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Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature /
In recent decades, globalization has led to increased mobility and interconnectedness. For a growing number of people, contemporary life entails new local and transnational interdependencies which transform individual and collective allegiances. Contemporary literature often reflects these changes t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
167. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Conceptualizing Transculturality in Literature; A NEW KIND OF MIGRATION; Transnational Movements and the Limits of Citizenship: Redefinitions of National Belonging; Forging a Transcultural Identity as a Russian-American Writer: Lara Vapnyar and Cultural Adaptation; Childhood, Migration, and Identity in Chris Cleave's The Other Hand; TRANSCENDING THE NATION; Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship: Identities and Affiliations in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen.
- Constructions of Transcultural Subjectivity: Going BeyondNationalism and Ethnicity in A Good Scent from a Strange MountainCosmopolitan Perspectives: Globalization and Transnationalization in Contemporary German Literature; CRITIQUES OF MULTICULTURALISM; Beyond the Multicultural Fairytale: Insider-Outsiders, the Politicsof Violence, and the Transnational Turn in Canadian Literature; Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure; America After 9/11: Ethnic Diversity and Patriotism in John Updike's Terrorist.
- THE INTERACTION OF LANGUAGES IN TRANSLINGUAL TEXTSLiterary Language and the Translated Self of Assia Djebar; Translingual and Transcultural Patterns in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb; Hsia Yü's Translingual Transculturalism from Memoranda to Pink Noise; Notes on Contributors; Index.