Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature:
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1. Verfasser: Nordin, Irene Gilsenan 1947- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Editions Rodopi 2013
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Beschreibung:In recent decades, globalization has led to increased mobility and interconnectedness. For a growing number of people, contemporary life entails new local and transnational interdependencies which transform individual and collective allegiances. Contemporary literature often reflects these changes through its exploration of migrant experiences and transcultural identities. Calling into question traditional definitions of culture, many recent works of poetry and prose fiction go beyond the spatial boundaries of a given state, emphasizing instead the mixing and collision of languages, cultures
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Conceptualizing Transculturality in Literature; A NEW KIND OF MIGRATION; Transnational Movements and the Limits of Citizenship: Redefinitions of National Belonging; Forging a Transcultural Identity as a Russian-American Writer: Lara Vapnyar and Cultural Adaptation; Childhood, Migration, and Identity in Chris Cleave's The Other Hand; TRANSCENDING THE NATION; Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship: Identities and Affiliations in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen
Constructions of Transcultural Subjectivity: Going BeyondNationalism and Ethnicity in A Good Scent from a Strange MountainCosmopolitan Perspectives: Globalization and Transnationalization in Contemporary German Literature; CRITIQUES OF MULTICULTURALISM; Beyond the Multicultural Fairytale: Insider-Outsiders, the Politicsof Violence, and the Transnational Turn in Canadian Literature; Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure; America After 9/11: Ethnic Diversity and Patriotism in John Updike's Terrorist
THE INTERACTION OF LANGUAGES IN TRANSLINGUAL TEXTSLiterary Language and the Translated Self of Assia Djebar; Translingual and Transcultural Patterns in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb; Hsia Yü's Translingual Transculturalism from Memoranda to Pink Noise; Notes on Contributors; Index
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ISBN:9781306167598

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