Transcultural graffiti : : diasporic writing and the teaching of literary studies / / Russell West-Pavlov.
Transcultural Graffiti reads a range of texts - prose, poetry, drama - in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary creation for the manner in which it gives hints about the teaching of literary studies in our postcolonial,...
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Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 87 |
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Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Summary: | Transcultural Graffiti reads a range of texts - prose, poetry, drama - in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary creation for the manner in which it gives hints about the teaching of literary studies in our postcolonial, globalizing era. Transcultural Graffiti suggest that cultural work, in particular transcultural work, assembles and collates material from various cultures in their moment of meeting. The teaching of such cultural collage in the classroom should equip students with the means to reflect upon and engage in cultural 'bricolage' themselves in the present day. The texts read - from Césaire's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest , via the diaspora fictions of Marica Bodrožic or David Dabydeen, to the post-9/11 poetry of New York poets - are understood as 'graffiti'-like inscriptions, the result of fleeting encounters in a swiftly changing public world. Such texts provide impulses for a performative 'risk' pedagogy capable of modelling the ways in which our constitutive individual and social narratives are constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed today. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-243). |
ISBN: | 940120263X 1417591188 |
ISSN: | 0929-6999 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Russell West-Pavlov. |