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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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- | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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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. | UNINA-9910140477903321 |
Lincoln, NE, : Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, ©2004- | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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