literature.
Quality of life.
Littérature africaine (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature de l'exil africaine (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Transnationalisme dans la littérature.
Qualité de la vie.
quality of life.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
African literature (English)
Exiles' writings, African (English)
Transnationalism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Exit
  • Southern Exits
  • Some Thoughts on the Idea of Exit in Recent African Narratives of Childhood / Richard K. Priebe
  • Generation and Complicity in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light / Maria Olaussen
  • "Let Me Tell You About Bekolo's Latest Film, Les Saignantes, But First ..." / Kenneth W. Harrow
  • Tradition and Creativity in Zakes Mda's Cion Bernth Lindfors: Paton's Discovery, Soyinka's Invention / David Bell
  • Writing out Imperialism? A Note on Nationalism and Political Identity in the African-Owned Newspapers of Colonial Ghana / Stephanie Newell
  • After Exit: Exile, Creativity, and the Risk of Translation Ending up and opting out in the North / Stefan Helgesson
  • African Presences and Representations in the Principality/Markgrafschaft of Bayreuth / Eckhard Breitinger
  • Taking Flight and the Libertarian Crow-Scarer / Gerald Porter
  • "In my end is my beginning": The Death of Virginia Woolf / Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström
  • Following the Race Track? Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Swedish in Diamond Grill by Fred Wah / Elisabeth Mårald
  • Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation / J. Hillis Miller
  • "Gazing into the future": Beginnings, Endings, and Midpoints in Paul Muldoon's Why Brownlee Left Global Exit? / Lars-Håkan Svensson
  • Exiting the Environmental Trap: Knowledge Regimes and the Third Phase of Environmental Policy Voicing the Exit / Sverker Sörlin
  • The End of the "Earth" / Willy Bach
  • Myself as a Puff of Dust: A Ghost Story / Jane Bryce
  • TIXE YLNO or Redefining Identities / Janice Kulyk Keefer.

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