Global Identities in Transit -

Global Identities in Transit

The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures
Buch | Hardcover
332 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2432-1 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores ways in which the impact of (post)colonial and global conditions on individual and group identities is reflected in different cultures and represented in world literary texts.
Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of world literatures, the contributors discuss the configurations of transnationality and transculturality in our postcolonial and globalized world. Acknowledging that nationality, ethnicity, gender, and class are continually shaped by historical processes, the contributors hone in on the ways that the increase in mobility via migration, diaspora, and exile render identities always in transit In the face of structural inequalities and social injustices predominant in this context, the chapters reflect on the moral obligations of representation. This collection will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature.

Bouchra Benlemlih is professor of English and postcolonial studies at Ibn Zohr University. Lahoussine Hamdoune is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at Ibn Zohr University.

Foreword

Eugene Chen Eoyang

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Bouchra Benlemlih and Lahoussine Hamdoune

Part I: Identities in Transit: Self, Nation beyond ‘Imperial Globality’

Chapter One: Be-coming a Rhizome: The Contingencies of the Self in the Posthuman Age

Paul Jahshan

Chapter Two: Belonging and (Un) belonging in The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories and The Lost Garden

Yu Min Claire Chen

Chapter Three: Resisting Hegemonic Discourses in Abdelhak Serhane’s Novels: Empire, Nation, and Gender

Azize Kour

Chapter Four: Identity Crisis, Retaliation and Deliberations of Women in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers

Shibani Banerjee

Part II: Across Borders and Thresholds: Identities in Diaspora Narratives

Chapter Five: The National and the Transnational: Negotiating Identity in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret

Bouchra Benlemlih

Chapter Six: Clandestine Bodies in Transit: Refugees’ Pipe Dreams in Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Exit West

Lava Asaad

Chapter Seven: “Dwelling Unconnected” and Claiming Space: Diaspora Spaces in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

Semsettin Tabur

Chapter Eight: Conflicts and Configurations in a Liminal Space: Hassouna Mosbahi’s Wadā‘an Rozalie

Boutheina Khaldi

Chapter Nine: Alien… Arab… and maybe Illegal in America: Narrating the Paradoxes of Hope, Roots, and Away

Lhoussain Simour

Chapter Ten: Towards a Transnational Turn in Zighen Aymʼs Still Moments: The diaspora’s Odyssey of ‟Floating at the Top of the Melting Pot”

Sihem Arfaoui

Part III: The Ethics And Politics of Representation

Chapter Eleven: The African on Hegel’s “Threshold of the World's History”: The Trouble of Manichean Representation in The Philosophy of History (1830)

Lahoussine Hamdoune

Chapter Twelve: A Modern Moroccan Eye on the West: Amine Elalamy’s

Un Marocain A New York

Khadija Belhiah

Chapter Thirteen: Staging the Chronicle: The Transfer and Reevaluation of Discourse: A National Identity Defined at the Crossroads

Laureano Corces

Chapter Fourteen: Writing the Refugee Experience for Middle Grade and Young Adult Readers

Tara Moore

Chapter Fifteen: When East Meets West in Victoria and Abdul

Rachid Acim

Index

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Rachid Acim, Sihem Arfaoui, Lava Asaad
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 229 mm
Gewicht 685 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-7936-2432-1 / 1793624321
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-2432-1 / 9781793624321
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