Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature write by Benaouda Lebdai. This book was released on 2015-02-05. Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Autobiography, a fully-recognised genre within mainstream literature today, has evolved massively in the last few decades, particularly through colonial and postcolonial texts. By using autobiography as a means of expression, many postcolonial writers were able to describe their experiences in the face of the denial of personal expression for centuries. This book is centred around the recounting and analysis of such a phenomenon. Literary purists often reject autobiography as a fully-fledged literary genre, perceiving it rather as a mere life report or a descriptive diary. The colonial and postcolonial autobiographical texts analysed in this book refute such perceptions, and demonstrate a subtle combination of literary qualities and the recounting of real-life experiences. This book demonstrates that colonial and postcolonial autobiographical texts have established their ‘literarity’. The need for postcolonial authors to express themselves through the ‘I’ and the ‘me’, as subjects and not as objects, is the essence of this book, and confirms that self-affirmation through autobiographical writing is indeed an art form.
Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa
Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa write by Lena Englund. This book was released on 2023-10-21. Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ‘place’. It examines eight authors’ works – Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland, Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort, Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads and Aminatta Forna’s autobiographical writing – to argue that place is particularly central to personal narrative in texts whose authors have migrated multiple times. Spanning Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, this book interrogates the label ‘African’ writing which has been criticized for ignoring local contexts. It demonstrates how in their works these writers seek to reconnect with a bygone ‘Africa’, often after complex experiences of political upheavals and personal loss. The chapters also provide in-depth analyses of key concepts related to place and autobiography: place and privilege, place and trauma, and the relationship between place and nation.
Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System
Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System write by Carlos Garrido Castellano. This book was released on 2022-07-29. Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination. The project positions the contemporary art novel as the most suitable place to understand how the economisation of cultural labour is affecting writers and artists alike. The authors examined in this book, including José Saramago, Rita Indiana Hernández, María Gainza, Mayra Santos Febres and Ondjaki (amongst others) explore the contradictions of the art market, the dynamics of art education, the multifaceted activity of curators and socially engaged artists in relation to broader debates on the role of culture in the configuration of socioeconomic dynamics. The book maps a new trend within contemporary literature that taps into the visual art system to reassess the role of literature in critical ways.
Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films
Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films write by Delphine Letort. This book was released on 2018-05-03. Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collective book offers new insight on the genres of biography and autobiography by examining the singular path of those deemed to be ‘outsiders’, such as Winnie Mandela, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X and Harvey Milk. Its specific focus on these female leaders and civil rights activists, who refused to be constrained by gender, race and class, shifts attention away from the great men of history and places it solely on those who have transformed their personal lives into a fight for collective goals. With an interdisciplinary approach that looks at literature, cinema and cultural studies, Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Cinema argues that life writing is a key source of artistic creativity and activism which enables us to take a fresh look at history.
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives write by Jan Alber. This book was released on 2021-05-10. Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century. Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of togetherness and an associated commitment to reality. In what the editors consider to be one manifestation of this general tendency, this book explores the ways in which contemporary texts across different media play with the boundary between fact and fiction. This includes the examination of novels, autobiography, autofiction, film, television, mockumentary, digital fiction, advertising campaigns and media hoaxes. The chapters engage with theories of what comes after postmodernism and analyse the narratological, stylistic and/or semiotic devices on which such texts rely. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
