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Figures of Transcontinental Multilingualism
This volume investigates outstanding figures and configurations of literary and cultural multilingualism on a transcontinental and on a global scale. Its first focus is on the both subcontinental and transcontinental Indies, on the oxymoronic figure of East West India and on the stirring 'relations through words' in Luso-Afro-Indian, Anglo-Indian, and Indo-European areas. The second focus is on the cross-cultural configuration of East and West shaped by some striking Sino-European and Sino-American events in early modern and modern times. A third issue concerns the glocal and globoglot 'people of paper' in a contemporary Californian town, and, lastly, the all-embracing, all-devouring ouroboros and other multi-lingual ophidians. (Series: poethik polyglott, Vol. 4) [Subject: Linguistics, Multilingualism]
Joseph Zobel
Joseph Zobel is one of the best-known Francophone Caribbean authors, and is internationally recognised for his novel La Rue Cases-Nègres (1950). Through a series of close readings, with supporting references drawn from his published short stories, poetry and diaries, Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel generates new insights into Zobel's highly original decision to develop Négritude's project of affirming pride in black identity by turning to the novel.
The Cross-Cultural Legacy
This volume pays tribute to the formidable legacy of Hena Maes–Jelinek (1929–2008), a pioneering postcolonial scholar who was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium. Along with a few moving and affectionate pieces retracing the life and career of this remarkable and deeply human intellectual figure, the collection contains poems, short fiction, and metafiction. The bulk of the book consists of contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom Hena Maes–Jelinek devoted much of her career. Other writers treated include Ben Okri, Leone Ross, Kamau Brathwaite, Jamaica Kincaid, Peter Carey, Murray ...
Son Of Africa
Follow the lives of young Black men living in America, the United Kingdom and Canada today. What's it like to be young, Black and male as the Age of Obama comes to an end ? What is the Black male response to open racism following the shocking election of Donald Trump ? How do straight Black men, gay Black men and bisexual Black men relate to one another ? What's the modern Black male view on Black Feminism ? Watch the young men in these stories as they navigate university life, dating, sexuality, friendship, politics and work life in a changing world that seems set up against them from the get-go. Stories of modern young Black men's struggles and triumphs, of hope fiercely brought back from the brink of despair...
Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean
Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory, and public life through a specific site, the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and focuses on two mutually elucidating terms: hunger and irony. Reading these concepts together helps elucidate irony’s creative potential and limits. If hunger gives irony purchase by anchoring it in particular historical and material conditions, irony also gives a literature and politics of hunger a means for moving beyond a given situation, for pushing through the inertias of history and culture.
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Monsieur Toussaint/Misyé Tousen
Toussaint Louverture, le Spartacus noir, héros de la révolution populaire haïtienne, représente un modèle pour l’humanité. Cet ancien esclave chemine, entre paradoxes et clairvoyances, à travers les chemins sinueux de la liberté. Monsieur Toussaint, c’est l’Histoire, la tragédie dans sa part de lumière, de puissance et d’errance. Édouard Glissant revisite Toussaint, évoquant la légende mais surtout ce qu’il appelle la vision prophétique du passé.
The Record Collector
"A magazine for collectors of recorded vocal art" (varies).
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition. Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures (i.e., authored written works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish). For a tale to be included, Ulrich Marzolph considered two criteria: that the tale originates from or at least was transmitted by a Middle Eastern source, and that it was recorded from a Western narrator's oral pe...
