Approaches to Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - Of Borderlands, Translation Zones, Practices and Forms

This book offers a hands-on introduction to, and critical engagement with, concepts current in the transcultural field of Anglophone Studies. The book also offers readings of a selection of key texts that tackle transcultural experiences against monodimensional narratives of nation or culture; silenced or complicated memories against established archives and canons; forms of articulating histories of violence and interrogating dominant cultural narratives. This book highlights the potential of literature and art in schooling our critical faculties and our approaches to a complex world.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Positions and Positioning2. Nation, Narration, (Self-)Translation in Modern Anglophone Literatures 3. Entangled Archives, Poetic Webs in Modern Anglophone Literatures4. Strategies of Self-Translation and Worldmaking in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker lehrt Anglophone Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

Zusammenfassung

This book offers a hands-on introduction to, and critical engagement with, concepts current in the transcultural field of Anglophone Studies. The book also offers readings of a selection of key texts that tackle transcultural experiences against monodimensional narratives of nation or culture; silenced or complicated memories against established archives and canons; forms of articulating histories of violence and interrogating dominant cultural narratives. This book highlights the potential of literature and art in schooling our critical faculties and our approaches to a complex world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Eva Ulrike Pirker
• Verlag: Narr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.05.2023
• EAN: 9783823384458
• ISBN: 978-3-8233-8445-8
• Seiten: 300
• Serien: Narr Studienbücher Literaturwissenschaft / Zugänge, Reflexionen, Transfer; narr Studienbücher LITERATUR- UND KULTURWISSENSCHAFT; narr STUDIENBÜCHER LITERATUR- UND KULTURWISSENSCHAFT / Zugänge, Reflexionen, Transfer
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Kulturgeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Geschichte, Englisch, Postcolonial Studies, Worldmaking, Travelling Concepts, Cultural Translation, Anglophone Literatures