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This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for
studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters,
musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their
associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing
attention to those aspects of their lives and works that resist or
challenge the national framework. The volume showcases different
ways of treating transnationality in life writing by and about
artists, investigating how the transnational can offer intriguing
new insights on artists who straddle different nations and
cultures. It further explores ways of adopting transnational
perspectives in artists' biographies in order to deal with
experiences of cultural otherness or international influences, and
analyses cross-cultural representations of artists in biography and
biofiction. Gathering together insights from biographers and
scholars with expertise in literature, music and the visual arts,
Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives opens up rich avenues
for researching transnationality in the cultural domain at large.
This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for
studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters,
musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their
associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing
attention to those aspects of their lives and works that resist or
challenge the national framework. The volume showcases different
ways of treating transnationality in life writing by and about
artists, investigating how the transnational can offer intriguing
new insights on artists who straddle different nations and
cultures. It further explores ways of adopting transnational
perspectives in artists' biographies in order to deal with
experiences of cultural otherness or international influences, and
analyses cross-cultural representations of artists in biography and
biofiction. Gathering together insights from biographers and
scholars with expertise in literature, music and the visual arts,
Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives opens up rich avenues
for researching transnationality in the cultural domain at large.
In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in
1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community
experience a "deep, horizontal camaraderie." Despite being
strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences.
Yet while Anderson's insights have been hugely influential, they
remain abstract: it is difficult to imagine imagined communities.
How do they evolve and how is membership constructed cognitively,
socially and culturally? How do individuals and communities
contribute to group formation through the act of imagining? And
what is the glue that holds communities together? Imagining
Communities examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined
community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.
Communal bonding is analysed, offering concrete insights on where
and by whom the nation (or social group) is imagined and the role
of individuals therein. Offering eleven empirical case studies,
ranging from the premodern to the modern age, this volume looks at
and beyond the nation and includes regional as well as
transnational communities as well.
Do narratives make nations, and if so, did networks make this
happen? The notion that national and other group identities are
constructed and sustained by narratives and images has been widely
postulated for several decades now. This volume contributes to this
debate, with a particular emphasis on the networked, transnational
nature of cultural nation-building processes in a comparative
European and sometimes extra-European context. It gathers together
essays that engage with objects of study ranging from poetry,
prose, and political ideas to painting, porcelain, and popular
song, and which draw on examples in Icelandic, Arabic, German,
Irish, Hungarian, and French, among other languages. The
contributors study transcultural phenomena from the medieval and
early modern periods through to the modern and postmodern era,
frequently challenging conventional periodizations and analytical
frameworks based on the idea of the nation-state.
This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose
life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the
national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century.
The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative
transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world
wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism. The
subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to
ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences,
interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of
socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of
everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life
stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a
strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been
passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches. These
explorations make use of social and historical categories such as
class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context,
arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories
overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to
'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing. By
drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters
in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost,
enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through,
interact with and are affected by the major events of their time.
"Taking up what the editors refer to as the 'casual border
crossings of everyday life,' this collection considers how lives
are made in, through, beyond, and in spite of, nation-state
configurations. The essays demonstrate that transnational
encounters - human, material, conceptual, and translational -
enable unique and sometimes unexpected contact zones, and further,
show how a transnational lens can complicate and unsettle
understandings of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, but also, and
importantly, life writing and transnationalism themselves." - Prof.
dr. Sonja Boon, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada "This
volume is a call to question national contexts as self-evident
starting points for life writing. Rather than presenting a limiting
method or perspective on the transnational lives of the central
figures (and objects) in each chapter, the authors show that
unhinging the national framework implies grappling with discursive
powers such as archival arrangements, international networks as
legacies of past imperial spaces, and inequalities in terms of
gender, race, class, and language. Unhinging the national framework
also helps demonstrate how national frameworks push and pull, while
transnational allegiances add up, overlap, and conflict. The
evocative episodes of the lives (and in some cases the deaths) of
the volume's historical actors help us, as readers, to reflect on
the continued dominance of national frameworks in our current
globalized world, and what they mean in our own lives." - Prof. dr.
Susan Legene, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose
life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the
national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century.
The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative
transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world
wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism. The
subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to
ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences,
interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of
socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of
everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life
stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a
strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been
passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches. These
explorations make use of social and historical categories such as
class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context,
arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories
overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to
'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing. By
drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters
in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost,
enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through,
interact with and are affected by the major events of their time.
"Taking up what the editors refer to as the 'casual border
crossings of everyday life,' this collection considers how lives
are made in, through, beyond, and in spite of, nation-state
configurations. The essays demonstrate that transnational
encounters - human, material, conceptual, and translational -
enable unique and sometimes unexpected contact zones, and further,
show how a transnational lens can complicate and unsettle
understandings of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, but also, and
importantly, life writing and transnationalism themselves." - Prof.
dr. Sonja Boon, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada "This
volume is a call to question national contexts as self-evident
starting points for life writing. Rather than presenting a limiting
method or perspective on the transnational lives of the central
figures (and objects) in each chapter, the authors show that
unhinging the national framework implies grappling with discursive
powers such as archival arrangements, international networks as
legacies of past imperial spaces, and inequalities in terms of
gender, race, class, and language. Unhinging the national framework
also helps demonstrate how national frameworks push and pull, while
transnational allegiances add up, overlap, and conflict. The
evocative episodes of the lives (and in some cases the deaths) of
the volume's historical actors help us, as readers, to reflect on
the continued dominance of national frameworks in our current
globalized world, and what they mean in our own lives." - Prof. dr.
Susan Legene, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
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