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The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices
are shaped by the experience of being at sea-and also how they
forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary
worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships,
and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first
century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing,
and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary
activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and
collective shipboard experiences are structured through-and framed
by-such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on
scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and
embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard
environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under
peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading-and
of writing and performing-in specific ways.
This book describes the dubbing process of English-language
animated films produced by US companies in the 21st century,
exploring how linguistic variation and multilingualism are used to
create characters and identities and examining how Italian dubbing
professionals deal with this linguistic characterisation. The
analysis carried out relies on a diverse range of research tools:
text analysis, corpus study and personal communications with
dubbing practitioners. The book describes the dubbing workflow and
dubbing strategies in Italy and seeks to identify recurrent
patterns and therefore norms, as well as stereotypes or creativity
in the way multilingualism and linguistic variation are tackled. It
will be of interest to students and scholars of translation,
linguistic variation, film and media.
This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by
colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work
of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a
region and world-Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey
Collen-alongside maritime-imperial precursor Joseph Conrad. If
postcolonial literatures are sometimes read as national allegories,
this book presents an account of a different and significant strand
of postcolonial fiction whose geography, in contrast, is coastal
and transoceanic. This work imaginatively links east Africa, south
Asia and the Arab world via a network of south-south connections
that precedes and survives European imperialism. The novels and
stories provide a vivid, storied sense of place on both a local and
an oceanic scale, and in so doing remap the world as having its
centre in the ocean and the south.
This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is
fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett's life and
writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging
scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett's work as it
relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language
politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical
approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender
theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book
demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens:
it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett's life,
his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important
collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett's work is not only
ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant
opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader
relationships between literature, culture and politics.
Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust's
contemporaries, Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel,
Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of
Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu). Challenging
traditional interpretations, she argues that Proust's magnum opus
is not a melancholic text, but one that records the dynamic time of
change and the complex vitality of the real. Situating Proust's
novel within a modernism of money, and broadening the exploration
through references to cultural events and visual technologies
(commercial photography, photojournalism, pornography, the
regulation of prostitution, the Panama Scandal, and the Dreyfus
Affair), this study reveals that Proust's subject is not the
esthetic recuperation of loss but rather the adventure of living in
time, on both the individual and the social level, at a concrete
historical moment.
This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist
fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows
that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not turn away
from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates according to a deepened
understanding of what mimesis is and how it works, which in turn
occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist
achievement. Modernism is neither "difficult" nor elitist. Instead,
it trends toward simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden
argues that naivete rather than highbrow sophistication was for the
modernists a key artistic principle. He demonstrates that
modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs
itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis
closes this gap by resolving representation into play and
festivity.
This book examines the representation of masculinities in
contemporary texts written by women who have immigrated into France
or Canada from a range of geographical spaces. Exploring works by
Leonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou Diome (Senegal), Assia Djebar,
Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Ying Chen
(China) and Kim Thuy (Vietnam), this study charts the extent to
which migration generates new ways of understanding and writing
masculinities. It draws on diverse theoretical perspectives,
including postcolonial theory, affect theory and critical race
theory, while bringing visibility to the many women across various
historical and geographical terrains who write about (im)migration
and the impact on men, even as these women, too, acquire a
different position in the new society.
A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature,
art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures.
This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through
stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual
representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history
of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired
individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present.
Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian
narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red
hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as Anne of
Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking, contemporary and Neo-Victorian
representations of redheads from the Black Widow to The Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic
significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in
mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.
Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic
examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race
manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his
imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated
by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien's works for
conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins by
demonstrating that Tolkien was a racialist, in that his mythology
is established on the basis of different races with different
characteristics, and then poses the key question "Was Tolkien
racist?" Robert Stuart engages the discourse and research
associated with the ways in which racism and anti-racism relate
Tolkien to his fascist and imperialist contemporaries and to
twenty-first-century neo-Nazis and White Supremacists-including
White Supremacy, genocide, blood-and-soil philology, anti-Semitism,
and aristocratic racism. Addressing a major gap in the field of
Tolkien studies, Stuart focuses on race, racisms and the Tolkien
legendarium.
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