Gender And Allegory In Transamerican Fiction And Performance

Author : K. Sugg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230616219

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Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance by K. Sugg Pdf

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance explores how allegory can be used to resolve the "problem" of identity in both political theory and literary studies. Examining fiction and performance from Zoé Valdés and Cherríe Moraga to Def Poetry Jam and Carmelita Tropicana, Sugg suggests that the representational oscillations of allegory can reflect and illuminate the fraught dynamics of identity discourses and categories in the Americas. Using a wide array of theoretical and aesthetic sources from the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this book argues for the crucial and potentially transformative role of feminist cultural production in transamerican public cultures.

Author : Dalia M.A. Gomaa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137496263

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The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature by Dalia M.A. Gomaa Pdf

In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America.

Author : Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478005582

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Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey Pdf

In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the violence of capitalism, militarism, and the postcolonial state. DeLoughrey examines the work of a wide range of artists and writers—including poets Kamau Brathwaite and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, and authors Keri Hulme and Erna Brodber—whose work addresses Caribbean plantations, irradiated Pacific atolls, global flows of waste, and allegorical representations of the ocean and the island. In examining how island writers and artists address the experience of finding themselves at the forefront of the existential threat posed by climate change, DeLoughrey demonstrates how the Anthropocene and empire are mutually constitutive and establishes the vital importance of allegorical art and literature in understanding our global environmental crisis.

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196314

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The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 by John N. Duvall Pdf

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

Author : Maureen Ihrie,Salvador Oropesa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1509 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313080838

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World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes] by Maureen Ihrie,Salvador Oropesa Pdf

Containing roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. Providing a thorough introduction to Spanish-language literature worldwide and across time is a tall order. However, World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. This encyclopedia describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe. All countries that produce literature in Spanish in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia are represented, covering both canonical authors and emerging contemporary writers and trends. Underrepresented writings—such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism—also appear. While writings throughout the centuries are covered, those of the 20th and 21st centuries receive special consideration.

Author : Katherine E. Sugg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476667850

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Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture by Katherine E. Sugg Pdf

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics and dystopian world orders fill our screens--typically with a singular figure or tenacious group tasked with saving or salvaging the world. Why are stories of End Times crisis so popular with audiences? And why is the hero so often a white man who overcomes personal struggles and major obstacles to lead humanity toward a restored future? This book examines the familiar trope of the hero and the recasting of contemporary anxieties in films like The Walking Dead, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Some have familiar roots in Western cultural traditions yet many question popular assumptions about heroes and heroism to tell new and fascinating stories about race, gender and society and the power of individuals to change the world.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786485987

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Leslie Marmon Silko by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

This companion, appropriate for the lay reader and researcher alike, provides analysis of characters, plots, humor, symbols, philosophies, and classic themes from the writings and tellings of Leslie Marmon Silko, the celebrated novelist, poet, memoirist and Native American wisewoman. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Silko's multiracial heritage, life and works, followed by a family tree of the Leslie-Marmon families that clarifies relationships of the people who fill her autobiographical musings. In the main text, 87 A-to-Z entries combine literary and cultural commentary with generous citations from primary and secondary sources and comparisons to classic and popular literature. Back matter includes a glossary of Pueblo terms and a list of 43 questions for research, writing projects, and discussion. This much-needed text will aid both scholars and casual readers interested in the work and career of the first internationally-acclaimed native woman author in the United States.

Author : Antonio Barrenechea
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826357595

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America Unbound by Antonio Barrenechea Pdf

This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. The encyclopedic novel has particular generic characteristics that serve these writers as a vehicle for the reincorporation of hemispheric histories. Starting with an examination of Moby-Dick as precursor, Barrenechea shows how this narrative genre allows Fuentes, Poulin, and Silko to reflect the interconnected world of today, as well as to dramatize indigenous and colonial values in their narratives. His close attention to written documents, visual representations, and oral traditions in these encyclopedic novels sheds light on their comparative cultural relations and the New World from pole to pole. This study amplifies the scope of “America” across cultures and languages, time and tradition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106020240252

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Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Beth Tierney-Tello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0585065063

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Allegories of Transgression and Transformation by Mary Beth Tierney-Tello Pdf

Author : Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034787866

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Gender and Representation by Lou Charnon-Deutsch Pdf

Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that these works are instead a complex exploration of male identity. Decoding the gender ideology of women's roles, discourse, and representations, Charnon-Deutsch uncovers in the novels multiple configurations of androcentricity as well as voyeuristic tendencies, which she interprets as a means of mastering what is threatening to the male psyche.

Author : Narayan Wagle
Publisher : Publication Nepalaya
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789937905879

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Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle Pdf

Palpasa Café tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9/11. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.

Author : Junot Diaz
Publisher : Faber Stories
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571355994

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The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Diaz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021489281

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Ourika. [Translated into English.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sharon Stockton
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814210185

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The Economics of Fantasy by Sharon Stockton Pdf

The author examines the evolution of the rape narrative in twentieth-century literature: What accounts for the persistence of the old story of male power and violence, and female passivity and penetrability? How has the story changed over the course of the twentieth century? She investigates the manner in which the violation of the female body serves as a metaphor for a synthesis of masculinity and political economy.