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1 online resource (lxxix, 414 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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ASNEL papers ; 17
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Cross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 156
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Cross/cultures ; 156.
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ASNEL papers ; 17.
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : directions of translocation : towards a critical spatial thinking in postcolonial studies / Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, and Silke Stroh -- Section I. Conceptual interventions and disciplinary transgressions -- "Difficult forms of knowing": : enquiry, injury, and translocated relations of postcolonial responsibility / Diana Brydon -- Dislocating imagology : and, How much of it can (or should) be retrieved? / Claudia Perner -- Distant reading : cosmopolitanism as unconditional reception / Dirk Wiemann -- Section II. Space, time, and narration -- Transculturation and narration in the Black diaspora of the Americas / Roland Walter -- Far away, so close : translocation as storytelling principle in Hari Kunzru's Transmission / Lucia Kräme -- Amerrican antebellum cosmopolitanism : Herman Melville's "postcolonial" translocations / Gesa Mackenthun -- Translocal temporalities in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria / Lynda Ng -- "We die once only, and for such a long time" : approaching trauma through translocation in Chris Abani's Song for night / Daria Tunca -- Section III. Translation and cultural rewriting -- Story that gave this land its life" : the translocation of Rilke's Duino elegies in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide / Sandra Meyer -- Reading "Upstream!" : implications of an unconsidered source text to Julian Barnes' eighth chapte of A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters / Therese-M. Meyer -- Myths of rebellion : translocation and (cultural) innovation in Mexican-American literature / Marga Munkelt -- Section IV. Diasporas, identifications, resistance -- Trans/locating Pacific identities : from the small island to the largest Polynesian city in the world / Paloma Fresno-Calleja -- Writing (in) the migrant space : discursive nervousness in contemporary Nigerian short stories / Thomas Martinek -- Daljit Nagra's Look we have coming to Dover! and the limits of the translocal / Katharina Rennhak -- "I love Cyprus but England is my home" : Eve Makis' Eat drink and be married / Petra Tournay-Theodotou -- Laughter Movens : functions and effects of laughte in black British literature / Jessica Voges -- Section V. Transmigration : multiple migration and cultural transgression -- Theories and practices of transmigration : colonial British diasporas and the emergence of translocal space / Silke Stroh -- Blurring images : articulations of Arab-American crossovers / Markus Schmitz -- Section VI. Media and performance -- Filming illegals : clandestine translocation and the representation of bare life / Lars Eckstein -- Translating the American dream? A Brazilian vision of the promised land / Gundo Rial y Costas -- Curio(us) translocations : site-specific interventions in Banglatown, London / Kathy-Ann Tan. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Space -- Social aspects.
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Space -- Social aspects. |
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Culture.
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Culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Munkelt, Margarete, editor.
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Schmitz, Markus (Writer on Arab culture), editor.
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Stein, Mark, 1966- editor.
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Stroh, Silke, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gesellschaft Für Die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen. Annual Conference (20th : 2009 : Münster, Germany). Postcolonial translocations. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013 9789042036314 (DLC) 2012537246 (OCoLC)828858794 |
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9789401209014 (e-book) |
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9401209014 (e-book) |
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9042036311 |
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9789042036314 |
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9042036311 |
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9789042036314 |
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9789042036314 |
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