This collection pushes migration and "the minor" to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their "minority" background articulate notions of belonging, self, and society in literature? The contributors use "interface ethnography" and...

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1. Verfasser:	Fagerlid, Cicilie (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cham Palgrave Macmillan [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Palgrave studies in literary anthropology
Schlagworte:	Ethnology Ethnography Emigration and immigration Culture Cultural studies Social sciences Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie Literatur Auswanderung Nationale Minderheit Hardcover, Softcover / Soziologie/Sonstiges Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	This collection pushes migration and "the minor" to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their "minority" background articulate notions of belonging, self, and society in literature? The contributors use "interface ethnography" and "fieldwork on foot" to analyze a broad selection of literature and processes of dialogic engagement. The chapters discuss German-speaking Herta Müller’s perpetual minority status in Romania; Bengali-Scottish Bashabi Fraser and the potentiality of poetry; vagrant pastoralism and "heritagization" in Puglia, Italy; the self-representation of European Muslims post 9/11 in Zeshan Shakar’s acclaimed Norwegian novel; the autobiographical narratives of Loveleen Rihel Brenna and the artist collective Queendom in Norway; the "immigrant" as a permanent guest in Spanish-language children’s literature; and Slovenian roots-searching in Argentina. This anthology examines the generative and transformative potentials of storytelling, while illustrating that literary anthropology is well equipped to examine the multiple contexts that literature engages. Chapter 4 of this book is available open access under a CC By 4.0 license at link.springer.com
Beschreibung:	Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Anthropology, Migration, and Belonging; Literary Anthropology: Literature as Source Material and Literary Production; The Social Role and Potentiality of Literature; Chapter 2: Take a Walk on the Shepherd Side: Transhumant Narratives and Representations; Transhumance: Between Practices and Words; Just A Deleuzian Glance; Transhumant Narratives and Representations; The Politics and Poetics of Heritagization; IL Tratturo: A Novel from the Limits; Wandering Storytelling, Transhumant Images and Other Vagrant Digressions; Between History, - Literature and Ethnographic Restitution; Chapter 3: In Search of a Suitable Home or the Perpetual Minority Status: Herta Müller's Case; Introduction; Challenging Arborescent Structures and Deterritorialization; The Childhood as a Burden of the Cradle; The Maturity as the Burden of Altered Relations; The Burden of the Haunting of the Other Country; Minority Among Minority and Minority Among Majority; Corpus; Chapter 4: When Author Meets Audience: The Potentiality of Literature to Re-Narrate Selves, Belonging, and National Community; Introduction; "They Are Maybe the Most Defined Human Beings in Norway, but Defined By People From the Outside": Re-Narrating Selves and Belonging; The Great Immigrant Novel, Or Rather Homestead Prose From the Satellite Town? the Recreation of a National Community; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Biography, Descent, - and Slovenization: Literature and Slovenian Migrants in Argentina; Introduction; Migration and Literature; The Slovenian Sociopolitical Context; Two Slovenian Family Biographies in the Current Argentinian Context; Final Remarks; Chapter 6: Narratives of Competence and Confidence: Self, Society, and Belonging in Norway; Introduction: Literature and Ethnographic Objects; Self, Individual, and Society; "Minority" Existence and Society; Self, Belonging, and Public Discourse; Conclusion: Socially Produced and Socially Productive: Confidence and Competence; Chapter 7: From Bengal to Scotland: Hybridity, - Borders and National Narratives; Poetry and Literary Anthropology; Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism; Borders and Displacement; Reframing Scotland's Pedagogical National Narrative; Reframing Scotland's Performative National Discourse; Writing in a Minor Key: English (and Scots); Conclusion; Chapter 8: The Production of the Immigrant as a Perpetual Guest; Bordering Tropes; (Im)Possible belongings; Postscript
Beschreibung:	xx, 210 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:	9783030347987