ReFiguring global challenges : literary and cinematic explorations of war, inequality, and migration / edited by Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg, and Amrita Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minervini, Amanda, editor.

Björck, Amelie, editor.

Grinberg, Omri, editor.

Ghosh, Amrita, editor.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 221.

Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; volume 221

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems in literature.

Social problems in motion pictures.

Postcolonialism.

Humanities.

postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 168 pages : 1 color illustration ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close dialogue with literary and cinematic works and practices, the essays of this volume help refigure and rethink such pressing contemporary issues as migration, inequality, racism, post-coloniality, political violence and human-animal relations. A range of fresh perspectives are introduced, amounting to a call for intellectuals to remain critically engaged with the social and planetary"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg, and Amrita Ghosh

Part 1. Films as Sites of Transformation.

Migratory Aesthetics : Proximity and Mutuality / Mieke Bal

Inequality and Contemporary World Cinema / Andreas Jacobsson

Haider : Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial Specters in Kashmir / Amrita Ghosh

Part 2. On Ethical Readings and Subversions.

Reading as Imaginative Resistance : Negotiating the Censor in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country / Sunayani Bhattacharya

Reader as Witness : Rethinking Perpetrators of Political Violence through Contemporary Literature / Cassandra Falke

Part 3. Planetary Connections.

Decolonizing Animals : A Surface Reading of Wisława Szymborska's Poem "Bruegel's Two Monkeys" / Amelie Björck

Globalization and Critical Animal Studies / Dominick LaCapra

Coda. It's Time to Go Outside: A Dialogue with Dominick LaCapra / Amanda Minervini.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: ReFiguring global challenges

ISBN:

9789004677609

9004677607

OCLC:

1385323206