Contested identities : literary negotiations in time and place : selected essays from the fourteenth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, Pécs University, 20-24 June 2012 / / edited by Roger Nicholson, Claudia Marquis and Gertrud Szamosi

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.93353
• Soggetto topico: Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Metamorphosis in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): NicholsonRoger; MarquisClaudia; SzamosiGertrud
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Postcolonialism, Celticity, and the nation-state: interrogating old and new multiculturalisms in Europe and beyond / Silke Stroh -- Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee: Nobel laureates in their place and time / Michael Chapman -- The testament of Gideon Mack: jangling the universal nerve? / Anne McKim -- The power of storytelling: bird tales by Shakespeare and Hungarians / Karoline Szatek-Tudor -- Writing (non)fiction: on Polish problems with life-writing / Robert Kusek -- From Misanthrope to Miseryguts: Liz Lochhead's naturalization of Molière -- Medieval world, modern world: the making of a nation. The Welsh Mabinogion in modern adaptations / Carlos Mingo -- "Hamelie language" and Translatio Studii in Robert Henryson's Moral fables / Robert Nicholson -- Home thoughts from abroad: slavery and cultural memory in contemporary Caribbean writing / Claudia Marquis -- Contemporary female authors imagining the postcolonial nation: two examples / Annie Gagiano -- Reconstructing the "hostile space": transnational identities and imaginary geographies in Aboulela's The translator and Minaret / Ileana Dimitriu -- Cartographic sport/throttled stories: re-reading 1947 India/Pakistan / Shreya Bhattacharji -- "We just are": narrative construction of liminality in bidirectional assimilation among second- and third-generation Hungarian-Americans / Monika Fodor -- Identity on board: crossing the Atlantic in "The pension beaurepas" and "The point of view" / Madalina Stanescu -- Mapping Canadian identity in Margaret Laurence's Heart of a stranger / Gertrud Szamosi.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together essays that, individually and collectively, address the force of the literary text with regard to problematic identities. They work out of shared concerns with literary representations of this issue in different regions, nations and communities that often prove divided; they pursue questions related to textual identity, where the literary text itself is contested internally, or in its generic and historical relations. In sum, these studies actively test identity, as social or literary concept, discovering in difference the very condition of a useful, if paradoxical,
• Titolo autorizzato: Contested identities
• ISBN: 1-4438-8123-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797611703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II