LEADER 04988nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910791847003321 005 20240209143539.0 010 $a1-282-99170-1 010 $a9786612991707 010 $a90-420-3252-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042032521 035 $a(CKB)2560000000061688 035 $a(EBL)668975 035 $a(OCoLC)707068806 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469008 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12195685 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469008 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10507442 035 $a(PQKB)11151293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668975 035 $a(OCoLC)701011997 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042032521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668975 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10447245 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL299170 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000061688 100 $a19860408d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aExit$b[electronic resource] $eendings and new beginnings in literature and life /$fedited by Stefan Helgesson 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 1 $aCross/cultures ;$v130 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3251-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tPreliminary Material --$tSome Thoughts on the Idea of Exit: in Recent African Narratives of Childhood /$rRichard K. Priebe --$tGeneration and Complicity: in Zoë Wicomb?s Playing in the Light /$rMaria Olaussen --$t?Let Me Tell You About Bekolo?s Latest Film, Les Saignantes, But First . . . ? /$rKenneth W. Harrow --$tTradition and Creativity: in Zakes Mda?s Cion /$rDavid Bell --$tPaton?s Discovery, Soyinka?s Invention /$rBernth Lindfors --$tWriting Out Imperialism?: A Note on Nationalism and Political Identity in the African-Owned Newspapers of Colonial Ghana /$rStephanie Newell --$tAfter Exit: Exile, Creativity, and the Risk of Translation /$rStefan Helgesson --$tAfrican Presences and Representations: in the Principality/Markgrafschaft of Bayreuth /$rEckhard Breitinger --$tTaking Flight: and the Libertarian Crow-Scarer /$rGerald Porter --$t?In my end is my beginning?: The Death of Virginia Woolf /$rCatherine Sandbach?Dahlström --$tFollowing the Race Track?: Swedish, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Canadian in Diamond Grill by Fred Wah /$rElisabeth Mårald --$tLiterature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation /$rJ. Hillis Miller --$t?Gazing into the future?: Beginnings, Endings, and Midpoints in Paul Muldoon?s Why Brownlee Left /$rLars?Håkan Svensson --$tExiting the Environmental Trap: Knowledge Regimes and the Third Phase of Environmental Policy /$rSverker Sörlin --$tThe End of the ?Earth? /$rWilly Bach --$tMyself as a Puff of Dust: A Ghost Story /$rJane Bryce --$tTIXE YLNO: or Redefining Identities /$rJanice Kulyk Keefer --$tContributors. 330 $aIf anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible, necessary or desirable. This collection of essays, which celebrates the achievement of the Swedish Africanist and postcolonial scholar Raoul Granqvist, deal with the broad theme of exit ? in the form of exile, displacement, suicide, endings and, indeed, beginnings. After all, ?In my end is my beginning? (T.S. Eliot). Childhood as exit rite in contemporary African literature (Camara Laye?s L?Enfant Noir and Ishmael Beah?s Long Way Gone ); the Cameroonian director Jean Pierre Bekolo?s controversial film Les Saignantes ; an early play by Wole Soyinka; Ghana during the First World War; Zakes Mda?s Cion ; proto-nationalist writing on the Gold Coast; passing in Zoë Wicomb?s Playing in the Light ; the exile of South African and Caribbean writers; translation theory in the global South; public representations of Africans in north-east Bavaria; oral poetry in rural England; Fred Wah?s Swedish-Chinese background in twentieth-century Canada; Toni Morrison?s Beloved and infanticide; the open endings of the poetry of Paul Muldoon; the suicide of Virginia Woolf; the viability of global environmental policies ? these are some of the topics that this book, in defiance of neat disciplinary boundaries, addresses. The closing section, ?Voicing the Exit,? transcends the academic format with its evocative literary representations of the experience of exit (in Tanzania, Uganda, Ukrainian Canada and elsewhere). 410 0$aCross/Cultures$v130. 606 $aLife 606 $aQuality of life 615 0$aLife. 615 0$aQuality of life. 676 $a809.93354 701 $aHelgesson$b Stefan$01090560 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791847003321 996 $aExit$93691205 997 $aUNINA