Writing Along Broken Lines

Author : Otto Heim
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1869401824

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Writing Along Broken Lines by Otto Heim Pdf

Covering the two decades from 1972, Swiss scholar Otto Heim presents detailed readings of the novels and short fiction by Heretaunga Pat Baker, Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Bruce Stewart, J. C. Sturm, Apirana Taylor, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. His book places the fiction by Maori writers in the context of a culture of survival and traces its textual engagement with violence between empathy and sacrifice, from the privacy of domestic violence to the public arenas of systemic violence and war. He argues that out of this confrontation with violence emerges a distinctive ethnic world view created by the construction of individual experience, the development of an ideological stance and the expression of a spiritual orientation. Heim's analysis shows works of fiction by contemporary Maori writers as challenging explorations of the constraints placed on the literary imagination by the urgent facts of the human condition and the imperatives of culture.

Author : Raluca L. Radulescu,Edward Donald Kennedy
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132579082

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Broken Lines by Raluca L. Radulescu,Edward Donald Kennedy Pdf

The essays in this collection explore the genealogical literature of late-medieval Britain and France in relation to issues of identity, the transmission of power, and cultural, socio-political and economic developments. They give the reader a complex understanding of genealogical literature and its relationships with other genres.

Author : Paul Smethurst,Julia Kuehn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137457257

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New Directions in Travel Writing Studies by Paul Smethurst,Julia Kuehn Pdf

This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.

Author : Anna Rutherford,European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042023345

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Bodies and Voices by Anna Rutherford,European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference Pdf

The articles investigate representations in literature, both by the colonizers and colonized. Many deal with the effect the dominant culture had on the self image of native inhabitants. They cover areas on all continents that were colonized by European countries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712341763

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On-line English 1 Tm' 2005 Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michelle Keown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199229130

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Pacific Islands Writing by Michelle Keown Pdf

Beginning with an overview of European representations of the Pacific, Michelle Keown presents a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific from the late 1960s through to the new millennium, focusing mainly on writing in English, but also exploring the growing corpus of francophone and hispanophone Pacific writing.

Author : Michelle Keown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134423682

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Postcolonial Pacific Writing by Michelle Keown Pdf

This major new interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Drawing on anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and medicine, Postcolonial Pacific Writing develops an innovative postcolonial framework specific to the literatures and cultures of this region.

Author : James Hunt
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1711669709

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Broken Lines by James Hunt Pdf

It's been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. Whatever shred of humanity is left in people is slowly dwindling away. Gangs are forming, people are starving, and the whole country is in a free-for-all.Accompanied by his neighbor, Nelson, Mike leaves Pittsburgh and heads to his family's cabin in Ohio. For Mike the only thing worse than not making it to the cabin is the fear of his family not being there when he does.

Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108704

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Encyclopedia of British Writers by Christine L. Krueger Pdf

This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

Author : Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Gina Wisker
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042029354

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Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Gina Wisker Pdf

This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modem and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA , and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites of passage derived from the work of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. Collectively, the essays suggest that women's writing and women's experiences from diverse cultures go beyond any straightforward notion of a threefold structure of separation, transition, and incorporation. Some essays include discussion of traditional rites of passage such as birth, motherhood, marriage, death, and bereavement; others are interested in exploring less traditional, more fluid, and/or problematic rites such as abortion, living with HI V/AIDS, and coming into political consciousness. Contributors seek ways of linking writing on rites of passage to feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theories which foreground margins, borders, and the outsider. The three opening essays explore the work of the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, whose groundbreaking work explored taboo subjects such as infanticide and incest. A wide range of other essays focus on writers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. including Jean Rhys, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Jean Arasanayagam, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, and Eva Sallis. Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of postcolonial and modern and contemporary women's writing, and to students on literature and women's studies courses who want to study women's writing from a cross-cultural perspective and from different theoretical positions. Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo is Head of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research focus is on African literature (particularly Zimbabwean), contemporary women's writing, and postcolonial cinemas. Gina Wisker is Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature at the University of Brighton, where she teaches literature, is the head of the centre for learning and teaching, and pursues her research interests in postcolonial women's writing.

Author : George Stade,Karen Karbiener
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116891

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present by George Stade,Karen Karbiener Pdf

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410340184

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A Study Guide for Patricia Grace's "A Way of Talking" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Patricia Grace's "A Way of Talking," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Hafid Gafaiti
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803224650

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Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World by Hafid Gafaiti Pdf

The dissolution of the French Empire and the ensuing rush of immigration have led to the formation of diasporas and immigrant cultures that have transformed French society and the immigrants themselves. Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World examines the impact of this postcolonial immigration on identity in France and in the Francophone world, which has encompassed parts of Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Immigrants bear cultural traditions within themselves, transform “host” communities, and are, in turn, transformed. These migrations necessarily complicate ideals of national literature, culture, and history, forcing a reexamination and a rearticulation of these ideals. Exploring a variety of texts informed by these transnational conceptions of identity and space, the contributors to this volume reveal the vitality of Francophone studies within a broad range of disciplines, periods, and settings. They remind us that the idea and reality of Francophonie is not a late twentieth-century phenomenon but something that grows out of long-term interactions between colonizer and colonized and between peoples of different nationalities, ethnicities, and religions. Truly interdisciplinary, this collection engages conceptions of identity with respect to their physical, geographic, ethnic, and imagined realities.

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Author : Melissa Kennedy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401200561

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Striding Both Worlds by Melissa Kennedy Pdf

Striding Both Worlds illuminates European influences in the fiction of Witi Ihimaera, Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost Māori writer, in order to question the common interpretation of Māori writing as displaying a distinctive Māori world-view and literary style. Far from being discrete endogenous units, all cultures and literatures arise out of constant interaction, engagement, and even friction. Thus, Māori culture since the 1970s has been shaped by a long history of interaction with colonial British, Pakeha, and other postcolonial and indigenous cultures. Māori sovereignty and renaissance movements have harnessed the structures of European modernity, nation-building, and, more recently, Western global capitalism, transculturation, and diaspora – contexts which contest New Zealand bicultural identity, encouraging Māori to express their difference and self-sufficiency. Ihimaera’s fiction has been largely viewed as embodying the specific values of Māori renaissance and biculturalism. However, Ihimaera, in his techniques, modes, and themes, is indebted to a wider range of literary influences than national literary critique accounts for. In taking an international literary perspective, this book draws critical attention to little-known or disregarded aspects such as Ihimaera’s love of opera, the extravagance of his baroque lyricism, his exploration of fantasy, and his increasing interest in taking Māori into the global arena. In revealing a broad range of cultural and aesthetic influences and inter-references commonly seen as irrelevant to contemporary Māori literature, Striding Both Worlds argues for a hitherto frequently overlooked and undervalued depth and complexity to Ihimaera’s imaginary. The present study argues that an emphasis on difference tends to lose sight of fiction’s capacity to appreciate originality and individuality in the polyphony of its very form and function. In effect, literary negotiation of Māori sovereign space takes place in its forms rather than in its content: the uniqueness of Māori literature is found in the way it uses the common tools of literary fiction, including language, imagery, the text’s relationship to reality, and the function of characterization. By interpeting aspects of Ihimaera’s oeuvre for what they share with other literatures in English, Striding Both Worlds aims to present an additional, complementary approach to Māori, New Zealand, and postcolonial literary analysis.