DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon - 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 DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon write by Melanie U. Pooch. This book was released on 2016-02-29. DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon. Thus, she contributes to a global, interdisciplinary, and multi-perspectival understanding of literature, culture, and society.
The City in American Literature and Culture
The City in American Literature and Culture - 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 The City in American Literature and Culture write by Kevin R. McNamara. This book was released on 2021-08-05. The City in American Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels - 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 Translocality in Contemporary City Novels write by Lena Mattheis. This book was released on 2021-04-20. Translocality in Contemporary City Novels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels—by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo—set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable stories: simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches, and techniques from a variety of research fields—including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives—Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.
Cultural Diversity in Motion
Cultural Diversity in Motion - 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 Cultural Diversity in Motion write by Özlem Canyürek. This book was released on 2022-01-31. Cultural Diversity in Motion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does migration-generated diversity mean for cultural policy and the performing arts scene in Germany and how is it promoted? Through bridging theory and practice, Özlem Canyürek introduces the concept of ›thinking and acting interculturally‹ and proposes a set of criteria as a stepping stone for a semantic shift in cultural policy towards achieving a fair and accessible performing arts scene for all. She delineates the framework conditions of a receptive cultural policy to envision cultural diversity in motion to enable the production and dissemination of multiplicity of thoughts, experiences, knowledge, worldviews, and aesthetics of an intercultural society.
The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen
The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen - 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 The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen write by Nathalie Aghoro. This book was released on 2021-09-09. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen unites interdisciplinary perspectives on the social dimensions of sound in audiovisual and literary environments. The essays in the collection discuss soundtracks for shared values, group membership, and collective agency, and engage with the subversive functions of sound and sonic forms of resistance in American literature, film, and TV.
