Genealogical fictions : cultural periphery and historical change in the modern novel / / Jobst Welge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459578203321
• Autore: Welge Jobst <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4214-1436-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/9355
• Soggetti: European fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; European fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Brazilian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Brazilian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Families in literature; Social change in literature; Social change - Europe; Social change - Brazil; Genealogy - Social aspects; Literature and history; 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: Introduction -- Periphery and Genealogy in the Novel of the Celtic Fringe -- Progress and Pessimism in the Sicilian Family Novel -- National and Genealogical Crisis in Spain -- Nature, Nation, and De-/Regeneration in the Regional Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazan -- The Novel of Portuguese Decline: Dissolution and Disillusion in Eca de Queiros' Os Maias -- Machado de Assis' Esau e Jaco and the Problem of Historical Representation -- The Last of the Line: Regional Genealogies/Geographies -- Death of a Prince, Birth of a Nation: G. Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo -- Epilogue: The Perspective from the End.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In this truly comparative study of 19th and 20th-century literature, ; Jobst Welge argues that there is a "deep structure" to certain novels of this period that centers on the idea of genealogy and family history. Welge examines British, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian novels that share a "genealogical narrative" featuring stories of familial decline. Stories of families in crisis, Welge argues, reflect the experience of historical and social change among groups at the periphery of society. Though geographically and temporally diverse, the novels Welge considers all demonstrate a relation among family and national history, genealogical succession, generational experience, as well as social change and modernization. Welge links private and public histories, and also integrates detailed accounts of various literary fields across the globe. In combining theories of the novel, recent discussions of cultural geography, and new approaches to genealogical narratives, this study addresses a significant part of European (and, partly, Latin American) literary history in which texts from different "national" cultures illuminate each other in unsuspected ways and reveal the repetition, as well as the variation, among them"--; "Taking its cue from recent theories of literary geography and fiction, Genealogical Fictions argues that narratives of familial decline shape the history of the modern novel, as well as the novel's relationship to history. Stories of families in crisis, Jobst Welge argues, reflect the experience of historical and social change in regions or nations perceived as "peripheral." Though geographically and temporally diverse, the novels Welge considers all demonstrate a relation among family and national history, genealogical succession, and generational experience, along with social change and modernization. Welge's wide-ranging comparative study focuses on the novels of the late nineteenth century, but it also includes detailed analyses of the pre-Victorian origin of the genealogical-historical novel and the evolution of similar themes in twentieth-century literature. Moving through time, he uncovers often-unsuspected novelistic continuities and international transformations and echoes, from Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, published in 1800, to G. Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 book Il Gattopardo.By revealing the "family resemblance" of novels from Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, this volume shows how genealogical narratives take on special significance in contexts of cultural periphery. Welge links private and public histories, while simultaneously integrating detailed accounts of various literary fields across the globe. In combining theories of the novel, recent discussions of cultural geography, and new approaches to genealogical narratives, Genealogical Fictions addresses a significant part of European and Latin American literary history in which texts from different national cultures illuminate each other in unsuspected ways and reveal the repetition, as well as the variation, among them. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel"--

Indians playing Indian : multiculturalism and contemporary Indigenous art in North America / / Monika Siebert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787446803321
• Autore: Siebert Monika <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8173-8798-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Classificazione: ART041000LIT004060SOC021000
• Disciplina: 704.03/97
• Soggetti: Indian arts - North America; Arts and society - United States; Arts and society - Canada; Indians of North America - Intellectual life; Indians of North America - Canada - Intellectual life; United States Ethnic relations; Canada Ethnic relations
• 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: Introduction: Indigeneity and Multicultural Misrecognition -- Indigeneity and the Dialectics of Recognition at the National Museum of the American Indian -- Atanarjuat and the Ideological Work of Indigenous Filmmaking -- Palimpsestic Images : Contemporary American Indian Digital Fine Art and the Ethnographic Photo Archive -- Of Turtles, Snakes, Bones, and Precious Stones : Jimmie Durham's Indices of Indigeneity -- Fictions of the Gruesome Authentic in LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker -- Conclusion: Unsettling Misrecognition.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In Indians Playing Indian, Monika Siebert explores the appropriation, or misappropriation, of Native American cultural heritage for political and commercial ends, and the innovative ways in which indigenous artists in a range of media have responded to these developments. Contemporary indigenous people in North America confront a unique predicament. As legal and diplomatic practice in the early twenty first century returns to the recognition of their status as citizens of historic sovereign nations, popular culture continues to depict them as cultural ; minorities on the par with other ethnic Americans. This popular misperception of indigeneity as culture rather than as a historically developed political status sustains the myth of America as a refuge to the world's immigrants and a home to successful multicultural democracies. But it fundamentally misrepresents indigenous people who have experienced a history of colonization rather than a tradition of immigration on the continent. Contemporary indigenous cultural production is caught up in this phenomenon of multicultural misrecognition as well. The current flowering of indigenous literature, cinema, and visual arts is typically taken as evidence that Canada and the United States have successfully broken with their colonial pasts to become thriving nations of many cultures, where Native Americans, along other minorities, enjoy full freedom to represent their cultural difference"--