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Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage: Cross/Cultures, cartea 212

Krzysztof Majer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 dec 2019
Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage is a pioneering collection of commissioned critical essays on the work of the highly relevant Canadian writer. With four acclaimed novels and scattered short fictions, the Lebanese-born Hage has become a formidable literary force. The volume is an attempt to situate his fiction not only in the context of Lebanese diasporic writing, but that of trans-geographical literature, as well as to emphasize his progressive dissociation from the realist paradigm. The goal is also to correct an imbalance of critical attention by refocusing on Hage’s more recent, equally challenging work. The richness of Hage’s fiction is attested to by the diversity of thematic concerns and critical approaches. The volume reflects the worldwide range of Canada-oriented research, and places European perspectives alongside North American and Lebanese ones. Significantly, it features an original essay authored by Hage’s literary peer, Madeleine Thien.

Contributors: F. Elizabeth Dahab, André Forget, Kyle Gamble, Syrine Hout, Ewa Macura-Nnamdi, Krzysztof Majer, Lisa Marchi, Judit Molnár, Alex Ramon, Rita Sakr, Dima Samaha, Madeleine Thien, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004417298
ISBN-10: 900441729X
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Cross/Cultures


Notă biografică

Krzysztof Majer, Ph.D. (2008) is Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland. He has published on Canadian literature, North American Jewish culture and intermediality. He is also a translator of literature (e.g Kerouac, Ginsberg, Chabon, deWitt, Gaston and Herr).

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Acknowledgments
Note on Contributors

Introduction “Let’s Not Belong”: Situating Rawi Hage’s Elusive Fictions
Krzysztof Majer
Prologue “No Condition Is Permanent”: the Fictions of Rawi Hage and Ma Jian
Madeleine Thien

Part 1
Homelands/Cityscapes

1 Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places: the Various Lebanons of De Niro’s Game
Syrine Hout
2 The Body and the City: Race, Sexuality and Urban Space in Carnival
Alex Ramon
3 The Psycho-Spatial Continuum in Cockroach
Judit Molnár

Part 2
Justice/Rights

4 Expanding the Space of Human Rights in Literature, Reclaiming Literature as a Human Right: Cockroach and Carnival
Rita Sakr
5 The Vengeful Refugee: Justice and Violence in Cockroach
André Forget
6 “To Roam a Borderless World”: the Poetics of Movement and Marginality in Carnival
F. Elizabeth Dahab

Part 3
Languages/Narratives
7 A Political Representation of the Lebanese Civil War: De Niro’s Game as Minor Literature
Kyle Gamble
8 Cockroach: Compassion, Confession and “Wonderful Stories”
Ewa Macura-Nnamdi
9 “Not Settling for Half the Story”: Speech, Fantasy and Empowerment in Cockroach
Dima Samaha

Part 4
Bodies/Grotesques
10 The Alchemy of Rawi Hage’s Fiction: Transmuting Frozen Indifference into a Desire for Change
Lisa Marchi
11 “The Commotion of the Tangible”: Gravity and Levity in Carnival
Krzysztof Majer
12 Angels and Demons: Images of Women in Cockroach
Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka
Epilogue Beirut Hellfire Society: Beyond the Carnivalesque
Krzysztof Majer

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Index