Transcultural Perspectives in Literature, Language, Art, and Politics

This book explores the dynamics of transculturality through five sections: literature, translation and linguistics, cinema, communication, and politics. The contributors' diverse background in the Humanities allows for a wide enquiry into the far-reaching capabilities of transculturality both as an intellectual tool and as an identity in motion.

List of contents

Chapter 1. The Fabric of Transculturality: Weaving the Transcultural American Text
Chapter 2. Viet Than Nguyen's "Just Memory" and the Future of Transculturalism
Chapter 3. Transculturality: Ethics and Politics in Eva Hoffman's Appassionata
Chapter 4. Translingual Literature/Transcultural Literature: A Comparison Reading of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish and Ha Jin's "An English Professor"
Chapter 5. Literary Translingualism and the Case of "World Literature": A View from Eastern Europe
Chapter 6. Transcultural Gastropoetics: The Depiction of Oranges in Contemporary Latvian
Prose and Challenges for Translation
Chapter 7. Transculturality and Translation: A Transcultural, Multipolar Experience I: Translating English and Creole into French
Chapter 8. Transculturality and Translation: A Transcultural, Multipolar Experience II: Translating Japanese-American Poet Amy Uyematsu
Chapter 9. Transcultural Engagement with Holocaust Memory in Spain: A One-Way Process?
Chapter 10. Bilingual and Cross-cultural Encounters in Kate Chopin's Short Stories: Literary and Linguistic Approach
Chapter 11. Transcultural Collaboration: A Journey of an Animated Film The Scarlet Flower Between the Former USSR, Syria, and the UK
Chapter 12. Home-Longing in Fatih Akin's Transcultural Heimat Western, The Cut
Chapter 13. "Great Storytelling Transcends Borders": Transculturation Effects of Multinational Video-On-Demand Streaming
Chapter 14. English as a Lingua Franca in Academia and Beyond
Chapter 15. Transculturality and Transnationalism: Supranational Identities in the European Union
Chapter 16. Transculturality and Transnationalism: The Influence of Anti-Capitalist and Internationalist Counter-Cultures in the New Environmentalist Movements and the Case of Extinction-Rebellion

About the author

Indra Karapetjana (Dr. Philol.) is professor in applied linguistics at the University of Latvia
Aristi Trendel is associate Professor at Le Mans University, France.

Product details

• Assisted by: Indra Karapetjana (Editor), Gunta Rozina (Editor), François Thirion (Editor), Aristi Trendel (Editor)
• Publisher: Bounce
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2025
• EAN: 9781666955996
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-5599-6
• Weight: 517 g
• Illustrations: 3 Tables
• Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Communication Policy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies