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Imaginary Europes - Couverture souple

 
9780367030100: Imaginary Europes
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0367030101 ISBN 13 : 9780367030100
Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

The 20th century has witnessed crucial changes in our perceptions of Europe. Two World Wars and many regional conflicts, the end of empires and of the Eastern Bloc, the creation and expansion of the European Union, and the continuous reshaping of Europe's population through emigration, immigration, and globalization have led to a proliferation of images of Europe within the continent and beyond.

While Eurocentrism governs current public debates in Europe, this book takes a special interest in literary and cinematographic imaginings of Europe that are produced from more distant, decentred, or peripheral vantage points and across differences of political power, ideological or ethnic affinity, cultural currency, linguistic practice, and geographical location. The contributions to this book demonstrate how these particular imaginings of Europe, often without first-hand experience of the continent, do not simply hold up a mirror to Europe, but dare to conceive of new perspectives and constellations for Europe that call for a shifting of critical positions. In so doing, the artistic visions from afar confirm the significance of cultural imagination in (re)conceptualizing the past, present, and future of Europe. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elisabeth Bekers is Professor of British and Postcolonial Literature at Vrije Universiteit

Brussel, Belgium. She researches literature from Africa and its diaspora, and currently

focuses on black British women's writing. Her publications include the co-edited volumes

Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe (2009) and Brussel schrijven/

Écrire Bruxelles (2016).

Maggie Ann Bowers is a Senior Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of

Portsmouth, UK. Her research covers contemporary postcolonial studies, focusing particularly

on Native American studies and comparative multi-ethnic literatures of North

America. She is the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004). Her recent research has examined

the links between storytelling, ritual, and law and sovereignty in Native American writing.

Sissy Helff is a freelance anglicist with a broad range of interests in Anglophone world

literature, postcolonial and transcultural studies, visual culture, history, and politics. Her

recent book, Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women's Fiction of

the Diaspora (2012), is an overview of Indian diasporic women's writing from around the

world.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0367030101
ISBN 13 
9780367030100
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
108
Éditeur
Bekers Elisabeth, Bowers Maggie Ann, Helff Sissy
Coordonnées du fabricant
BOOKS etc..
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BOOKS etc.
Aldershot
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gpsr@libri.de
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