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The Social Life of Memory
This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for ‘the social life of memory,’ the introduction discusses a particular research field of memory studies, elaborating an approach to memory in terms of social production and engagement. The Arab Spring is evoked to draw attention to new rifts within and between history and remembrance in the regions of North Africa and the Middle East. As authoritarian forms of governance are challenged, official panoramic narratives are confronted with a multiplicity of memories of violent pasts. The eight chapters trace personal and public inventories of violence, trauma, and testimony, addressing memory in cinema, in newspapers and periodicals, as an experience of public environments, through transnational and diasporic mediums, and amongst younger generations.
Making Strangers: Outsiders, Aliens and Foreigners
Studies on foreignness have increased substantially over the last two decades in response to what has been dubbed the migration/refugee crisis. Yet, they have focused on specific areas such as regions, periods, ethnic groups, and authors. Predicated on the belief that this so-called “twenty-first century problem” is in fact as old as humanity itself, this book analyzes cases based on both long-term historical perspectives and current occurrences from around the world. Bringing together an international group of scholars from Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, it examines a variety of examples and strategies, mostly from world literatures, ranging from Spain’s failed experience...
The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander
This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.
Francophone Afropean Literatures
This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relationships with European society, culture and history.
L'espace de l'eros
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Writing against Death
Much has been written on Simone de Beauvoir, one of France’s leading intellectual figures of the 20th century. The sheer volume of her autobiographical writings testifies to her indefatigable questioning of the nature of existence and her personal and public engagement in the world over the best part of a century. This study aims to re-evaluate her extensive autobiographical œuvre, exploring its place in relation to the French autobiographical canon, and in the light of recent theorisations of autobiography. It presents readings which engage critically with existentialism, feminist theory, and autobiography studies generally, in particular focusing on the question of ‘autothanatography...
Re-exploring Canadian Space
A variety of productions and representations of Canadian identities are the central theme that runs through this book. The different contributions explore imagined spaces by considering Canadian music, poetry and novels; they engage with political space by addressing various ways in which the people of Canada have made claims to different regions in the distant and recent past; and they address lived spaces, and their actual and symbolic meanings. It is an unusual book as it encompasses the writings by those studying the arts and literature as well as writings by social scientists, and it includes both English and French-speaking scholars. The richness that can be found in this multitude of perspectives and approaches to exploring Canadian space is characteristic of the way in which Canadian Studies is practiced nowadays. It is therefore an appropriate volume to celebrate 20 years of Canadian Studies in the Netherlands.
Le rivage des mythes
La 4e de couverture indique : «La Méditerranée fut pour les Hébreux la " mer des Philistins ", mer de l'Autre. Pour les Romains, elle devint un Mare Nostrum. Alors que les Sardes tournent résolument le dos aux flots, l'intérieur d'Ibiza est délaissé au profit des plages. La mer du Milieu, qui n'a rien de juste, oseille entre les statuts les plus divers. Maternelle chez Fernandez, qui en fait une mère Méditerranée, moins familière pour Morand, qui voit en elle la mer des Surprises, la Grande Bleue a marqué l'imaginaire de ses riverains et de tous ceux qui, un jour ou l'autre, ont eu le bonheur de la sillonner. Mais la Méditerranée, comme toutes les mers, n'est pas une simple étendue d'eau. Elle est rivage ; elle est même le Rivage des Mythes. Elle est en somme un admirable feuilleté temporel, dont chaque strate mérite d'être parcourue, dégustée. Dans ce volume, c'est à un voyage géocritique au centre de la mer que le lecteur est convié. D'Ulysse à Ulysse. D'Ithaque à Lisbonne.»
