Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture - The Fractal Gaze

Zusatztext "Françoise Král's Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture therefore does raise a number of essential issues! in an often compelling manner ? . It remains an extremely fascinating and illuminating work whose call for the development of invisibility studies no doubt will be heeded." (Mathilde Rogez! Miranda! Vol. 12! 2016) Informationen zum Autor Françoise Kral is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France. Her publications include Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature (2009), Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self'/Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand (ed, 2004) and Architecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Gins (co-edited with Jean-Jacques Lecercle, 2011). Klappentext Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones. Zusammenfassung Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts! including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORIZING INVISIBILITY STUDIES 1. Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility 2. Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility PART II: ARTISTIC SCENES OF VISIBILITY 3. Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question 4. Films and Mass Visibility PART III: SITES OF INVISIBILITY 5. Nation Building and Home Thinking 6. Invisibility and the Fractal City Concluding Remarks: On Fractal Visibility Bibliography Index...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORIZING INVISIBILITY STUDIES 1. Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility 2. Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility PART II: ARTISTIC SCENES OF VISIBILITY 3. Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question 4. Films and Mass Visibility PART III: SITES OF INVISIBILITY 5. Nation Building and Home Thinking 6. Invisibility and the Fractal City Concluding Remarks: On Fractal Visibility Bibliography Index

Bericht

"Françoise Král's Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture therefore does raise a number of essential issues, in an often compelling manner ... . It remains an extremely fascinating and illuminating work whose call for the development of invisibility studies no doubt will be heeded." (Mathilde Rogez, Miranda, Vol. 12, 2016)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: F Kral, F. Kral, FRANCOISE KRAL, Françoise Kral, Franocoise Kral
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 17.10.2014
• EAN: 9781137401380
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40138-0
• Seiten: 241
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; B, Media Studies, Culture, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Theory, Society & culture: general, Media and Communication, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Oriental literature, Asian Literature