The Painful Chrysalis
Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity
Series: Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture; 6;
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Product details:
- Edition number Neuausg.
- Publisher Peter Lang
- Date of Publication 1 January 2011
- ISBN 9783034306669
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 15x150x220 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
This collection of 12 essays offers detailed and varied studies of the unique problematic construction of contemporary identities from a literary and cultural perspective. The Painful Chrysalis covers transcendental, relevant and polemic topics like the difficulty of growing up, classist and interracial struggles, narratives of displacement and exile, queering the world, power politics and the individual, troubling poetics of the self, politically contesting documentaries, or boredom and male anorexia. It ranges from British authors of very different origin (such as David Lodge, Radclyffe Hall, Paul Golding, Zadie Smith or Abdulrazak Gurnah) to Canadian and American women writers (such as P.K. Page, Lalitha Gandbhir, Anita Rau Badami, Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Linda Hogan, Janice Mirikitani, or Gloria AnzaldGloria Anzaldúa). The heterodoxy in the critical approaches, together with the diversity of the contents offered, serve to trace an ample mosaic of the urges and drives of artists living in modern multicultural societies and suffering from specific traumatic experiences. Ultimately, their disturbances and fractures help us elucidate the way in which human fragility is transformed into cathartic creativity.
MoreTable of Contents:
Contents: Aída Díaz Bild: David Lodge and the Novel as a Mirror of the World's Heteroglossia - Tomás Monterrey: Queer Chrysalides in Tenerife: Radclyffe Hall and the Music of Eden - Marta González Acosta: "Striking to the Mind's Eye": Shock, Pessimism, and Narration in Paul Golding's Work - Fernando Galván: Telling Lies: The Rhetoric of the "Othello Syndrome" in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence - María del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas: Reexamining Canons of Femininity: Zadie Smith's On Beauty - M a Luz González Rodríguez: Blind Passages in Multicursal Labyrinths: P.K. Page's Poetic Journey - Juan Ignacio Oliva: "Polychromatic Disturbances": Stories by South American Women Writers - Amy Kaminsky: Nation, Gender, and Exile: Narratives of Displacement and Meaning - Matilde Martín González: American Women's Poetry and the Self: A Poetics of Pluralism - Manuel Brito: Female Identity, Power, and Personal Taste: Burning Deck, Tinfish, and Avec - Juan José Cruz: "As Seen on TV": American Documentaries and the Implosion of Reaganism - Nieves Pascual: Hungry Men or the Modern Art of Boredom: Franz Kafka, David Blaine and Michael Krasnow.
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