Reconstructing hybridity [[electronic resource] ] : post-colonial studies in transition / / edited by Joel Kuortti and Jopi Nyman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451852003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007
• ISBN: 94-012-0389-X; 1-4294-8124-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
• Collana: Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; ; 51
• Altri autori (Persone): KuorttiJoel; NymanJopi <1966->
• Disciplina: 809.933552
• Soggetti: Cultural fusion in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Hybridity Today / Joel Kuortti and Jopi Nyman -- Hybridity and Cultural Rights: Inventing Global Citizenship / David Huddart -- White Fatigue, or, Supplementary Notes on Hybridity / Sabine Broeck -- Postcolonial Desire: Mimicry, Hegemony, Hybridity / Dimple Godiwala -- As a Tupi-Indian, Playing the Lute: Hybridity as Anthropophagy / Jeroen Dewulf -- Strategic Hybridity: Some Pacific Takes on Postcolonial Theory / Paul Sharrad -- From Nostalgia to Postalgia: Hybridity and Its Discontents in the Work of Paul Gilroy and the Wachowski Brothers / Andrew Blake -- Hybrid Constructions: Native Autobiography and the Open Curves of Cultural Hybridity / Zoe Trodd -- The Necessity and Impossibility of Being Mixed-Race in Asian American Literature / Sheng-mei Ma -- The Hybridity of the Asian American Subject in Cynthia Kadohata’s The Floating World / Jopi Nyman -- Problematic Hybrid Identity in the Diasporic Writings of Jhumpa Lahiri / Joel Kuortti -- The Hybrid State: Hanif Kureishi and Thatcher’s Britain / Andrew Hammond -- Performing British Hybridity: Fix Up and Fragile Land / Valerie Kaneko Lucas -- Subaltern Envy? Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh / Samir Dayal -- Postethnicity and Postcommunism in Hanif Kureishi’s Gabriel’s Gift and Salman ; Rushdie’s Fury / Mita Banerjee -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with the role of hybridity in a variety of literary and cultural phenomena in geographical settings ranging from the Pacific to native North America. The collection pays particular attention to questions of hybridity, migrancy and diaspora.

Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger : an introduction / / Roy K. Gibson and Ruth Morello [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461244903321
• Autore: Gibson Roy K.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-107-22564-7; 1-139-33404-2; 1-280-39386-6; 9786613571786; 1-139-33741-6; 1-139-33986-9; 1-139-34144-8; 1-139-33654-1; 1-139-33828-5; 1-139-02474-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 876/.01
• Soggetti: Letter writing, Latin - History - To 1500
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Reading a life: Letters, Book 1 -- 2. Reading a book: Letters, Book 6 -- 3. Epistolary models: Cicero and Seneca -- 4. Pliny's elders and betters: the Elder Pliny, Vestricius Spurinna, Corellius Rufus, Verginius Rufus (and Silius Italicus) -- 5. Pliny's peers: reading for the addressee -- 6. Otium: how to manage leisure -- 7. Reading the villa letters: 9.7, 2.17, 5.6 -- 8. The grand design: how to read the collection -- Appendix 1. A Pliny timeline, and the great Comum inscription -- Appendix 2. Letters 1-9: catalogue of contents and addressees -- Appendix 3. Popular topics in the Letters: bibliographical help -- Appendix 4. Index of main characters in the Letters.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolographical tradition dominated by Cicero and Seneca. Chapters 4 to 7 study thematic letter cycles within the collection, including those on Pliny's famous country villas and his relationships with Pliny the Elder and Tacitus. The final chapter focuses on the 'grand design' which unifies and structures the collection. Four detailed appendices give invaluable historical and scholarly context, including a helpful timeline for Pliny's life and career, detailed bibliographical help on over 30 popular topics in Pliny's letters and a summary of the main characters mentioned in the Letters.