Literature, Memory, Hegemony
Title | Literature, Memory, Hegemony PDF eBook |
Author | Sharmani Patricia Gabriel |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2018-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9811090017 |
This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this collection seeks out the interpenetrating dynamic between both terms. Highlighting the inherent instability of East and West as oppositional categories, it focuses on the ‘crossings’ between East and West and this nexus as a highly-charged arena of encounter and collision. Drawing from varied literary contexts ranging from Victorian literature to Chinese literature and modern European literature, the book covers a diverse range of subject matter, including material drawn from psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory and studies related to race, religion, diaspora, and gender, and investigates topical social and political issues —including terrorism, nationalism, citizenship, the refugee crisis, xenophobia and otherness. Offering a framework to consider the salient questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our societies, this book is a key read for those working within world literary studies.
Collective Memory and Identity in Japanese American Literature Over Three Generations
Title | Collective Memory and Identity in Japanese American Literature Over Three Generations PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Wössner |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | 113 |
Release | 2010-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 364046222X |
Examination Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,5, University of Tubingen (Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: This thesis will show that the collective memory does not pose a problem to the whole of humanity but that it still exists in some spheres of in this case American life.
Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory
Title | Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Grabes |
Publisher | Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783823341758 |
Literary Memory, Consciousness, and the Group Oulipo
Title | Literary Memory, Consciousness, and the Group Oulipo PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Consenstein |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2021-11-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004489509 |
The question of memory intrigues us more and more as industrialized societies move further and further away from the written word. In the past the role of memory was integral to literary history, precise mnemonics served as the support systems for erudition, and Mnemosyne was mother of the Muses. The group Oulipo, born in reaction to the Surrealists, proposes, invents, and applies novel literary constraints. Using memory, and best of all conscious memory, as a theoretical starting point, the implications of writing under constraint are analyzed. First, writing under constraint is viewed as a new mnemonics; second, the spiritual component of such a practice is shown to redefine a notion of inspiration; third, constraints and their relationship with games and society is highlighted; finally the manner in which they build a literary consciousness is studied through the lenspiece of contemporary neurobiological research. For the first time the work of the group Oulipo, and the member’s emphasis on the function of literature, is placed in historical, cultural, and philosophical context.
Literature and Politics
Title | Literature and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Yoseph Yapi Taum |
Publisher | Sanata Dharma University Press |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2022-01-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 6236103402 |
In the discourse of Indonesian literature history, the relationship between literature and politics is pressing issue, a situation that cannot be easily to overcome. A long time ago, during the Dutch colonial government, there was a rule that literature should not discuss ideology, religion, and politics. This colonial policy lasts and never changes even though Indonesia was already get its independence. Thats why Indonesian literary society and writers have a strong believe that literature must not be involved in politics and it must not have any moral and political goals. Literature cannot be related to real-life directly because literature is only a fictional work. The historical aspects outside literature are considered as a background or a foreground that cannot destroy the authentic characteristics of the literary works as imaginary fictional works. Literary works tend to be only considered as entertainment tools that narrate an alternative world, which is totally different from the world where we are living. This book will be the first in discussing the relationship between literature and politics. Students and experts of various sciences who would like to understand the episteme of the New Order can get benefits from this book. This book gives us a reflection that the development is for human beings, not the human beings are for the development. The humanistic development dimension must be a must. Literary works still exist continuously to guard the Indonesians' struggles in defending their human dignity.
Frontiers of Civil Society
Title | Frontiers of Civil Society PDF eBook |
Author | Marek Mikuš |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2018-06-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1785338919 |
In Serbia, as elsewhere in postsocialist Europe, the rise of “civil society” was expected to support a smooth transformation to Western models of liberal democracy and capitalism. More than twenty years after the Yugoslav wars, these expectations appear largely unmet. Frontiers of Civil Society asks why, exploring the roles of multiple civil society forces in a set of government “reforms” of society and individuals in the early 2010s, and examining them in the broader context of social struggles over neoliberal restructuring and transnational integration.
Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age
Title | Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Wilson |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 410 |
Release | 2020-03-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9811526311 |
This volume provides a key analysis of Asian children’s literature and film and creates a dialogue between East and West and between the cultures from which they emerge, within the complex symbiosis of their local, national and transnational frameworks. In terms of location and content the book embraces a broad scope, including contributions related to the Asian-American diaspora, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan. Individually and collectively, these essays broach crucial questions: What elements of Asian literature and film make them distinctive, both within their own specific culture and within the broader Asian area? What aspects link them to these genres in other parts of the world? How have they represented and shaped the societies and cultures they inhabit? What moral codes do they address, underpin, or contest? The volume provides further voice to the increasingly diverse and fascinating output of the region and emphasises the importance of Asian art forms as depictions of specific cultures but also of their connection to broader themes in children’s texts, and scholarship within this field.