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Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone
significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of
inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid,
dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object.
Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field
collection systematically explores the transcultural,
transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of
memory-four key dynamics that have sometimes been studied in
isolation but never in such an integrated manner. Memory Unbound
places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in
the field to recast our understanding of memory's distinctive
variability.
Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone
significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of
inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid,
dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object.
Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field
collection systematically explores the transcultural,
transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of
memory-four key dynamics that have sometimes been studied in
isolation but never in such an integrated manner. Memory Unbound
places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in
the field to recast our understanding of memory's distinctive
variability.
This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing
consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the
basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of
what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of
institutionalization not as limitations, but as challenges to
understand how literature may simultaneously function as an
enabling and exclusionary world of its own. It starts from the
observation that literature is never simply a given, but is always
performatively and materially instituted by translators,
publishers, academies and academics, critics, and readers, as well
as authors themselves. This volume therefore substantiates,
refines, as well as interrogates current approaches to world
literature, such as those developed by David Damrosch, Pascale
Casanova, and Emily Apter. Sections focus on the poetics of writers
themselves, market dynamics, postcolonial negotiations of discrete
archives of literature, and translation, engaging a range of
related disciplines. The chapters contribute to a fresh
understanding of how singular literary works become inserted in
transnational systems and, conversely, how transnational and
institutional dimensions of literature are inflected in literary
works. Focusing its methodological and theoretical inquiries on a
broad archive of texts spanning the triangle Europe-Latin
America-Africa, the volume unsettles North America as the
self-evident vantage of recent world literature debates. Because of
the volume's focus on dialogues between world literature and fields
such as postcolonial studies, translation studies, book history,
and transnational studies, it will be of interest to scholars and
students in a range of areas.
The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about
our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the
first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the
study of literature and inspiring contemporary poetry and fiction.
Engaging with topics such as genre, life, extinction, memory,
infrastructure, energy, and the future, the book makes a compelling
case for literature's unique contribution to contemporary
environmental thought. It pays attention to literature's
imaginative and narrative resources, and also to its appeal to the
emotions and its relation to the material world. As the
Anthropocene enjoins us to read the signals the planet is sending
and to ponder the traces we leave on the Earth, it is also, this
book argues, a literary problem. Literature and the Anthropocene
maps key debates and introduces the often difficult vocabulary for
capturing the entanglement of human and nonhuman lives in an
insightful way. Alternating between accessible discussions of
prominent theories and concise readings of major works of
Anthropocene literature, the book serves as an indispensable guide
to this exciting new subfield for academics and students of
literature and the environmental humanities.
The Anthropocene has fundamentally changed the way we think about
our relation to nonhuman life and to the planet. This book is the
first to critically survey how the Anthropocene is enriching the
study of literature and inspiring contemporary poetry and fiction.
Engaging with topics such as genre, life, extinction, memory,
infrastructure, energy, and the future, the book makes a compelling
case for literature's unique contribution to contemporary
environmental thought. It pays attention to literature's
imaginative and narrative resources, and also to its appeal to the
emotions and its relation to the material world. As the
Anthropocene enjoins us to read the signals the planet is sending
and to ponder the traces we leave on the Earth, it is also, this
book argues, a literary problem. Literature and the Anthropocene
maps key debates and introduces the often difficult vocabulary for
capturing the entanglement of human and nonhuman lives in an
insightful way. Alternating between accessible discussions of
prominent theories and concise readings of major works of
Anthropocene literature, the book serves as an indispensable guide
to this exciting new subfield for academics and students of
literature and the environmental humanities.
This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing
consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the
basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of
what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of
institutionalization not as limitations, but as challenges to
understand how literature may simultaneously function as an
enabling and exclusionary world of its own. It starts from the
observation that literature is never simply a given, but is always
performatively and materially instituted by translators,
publishers, academies and academics, critics, and readers, as well
as authors themselves. This volume therefore substantiates,
refines, as well as interrogates current approaches to world
literature, such as those developed by David Damrosch, Pascale
Casanova, and Emily Apter. Sections focus on the poetics of writers
themselves, market dynamics, postcolonial negotiations of discrete
archives of literature, and translation, engaging a range of
related disciplines. The chapters contribute to a fresh
understanding of how singular literary works become inserted in
transnational systems and, conversely, how transnational and
institutional dimensions of literature are inflected in literary
works. Focusing its methodological and theoretical inquiries on a
broad archive of texts spanning the triangle Europe-Latin
America-Africa, the volume unsettles North America as the
self-evident vantage of recent world literature debates. Because of
the volume's focus on dialogues between world literature and fields
such as postcolonial studies, translation studies, book history,
and transnational studies, it will be of interest to scholars and
students in a range of areas.
Tinka Pittoors (b. 1977) is a Belgian visual artist, who regularly
exhibits her work in Flanders, Wallonia, the Netherlands and
France. Anyone who crosses the threshold of her studio will feel as
if they've stepped into an artificial secret garden. An explosion
of shapes and colours awaits in a place where everything has the
potential of becoming an artwork. In her sculptures and objects,
Pittoors examines the utopia of a malleable world, often using the
nature-culture divide as her starting premise. Each presentation is
a moment in time, a snapshot, that is tailored to the venue. Les
Voyageurs is published on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition
in the gardens of Chateau Seneffe. Many people in Flanders have yet
to discover this hidden gem. And yet the castle and gardens of
Seneffe are Wallonia's equivalent of Versailles, with fountains,
pavilions, pristine nature, and dreamy paths on 22 hectares of
land. For this exhibition, Pittoors created a trail that reflects
on the various possibilities of travel, displacement and
detachment, arriving and leaving, escapes and quests. The
introduction was written by Pieter Vermeulen. Other contributors
include Marjolaine Hanssens, Veronika Pot, Carine Fol, Isabelle
Pouget, Dominique Legrand, Stijn Tormans, Marc Ruyters, Jan Braet
and Saskia De Coster. Text in English, French and Dutch.
This comprehensive account demonstrates how Hartman's commitment to
the potency of aesthetic mediation informs a similar position in
current debates about ethics, media, and memory. "Geoffrey Hartman:
Romanticism after the Holocaust" offers the first comprehensive
critical account of the work of the American literary critic
Geoffrey Hartman. The book aims to achieve two things: first, it
charts the whole trajectory of Hartman's career (now more than half
a century long) while playing close attention to the place of his
career in broader cultural and intellectual contexts; second, it
engages with contemporary discussions about ecology, ethics,
trauma, the media, and community in order to argue that Hartman's
work presents a surprisingly consistent and original position in
current debates in literary and cultural studies. Vermeulen
identifies a persistent belief in the potency of aesthetic
mediation at the heart of Hartman's project, and shows how his work
repeatedly reasserts that belief in the face of institutional,
cultural and intellectual factors that seem to deny the singular
importance of literature. The book allows Hartman to emerge as a
major literary thinker whose relevance extends far beyond the
domains of Romanticism, of literary theory, and of trauma studies.
Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust offers the first
comprehensive critical account of the work of the American literary
critic Geoffrey Hartman. The book aims to achieve two things:
first, it charts the whole trajectory of Hartman's career (now more
than half a century long) while playing close attention to the
place of his career in broader cultural and intellectual contexts;
second, it engages with contemporary discussions about ecology,
ethics, trauma, the media, and community in order to argue that
Hartman's work presents a surprisingly consistent and original
position in current debates in literary and cultural studies.
Vermeulen identifies a persistent belief in the potency of
aesthetic mediation at the heart of Hartman's project, and shows
how his work repeatedly reasserts that belief in the face of
institutional, cultural and intellectual factors that seem to deny
the singular importance of literature. The book allows Hartman to
emerge as a major literary thinker whose relevance extends far
beyond the domains of Romanticism, of literary theory, and of
trauma studies.
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