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Convergences and interferences : newness in intercultural practices = ecritures d'une nouvelle ère/aire / editors, Kathleen Gyssels, Isabel Hoving, Maggie Ann Bowers.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Thamyris intersecting ; no. 8.
- Thamyris intersecting, 1381-1312 ; no. 8
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Aesthetics.
- Literature.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Multilingualism in literature.
- Multiculturalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 293 pages : 1 color illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Convergences & interferences
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Rodopi, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Twelve English and eight French papers originally presented at a conference in Antwerp, Belgium in April 2000.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Newness, Survival, Place 11
- Dual Citizenship, Elsewhereness, and the Sources of Creativity / Shani Mootoo 19
- 1. How to Imagine Plurality? 27
- Des poetiques de relation et de globalisation dans la Caraibe francophone / Suzanne Crosta 29
- Doing Away With Boundaries: Canadian Writers of Caribbean and Asian Descent / Judith Misrahi-Barak 43
- Redefining Culture, Politicizing Nature: Negotiating the Essentialism of Natural Metaphors of Identification in the Work of James Clifford and Aime Cesaire / Dominique Licops 53
- 2. Locations of Power, Sites of Resistance 69
- Un dictateur subalterne? A propos d'Une peine a vivre / Luc Rasson 71
- Evelyn Accad ou la blessure des mots / Marie-Agnes Sourieau 81
- Public Violence Enters the Private: Assia Djebar and Hanan al-Shaykh on Civil War / Inge Boer 93
- The Fanonian Theory of Violence in Women's Fiction from the Caribbean / Odile Ferly 107
- The 'Unfettered Vacuum'
- A Postcolonial Reading of Journey to Ithaca and Fasting Feasting / Chandra Chatterjee 121
- 3. New Strategies of (Re) Writing 133
- Integrations and Mutations in Recent South African Writing / Marita Wenzel 135
- Pan-Caribbean Identity in the Writing of Haitian, Cuban, and Dominican Writers in America / Marie-Jose N'Zengou 149
- L'Echo de Narcisse, ou les voix du miroir: la nouvelle en Nouvelle-Caledonie / Eric Fougere 159
- Hispanicity and Resistance in Global Culture: the Stories of Zorro / Nadia Lie 173
- 4. Embodying Polyphony 185
- Eaux obscures du souvenir: femme et memoire dans l'oeuvre d'Ananda Devi / Veronique Bragard 187
- Polyphonie et alterite dans Onitsha et Etoile Errante / Isa Van Acker 201
- Geographical and Generic Traversings in the Writings of Amitav Ghosh / Kanika Batra 211
- 5. Counter-readings: New Ways to Read New Writers 221
- Repeter les cliches? Representations d'Haiti et du Bresil dans la litterature migrante du Quebec / Euridice Figueiredo 223
- Spatial Memory in Chaneysville Incident and Dear Future: New Literatures, History, and Literary History / Wim Van Mierlo 235
- 'Worldpainting', Art-vaudou, et/ou Neo-baroque: le peintre haitien Edouard Duval-Carrie / Carl-Hermann Middelanis 257
- A City Visible But Unseen / Nandini Bhattacharya 273.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9042015381
- OCLC:
- 50220200
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