Approaches to Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

This book offers a hands-on introduction to, and critical engagement with, concepts current in the transcultural field of Anglophone Studies. The book also offers readings of a selection of key texts that tackle transcultural experiences against monodimensional narratives of nation or culture; silenced or complicated memories against established archives and canons; forms of articulating histories of violence and interrogating dominant cultural narratives. This book highlights the potential of literature and art in schooling our critical faculties and our approaches to a complex world.

Introduces to established and new concepts and perspectives on Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Guides through the overlapping fields of Anglophone, Postcolonial and Comparative studies. Demonstrates the cultural value of informed and 'responsible' readings.

Auteur

Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker lehrt Anglophone Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

Contenu

1. Positions and Positioning 2. Nation, Narration, (Self-)Translation in Modern Anglophone Literatures 3. Entangled Archives, Poetic Webs in Modern Anglophone Literatures 4. Strategies of Self-Translation and Worldmaking in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures