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The Islamic Challenge
The voices in this book belong to legislators, local officials, doctors and engineers, educators and intellectuals, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most do not supportthe introduction of Islamic religious law in Europe - especially not its application to Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they want.This book is based on three hundred interviews with Eur...
Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine
The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other’s desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After all, the wolf or the Little Red Riding Hood, the monstrous killer or the unfortunate victim are but fictitious characters, mere shifting positions: they are “not me”—therefore, thanks to the will...
Papeles del crimen. Mujeres y violencia en la ficción criminal
El actual boom de la literatura y la cinematografía criminal incluye a un relevante número de autoras que, desde posiciones estéticas e ideológicas muy diversas, han reformulado de manera semejante las estructuras, las situaciones y, sobre todo, los personajes de este género de ficción. Han creado personajes de mujeres detectives, policías o juezas que mantienen una relación con la sociedad muy diferente de los modelos clásicos, a la vez que suscitan reflexiones sobre la vulnerabilidad social fruto en parte de la última crisis económica, y exploran nuevas formas de representar las violencias contra las mujeres y de las mujeres. Aún son pocos los estudios que indagan en estas violencias ficcionalizadas desde la perspectiva de género. Las contribuciones del presente volumen analizan la representación de la violencia en relación con las mujeres, víctimas o agresoras, en la narrativa literaria y fílmica, al tiempo que ofrecen respuestas al fenómeno más llamativo de la literatura popular del siglo XXI.
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Figures of the Migrant
This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts. Through studies that examine works in a range of art forms ‒ novels, theatre, poetry, creative non-fiction, documentary films and performance and video installations ‒ that evoke a variety of historical and (trans)national contexts, the volume focuses on the question of the roles of literature and the arts in representing migration. An important issue considered is the extent to which artistic figuration can act as a counterpoint to social discourse on migrants that often involves stereotypes and reductive views. The different contributions to the volume illustrate that literature and the arts can provide readers and viewers with a space for fluid knowledge production and affective expansion and that within that overarching function, artistic works play three main roles with regard to representing migration: undertaking a socio-political and cultural critique, presenting alternative views to stereotypes that highlight the singularity and complexity of the migrant and providing proposals for different futures.
Rewriting/Reprising in Literature
This volumes includes a series of 17 selected essays, preceded by a methodological introduction, whose purpose is to offer a fresh outlook on the question of rewriting-reprising. The argument, taking for granted the phenomenon of intertextuality, develops along three main axes: the first one reconsiders the already debated issue of authority on post-structuralist premises, arguing that the origin of a text is untraceable. The second looks at a phenomenon often associated with reprising, especially in a post-colonial context: trauma, whether individual or historical, in relation to creative repetition. The third axis offers a re-reading of the question of voice, introducing the notion of the ...
