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Post-War British Literature and the "End of Empire"
Author | : Matthew Whittle |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137540141 |
This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the impact of decolonization in the newly independent colonies and at home in Britain. The end of the British Empire was one of the most significant and transformative events in twentieth-century history, marking the beginning of a new world order and having an indelible impact on British culture and society. Literary responses to this moment by those from within Britain offer an enlightening (and often overlooked) exploration of the influence of decolonization on received notions of “race” and class, while also prefiguring conceptions of multiculturalism. As Matthew Whittle argues in this sweeping study, these works not only view decolonization within its global context (alongside the aftermath of the Second World War, the rise of America, and mass immigration) but often propose a solution to imperial decline through cultural renewal.
Threatened Masculinity from British Fiction to Cold War German Cinema
Author | : Joseph P. Willis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000011976 |
The impact of the Cold War on German male identities can be seen in the nation’s cinematic search for a masculine paradigm that rejected the fate-centered value system of its National- Socialist past while also recognizing that German males once again had become victims of fate and fatalism, but now within the value system of the Soviet and American hegemonies that determined the fate of Cold War Germany and Central Europe. This monograph is the first to demonstrate that this Cold War cinematic search sought out a meaningful masculine paradigm through film adaptations of late-Victorian and Edwardian male writers who likewise sought a means of self-determination within a hegemonic structure that often left few opportunities for personal agency. In contrast to the scholarly practice of exploring categories of modern masculinity such as Victorian imperialist manliness or German Cold-War male identity as distinct from each other, this monograph offers an important, comparative corrective that brings forward an extremely influential century-long trajectory of threatened masculinity. For German Cold-War masculinity, lessons were to be learned from history—namely, from late-Victorian and Edwardian models of manliness. Cold War Germans, like the Victorians before them, had to confront the unknowns of a new world without fear or hesitation. In a Cold-War mentality where nuclear technology and geographic distance had trumped face-to-face confrontation between East and West, Cold-War German masculinity sought alternatives to the insanity of mutual nuclear destruction by choosing not just to confront threats, but to resolve threats directly through personal agency and self-determination.
Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction
Author | : Syrine Hout |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748669175 |
This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative.
British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Author | : C. Snyder |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137039477 |
This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own 'fieldwork', and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.
Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature
Author | : Lucio De Capitani |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2023-10-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303138704X |
This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.
Re-Creating Anthropology
Author | : David N. Gellner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2022-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000568970 |
This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans’ varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity.
The Contemporary British Novel
Author | : Philip Tew |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2007-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826493203 |
Second edition of this guide for students studying contemporary British writing - written by one of the key academics in the field of modern fiction studies.
Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Author | : H. James Birx |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 3138 |
Release | : 2005-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452265364 |
This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1,000 entries that focuses on topics in physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. The contributions are authored by over 250 internationally renowned experts, professors, and scholars from some of the most distinguished museums, universities, and institutes in the world. Special attention is given to human evolution, primate behavior, genetics, ancient civilizations, sociocultural theories, and the value of human language for symbolic communication.
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
Author | : Peter Ackermann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2007-03-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134350465 |
In a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, this exciting new book examines pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred.