Symbolism : an international annual of critical aesthetics. Volume 14 / edited by Rüdiger Ahrens and Klaus Stierstorfer ; assistant editor, Florian Kläger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahrens, Rüdiger, 1939- editor.

Stierstorfer, Klaus, editor.

Kläger, Florian, editor.

Series:

Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , 1528-3623 ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolism in literature.

Symbolism (Art movement).

Symbolism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas? How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas, sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology, history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical reflections.

Contents:

Front matter

Foreword from the Editors

Contents

Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora

Introduction: Symbols of Diaspora / Kläger, Florian

Tied to the Land: A Semiotic Challenging of Terms Concerning Land as Used in Diaspora Discourse / Wattenbarger, Melanie R.

Diasporic Memory and Narratives of Spatiotemporality / Drnovšek Zorko, Špela

Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Political Aesthetics of Diasporic Social Spaces in London / Swaby, Nydia A.

The Symbolism of Emplacement and Displacement in Sudanese British Fiction by Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela / Windt, Leonie

Ain't I a Woman? A Mother? A Nation? 'Woman' and 'Nation' in Pre- and Post- Independence India / Rascanu, Iulia

Christmas in the Diaspora: Dislocating Symbols in Kipling, Cary and Dabydeen / Knor, Sarah

Two Stone Lions: Law, Home, and Diasporic Sovereignty / Patchett, Emma

Oddity Magnified: In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans / Quabeck, Franziska

Writing Her Own Story: Acculturation, Metatextuality and Symbolizing Queerness in Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight / Morgan, Holly

'A Bootless Inquisition?' Searching for Imaginary Homelands in The Tempest / Tronicke, Marlena

General Section

Discourses of Terror in French and Spanish Novels after 9/11 / Hennigfeld, Ursula

William Earle's Novella: Obi, Obeah and the Ideological Work of Haunting / Sandiford, Keith

A Great Good Place or Ghastly Pile? Representations of the English Country House in Recent British Fiction: Metamorphosis of a Literary Motif / Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara

Book Reviews

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Special focus : symbols of diaspora.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110408041

311040804X

9783110407990

311040799X

OCLC:

979633624