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Postcolonial Gateways and Walls.
Metaphors are ubiquitously used in the humanities to bring the tangibility of the concrete world to the elaboration of abstract thought. Drawing on this cognitive function of metaphors, this collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the 'gateway' and the 'wall' to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brill,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Gateways and Walls, or the Power and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Metaphors; I. GATEWAYS AND WALLS: BETWEEN EAST AND WEST; Clothing the Borders: Dress as a Signifier in Colonial and Post-Colonial Space; "As Rare as Rubies": Did Salman Rushdie Invent Turkish American-Literature?; The Bosphorus Syndrome; Geography Fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh; The Concomitant Spaces of Territory and Writing: Crossing Cultural Divides; II. UNDER CONSTRUCTION: NATIONS AND CULTURES.
- Towards an Australian Philosophy: Constructive Appropriation of Enlightenment Thinking in Murray Bail's The PagesImage-i-nation: Africa/nation, Identity, and the Nation(s) Within; Refugees and Three Short Stories from Sri Lanka; Gateway to the Unknowable: The Kala Pani in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès; Postcolonial Literature in the Time of World Literature; III. THE BORDER: WALL OR GATEWAY?; "Die Mauer is no joke!": The Berlin Wall in Cilla McQueen's Berlin Diary and in the Works of Kapka Kassabova; The Wall as Signifier in Ivan Vladislavic's Works.
- Enclosed: Nature. Carol Shields' Textual MazesAn Ethics of Mourning: Loss and Transnational Dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh; IV. GENDERED GATEWAYS AND WALLS; The Mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street; Desexing the Crone: Intentional Invisibility as Postcolonial Retaliation in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old Woman and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices; The Burden of Possessions: A Postcolonial Reading of Letters from Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, and Lilian Ngoyi.
- Gendered Gateways: Australian Surfing and the Construction of Masculinities in Tim Winton's BreathNotes on Contributors; Index.