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Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a
textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of
literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of
hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance
of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date
source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating
selection of materials and approaches . The book examines the
concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and
its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, tends, and voices in
the field. The book critically engages with the theoretical
intellectual and literary discussions of the concept from the time
of the colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book
enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them
in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts
from various genres and cultures.ifferent genres that open up new
perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a
specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in
literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and
knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks,
questions, and additional reference materials.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and
narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced
scholars in the field, the book provides fresh insight into how
borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in
public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the
political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume
makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of
border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural
representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the
thinking of philosopher Jacques Ranciere, this timely volume argues
that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are
central to the political process, as they contribute to the public
negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity
of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. -- .
Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a
textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of
literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of
hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance
of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date
source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating
selection of materials and approaches . The book examines the
concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and
its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, tends, and voices in
the field. The book critically engages with the theoretical
intellectual and literary discussions of the concept from the time
of the colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book
enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them
in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts
from various genres and cultures.ifferent genres that open up new
perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a
specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in
literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and
knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks,
questions, and additional reference materials.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and
narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced
scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides
fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are
imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new
ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its
ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the
methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of
discussing cultural representations of borders and related
processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques
Ranciere, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated
images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political
process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders
and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the
formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse
narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular
imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well
as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and
trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of
geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via
Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands
from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social
anthropology, media studies, and political geography. -- .
In recent years, animals have entered the focus of the social and
cultural sciences, resulting in the emergence of the new field of
human-animal studies. This book investigates the relationships
between humans and animals, paying particular attention to the role
of affect, space, and animal subjectivity in diverse human-animal
encounters. Written by a team of international scholars,
contributions explore current debates concerning animal
representation, performativity, and relationality in various texts
and practices. Part I explores how animals are framed as affective,
through four case studies that deal with climate change,
human-bovine relationships, and human-horse interaction in
different contemporary and historical contexts. Part II expands on
the issue of relationality and locates encounters within place,
mapping the different spaces where human-animal encounters take
place. Part III then examines the construction of animal
subjectivity and agency to emphasize the way in which animals are
conscious and sentient beings capable of experiencing feelings,
emotions, and intentions, and active agents whose actions have
meaning for the animals themselves. This book highlights the
importance of the ways in which affect enables animal agency and
subjectivity to emerge in encounters between humans and animals in
different contexts, leading to different configurations. It
contributes not only to debates concerning the role of animals in
society but also to the epistemological development of the field of
human-animal studies.
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and
transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations
of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel
writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book
analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and
national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration
in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the
travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between
cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range
of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various
historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong
central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel
contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have
acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the
early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to
discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the
volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves
travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The
analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization
and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation.
What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern
with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural
identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and
binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays
particular attention to the performance of identity in various
spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the
East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation
of intercultural and ethnic encounters.
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and
transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations
of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel
writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book
analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and
national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration
in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the
travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between
cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range
of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various
historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong
central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel
contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have
acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the
early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to
discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the
volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves
travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The
analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization
and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation.
What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern
with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural
identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and
binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays
particular attention to the performance of identity in various
spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the
East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation
of intercultural and ethnic encounters.
This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the
palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary and
cultural studies. Based on contemporary theories of the palimpsest,
the innovative chapters reveal hidden histories and uncover
relationships across disciplines and seemingly unconnected texts.
The contributors focus on diverse forms of the palimpsest: the
incarceration of Native Americans in military forts and their
response to the elimination of their cultures; mnemonic novels that
rework the politics and poetics of the Black Atlantic; the urban
palimpsests of Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Johannesburg, and Los
Angeles that reveal layers of humanity with disparities in origin,
class, religion, and chronology; and the palimpsestic
configurations of mythologies and religions that resist strict
cultural distinctions and argue against cultural relativism.
This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the
palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary and
cultural studies. Based on contemporary theories of the palimpsest,
the innovative chapters reveal hidden histories and uncover
relationships across disciplines and seemingly unconnected texts.
The contributors focus on diverse forms of the palimpsest: the
incarceration of Native Americans in military forts and their
response to the elimination of their cultures; mnemonic novels that
rework the politics and poetics of the Black Atlantic; the urban
palimpsests of Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Johannesburg, and Los
Angeles that reveal layers of humanity with disparities in origin,
class, religion, and chronology; and the palimpsestic
configurations of mythologies and religions that resist strict
cultural distinctions and argue against cultural relativism.
This volume examines the role and representation of 'race' and
ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United
States. It highlights contemporary work that focuses on changing
meanings of racial and ethnic identity as they are represented in
the media; television and film, digital and print media are under
examination. Through fourteen innovative and interdisciplinary case
studies written by a team of internationally based contributors,
the volume identifies ways in which ethnic, racial, and national
identities have been produced, reproduced, stereotyped, and
contested. It showcases new emerging theoretical approaches in the
field, and pays particular attention to the role of race,
ethnicity, and national identity, along with communal and
transnational allegiances, in the making of identities in the
media. The topics of the chapters range from immigrant newspapers
and gangster cinema to ethnic stand-up comedy and the use of 'race'
in advertising.
In recent years, animals have entered the focus of the social and
cultural sciences, resulting in the emergence of the new field of
human-animal studies. This book investigates the relationships
between humans and animals, paying particular attention to the role
of affect, space, and animal subjectivity in diverse human-animal
encounters. Written by a team of international scholars,
contributions explore current debates concerning animal
representation, performativity, and relationality in various texts
and practices. Part I explores how animals are framed as affective,
through four case studies that deal with climate change,
human-bovine relationships, and human-horse interaction in
different contemporary and historical contexts. Part II expands on
the issue of relationality and locates encounters within place,
mapping the different spaces where human-animal encounters take
place. Part III then examines the construction of animal
subjectivity and agency to emphasize the way in which animals are
conscious and sentient beings capable of experiencing feelings,
emotions, and intentions, and active agents whose actions have
meaning for the animals themselves. This book highlights the
importance of the ways in which affect enables animal agency and
subjectivity to emerge in encounters between humans and animals in
different contexts, leading to different configurations. It
contributes not only to debates concerning the role of animals in
society but also to the epistemological development of the field of
human-animal studies.
By discussing several well-known animal tales by canonical and
popular writers in their cultural and historical context, it is
argued that animal writing enters the contested terrain of 'human'
values and ideologies, and that many famous nineteenth- and
twentieth-century animal narratives address questions of race,
gender and nation. This Volume consists of an introduction and
eight chapters dealing with the representation of the animal in
postcolonial contexts that seek to demonstrate as to how
postcolonial theories can be brought to bear upon narratives
usually read in a more conventional manner. The authors studied
include Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Ernest
Thompson Seton, Percy FitzPatrick, Joy Adamson, Gerald Durrell,
J.M. Coetzee, Bernard Malamud and Paul Auster.
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