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Imaginary Europes: Literary and filmic representations of Europe from afar de Elisabeth Bekers

Imaginary Europes: Literary and filmic representations of Europe from afar

Editat de Elisabeth Bekers, Maggie Ann Bowers, Sissy Helff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 ian 2019
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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ISBN-13: 9780367030100
ISBN-10: 0367030101
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction – Imaginary Europes, phantoms of the past, conceptions of the future?  1. Fragile balance: Imaginary Europes, transcultural aesthetics and discourses of European identity in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse  2. British imaginings of a European periphery: Roger Scruton, Michael Palin and Michael Booth in/on Finland  3. Bursting the bubble: Mythical Englishness, then and now  4. Wanton and sensuous in the Musée du Quai Branly: Gerald Vizenor’s cosmoprimitivist visions of France  5. Asia’s Europes: Anti-colonial attitudes in the novels of Ondaatje and Shamsie  6. Long distance Afrikaners: Afrikaans literature and dislocated identity in a European context  7. Writing back or writing off? Europe as "tribe" and "traumascape" in works by Caryl Phillips and Christos Tsiolkas 

Notă biografică

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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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