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Ośmioletnia wychowanka szkółki niedzielnej drży na myśl, że Jezus żyje i może kryć się w najzwyklejszych przedmiotach. Kierowniczka oddziału bankowego po każdym orgazmie zapada w niepokojący sen, pełen osobliwych wizji. Początkujący poeta bez centa przy duszy nęka zajadłymi wierszami nieuczciwego sprzedawcę samochodów. Odrzucony kochanek po dwóch dekadach odnajduje dawną partnerkę na drugim brzegu kontynentu, by wręczyć jej nietypowy prezent. W dziewiętnastu opowiadaniach – wybranych specjalnie dla polskiego czytelnika – Gaston sprawnie miesza rejestry i garściami czerpie z różnych tradycji: gotyku amerykańskiego południa, realizmu spod znaku Alice Munro cz...
Diaspora and Literary Studies
Diaspora is an ancient term that gained broad new significance in the twentieth century. At its simplest, diaspora refers to the geographic dispersion of a people from a common originary space to other sites. It pulls together ideas of people, movement, memory, and home, but also troubles them. In this volume, established and newer scholars provide fresh explorations of diaspora for twenty-first century literary studies. The volume re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual intimacies and entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual-cultural texts to reimagine the genres, genders, and genealogies of diaspora. Literary mappings move across Africa, the Americas, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Pacific Islands, and through Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, Gulf, and Indian waters. Chapters reflect on diaspora as a key concept for migration, postcolonial, global comparative race, environmental, gender, and queer studies. The volume is thus an accessible and provocative account of diaspora as a vital resource for literary studies in a bordered world.
Beirut to Carnival City
Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage is a pioneering collection of commissioned critical essays on the work of the highly relevant Canadian writer. With four acclaimed novels and scattered short fictions, the Lebanese-born Hage has become a formidable literary force. The volume is an attempt to situate his fiction not only in the context of Lebanese diasporic writing, but that of trans-geographical literature, as well as to emphasize his progressive dissociation from the realist paradigm. The goal is also to correct an imbalance of critical attention by refocusing on Hage’s more recent, equally challenging work. The richness of Hage’s fiction is attested to by the diversity of thematic concerns and critical approaches. The volume reflects the worldwide range of Canada-oriented research, and places European perspectives alongside North American and Lebanese ones. Significantly, it features an original essay authored by Hage’s literary peer, Madeleine Thien. Contributors: F. Elizabeth Dahab, André Forget, Kyle Gamble, Syrine Hout, Ewa Macura-Nnamdi, Krzysztof Majer, Lisa Marchi, Judit Molnár, Alex Ramon, Rita Sakr, Dima Samaha, Madeleine Thien, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka
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Powieść laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury. Wielopokoleniowa saga o stracie, miłości i niepamięci osadzona w Afryce Wschodniej, na początku XX wieku. Ilyas jako dziecko uciekł z domu, a następnie został porwany przez żołnierza z Schutztruppe i stracił kontakt z bliskimi. Po latach wraca, ale rodzice już dawno nie żyją – udaje mu się jedynie odnaleźć siostrę. Afiya, wychowywana przez przybranych krewnych, doświadczyła przemocy i nie sądziła, że kiedykolwiek będzie zdolna do miłości. Khalifa tylko pozornie miał wpływ na swój los: zarówno praca, jak i żona zostały dla niego wybrane. Hamza, oddany w zastaw za długi, trafił do oddziału askarysów,...
Inclusion & Exclusion in/au Canada
The volume convenes English- and French-speaking Canadianists who share a broad reflection on issues of exclusion and inclusion in Canadian contexts. It is through historical, but also linguistic, cultural and literary perspectives that we can unveil and learn more about the particular instances of inclusion and exclusion. The volume offers a kaleidoscopic view of Canadian history, politics, literature, and culture. The collected essays provide a discussion on a number of contemporary Anglophone and Francophone literary works, the evaluation of Canadian language policy, the reflection upon the literary canon as well as challenges of literary translation in a bilingual country, the distinctness of Black Lives Matter Canada, and, last but not the least, the historical status of New France.
Raj
Wielowarstwowa, nieoczywista i piękna opowieść o Afryce, jakiej nie znamy, autorstwa laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury. Yusuf ma dwanaście lat i granice jego świata wyznaczają dom rodzinny oraz hotel, który prowadzi jego ojciec. Do czasu, kiedy z kolejną wizytą przybywa wuj Aziz – wędrowny kupiec i właściciel sklepu. Chłopiec wraz z wujem wyrusza w podróż, która, choć z przerwami, będzie trwała przez wiele lat. Yusuf jeszcze o tym nie wie. Nie ma też pojęcia, że został sprzedany za długi i jego beztroskie dzieciństwo właśnie się skończyło. Ta podróż to nie tylko droga przez nieznany ląd, ale też wyprawa w głąb siebie, która staje się uniwe...
No Better Home
No Better Home? brings together a unique combination of voices to question whether or not Canada is the best home that Jews have ever had.
The Auschwitz Sonderkommando
This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: collaboration, moral compromise and survival, resistance, representation, and the possibility of bearing witness. Their testimony however has mostly met with a reluctance to engage in depth with it. Moving from testimonies produced within the event, the Scrolls of Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando photographs, to testimonies given at trials and for video archives, and to the paintings of David Olère and the film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, this book demonstrates the importance of their witnessing in the post-war memory of the Holocaust, and provides vital new insights into the questions of representation, memory, gender, and the Shoah.
Kanade, di Goldene Medine?
Kanade, di Goldene Medine offers a broad study of its field, with equal attention to English- and French-language materials and contexts. The volume’s essays highlight the fundamental link between the culture and life of Canadian Jews and their Polish roots. This focus brings Yiddish to the fore, in essays focusing on the history of Canadian Yiddish literature, and the relevance of the language for contemporary Canadian Chasidic communities. However, essays in this volume also highlight the writings of contemporary authors, working both in French and English. Thus, the collection explores culture at the borderlands of three languages, with an eye for the link between New Worlds and Old. Ka...
Gothic Peregrinations
For over two hundred years, the Gothic has remained fixed in the European and American imaginations, steadily securing its position as a global cultural mode in recent decades. The globalization of Gothic studies has resulted in the proliferation of new critical concepts and a growing academic interest in the genre. Yet, despite its longevity, unprecedented expansion, and accusations of prescriptiveness, the Gothic remains elusive and without a straightforward definition. Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories looks at Gothic productions largely marginalized in the studies of the genre, including the European absorption of and response to the Gothic. This collectio...
