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Title Transcultural English studies : theories, fictions, realities / edited by Frank Schulze-Engler and Sissy Helff.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 469 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cross/cultures ; 102
ASNEL papers ; 12
Cross/cultures ; 102.
ASNEL papers ; 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents On the acquisition and possession of commonalities / Wolfgang Welsch -- Multiple modernities : the transnationalization of cultures / Gisela Welz -- Authenticity : why we still need it although it doesn't exist / Virginia Richter -- Shifting perspectives : the transcultural novel / Sissy Helff -- The dangers of diaspora : some thoughts about the Black Atlantic / Ruth Mayer -- The times of India : transcultural temporalities in theory and fiction / Dirk Wiemann -- Lakshman's journal : an essay in narratology and the barbs of transculturality / Peter Stummer -- Broken borders : migration, modernity and English writing : transcultural transformation in the heart of Europe / Mike Phillips -- From the belly of the fish : Jewish writers in English in Israel : transcultural perspectives / Axel Stähler -- Linguistic dimensions of Jewish-American literature / Pascal Fischer -- Eluding containment : orality and the ordnance survey memoir in Ireland / Edith Shillue -- Atanarjuat : fast running and electronic storytelling in the Arctic / Kerstin Knopf -- Manifestation of self and/or tribal identity? : Maori writing in the global maelstrom / Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu -- Transcultural perspectives in Caribbean poetry / Sabrina Brancato -- The location of transculture / Mark Stein -- 'Final passages'? : representations of Black British history in Caryl Phillips's novel and its television adaptation / Eva Ulrike Pirker -- Trying to escape, longing to belong : roots, genes and performativity in Zadie Smith's White teeth and Hari Kunzru's The impressionist / Barbara Schaff -- Fictions of transcultural memory : Zulfikar Ghose's The triple mirror of the self as an imaginative reconstruction of the self in multiple worlds / Nadia Butt -- Routes to the roots : transcultural ramifications in Bombay talkie / Christine Vogt-William -- Beyond the contact zone? : mapping transcultural spaces in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen and Eden Robinson's Monkey beach / Katja Sarkowsky -- The long shadow of Tacitus : classical and modern colonial discourses in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenty-century Scottish highlands / Silke Stroh -- Inter- and/or transcultural learning in the foreign language classroom? : theoretical foundations and practical implications / Sabine Doff -- Towards a cosmopolitan readership : new literatures in English in the classroom / Michael C. Prusse -- Teaching Hanif Kureishi / Laurenz Volkmann -- A new dialogue at the periphery? : teaching postcolonial African, Black American, and Indian writings in India / Kanaka Bashyam Sankaran -- Look, see, and say : photographs of Africa in a cultural perspective. I : transcultural communication, poetics, and viewer response in photography / Detlev Gohrbandt ; II : teaching and learning with photographs of Africa / Gisela Feurle.
Summary What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as creolization, hybridity, and syncretism, and signalling a family relationship to terms such as transnationality, translocality, and transmigration, 'transcultural' terminology has unobtrusively but powerfully edged its way into contemporary theoretical and critical discourse. The four sections of this volume denote major areas where 'transcultural' questions and problematics have come to the fore: theories of culture and literature that.
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Subject English literature -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Schulze-Engler, Frank, 1957-
Helff, Sissy.
Other Form: Print version: Transcultural English studies. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009 9789042025639
ISBN 9781441613349 (electronic book)
144161334X (electronic book)
9042025638 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9789042025639 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9789042028845
904202884X