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Confronting Universalities
The universe is expanding, the world has gone global, and the US has launched a crusade to export the universal right to democracy to every part of the world. Under the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the concept of universality is making a remarkable comeback in aesthetic and political theory. The meaning of the world, however, seems more contested than ever. Some denounce it as the ideological guise of particular interests, others as the conceptual equivalent of totalitarianism. But a growing number maintain that universality is an indispensable notion for any genuinely critical aesthetics and politics. Confronting Universalites consists of 12 contributors that examine how cont...
World Literature, World Culture
In a global age where people, goods and cultural products transcend the boundaries of geography and temporality as never before, it is only natural that literary and cultural studies turn their attention to Goethe's nineteenth-century notion of a Weltliteratur. Offering their own Twenty-First Century perspectives - across generations, nationalities and disciplines - the contributors to this anthology explore the idea of world literatue for what it may add of new connections and itineraries to the study of literature and culture today. Covering a vast historical material from witness accounts of the fall of Constantinople to Hari Kunzru's contemporary representations of multicultural London, ...
Exploring Text and Emotions
Exploring Text and Emotions investigates the functions, values and effects of emotions in literature and the arts, fostering the affective turn in textual theory and analysis. Fifteen essays on various art works analyse how modern fiction, drama, theatre, poetry and film, as well as Greek tragedy, succeed in both expressing and suggesting a vast and nuanced array of emotions while provoking affective responses in readers and spectators. The volume focuses on the exemplary way in which literature and the arts act upon our minds and have a strong impact on our understanding of aesthetic, political and moral values, challenging, shaping and transforming culture. The volume also intends to show how seminal writers and works have anticipated contemporary theories of emotions and can contribute to their growth. Linking formal, aesthetic and cultural-studies approaches, and combining the latest developments in the affective sciences with the close reading of texts, the volume puts forward a new direction for the study of literature, arts, media and culture.
Caribbean Letters
How was the postal reform project in the Bourbon Monarchy conceived and implemented? Caribbean Letters delves into the intricate role of communication within the Spanish Monarchy during the Bourbon Reforms. You’ll discover how the 18th-century Spanish postal system navigated through power struggles and limitations, especially in Cartagena de Indias—a crucial hub where local and global interests converged. This book addresses key research questions on the impact of postal reforms on imperial governance and information circulation. With engaging anecdotes and rare historical data, Caribbean Letters provides a compelling narrative that reveals the complex and dynamic reality of postal communication in the Spanish Empire. Perfect for historians and enthusiasts of colonial studies.
Narratology in Practice
Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.
Mastering Emotions
Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose how emotions such as love, terror, happiness, and trust functioned as social and economic capital for slaveholders and enslaved people alike.
Staging Slavery
This international analysis of theatrical case studies illustrates the ways that theater was an arena both of protest and, simultaneously, racist and imperialist exploitations of the colonized and enslaved body. By bringing together performances and discussions of theater culture from various colonial powers and orbits—ranging from Denmark and France to Great Britain and Brazil—this book explores the ways that slavery and hierarchical notions of "race" and "civilization" manifested around the world. At the same time, against the backdrop of colonial violence, the theater was a space that also facilitated reformist protest and served as evidence of the agency of Black people in revolt. Staging Slavery considers the implications of both white-penned productions of race and slavery performed by white actors in blackface makeup and Black counter-theater performances and productions that resisted racist structures, on and off the stage. With unique geographical perspectives, this volume is a useful resource for undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the history of theater, nationalism and imperialism, race and slavery, and literature.
Verden på fransk
I 2007 blev der i den franske avis Le Monde optrykt et lille, men betydningsfuldt manifest med titlen "For en verdenslitteratur på fransk". Bag manifestet stod 44 franskskrivende forfattere, en af dem nobelprisvinderen i litteratur J.M.G. Le Clézio. De ønskede at gøre op med opfattelsen af, at fransksproget litteratur kun kunne udgå fra Paris. For Paris er nok hovedstad i Frankrig, men ikke centrum for hele den fransksprogede verden. Den frankofone verden strækker sig takket være Frankrigs fortid som kolonimagt ud over hele kloden. Det er derfor, at haitanske Dany Laferrière skriver på fransk om sit hjemland, og af samme grund, at Kateb Yacine og Yasmina Khadra bruger fransk til at ...
Nye franske verdener
Fransk litteratur ligner ikke sig selv. Konfronteret med globaliseringens forandringer har fransk kultur og litteratur de seneste 30 år været i en dyb krise, der har tvunget politikere, intellektuelle og forfattere til at skrive en ny fransk litteratur. En, der kan træde i stedet for den, der i århundreder har defineret den franske republik. I Nye franske verdener viser Mads Anders Baggesgaard, adjunkt og verdenslitterat ved Aarhus Universitet, hvordan den franske litteratur i dag eksisterer og fornyer sig på globale betingelser. I bogen følger han krisens spor på tværs af historiske forandringer, litterære traditioner, det globale bogmarked og en splittet fransk kulturpolitik, mens han trækker tråde mellem litteraturen og det franske samfund, Jonathan Littells Les Bienveillantes og Sarkozy, Michel Houellebecqs Soumission og terrorangrebene i Paris. Aktuelle forfattere reflekterer globaliseringens udfordringer og forandringer i deres værker, men hvordan kan vi i dag, spørger forfatteren, overhovedet skrive litteraturhistorie?
The Culture of Migration
Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history but today, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globalization, a higher percentage of people than ever before live outside their country of birth. Increased international migration has resulted in more movement of information, traditions and cultures. Migration acts as a catalyst: not only for social change, but also for the generation of new aesthetic phenomena. The Culture of Migration explores the ways in which culture and the arts have been transformed by migration in recent decades--and, in turn, how these cultural and aesthetic transformations have contributed to shaping our identities, politics and societies.Making an ...
