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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

Static Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment

By: Ana M. Manzanas,Jesús Benito Sanchez

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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

Static Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment

By: Ana M. Manzanas,Jesús Benito Sanchez

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations, enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down, from the body, the ground zero of spatiality, to the texturology of Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melville’s "Bartleby, the Scrivener" on Wall Street, to the striated spaces of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low, the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany, NY, during the Depression, to the new Towers of Babel that punctuate the contemporary architecture of transparencies. As it strings together these spatial narratives, the volume reveals how, beyond the boundaries that characterize each space, every location has loose ends that are impossible to contain.

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184

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Routledge

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1317917952

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9781317917953

Border Transits

Literature and Culture Across the Line

By: Ana María Manzanas Calvo

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Border Transits

Literature and Culture Across the Line

By: Ana María Manzanas Calvo

What Constitutes A Border Situation? How translatable and "portable" is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dynamics from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The volume is of interest for scholars and researchers in the field of Border studies, Chicano studies, "Ethnic Studies," as well as American Literature and Culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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313

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Rodopi

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9042022493

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9789042022492

Uncertain Mirrors

Magical Realisms in US Ethnic Literatures

By: Jesús Benito Sánchez,Ana María Manzanas Calvo,Begoña Simal González

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Uncertain Mirrors

Magical Realisms in US Ethnic Literatures

By: Jesús Benito Sánchez,Ana María Manzanas Calvo,Begoña Simal González

Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno's concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term "mimesis" as both a "world-reflecting" and a "world-creating" mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different "location of culture" and "direction of culture;" they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical.

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277

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Rodopi

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9042026006

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9789042026001

The Book of Memories

By: Ana María Shua

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The Book of Memories

By: Ana María Shua

The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.

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212

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UNM Press

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0826319483

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9780826319487

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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

Border Transits

Border Transits

Uncertain Mirrors

Uncertain Mirrors

The Book of Memories

The Book of Memories

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