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Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film / / Alberto Fernández Carbajal
Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film / / Alberto Fernández Carbajal
Autore Fernández Carbajal Alberto
Pubbl/distr/stampa Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (276 pages)
Disciplina 809/.93353
Collana Multicultural textualities
Soggetto topico Motion pictures - History
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Muslim diaspora in literature
Homosexuality in motion pictures
Homosexuality in literature
Muslim gays
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-5261-5180-4
1-5261-2811-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Queer interethnic desire -- Of interethnic (dis)connection : queer phenomenology, and cultural and religious commodification in Hanif Kureishi's My beautiful laundrette (1985) and The Buddha of suburbia (1990) -- 'Are we on the same wavelength?' Interstitial queerness and the Ismaili diaspora in Ian Iqbal Rashid's poetry and films -- Queering Orientalism, Ottoman homoeroticism, and Turkishness in Ferzan Ozpetek's Hamam : The Turkish bath (1997) -- Negotiating Islamic gender -- Countermemories of desire : exploring gender, anti-racism, and homonormativity in Shamim Sarif's The world unseen (2001) and I can't think straight (2008) -- Between gang and family : queering ethnicity and British Muslim masculinities in Sally El Hosaini's My brother the Devil (2012) -- The good, the bad, and the ugly? Unveiling American Muslim women in Rolla Selbak's Three veils (2011) -- Narrating the self in queer time and place -- A postcolonial queer melancholia : matrilinearity, Sufism, and l'errance in the autofictional works of Abdellah Taia -- The druzification of history : queering time, place, and faith in the diasporic novels of Rabih Alameddine -- Written on the body : a queer and cartographic exploration of the Palestinian diaspora in Randa Jarrar's A map of home (2008) and Him, me, Muhammad Ali (2016) -- Conclusion : thinking across.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910480298803321
Fernández Carbajal Alberto  
Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020
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Reading the 21st century [[electronic resource] ] : books of the decade, 2000-2009 / / Stan Persky
Reading the 21st century [[electronic resource] ] : books of the decade, 2000-2009 / / Stan Persky
Autore Persky Stan
Pubbl/distr/stampa Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina 028
Soggetto topico Best books
Books
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 0-7735-8641-5
0-7735-8607-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction: In the twilight of literary criticism --The storyteller : Larry McMurtry-- Indelible : Philip Roth's human stain -- Heroes : Javier Cercas's soldiers of Salamis -- Ignorance in the desert -- The snowflake from the snow : Orhan Pamuk -- In the land of Amos Oz : a tale of love and darkness -- Homeland alone : 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq -- Lost and found : Daniel Mendelsohn -- Walking, seeing, shelving -- The Gods that failed : Richard Dawkins -- Exit strategies : Said, Coetzee, Saramago, Roth -- Other voices, other realms -- Haunted by a spectre : Krugman, Klein, Stiglitz -- Conclusion: Code red -- Appendix: Some prize lists.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910779247303321
Persky Stan  
Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
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Reading the 21st century [[electronic resource] ] : books of the decade, 2000-2009 / / Stan Persky
Reading the 21st century [[electronic resource] ] : books of the decade, 2000-2009 / / Stan Persky
Autore Persky Stan
Pubbl/distr/stampa Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina 028
Soggetto topico Best books
Books
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 0-7735-8641-5
0-7735-8607-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction: In the twilight of literary criticism --The storyteller : Larry McMurtry-- Indelible : Philip Roth's human stain -- Heroes : Javier Cercas's soldiers of Salamis -- Ignorance in the desert -- The snowflake from the snow : Orhan Pamuk -- In the land of Amos Oz : a tale of love and darkness -- Homeland alone : 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq -- Lost and found : Daniel Mendelsohn -- Walking, seeing, shelving -- The Gods that failed : Richard Dawkins -- Exit strategies : Said, Coetzee, Saramago, Roth -- Other voices, other realms -- Haunted by a spectre : Krugman, Klein, Stiglitz -- Conclusion: Code red -- Appendix: Some prize lists.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910811297503321
Persky Stan  
Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
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Silence and its derivatives : conversations across disciplines / / Mahshid Mayar, Marion Schulte, editors
Silence and its derivatives : conversations across disciplines / / Mahshid Mayar, Marion Schulte, editors
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (368 pages)
Disciplina 808.8
Soggetto topico Literature, Modern
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 3-031-06523-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Silences in History, Linguistics, and Literature: An Introduction -- Silence and … -- Silence as … -- Silencing, Keeping Silent, Breaking Silences -- Works Cited -- 2 Towards an Ontology of Silence in Music -- Introduction -- Methodological Considerations -- Silence as Non-Sounding -- Silence as Interruption of Music -- Silence as Part of Music -- Silence as Music -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- 3 Linguistic Considerations on the Awkward Silence -- Introduction -- Background: A Brief History of Hesitation Research -- Types of Hesitation -- Grounding Silence -- Method -- Corpus Data -- Data Preparation and Analysis -- English -- German -- French -- Italian -- Discussion and Further Exploration -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 4 Dissonant Silence: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Silence -- Introduction -- The Production of the New -- On the Battlefield of Art -- Silence and Agency -- An Echo of What Was Never Said -- The Silent Democracy -- Silence as Waiting: Agnes Martin -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 5 Talkative and Taciturn Nations: Ethnographic and Political Perspectives in European Discourses on Communicative Cultures (c. 1750-1850) -- Introduction -- Talkative and Taciturn Peoples: Multilayered Mental Maps -- Reframing the Question: Ernst Moritz Arndt and Constantin François Volney -- Political Dimensions of Speech and Silence -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- 6 Corpus-Linguistic and Cultural-Cognitive Perspectives on Silence in Black South African English -- Linguistic Perspectives on Silence -- Cultural-Cognitive (Socio)Linguistic Perspectives on Silence (in Sub-Saharan Africa) -- Data and Method -- Silence in Corpora of BSAE -- Conceptualisations of Silence in BSAE.
Silence as Social-Hierarchical Convention: Silence as Respect -- Silence as (Integral Part of a) Ritual -- Silence as Ancestral Intervention -- Discussion and Outlook -- Works Cited -- 7 Organic Archives and Generative Silence: A Case Study of the Nlele Institute's Photographic Archives -- Introduction -- TNI Collection -- Silence -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 8 Voices in a Silenced Archive: The Photographs of the Menage Scientific Expedition -- Introduction -- Works Cited -- 9 Silence as Masquerade: Punctuation, Prosody, and Performance in "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" -- Introduction -- Silence (Un-)Spelled -- Silencing the Heart Disease -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 10 The Hatred of Speech and the Poetics of Silence -- Introduction -- The Hatred of Speech -- Windows: John Cage and Larry Eigner -- Works Cited -- 11 Night and Silence: Five Breaths at the End of the World -- Introduction -- FIRST NIGHT (of the Lunatic's Silence) -- SECOND NIGHT (of the Climber's Silence) -- THIRD NIGHT (of the Wolf's Silence) -- FOURTH NIGHT (of the Dream-Reader's Silence) -- FIFTH NIGHT (of the Gravedigger's Silence) -- Epilogue: Five Breaths -- Five Stories of Silent Ends -- Works Cited -- 12 No Quiet Place-Breaking the Silence, Speaking the Unspeakable, or: How Cultural Critique Thrives on a Paradox -- Part One. "Silence Like a Cancer Grows"? or: How Sound and Silence Interdepend -- Part Two. "The Sounds of Silence," or: How Silence Produces (Plenty of) Discourse -- Part Three. The Silence of Sounds, or: How Soundings (Necessarily) Produce New Silences -- Works Cited -- 13 Frankenstein's Resounding Silence on Industrialisation: An Ecocritical Reading of the Novel's Production and Reception -- Works Cited -- 14 "No noise of any kind"-Silence and Silencing in First World War Correspondence -- Introduction -- Understanding Silence and Silencing.
Communicative Event -- Nothing to Write Home About -- No Noise of Any Kind -- Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- 15 The Body Without Organs: On Silencing the Self -- Introduction -- Part I: The Desiring Machine -- Part II: A Short History of Unreasonable Reason -- Part III: Power and Memory -- Part IV: Persecution and the Art of (Silent) Writing -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- 16 The Silences and Silencing of First Languages Among L2 Speakers of English in Ireland -- Introduction -- Immigration and Language Use in the Republic of Ireland -- Data and Methodology -- Language Choice in the Writers Group -- Writers as Learners of English -- Standard English, Avoidance of Language Mixing, and the Limitation of Linguistic Creativity -- Discussion and Conclusion: Language Choice and Power -- Works Cited -- 17 Silencing the Winning Opposition: An Irish Pre-election Interview -- Introduction -- The Socio-Political Background to the Interview -- Overview of the Interview -- Analysis -- Dobson's Attempts at Managing Sinn Féin's Public Image -- McDonald's Resistance to Dobson's Management -- Summary and Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910591033403321
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]
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Studies in 20th & 21st century literature
Studies in 20th & 21st century literature
Pubbl/distr/stampa Lincoln, NE, : Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, ©2004-
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 809
Soggetto topico Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
17.92 comparative literature: general
Literature, Modern
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic journals.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Periodicals.
ISSN 2334-4415
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Studies in twentieth and twenty-first century literature
Studies in 20th and 21st century literature
ST & TCL
STTCL
Record Nr. UNISA-996321126303316
Lincoln, NE, : Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, ©2004-
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Studies in 20th & 21st century literature
Studies in 20th & 21st century literature
Pubbl/distr/stampa Lincoln, NE, : Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, ©2004-
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Disciplina 809
Soggetto topico Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
17.92 comparative literature: general
Literature, Modern
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic journals.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Periodicals.
ISSN 2334-4415
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Studies in twentieth and twenty-first century literature
Studies in 20th and 21st century literature
ST & TCL
STTCL
Record Nr. UNINA-9910140477903321
Lincoln, NE, : Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, ©2004-
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Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature / / edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter
Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature / / edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (319 p.)
Disciplina 809/.933581
Altri autori (Persone) GoldbergElizabeth Swanson <1966->
MooreAlexandra Schultheis
Collana Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Soggetto topico Human rights in literature
Atrocities in literature
Violence in literature
Social justice in literature
Law and literature
Literature and society
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-46247-8
9786613462473
1-136-64638-8
0-203-80519-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature; Copyright; Contents; Foreword : Rights on Paper; Acknowledgments; Introduction Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline; Part I : Histories, Imaginaries, andParadoxes of Literatureand Human Rights; 1. "Literature," the "Rights of Man," and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony; 2. Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law; 3. Top Down, Bottom Up, Horizontally: Resignifying the Universal in Human Rights Discourse
4. The Social Imaginary as a Problematic for Human Rights5 Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights; 6. Paradoxes of Neoliberalism and Human Rights; Part II : Questions of Narration, Representation, and Evidence; 7. Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art; 8. Narrating Human Rights and the Limits of Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown; 9. Complicities of Witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine; 10. Dark Chamber, Colonial Scene: Post-9/11 Torture and Representation
Part III : Rethinking the "Subject" of Human Rights11. Human Rights as Violence and Enigma: Can Literature Really Be of Any Help with the Politics of Human Rights?; 12. Imagining Women as Human; 13. "Disaster Capitalism" and Human Rights: Embodiment and Subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's People; 14. Do Human Rights Need a Self? Buddhist Literature and the Samsaric Subject; Epilogue; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910451756603321
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
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Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature / / edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter
Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature / / edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (319 p.)
Disciplina 809/.933581
Altri autori (Persone) GoldbergElizabeth Swanson <1966->
MooreAlexandra Schultheis
Collana Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Soggetto topico Human rights in literature
Atrocities in literature
Violence in literature
Social justice in literature
Law and literature
Literature and society
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 1-136-64637-X
1-283-46247-8
9786613462473
1-136-64638-8
0-203-80519-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature; Copyright; Contents; Foreword : Rights on Paper; Acknowledgments; Introduction Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline; Part I : Histories, Imaginaries, andParadoxes of Literatureand Human Rights; 1. "Literature," the "Rights of Man," and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony; 2. Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law; 3. Top Down, Bottom Up, Horizontally: Resignifying the Universal in Human Rights Discourse
4. The Social Imaginary as a Problematic for Human Rights5 Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights; 6. Paradoxes of Neoliberalism and Human Rights; Part II : Questions of Narration, Representation, and Evidence; 7. Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art; 8. Narrating Human Rights and the Limits of Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown; 9. Complicities of Witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine; 10. Dark Chamber, Colonial Scene: Post-9/11 Torture and Representation
Part III : Rethinking the "Subject" of Human Rights11. Human Rights as Violence and Enigma: Can Literature Really Be of Any Help with the Politics of Human Rights?; 12. Imagining Women as Human; 13. "Disaster Capitalism" and Human Rights: Embodiment and Subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's People; 14. Do Human Rights Need a Self? Buddhist Literature and the Samsaric Subject; Epilogue; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910779039103321
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
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Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature / / edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter
Theoretical perspectives on human rights and literature / / edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore ; foreword by Joseph R. Slaughter
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (319 p.)
Disciplina 809/.933581
Altri autori (Persone) GoldbergElizabeth Swanson <1966->
MooreAlexandra Schultheis
Collana Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Soggetto topico Human rights in literature
Atrocities in literature
Violence in literature
Social justice in literature
Law and literature
Literature and society
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
ISBN 1-136-64637-X
1-283-46247-8
9786613462473
1-136-64638-8
0-203-80519-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature; Copyright; Contents; Foreword : Rights on Paper; Acknowledgments; Introduction Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline; Part I : Histories, Imaginaries, andParadoxes of Literatureand Human Rights; 1. "Literature," the "Rights of Man," and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony; 2. Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law; 3. Top Down, Bottom Up, Horizontally: Resignifying the Universal in Human Rights Discourse
4. The Social Imaginary as a Problematic for Human Rights5 Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights; 6. Paradoxes of Neoliberalism and Human Rights; Part II : Questions of Narration, Representation, and Evidence; 7. Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art; 8. Narrating Human Rights and the Limits of Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown; 9. Complicities of Witnessing in Joe Sacco's Palestine; 10. Dark Chamber, Colonial Scene: Post-9/11 Torture and Representation
Part III : Rethinking the "Subject" of Human Rights11. Human Rights as Violence and Enigma: Can Literature Really Be of Any Help with the Politics of Human Rights?; 12. Imagining Women as Human; 13. "Disaster Capitalism" and Human Rights: Embodiment and Subalternity in Indra Sinha's Animal's People; 14. Do Human Rights Need a Self? Buddhist Literature and the Samsaric Subject; Epilogue; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910810382503321
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation [[electronic resource] ] : Trauma, History, and Memory / / Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger
Third-Generation Holocaust Representation [[electronic resource] ] : Trauma, History, and Memory / / Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger
Autore Aarons Victoria
Pubbl/distr/stampa Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (274 pages)
Disciplina 809.93358405318
Collana Cultural expressions of World War II : interwar preludes, responses, memory
Soggetto topico Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Memory in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence
Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
ISBN 0-8101-3411-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910213853803321
Aarons Victoria  
Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2017
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