Writing-between-worlds : transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode /
This book proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature. For millennia, literature from a wide variety of geocultural areas has gathered knowledge about life, about survival, and about living together, without...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
2016.
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| ISBN: | 9783110462876 3110462877 9783110462883 3110462885 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: What does literature know?
- Transit
- Mobile interworlds: toward transareal (literary) scholarship
- Figurations: Odysseus and the angel of history: the vectoral imagination of Shoa literature
- Relations: Caribbean islandworlds: about the fractal geometry of the literary island
- Incubations: A national literature without a fixed abode? fictions and frictions in twentieth-century Cuban literature
- Translations: In others' words: literary translation as writing-between-worlds
- Oscillations: Writing-other(wise) between worlds: about translingual writing in contemporary german-speaking literature
- Confrontations: The transareal worlds of the Arabamericas: chronicle of a clash foretold
- In(tro)spections: Voyages into the realm of the dead: border experiences of a literature after migration
- Configurations. Literature as knowledge-for-living, literary scholarship as science-for-living.