Peter lang 10 2021 (3 Ergebnisse)

Gebundener Originalpappband. Zustand: Wie neu. Auflage: 1. 178 Seiten Frisches und sauberes Exemplar. Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity construction of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon. The analysis of selected novels highlights a distinct historical slant with elements of generational memory, memory of places, rememory, and postmemory. The author introduces and develops the concept of post-immigrant ethnic fiction and identifies a mnemonic pattern characteristic of American post-immigrant ethnic and exile writing. I. Frameworks of Remembrance in Immigrant Narratives . 9 1.1 Types of Immigrant Narratives: Clarification of Terms . 9 1.2 Migration and Memory: Introductory Remarks. 10 1.3 Memory Boom of the 1990s-2010s. 11 1.4 Types and Formats of Memory. 15 1.5 Cultural Memory. 19 1.6 Generational Memory. 29 1.7 Memories are Small Islands in a Sea of Forgetting. 39 1.8 What Immigrants Remember. 45 1.9 Memory of Places. 49 IL The Need to Remember and the Right to Forget in Askold Melnyczuks Novels. 57 II. 1 A Ukrainian Voice in Ethnic American Fiction. 57 11.2 Memory and Identity in What Is Told by Askold Melnyczuk. 60 11.3 Frameworks of Remembrance and Forgetting in Ambassador of the Dead. 69 11.4 To Live and Forget and Remember. All at Once: Patterns of Memory in The House of Widows by Askold Melnyczuk. 84 III. Echoes of the War: Exile, Immigration, and Memory in Domnica Radulescu and Aleksandar Hemons Fiction. 109 III. 1 Landscape of Memory and Exile in Domnica Radulescus Novel Country of Red Azaleas. 109 III. 2 Remember to Understand: Memory, Identity, and History in Aleksandar Hemons novels Nowhere Man and The Lazarus Project. 138 Conclusion. 159 Bibliography. 167 Index of Names . 173 ISBN 9783631850787 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 305.…

hardcover. Zustand: Wie neu. Auflage: 1. 212 Seiten Frisches und sauberes Exemplar. Human imagination is saturated with monsters. They represent, in a number of ways, those that have been historically perceived as strangers to the human community. It is a game of alterities wherein female monsters have occupied a particularly relevant position. Women have been historically represented as the Other in this human/nonhuman dyad. In the present study nineteenth- and twentieth-century vampires and zombies narratives have guided the analysis of a contemporary neo-gothic artefact: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton. This book argues at the intersection of feminist literary analysis and cultural studies methodology, and it also considers queer notions of fluidity and performativity. The author sets out that Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter represents a twenty-first-century series questioning social norms and envisioning worlds of freedom. ISBN 9783631857205 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 346.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Wie neu. Auflage: 1. 222 Seiten Tadelloses, neuwertiges Ex. Reimagining the Family is the first book-length study of representations of lesbian mothering in French literature. Focusing on female-authored texts published between 1970 and 2013, the book explores how literature reflects, engages with and even anticipates the recent, highly charged debates on the rights of same-sex couples and parents in France. Centred around the notion of «reimagining», the book examines how literature interrogates the normative definition of the family as a heterosexual, biological unit. It discusses a range of themes, including the difficulty of reconciling lesbianism with mothering, the role of the father, the identity of the co-mother and issues of difference and equality. The corpus includes both well-known and previously unstudied authors, and covers a range of genres, from autobiography to popular fiction. Collectively, the texts offer privileged insights into the increasingly relevant experiences of lesbian mothers and illustrate the changing face of the family in twenty-first-century France. ISBN 9781788747714 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 328.…