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Diaspora and Literary Studies (Cambridge Critical Concepts)
by Angela NaimouDiaspora is an ancient term that gained broad new significance in the twentieth century. At its simplest, diaspora refers to the geographic dispersion of a people from a common originary space to other sites. It pulls together ideas of people, movement, memory, and home, but also troubles them. In this volume, established and newer scholars provide fresh explorations of diaspora for twenty-first century literary studies. The volume re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual intimacies and entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual-cultural texts to reimagine the genres, genders, and genealogies of diaspora. Literary mappings move across Africa, the Americas, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Pacific Islands, and through Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, Gulf, and Indian waters. Chapters reflect on diaspora as a key concept for migration, postcolonial, global comparative race, environmental, gender, and queer studies. The volume is thus an accessible and provocative account of diaspora as a vital resource for literary studies in a bordered world.
Diaspora & Hybridity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
by Virinder S. Kalra Raminder Kaur John Hutnyk'Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies' - Dr Rohit Barot, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol What do we mean by 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'? Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity. It relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts, providing the reader with a framework to evaluate and displace the key ideological arguments, theories and narratives deployed in culturalist academic circles today. The authors demonstrate how diaspora and hybridity serve as problematic tools, cutting across traditional boundaries of nations and groups, where trans-national spaces for a range of contested cultural, political and economic outcomes might arise. Wide ranging, richly illustrated and challenging, it will be of interest to students of cultural studies, sociology, ethnicity and nationalism.
Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture: Asia in Flight (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)
by Sheng-mei MaThis book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight from itself; Asia’s stunning self-transformation is haunted by self-alienation. The chapters discuss a wealth of topics, including Asianness, Orientalism, and Asian American identity, drawing on a variety of pop culture sources from The Matrix Trilogy to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This book forms an analysis of the new idea of Asian Diaspora that cuts across area, ethnicity, and nation, incorporating itself into the contemporary global culture whilst retaining a distinct Asian flavor. Covering the mediums of literature, film, and visual cultures, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and students of Asian studies and literature, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and film.
The Diaspora Writes Home
by Jasbir JainThe Diaspora Writes Home looks at the multiple dispersions of the emigrants from South Asia across time and space, to the various homelands they relate to now. The word 'write' is used in all its creative expression: as an inscription, a mark of connectivity, a remembrance, and an involvement with memory with all its shifts. Writing is also a representation and carries its own baggage of poetics and aesthetics, categories which can be problematic vis-a-vis the writer and his/her emotional location. The book explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland and its own relationship with an ancestral past, its history, culture, and the current political conflicts. Among the questions the book asks is: How does the diaspora relate to us at home and what is our relationship to migrants as representatives of our present? The last is problematic in itself for our present is not theirs and distance cannot equate the two. The transformations that new locations have brought about as they have traveled through time and interacted with the politics of their new homelands have altered their affiliations and perspectives. An important aspect of political emigrations is the refugee/muhajir, especially in the South Asia subcontinent. [Subject: Literary Criticism, Asian Studies, Migration Studies]
Diasporas of the Mind
by Bryan CheyetteIn this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers--some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal--to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonization, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic, and postcolonial writers. Cheyette regards many of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century luminaries he examines--among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith, and Muriel Spark--as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. And in so doing, Cheyette illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries.
Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic: (En)Gendering Literature and Performance
by Emilia María Durán-Almarza Esther Álvarez-LópezThis book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin. The variety of approaches displayed bears witness to the vitality of a field that, over the years, has become a diasporic formation itself as it incorporates critical insights and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities, thus exposing the manifold character of (black) diasporic interconnections within and beyond the Atlantic. Focusing on a wide array of contemporary literary and performance texts by women writers and performers from diverse locations including the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, the US, and the UK, chapters visit genres such as performance art, the novel, science fiction, short stories, and music. For these purposes, the volume is organized around two significant dimensions of diasporas: on the one hand, the material—corporeal and spatial—locations where those displacements associated with travel and exile occur, and, on the other, the fluid environments and networks that connect distant places, cultures, and times. This collection explores the ways in which women of African descent shape the cultures and histories in the modern, colonial, and postcolonial Atlantic worlds.
El dibujo secreto de américa Latina
by William Ospina#Nuestra América es todavía el reino de la perplejidad,y a ello contribuyen por igual las tensiones y losdesajustes entre la realidad y el lenguaje, los mestizajesy los sincretismos. No deja de ser asombroso que estastierras ya su?cientemente complejas por su composicióngeográ?ca y biológica se hayan enriquecidomás aún con el aporte de razas, lenguas, tradiciones,religiones, ?losofías, modelos económicos e idealespolíticos llegados de otras partes. Pienso en Colombia,por ejemplo, donde no somos mayoritariamenteblancos europeos ni indios americanos ni negros africanossino uno de los países más mestizos del continente,en una región que es a la vez caribeña, de lacuenca del Pací?co, andina y amazónica, que hablauna lengua que es hija ilustre del latín y del griego,que profesa una religión de origen hebreo, griego yromano, que ha adoptado unas instituciones nacidasde la Ilustración y de la Revolución francesa, que fueincorporada al orden de la sociedad mercantil y a ladinámica de la globalización hace ya cinco siglos, ysiento que estamos amasados verdaderamente de laarcilla planetaria#.William Ospina
El dibujo secreto de américa Latina
by William OspinaAmérica Latina y su riqueza en palabras de William Ospina. #Nuestra América es todavía el reino de la perplejidad,y a ello contribuyen por igual las tensiones y losdesajustes entre la realidad y el lenguaje, los mestizajesy los sincretismos. No deja de ser asombroso que estastierras ya su?cientemente complejas por su composicióngeográ?ca y biológica se hayan enriquecidomás aún con el aporte de razas, lenguas, tradiciones,religiones, ?losofías, modelos económicos e idealespolíticos llegados de otras partes. Pienso en Colombia,por ejemplo, donde no somos mayoritariamenteblancos europeos ni indios americanos ni negros africanossino uno de los países más mestizos del continente,en una región que es a la vez caribeña, de lacuenca del Pací?co, andina y amazónica, que hablauna lengua que es hija ilustre del latín y del griego,que profesa una religión de origen hebreo, griego yromano, que ha adoptado unas instituciones nacidasde la Ilustración y de la Revolución francesa, que fueincorporada al orden de la sociedad mercantil y a ladinámica de la globalización hace ya cinco siglos, ysiento que estamos amasados verdaderamente de laarcilla planetaria#.William Ospina
Diccionario apasionado de la novela negra
by Pierre LemaitreUna visión completa, absolutamente personal y muy divertida del género negro, por uno de los escritores europeos más prestigiosos y populares. Se la llame negra o policiaca, y se la califique o no «literatura de género» --como si no fuera literatura sin más--, la novela criminal tiene súbditos, reyes, reinas (supuestos o no), capillas, polémicas, egos... pero, sobre todo, novelas que atrapan, impactan, sobrecogen y marcan tanto mentes como épocas. Incondicional de los libros, las películas y las series que describen --o denuncian-- la (mala) marcha del mundo, Pierre Lemaitre, con la libertad, el compromiso y la vivacidad que lo caracterizan, dibuja un panorama internacional personal y divertido, cual biblia erudita, ecléctica y festiva de la novela negra. La crítica ha dicho...«Con la ágil pluma que le conocemos, Pierre Lemaitre comparte en este Diccionario su pasión por la literatura policiaca y la novela negra con un subjetivismo entusiasta y razonado.»RTL «Pierre Lemaitre se apodera de la novela policiaca como novelista y lector, y ofrece su punto de vista con regocijo, asombro y placer. [...] Los aficionados a la novela negra disfrutarán enormemente con esta panorámica.»RTS culture «Uno de esos diccionarios por los que el lector se pasea a placer, antes de leerlo de cabo a rabo. Véanlo como una charla en torno al álbum de fotos de la familia o una invitación a descubrir todo lo que les quedaba por explorar en el continente del noir.»France Inter «Un libro imponente, rebosante de pasión por compartir, que alterna las declaraciones de amor con puyas muy sentidas. Una obra golosa que permite al aficionado, dependiendo de su apetito, devorarla o picar aquí y allá entre los retratos de escritores (de Eric Ambler a Don Winslow, pasando por Jean-Patrick Manchette, Elizabeth George, Donald Westlake y muchos otros) y las revisiones de personajes míticos (a Lemaitre le encanta Colombo), películas y series de referencia (Arresto preventivo, The Wire, etc.).»La Dépêche
Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas: Ingeniería, Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Actividad Física
by Georgina Cuadrado EsclapezDiccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science. Compiled by a team of linguists working across a range of technical schools within the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, this practical dictionary fills a gap in the field of technical language and will be an indispensable reference for students within the fields of science, engineering or sports science seeking to work internationally and for translators and interpreters working in these specialist fields.
El diccionario de Samuel Johnson: Usos, costumbres y definiciones de las palabras que conforman la lengua inglesa. Incluye términos que aparecen en Shakespeare y otros grandes autores de la literatura británica
by Gonzalo TornéUna cuidada selección de los artículos más irreverentes y emblemáticos del célebre Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson es, muy posiblemente, el literato inglés más importante del siglo XVIII y el autor más citado en su lengua hasta la fecha, solo después del gran Shakespeare. El diccionario de este ensayista, biógrafo y lexicógrafo no es solamente una obra de referencia, sino también una prodigiosa compilación de reflexiones. Ahora, Gonzalo Torné recupera en estas páginas los incisivos argumentos que revisten los artículos de Johnson, tan polémicos como expeditivos, que albergan la capacidad de desarbolar los más firmes discursos del más osado orador.
Diccionario etimológico del lunfardo
by Oscar CondeEdición corregida y aumentada. Este diccionario de lunfardo, con casi seis mil entradas, es el único que da cuenta de la etimología de los vocablos y resulta incomparable por su rigor científico, lo que redunda en una mayor claridad y facilita las búsquedas. La palabra lunfardo, que en su origen significó "ladrón" define un extenso vocabulario que nació en las ciudades rioplatenses y se extendió luego al resto del país y a las naciones limítrofes hasta instalarse definitivamente en nuestra habla cotidiana.Las palabras que usamos son mucho más que un medio de comunicación: en su conjunto reflejan un modo de ver el mundo, de categorizar la realidad, de entenderla, en suma, de vivirla. Y sólo nacen cuando el hablante no tiene otras mejores para expresar lo que quiere decir. Los lunfardismos no escapan a esta ley, y constituyen un potente caudal que enriquece nuestro idioma y contribuye de manera indiscutible a construir nuestra identidad. La presente edición, corregida y aumentada, incorpora nuevas acepciones de términos ya registrados y añade voces que no contaban con registro hasta la fecha, como cachengue, ladri, roche, tarlipes y viejazo, entre otras.
Dice, Cards, Wheels
by Thomas M. KavanaghGambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French culture. Kavanagh argues that the way people gamble tells us something otherwise unrecognized about the values, conflicts, and cultures that define a period or class. To gamble is to enter a world traced out by the rules and protocols of the game the gambler plays. That world may be an alternative to the established order, but the shape and structure of the game reveal indirectly hidden tensions, fears, and prohibitions.Drawing on literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Kavanagh reconstructs the figure of the gambler and his evolving personae. He examines, among other examples, Bodel's dicing in a twelfth-century tavern for the conversion of the Muslim world; Pascal's post-Reformation redefinition of salvation as the gambler's prize; the aristocratic libertine's celebration of the bluff; and Balzac's, Barbey d'Aurevilly's, and Bourget's nineteenth-century revisions of the gambler.Dice, Cards, Wheels embraces the tremendous breadth of French history and emerges as a broad-ranging study of the different forms of gambling, from the dice games of the Middle Ages to the digital slot machines of the twenty-first century, and what those games tell us about French culture and history.
El diciembre del decano
by Saul BellowAlbert Corde, decano de la facultad de periodismo de Chicago, no está preparado para la violenta respuesta social que han tenido sus artículos sobre la corrupción imperante en la ciudad o su enredo en el proceso contra dos negros sospechosos del asesinato de un estudiante blanco. Acusado de traicionar a su ciudad, de ser un loco incívico y un racista, durante un viaje que le lleva a Bucarest, donde su suegra agoniza, Corde no puede evitar establecer severas comparaciones entre la corrupción y la deshumanización de la tiranía comunista, y las putrefactas y abandonadas calles de Chicago. Mediante la yuxtaposición de diferentes acontecimientos -tanto públicos como privados- que se suceden simultáneamente en ambas ciudades, Bellow ilustra hábilmente cómo el remolino de fuerzas que sacude al hombre contemporáneo puede reunirse para provocar su fracaso.
Dick and Jane: Away We Go (Dick and Jane #Vol. 7)
by Penguin Young ReadersSally said, "Away we go. Away we go in the car. Mother and Father. Dick an Jane. Sally and Tim"
Dick and Jane: Fun with Dick and Jane (Dick and Jane)
by Penguin Young Readers"Look, Jane, " said Dick. "Here is something funny. Can you guess what it is?"
Dick and Jane: Something Funny (Dick and Jane)
by Penguin Young ReadersDick and Jane see something funny. Come and see Spot! Have fun with Dick and Jane as you read along with this sweet and simple story.
Dick and Jane: We Play (Dick and Jane)
by Penguin Young ReadersDick can play. Jane can play. Spot can play, too! Have fun with Dick and Jane as you read along with this sweet and simple story.
Dick and Jane: Who Can Help? (Dick and Jane #Vol. 8)
by Penguin Young ReadersOh, Jane. Oh, Father. Who can come? Who can come and help me?
Dickens
by Fred KaplanKaplan (English, Queens College) provides a full-scale portrait of Dickens and incorporates into the narrative a discussion of the autobiographical basis and significance of his greatest masterpieces.
Dickens Adapted (A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens)
by John GlavinFrom their first appearance in print, Dickens's fictions immediately migrated into other media, and particularly, in his own time, to the stage. Since then Dickens has continuously, apparently inexhaustibly, functioned as the wellspring for a robust mini-industry, sourcing plays, films, television specials and series, operas, new novels and even miniature and model villages. If in his lifetime he was justly called 'The Inimitable', since his death he has become just the reverse: the Infinitely Imitable. The essays in this volume, all appearing within the past twenty years, cover the full spectrum of genres. Their major shared claim to attention is their break from earlier mimetic criteria - does the film follow the novel? - to take the new works seriously within their own generic and historical contexts. Collectively, they reveal an entirely 'other' Dickensian oeuvre, which ironically has perhaps made Dickens better known to an audience of non-readers than to those who know the books themselves.
Dickens and Benjamin: Moments of Revelation, Fragments of Modernity (The\nineteenth Century Ser.)
by Gillian PiggottPlacing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and that both occupy similar positions towards urban modernity and its effect upon experience. Piggott juxtaposes her exploration of Benjamin's ideas on allegory and messianism with an examination of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that both writers proffer a melancholy vision of a world devoid of space and time for religious experience, a state of affairs they associate with the onset of industrial capitalism. In Benjamin's The Arcades Project and Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Tale of Two Cities, among other works, the authors converge in their hugely influential treatments of the city as a site of perambulation, creativity, memory, and autobiography. At the same time, both authors relate to the vertiginous, mutable, fast-paced nature of city life as involving a concomitant change in the structure of experience, an alteration that can be understood as a reduction in the capacity to experience fully. Piggott's persuasive analyses enable a reading of Dickens as part of a European, particularly a German, tradition of thinkers and writers of industrialization and modernity. For both Dickens and Benjamin, truth appears only in moments of revelation, in fragments of modernity.
Dickens and Childhood (A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens)
by Laura Peters'No words can express the secret agony of my soul'. Dickens's tantalising hint alluding to his time at Warren's Blacking Factory remains a gnomic statement until Forster's biography after Dickens's death. Such a revelation partly explains the dominance of biography in early Dickens criticism; Dickens's own childhood was understood to provide the material for his writing, particularly his representation of the child and childhood. Yet childhood in Dickens continues to generate a significant level of critical interest. This volume of essays traces the shifting importance given to childhood in Dickens criticism. The essays consider a range of subjects such as the Romantic child, the child and the family, and the child as a vehicle for social criticism, as well as current issues such as empire, race and difference, and death. Written by leading researchers and educators, this selection of previously published articles and book chapters is representative of key developments in this field. Given the perennial importance of the child in Dickens this volume is an indispensable reference work for Dickens specialists and aficionados alike.
Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by Grace MooreDickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holdings as imaginative spaces onto which he offloaded a number of pressing domestic and personal problems, thus creating an entangled discourse between race and class. Drawing upon a wealth of primary material, it offers a radical reassessment of the writer's stance on racial matters. In the past Dickens has been dismissed as a dogged and sustained racist from the 1850s until the end of his life; but here author Grace Moore reappraises The Noble Savage, previously regarded as a racist tract. Examining it side by side with a series of articles by Lord Denman in The Chronicle, which condemned the staunch abolitionist Dickens as a supporter of slavery, Moore reveals that the tract is actually an ironical riposte. This finding facilitates a review and reassessment of Dickens's controversial outbursts during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, and demonstrates that his views on racial matters were a good deal more complex than previous critics have suggested. Moore's analysis of a number of pre- and post-Mutiny articles calling for reform in India shows that Dickens, as their publisher, would at least have been aware of the grievances of the Indian people, and his journal's sympathy toward them is at odds with his vitriolic responses to the insurrection. This first sustained analysis of Dickens and his often problematic relationship to the British Empire provides fresh readings of a number of Dickens texts, in particular A Tale of Two Cities. The work also presents a more complicated but balanced view of one of the most famous figures in Victorian literature.
Dickens and Popular Entertainment (Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel #34)
by Paul SchlickeFirst published in 1985. Dickens was a vigorous champion of the right of all men and women to carefree amusements and dedicated himself to the creation of imaginative pleasure. This book represents the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dickens’ life and work, exploring how he channelled his love of entertainment into his artistry. This study offers a challenging reassessment of Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times. It shows the importance of entertainment to Dickens’ journalism and presents an illuminating perspective on the public readings which dominated the last twelve years of his life. This book will be of interest to students of literature.