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Introduction : tilling the fields of postcolonial literature
No full textThe title of this volume embraces the idea of ‘new soundings’ in its double meanings: ‘soundings’ in the sense of exploratory fathoming and plumbing of the ocean depths, and ‘soundings’ in the contemporary sense of sonar registrations of the seabed, made in order to hear and notate the invisible, inaudible life and activity below the surface. The metaphoric connotations of depth charges in the former usage point to the various forms of mapping, of the discoveries and expansions associated with the opening up of what were once conceived as distant lands, as well as the hazards and betrayals entailed in such colonizing. ‘Soundings’, when used in the sense of registering sound shapes and effects, implies metaphorically those acts of communication, whereby the newly charted, discovered worlds transmit their cultures, heritage and voices, receiving in return the mixed messages of those who discover and colonise. For such processes of settlement and entrenchment are fraught with contestation, involving new contact zones, encounters with Indigenous peoples, recognition of racial and ethnic differences and ideological reassessment of the nature of civilisation. The subtitle’s reference to ‘contours’ invokes the new cultural frames that emerge from such forms of contact, and the organising, reshaping and syncretising of what Homi Bhabha has called the ‘spaces between’ cultures that contact/collision provokes. Such new cultural landscaping can be found in the critical and creative writing of the last half century that embodies as well as engages with issues of the postcolonial. The subtitle also refers to the critical essays, poems and stories collected in this volume, all of which are associated with the discipline of postcolonial studies, and might be seen as products of this broad field. Just as the critical contours seek to debate and give wider visibility to postcolonialism’s major contestations, so the book’s creative contours showcase some of the movement’s significant themes and imaginative configurations
Introduction: tilling the fields of postcolonial literature
No full textThe title of this volume embraces the idea of ‘new soundings’ in its double meanings: ‘soundings’ in the sense of exploratory fathoming and plumbing of the ocean depths, and ‘soundings’ in the contemporary sense of sonar registrations of the seabed, made in order to hear and notate the invisible, inaudible life and activity below the surface. The metaphoric connotations of depth charges in the former usage point to the various forms of mapping, of the discoveries and expansions associated with the opening up of what were once conceived as distant lands, as well as the hazards and betrayals entailed in such colonizing. ‘Soundings’, when used in the sense of registering sound shapes and effects, implies metaphorically those acts of communication, whereby the newly charted, discovered worlds transmit their cultures, heritage and voices, receiving in return the mixed messages of those who discover and colonise. For such processes of settlement and entrenchment are fraught with contestation, involving new contact zones, encounters with Indigenous peoples, recognition of racial and ethnic differences and ideological reassessment of the nature of civilisation. The subtitle’s reference to ‘contours’ invokes the new cultural frames that emerge from such forms of contact, and the organising, reshaping and syncretising of what Homi Bhabha has called the ‘spaces between’ cultures that contact/collision provokes. Such new cultural landscaping can be found in the critical and creative writing of the last half century that embodies as well as engages with issues of the postcolonial. The subtitle also refers to the critical essays, poems and stories collected in this volume, all of which are associated with the discipline of postcolonial studies, and might be seen as products of this broad field. Just as the critical contours seek to debate and give wider visibility to postcolonialism’s major contestations, so the book’s creative contours showcase some of the movement’s significant themes and imaginative configurations
La ciudad y su entorno en la Epoca Moderna
No full textEl autor estudia la aparición en el siglo XVII de grandes centros urbanos constituidos a su vez en capitales económicas y politicas generadoras de relaciones de dependencia con espaciosregionales e intercontinentales. El análisis de cuatro ejemplos -Lima, México, Madrid y Paris- permite a Ringrose aproximarse al papel diferente que determinadas ciudades politicas tuvieron en la estimulación del mundo mercantil en el aumento de sus redes a larga distancia.L'autor estudia l'aparició al segle XVII de grans centres urbans constituits en capitals economiques i polítiques generadores de relacions de dependkncia amb espais regionals i intercontinentals. L'anklisi de quatre exemples -Lima, Mtxic, Madrid i Parispermet a Ringrose aproximar-se als diferents papers que determinades ciutats polítiques tingueren en l'estimulació del món mercantil circundant.The author analyzes the emergence of big cities that became political and economical centres in the XVII century. Those cities generated a relationship based on dependency with other regional and intercontinental spaces which is described by David R. Ringrose through four examples, those of Lima, Mexico, Madrid and Paris
La ciudad y su entorno en la Epoca Moderna
No full textEl autor estudia la aparición en el siglo XVII de grandes centros urbanos constituidos a su vez en capitales económicas y politicas generadoras de relaciones de dependencia con espaciosregionales e intercontinentales. El análisis de cuatro ejemplos -Lima, México, Madrid y Paris- permite a Ringrose aproximarse al papel diferente que determinadas ciudades politicas tuvieron en la estimulación del mundo mercantil en el aumento de sus redes a larga distancia.L'autor estudia l'aparició al segle XVII de grans centres urbans constituits en capitals economiques i polítiques generadores de relacions de dependkncia amb espais regionals i intercontinentals. L'anklisi de quatre exemples -Lima, Mtxic, Madrid i Parispermet a Ringrose aproximar-se als diferents papers que determinades ciutats polítiques tingueren en l'estimulació del món mercantil circundant.The author analyzes the emergence of big cities that became political and economical centres in the XVII century. Those cities generated a relationship based on dependency with other regional and intercontinental spaces which is described by David R. Ringrose through four examples, those of Lima, Mexico, Madrid and Paris
An Interview with Jean-François Vernay
No full textThe second edition of Jean-François Vernay’s book A Brief Take on the Australian Novel (Adelaide: Wakefield Press) was released in 2016. This incisive history of Australian fiction is remarkable for a relatively young scholar, both for its ambitious scope and its innovative approach, employing structural techniques derived from the world and language of cinema. It is designed to appeal to the general reader seeking to test their views against Vernay’s, to those new to the area of Australian fiction who might use it as a guide to their reading, and to those engaged in academic study. As has often been noted, Jean-François Vernay’s French-Australian parentage and background give him an unusual and distinctive perspective on Australian writing. Jean-François is also the author of Water from the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the Works of Christopher Koch (New York: Cambria Press, 2007), as well as numerous other critical studies. His book The Seduction of Fiction: A Plea for Putting Emotions Back into Literary Interpretation will be released in August 2016 as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s series Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. He is also a creative writer in his own right, notably of Un doux petit rêveur (2012)
Christine Reynier. Jeanette Winterson: Le Miracle Ordinaire. Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2004
No full textNew Soundings in Postcolonial Writing: Critical and Creative Contours
No full textNew Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg O’Brien). The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting King’s pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships
New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing: Critical and Creative Contours
No full textNew Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg O’Brien). The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting King’s pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships
Critical Engagements 3.1: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, Reassessing the Graphic Novel: Special issue
No full textReassessing the graphic novel special issues. Critical Engagements is a journal affiliated to the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, featuring criticism and theory, author interviews, reviews, and various other contributions concerned with the literary-critical field from the 1880's
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