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The Painful Chrysalis

Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
276 Seiten
Englisch
Peter Langerschienen am26.09.2011
Offers varied studies of the problematic construction of contemporary identities from a literary and cultural perspective. This book covers transcendental, relevant and polemic topics like the difficulty of growing up, classist and interracial struggles, narratives of displacement and exile, queering the world, power politics and the individual.mehr
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BuchKartoniert, Paperback
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KlappentextOffers varied studies of the problematic construction of contemporary identities from a literary and cultural perspective. This book covers transcendental, relevant and polemic topics like the difficulty of growing up, classist and interracial struggles, narratives of displacement and exile, queering the world, power politics and the individual.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Aída Díaz Bild: David Lodge and the Novel as a Mirror of the World s Heteroglossia - Tomás Monterrey: Queer Chrysalides in Tenerife: Radclyffe Hall and the Music of Eden - Marta González Acosta: «Striking to the Mind s Eye»: Shock, Pessimism, and Narration in Paul Golding s Work - Fernando Galván: Telling Lies: The Rhetoric of the «Othello Syndrome» in Abdulrazak Gurnah s Admiring Silence - María del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas: Reexamining Canons of Femininity: Zadie Smith s On Beauty - Ma Luz González Rodríguez: Blind Passages in Multicursal Labyrinths: P.K. Page s Poetic Journey - Juan Ignacio Oliva: «Polychromatic Disturbances»: Stories by South American Women Writers - Amy Kaminsky: Nation, Gender, and Exile: Narratives of Displacement and Meaning - Matilde Martín González: American Women s Poetry and the Self: A Poetics of Pluralism - Manuel Brito: Female Identity, Power, and Personal Taste: Burning Deck, Tinfish, and Avec - Juan José Cruz: «As Seen on TV»: American Documentaries and the Implosion of Reaganism - Nieves Pascual: Hungry Men or the Modern Art of Boredom: Franz Kafka, David Blaine and Michael Krasnow.mehr

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Autor

Juan Ignacio Oliva is Professor of Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and Head of the Center for Canadian Studies at the University La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain). He is the editor of Canadaria (Revista Canaria de Estudios Canadienses). Recently, he has been elected Member of the Advisory Board of EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture & Environment), Secretary of AEDEI (Spanish Association for Irish Studies) and committeeperson of AEEII (Spanish Association for India Studies).
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