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The 20th century has witnessed crucial changes in our perceptions
of Europe. Two World Wars and many regional conflicts, the end of
empires and of the Eastern Bloc, the creation and expansion of the
European Union, and the continuous reshaping of Europe's population
through emigration, immigration, and globalization have led to a
proliferation of images of Europe within the continent and beyond.
While Eurocentrism governs current public debates in Europe, this
book takes a special interest in literary and cinematographic
imaginings of Europe that are produced from more distant,
decentred, or peripheral vantage points and across differences of
political power, ideological or ethnic affinity, cultural currency,
linguistic practice, and geographical location. The contributions
to this book demonstrate how these particular imaginings of Europe,
often without first-hand experience of the continent, do not simply
hold up a mirror to Europe, but dare to conceive of new
perspectives and constellations for Europe that call for a shifting
of critical positions. In so doing, the artistic visions from afar
confirm the significance of cultural imagination in
(re)conceptualizing the past, present, and future of Europe. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing.
The 20th century has witnessed crucial changes in our perceptions
of Europe. Two World Wars and many regional conflicts, the end of
empires and of the Eastern Bloc, the creation and expansion of the
European Union, and the continuous reshaping of Europe's population
through emigration, immigration, and globalization have led to a
proliferation of images of Europe within the continent and beyond.
While Eurocentrism governs current public debates in Europe, this
book takes a special interest in literary and cinematographic
imaginings of Europe that are produced from more distant,
decentred, or peripheral vantage points and across differences of
political power, ideological or ethnic affinity, cultural currency,
linguistic practice, and geographical location. The contributions
to this book demonstrate how these particular imaginings of Europe,
often without first-hand experience of the continent, do not simply
hold up a mirror to Europe, but dare to conceive of new
perspectives and constellations for Europe that call for a shifting
of critical positions. In so doing, the artistic visions from afar
confirm the significance of cultural imagination in
(re)conceptualizing the past, present, and future of Europe. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing.
This book brings together two main disciplines, namely cultural
studies and language education - both of which share a long
standing interest in films, multimodal text-forms, and visuals. It
highlights the increasing impact of visuals and multimodal texts on
our perception of the world, our discourse behavior, and how this
calls for a change in methodologies and media to be used in foreign
language classrooms. The book helps to orientate educators in
schools and teachers at universities within the broad concept of a
multiliteracies approach and to contextualize it with regard to
teaching and learning English as a foreign language. (Series:
Foreign Language Teaching in Global Perspective /
Fremdsprachendidaktik in Globaler Perspektive - Vol. 2)
How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first
edited collection to trace the relationship between history,
photography and memory in a global perspective on three
interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural
production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and
contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in
picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family
photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global
photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between
historical and contemporary photographs.
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