UID:
almahu_9949386167702882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 264 pages)
ISBN:
9781000036039
,
9781003005889
,
1003005888
,
1000036030
,
9781000035988
,
1000035980
,
1000028194
,
9781000028195
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 45
Content:
Through specific and rigorous analysis of contemporary literary texts, this book shows how writers from inside effected communities portray indigeneity, displacement, and trauma. In a world of increasing global inequality, this study aims to demonstrate how literature, and the study of it, can effect positive social change, notably in the face of global environmental, economic, and social injustice. This collection brings together a diverse and compelling array of voices from academics leading their fields around the world, to pioneer a new approach to literary analysis anchored in engagement with our changing world.
Note:
Socioliterature : stories as medicine -- Part 1. Migration. Dystopic dissonance : migration and alienation in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the dreamers -- "Tear down this wall" : borders, limits, and national belonging in South Asian postcolonial literature -- Bhanu Kapil's schizophrene poetics : disability, dispossession, and diaspora -- Linda Lê : a literature of displacement -- Languages at war in Latin American women writers -- They won't take me alive : feminist histories and literary journalism in El Salvador -- Part 2. Indigeneity. Dreams in a time of dystopic colonialism : Cherie Dimaline's The marrow thieves and Louise Erdrich's Future home of the living god -- Indigenous libretto and aural memory : forms of translation in The sun dance and El circo anahuac -- Not lost : "We are people of the land. We are clay people, people of the mounds" -- Writing memory, practicing resistance : history and memory in Easterine Kire's novels -- Women's bodies in indigenous literatures : a comparative analysis of contemporary novels from three continents -- Part 3. Trauma. Magical combat in Central Africa : Kim Nguyen's War witch -- From bearing to burying : enacting embodied memories of Darfur genocide in the poetry of Emtithal Mahmoud -- Masculine failure : rape culture and intergenerational trauma in Junot Díaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao -- The technology of anguish : (re)imagining post-9/11 trauma in Tamora Pierce's Fantasy universes -- Women with swords : reinvention of female warriors in contemporary Chinese women's writings.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367438011
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367438012
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003005889
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003005889
