Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl

Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature (eBook, PDF)

Intermedial Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions on visuality, ekphrasis and practices of seeing. It argues that the preoccupation with visual practices in Anglophone postcolonial and transcultural literatures addresses the power of images to regulate cultural visibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000060508
• Artikelnr.: 59308683

Autorenporträt

Birgit Neumann (MA, University of Cologne; PhD, University of Giessen) is Chair of Anglophone Literatures and Translation Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She previously held positions at the universities of Giessen, Münster and Passau and was Visiting Professor at the universities of Cornell (USA), Madison-Wisconsin (USA) and Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge (UK). She is a member of a number of international research networks and an elected member of the Academy of Europe, of the Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (CHLEL) and of the Advisory Board of the "Centre for Comparative Studies", University of Lisbon. She is co-editor of book series on cultural memory (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), on cultural translation (Narr) and on English and American literatures (Brill). Her research engages with the poetics and politics of Anglophone world literatures, cultural translation, intermediality and postcolonial ecocriticism. She is the author of books on Canadian fictions of memory (2005) and on nationalism in 18th-century British literature (2009). She has edited and co-edited a range of volumes and special issues, including collections on Exotic Things in the 18th-century (2015), A History of British Poetry (2015), British TV Comedies - Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies (2105), Cultures of Emotion in 18th-century Britain (2015), Anglophone World Literatures (2017), Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Anglophone Literatures (2017), Global Literary Histories (2018) as well as on the 21st-century Anglophone Novel (2019).

Gabriele Rippl (MA University of Constance; PhD University of Constance) is Full Professor and Chair of Literatures in English at the University of Berne and Director of the Department of English. Trained in English, American and German Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Universities of Constance and Bristol, she previously held positions at the University of Constance and Göttingen and was Visiting Professor/Scholar at the Universities of Bern, Zürich, Fribourg, Cambridge, Brighton, UCLA and London (Ontario). She is a member of a number of international research networks, of the Swiss National Research Council, of several other SNSF committees as well as of AcademiaNet (European Expert Database of Outstanding Female Academics). She serves as co-editor of Anglia. Journal of English Philology, the Anglia Book Series and the De Gruyter series Handbooks of English and American Studies. Text and Theory. In addition, she is on the advisory boards of Interfaces, Amerikastudien/American Studies and the Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Her research is currently dedicated to the study of intermediality and ekphrasis in Anglophone transcultural literature, canon formation, cultural sustainability, as well as 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone life writing. Among her major publications are: Anglophone World Literatures (2017, co-edited); Handbook of Intermediality (2015, edited); Handbuch Kanon und Wertung (2013, co-edited); Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma (2013, co-edited); Imagescapes: Studies in Intermediality (2010, co-edited); Beschreibungs-Kunst (2005, authored) and Lebenstexte (1998, authored).

Both authors are involved in various international academic associations (ICLA, ACLA, MLA, IAWIS, EASLCES, IAUPE, DGfA, Deutscher Anglistenverband, SANAS, SAUTE, Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien, CHLEL, German Society of 18th-Century Studies) and have acted as reviewers for a number of international research foundations.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The Art and Power of Seeing in Postcolonial Contexts
2 Intermedial Aesthetics in Postcolonial Contexts: Transcultural Contests,
Contact Zones and Translations
2. 1 State of the Art: Theoretical Approaches to Word-Image Configurations
in Narrative
Literature
2. 2 Intermediality Research
2. 3 Ekphrasis
2. 4 Visuality, Ekphrasis and Postcolonial Theory
2. 5 Battles against and Encounters with Otherness
2. 6 Verbal-Visual Configurations: Practices of Translation
2. 7 The Politics of Visuality and the Gaze
3 Visuality and the Ethics of Seeing: Michael Ondaatje's The English
Patient
3. 1 Visuality and Ethics - Some Philosophical Perspectives
3. 2 Re-visioning History in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992)
3. 3 Mapping Processes and the Colonial Gaze
3. 4 Ekphrases - Transcultural Solidarities
3. 5 Partial Points of View and the 'Multiplication of the Eyes'
3. 6 Visibilities, Invisibilities and "Reserves of Alterities"
4 Renegotiating Frames and Visibility in David Dabydeen's A Harlot's
Progress
4. 1 Hogarth's and Dabydeen's Blacks
4. 2 "Can the Subaltern Speak?" And Can the Subaltern See? - Configurations
of Voice and
Vision in Dabydeen's Fiction
4. 3 A Harlot's Progress (1985): Navigating the Imagery of 18th-century
Britain
4. 4 Challenging Visual Transparency in A Harlot's Progress
4. 5 Looking beyond the Frame
4. 6 Arts, Commerce and Appropriation
4. 7 The Predicament of Representing Black Subjectivities
5 Salman Rushdie's Entangled Histories, Travelling Images and Alternative
Visions of the Secular Modern Nation-State in Midnight's Children, The
Moor's Last Sigh and The Enchantress of Florence
5. 1 Salman Rushdie's Intermedial Aesthetic and Indian Visual
5. 2 Negotiating Postcolonial Identities: Ekphrasis as Counter-Reading in
Midnight's Children (1981)
5. 3 Rushdie's Ekphrastic Hope: The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
5. 4 The Power of Painting and Ekphrasis: The Enchantress of Florence
(2008)
5. 5 Ekphrasis and Ethics
6 Derek Walcott's "Twin Heads": Postcolonial Ekphrasis and Counter-Visions
in Tiepolo's Hound
6. 1 Derek Walcott: Navigating the Interstices between Visual and Verbal
Art
6. 2 'The Art of Seeing'
6. 3 Contesting Origins and Originals: 'Lime trees trying to be olives'
6. 4 Re-Visioning Impressionism, Provincialising Europe
6. 5 Possibilities and Limits of a Caribbean Aesthetics
6. 6 Walcott's Painterly Re-Visions
6. 7 Toward a New World Aesthetics and Ethics of Seeing
6. 8 Double Visions, Caribbean Re-Vision and 'Seeing Shadows'
7 Serial Intermediality: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and See Now Then
7. 1 Postcolonial Subject Positions: Repetition with a Difference
7. 2 Photography and Seriality in Lucy (1990)
7. 3 Repetition and Ekphrasis in See Now Then (2013)
8 Monstrous Alterity: The Intermedial Aesthetics of Anne Carson's
Autobiography of Red
8. 1 Word-Image Configurations in Anne Carson's Oeuvre
8. 2 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998)
8. 3 Geryon's Autobiographical Project: Sculpture - Writing - Photography
8. 4 Radicalising Ekphrasis
9 'African' and 'American' Ekphrases: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names
9. 1 The Intensity of Impression in Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013)
9. 2 Darling's Art of Description
9. 3 Africa in the Western Mass Media
9. 4 'African' Ekphrases
9. 5 'American' Ekphrases
9. 6 Visual Contact Zones
10 Global Media Cultures, Travelling Images and Transcultural Ekphrasis in
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of A Yellow Sun
10. 1 Rebalancing Stories in a Globalised World
10. 2 Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) - Re-Membering the Nigerian Civil War
10. 3 Transcultural Ekphrases: Igbo-Ukwu Art and Photography
10. 4 War Photography and the Voyeuristic Gaze in Western Media
10. 5 Intermedial Encounters - The Roped Pot as a Narrative Principle
11 Reflections and Refractions of Contemporary Media Cultures in Teju
Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City
11. 1 Convergence Culture and Social Linking
11. 2 Verbal-Visual Configurations in Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the
Thief (2007/2014a) -
Plays of In-Between-Ness
11. 3 Re-visioning Travel Writing: Peripatetic Viewing and Lagos'
"non-linear nature"
11. 4 'The Empty Frame' - Moments of Absence
11. 5 The Ethics and Affects of Visual Practices
11. 6 Restructuring Nigerian Visual Cultures: Photography in Every Day Is
for the Thief
11. 7 Ekphrasis in the Digital Age: Open City (2011)
11. 8 New York: Painting and Architecture
11. 9 Brussels: Monuments and Global Communication
11. 10 Back in New York City: Photography
11. 11 Blind Spots
12 Conclusion