Palimpsests in ethnic and postcolonial literature and culture : surfacing histories /: surfacing histories. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Yiorgos D. Kalogeras, Johanna C. Kardux, Monika Mueller, Jopi Nyman.
• Editors: Kalogeras, Yiorgos; Mueller, Monika, 1960-; Nyman, Jopi, 1966-; Kardux, Johanna C, 1954-
• Contents: Introduction, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Johanna C. Kardux, Monika Mueller, and Jopi Nyman.- I. Scraping off and Writing/ Painting over: Revisiting the Archive.- Silvia Schultermandl (University of Graz, Austria). 'Palimpsestuous Historiographies in Lisa Lowe's The Intimacies of Four Continents and Karen Tei Yamashita's I-Hotel.'.- Izabella Penier (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom), 'The Body as a Palimpsest: Stor(y)ing Memories in Michelle Cliff Clare Savage Novels and Gayl Jones's Corregidora.'.- Cathy Covell Waegner (University of Siegen, Germany), 'Cultural Palimpsests on the Ethnic Shore: Refunctionalizing Seaside Forts.'.- II. Contested and Interwoven Histories: The City as Palimpsest in Literature and Culture.-Page Laws (Norfolk State University, USA), 'Littoral/Literal Watermarks: Layers of Signification in Maritime Marseille.'.- Kudzai Ngara (University of the Free State, South Africa), 'Memory, History and Identity: Postcolonial Urban Palimpsests in the Writing of Ivan Vladislavić.'.- Sophia Emmanouilidou (Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece), 'Ominous Borders, Liminal Bridges: Narrative Palimpsests of Cultural History and Racial Subjectivity in Alejandro Morales' Epic Novel River of Angeles (2014).'.- Gundo Rial y Costas (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), 'The Marvellous City of Rio de Janeiro and its Favela Other: A Contested Palimpsest.'.- III. Rethinking Cultural Structures and Literary Strategies.- Elisabeth Reichel (University of Basel, Switzerland), 'On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict's Palimpsestuous Writings.'.- Ewa A. Adamkiewicz (University of Graz, Austria), 'Tradition of Black Dissent: James Baldwin and Black Lives Matter.'.- Marta Werbanowska, (Howard University, USA), 'A Palimpsest of Herstories: Intertextuality as a Woman's Practice in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills.'.- Aparajita Nanda (UC Berkeley, USA), 'A Palimpsestuous Reading of Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood.'.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.933581; Postcolonialism in literature; Palimpsests
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030645861
• Related ISBNs: 9783030645854
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