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Special Focus: "Omission", edited by Patrick Gill Throughout
literary history and in many cultures, we encounter an astute use
of conspicuous absences to conjure an imagined reality into a
recipient's mind. The term 'omission' as used in the present study,
then, demarcates a common artistic phenomenon: a silence, blank, or
absence, introduced against the recipient's generic or experiential
expectations, but which nonetheless frequently encapsulates the
tenor of the work as a whole. Such omissions can be employed for
their affective potential, when emotions represented or evoked by
the text are deemed to be beyond words. They can be employed to
raise epistemological questions, as when an omission marks the
limits of what can be known. Ethical questions can also be
approached by means of omissions, as when a character's voice is
omitted, for instance. Finally, omission always carries within it
the potential to reflect on the media and genres on which it is
brought to bear: as its efficacy depends on the recipient's generic
expectations, omission is frequently characterized by a high degree
of meta-discursiveness. This volume investigates the various
strategies with which the phenomenon of omission is employed across
a range of textual forms and in different cultures to conclusively
argue for its status as a highly effective and near-universal form
of artistic signification.
This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of
citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law
and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in
law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies,
the collection approaches the triangular relationship between
citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary,
conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on
the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression
and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present
literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and
impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing
discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating
citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of
law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities
for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes:
Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and
Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.
Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of
Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and
literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all
approach the subject from the perspective of literary and book
studies, foregrounding literature's potential to act as
supplementary to a very wide variety of laws spread over
historical, geographical, cultural and spatial grounds. The
theoretical ground laid here thus posits both literature and law in
the narrow sense. The articles gathered in this special issue
analyse Anglophone literatures from the Renaissance to the present
day and cover the three major genres, narrative, drama and poetry.
The contributions address questions of the law's psychoanalytic
subconscious, copyright and censorship, literary negotiations of
colonial and post-colonial territorial laws, the European 'refugee
debate' and migration narratives, fictional debates on climate
change, contemporary feminist drama and classic 19th-century legal
narratives. This volume includes two insightful analyses of poetic
texts with a special focus on the fact that poetry has often been
neglected within the field of law and literature research. Special
Focus editor: Franziska Quabeck, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat
Munster, Germany.
Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent
heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus
inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both
in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and
theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in
critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols
and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the
representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas?
How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the
academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and
symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas,
sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study
these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining
the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly
transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the
imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The
volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology,
history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining
readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical
reflections.
This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of
Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in
life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres
(pathography, disability narratives, memoirs of migration,
autofiction) and different kinds of metaphors, the contributions
seek to 'map' the possibilities of metaphor for narratively framing
an individual life and for constructing notions of selfhood.
This volume presents a series of in-depth studies of particular
authors or specific aspects of Germany in Canadian literature and
culture, present and past. Individual investigations resonate with
each other, adding up to a larger picture of Canada's views on
Germany and things German in all their richness, complexity and
historical persistence.
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Essays in this special focus constellate around the diverse
symbolic forms in which Caribbean consciousness has manifested
itself transhistorically, shaping identities within and without
structures of colonialism and postcolonialism. Offering
interdisciplinary critical, analytical and theoretical approaches
to the objects of study, the book explores textual, visual,
material and ritual meanings encoded in Caribbean lived and
aesthetic practices.
The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a
comparative approach to literature in order to understand how
migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and
expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An
International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the
trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a
trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications
suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South
dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights
emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in
for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars
address questions of the transculturation, translation, and
reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe.
In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes
of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume
suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary
Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered
new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies'
evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field
of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another
interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and
literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural
practices of law and literature mutually negotiate each other and
on the question after the ontological commensurability of the
domains. This volume offers, for the first time, an attempt to
provide an interface between these overlapping interdisciplinary
endeavours of literary studies, legal studies, and diaspora
studies. In doing so, it explores new approaches and invites new
perspectives on diasporas, migration and the disciplines that study
them, hopefull also adding to the cultural resources of coping with
a swiftly changing social landscape in a globalizing world.
Ever since the first exploratory expeditions in the early modern
period, North America has epitomized to Europeans a promise and the
hope for the fulfilment of great expectations, be it of more
freedom, greater wealth, social liberation or religious tolerance.
While numerous features in this dialogic intercontinental
relationship will hold true for North America in its entirety, the
vast northern territories which we know as Canada today began to
emerge early on as a specific iconic location in European
mind-maps, and they definitely acquired a distinctive profile after
the formation of the USA. As a rich source of cultural exchange and
an important partner in political and economic cooperation Canada
has come to occupy an important position in the cultural discourses
of many European nations. It is these refractions and images of
Canada which this volume thoroughly explores in European literature
and culture. The contributions include literature, philosophy,
language, life-writing and the concept of 'Heimat' (homeland) as
well as the cultural impact of the World Wars. While there is an
emphasis on literary texts, other fields of cultural representation
are also included.
While paratexts - among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes -
have never been absent from American literature, the last two
decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock)
scholarly footnotes, to an extent that they seem to take over the
text itself. In this Special Focus we shall attempt to find the
reasons for this astonishing development. In our first (diachronic)
section we shall explore such texts as might have fostered the
present boom, from fictions by Edgar Allan Poe to Vladimir Nabokov
to Mark Z. Danielewski. The second (synchronic) section, will
concentrate on paratexts by David Foster Wallace, perhaps the
"father" of the post-postmodern footnote, as well as those to be
found in novels by Bennett Sims, Jennifer Egan and Junot Diaz,
among others. It appears that, while paratexts definitely point to
a high degree of self-reflexivity in the author, they equally draw
attention to the textual and authorial functions of the works in
which they exist. They can thus cause a reflection on the
boundaries between genres like fiction, faction, and autobiography,
as well as serving to highlight a host of pedagogical and social
concerns that exist in the interstices between fiction and reality.
Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate
enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science,
anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural
studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research
field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in
questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an
international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training
Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to
phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of
belonging in diasporic contexts. Contributors from a broad range of
disciplines discuss a variety of historical and geographical
instances of diasporas, exploring the methodological and
theoretical challenges posed by the subjects of 'home' and
'belonging'. Including an interview with Homi K. Bhabha on these
subjects and the place of theory in diaspora studies as well as
contributions by such central figures as Pnina Werbner and Ihab
Hassan, the volume aims at offering a new prospectus of the range
and potential of academic work on the cultural formations of
diaspora.
After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and
early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and
which texts it comprises were apt to trigger heated discussions,
the excitement has notably cooled down at the turn of the century.
Voices are now beginning to be heard which seem to suggest a new
episteme in the making which points beyond postmodernism, while it
remains at the same time very uncertain whether what appears as
newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical
premises, and authorial practices. Contributors to this volume
propose to explore new openings and recent developments in
anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with
issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern
paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a
new Zeitgeist.
Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British
Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical
sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire
in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other
centres established as 'home'.
Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British
Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical
sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire
in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other
centres established as 'home'.
Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British
Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical
sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire
in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other
centres established as 'home'.
Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British
Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical
sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire
in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other
centres established as 'home'.
Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British
Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical
sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire
in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other
centres established as 'home'.
Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British
Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical
sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire
in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other
centres established as 'home'.
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive
resource for students and scholars working in this vital
interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and
development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship,
presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that
explores new directions. It also includes seminal essays that have
been selected specifically for this collection, as well as one
brand new paper. The volume presents: introductions to each section
that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary, and
theoretical contexts; essays grouped by key subject areas including
religion, nation, citizenship, home and belonging, visual culture,
and digital diasporas; writings by major figures including Robin
Cohen, Homi K. Bhabha, Avtar Brah, Pnina Werbner, Floya Anthias,
James Clifford, Paul Gilroy, and Salman Rushdie. The Routledge
Diaspora Studies Reader is a field-defining volume that presents an
illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to
diaspora.
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive
resource for students and scholars working in this vital
interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and
development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship,
presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that
explores new directions. It also includes seminal essays that have
been selected specifically for this collection, as well as one
brand new paper. The volume presents: introductions to each section
that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary, and
theoretical contexts; essays grouped by key subject areas including
religion, nation, citizenship, home and belonging, visual culture,
and digital diasporas; writings by major figures including Robin
Cohen, Homi K. Bhabha, Avtar Brah, Pnina Werbner, Floya Anthias,
James Clifford, Paul Gilroy, and Salman Rushdie. The Routledge
Diaspora Studies Reader is a field-defining volume that presents an
illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to
diaspora.
Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate
enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science,
anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural
studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research
field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in
questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an
international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training
Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to
phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of
belonging in diasporic contexts. Contributors from a broad range of
disciplines discuss a variety of historical and geographical
instances of diasporas, exploring the methodological and
theoretical challenges posed by the subjects of 'home' and
'belonging'. Including an interview with Homi K. Bhabha on these
subjects and the place of theory in diaspora studies as well as
contributions by such central figures as Pnina Werbner and Ihab
Hassan, the volume aims at offering a new prospectus of the range
and potential of academic work on the cultural formations of
diaspora.
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