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Postcolonial translocations : cultural representation and critical spatial thinking /
The sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop and the sites at which they are received have undergone profound transformations within the last decades. This book traces the accelerating emergence of cultural crossovers and overlaps in a global perspective and through a variety of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
156. ASNEL papers ; 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : directions of translocation : towards a critical spatial thinking in postcolonial studies / Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, and Silke Stroh
- Section I. Conceptual interventions and disciplinary transgressions
- "Difficult forms of knowing": : enquiry, injury, and translocated relations of postcolonial responsibility / Diana Brydon
- Dislocating imagology : and, How much of it can (or should) be retrieved? / Claudia Perner
- Distant reading : cosmopolitanism as unconditional reception / Dirk Wiemann
- Section II. Space, time, and narration
- Transculturation and narration in the Black diaspora of the Americas / Roland Walter
- Far away, so close : translocation as storytelling principle in Hari Kunzru's Transmission / Lucia Kräme
- Amerrican antebellum cosmopolitanism : Herman Melville's "postcolonial" translocations / Gesa Mackenthun
- Translocal temporalities in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria / Lynda Ng
- "We die once only, and for such a long time" : approaching trauma through translocation in Chris Abani's Song for night / Daria Tunca
- Section III. Translation and cultural rewriting
- The story that gave this land its life" : the translocation of Rilke's Duino elegies in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide / Sandra Meyer
- Reading "Upstream!" : implications of an unconsidered source text to Julian Barnes' eighth chapte of A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters / Therese-M. Meyer
- Myths of rebellion : translocation and (cultural) innovation in Mexican-American literature / Marga Munkelt
- Section IV. Diasporas, identifications, resistance
- Trans/locating Pacific identities : from the small island to the largest Polynesian city in the world / Paloma Fresno-Calleja
- Writing (in) the migrant space : discursive nervousness in contemporary Nigerian short stories / Thomas Martinek
- Daljit Nagra's Look we have coming to Dover! and the limits of the translocal / Katharina Rennhak
- "I love Cyprus but England is my home" : Eve Makis' Eat drink and be married / Petra Tournay-Theodotou
- Laughter Movens : functions and effects of laughte in black British literature / Jessica Voges
- Section V. Transmigration : multiple migration and cultural transgression
- Theories and practices of transmigration : colonial British diasporas and the emergence of translocal space / Silke Stroh
- Blurring images : articulations of Arab-American crossovers / Markus Schmitz
- Section VI. Media and performance
- Filming illegals : clandestine translocation and the representation of bare life / Lars Eckstein
- Translating the American dream? A Brazilian vision of the promised land / Gundo Rial y Costas
- Curio(us) translocations : site-specific interventions in Banglatown, London / Kathy-Ann Tan.