Building A National Literature

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Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural function, and the notion of a canon of major and minor authors.

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Genre : History
Author : Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Release : 1989
File : 380 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0801496225


National Literature In Multinational States

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If literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginary—a sense of common history and destiny—it has also complicated, even challenged, the unifying vision assumed in the formation of a national literature and sense of nation. National Literature in Multinational States questions the persistent association of literature and nation-states, contrasting this with the reality of multinational and ethnocultural diversity. The contributors to this collection interrogate concepts and manifestations of nationalism in the context of literary production while evaluating the place of national literatures in multinational states at a time when social unity and political agreement have never been more elusive. The volume strives for synoptic analysis via the complementary, multifaceted treatment of literary creation in several geo-cultural contexts: Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, India, and Nigeria. Contributors: Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay, Albert Braz, Matthew Cormier, Doris Hambuch, Clara A.B. Joseph, Paul D. Morris, Asma Sayed, Matthew Tétreault, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Jerry White

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Albert Braz
Publisher : University of Alberta
Release : 2023-04-13
File : 241 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781772126754


Interactive Vernacular National Literature

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Genre : Hiligaynon literature
Author : Lucila V. Hosillos
Publisher : UP Press
Release : 2006
File : 256 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9715425216


Black Consciousness And South Africa S National Literature

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This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much existing criticism on South Africa’s national literature has attempted to overcome these divisions by discussing material written from a variety of different subject positions together. This book argues that Black Consciousness desired a new South Africa where African and European cultures were valued equally, and writers could represent both as they wished. Thus, a body of literature was created that addressed a range of audiences and imagined the South African nation in different ways. This book explores Black Consciousness in order to demonstrate how South African writers have responded in various ways to the changing history and politics of their country.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Tom Penfold
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2017-10-14
File : 155 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319579405


Indian English And The Fiction Of National Literature

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Tracks the establishment of a national literature in English for independent India over the course of the twentieth century

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Rosemary Marangoly George
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2013-11-21
File : 299 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107040007


Gender And National Literature

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DIVThis work presents a new understanding of the way that classic works of Japanese literature have been received and understood within the framework of national literature studies in Japan./div

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Genre : History
Author : トミコ・ヨダ
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release : 2004-03-22
File : 300 Pages
ISBN-13 : 082233237X


The Underground Railroad Pulitzer Prize Winner National Book Award Winner Oprah S Book Club

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
Release : 2016-08-02
File : 296 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780385537049


From New National To World Literature

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From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or international English literature. Bruce King, one of the pioneers in the study of the new national literatures and still an active literary critic, discusses the personalities, writers, issues, and contexts of what he considers the most important change in culture since modernism. In this selection of forty-five essays and reviews, King discusses issues such as the emergence and aesthetics of African literature, the question of the existence of a “Nigerian literature”, the place of the new universities in decolonizing culture, the contrasting models of American and Irish literatures, and the changing nature of exile and diasporas. He emphasizes themes such as traditionalism versus modernism, the dangers of cultural assertion, and the relationships between nationalism and internationalism. Special attention is given to Nigerian, West Indian, Australian, Indian, and Pakistani literature.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Bruce King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release : 2016-07-05
File : 645 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783838268569


Fontane And Cultural Mediation

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In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed:nowhere is so much translation done as in Germany. Characterizing Germany as a special locus of literary translation and reception, Fontane contests a prejudice which has since become a significant problem for nineteenth-century German studies, namely the frequent assessment of the epoch as narrowly national. The present collection of essays by thirteen eminent literary scholars and historians is intended to correct this prejudice: it demonstrates that literary life and production in the nineteenth century were governed by complex networks of intercultural exchange, influence and translation, and it does justice to this complexity through its range of complementary critical approaches, focussing on Fontane, Anglo-German relations, translation, and European reception. In so doing, this book not only offers a nuanced appreciation of literary production and reception in the nineteenth century, but also demonstrates the continued relevance of that period for Germanists today.

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Genre : Foreign Language Study
Author : Robertson Ritchie
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-07-05
File : 209 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351566957


Occasional Papers X A System Of National Book Keeping

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Publisher : CUP Archive
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