Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Imaginary Europes

Literary and filmic representations of Europe from afar

Av Elisabeth Bekers, Maggie Ann Bowers, Sissy Helff

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2019-01-08
Mått: 174 x 246 x 6 mm
Vikt: 204 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 100
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780367030100

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Elisabeth Bekers is Professor of British and Postcolonial Literature at Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium. She researches literature from Africa and its diaspora, and currentlyfocuses on black British women’s writing. Her publications include the co-edited volumesTranscultural 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 ofPortsmouth, UK. Her research covers contemporary postcolonial studies, focusing particularlyon Native American studies and comparative multi-ethnic literatures of NorthAmerica. She is the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004). Her recent research has examinedthe 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 worldliterature, postcolonial and transcultural studies, visual culture, history, and politics. Herrecent book, Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction ofthe Diaspora (2012), is an overview of Indian diasporic women’s writing from around theworld.

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