scholarly journals altri canoni / canoni altri

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Conceptual Hierarchies ◽  
The Way

The concept of the literary canon is one of the most debated and controversial in the western intellectual tradition. This book offers ten contributions by Italian scholars of Anglo-American culture addressing the way in which the concept of the literary canon holds out against areas traditionally considered as external or extraneous to it. The essays range over different topics: the etymological analysis of the term "canon"; the relations between canon and performativity; paraliterature – a universe populated by non-hierarchic genres; the relations between post-colonial literature and the canon; postmodern biofiction; studies on translation and finally gay and lesbian literature. The book ends with a meditation on the innovations wrought on the Anglo-American canon by the virtual world of Internet and with a reading proposal originating from a different area of literary studies. Taken as a whole, the intention of the book is to pave the way to democratisation and pluralism in literary studies, going beyond the limitations set by the traditional scale of values of the "western canon". It proposes a frequentation of the geographical and cultural borderlines and hence of the areas of resistance that such borderlines pose to the dominant conceptual hierarchies within and around us, enabling us to glimpse an original future for literature and for western culture in a broader sense.

Suspicion

Strange Bird ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele K. Troy
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the Nazi authorities' suspicion that Albatross Press was a foreign imposter and that John Holroyd-Reece was actually a German agent. Holroyd-Reece was happy with the way things were going for Albatross. The firm, operating out of Paris, had decreased its dependence on Germany. Kurt Enoch's emigration had pulled control over most Albatross-Tauchnitz distribution beyond Reich borders and increased book stocks in Parisian warehouses. Furthermore, the coming Bernhard Tauchnitz centenary gave Holroyd-Reece the perfect platform for selling books and promoting Anglo-American culture. This chapter considers the concern of Leipzig officials that Albatross was being presented as German in the Reich while actually following secret agendas abroad. It also discusses Holroyd-Reece's acquisition of more publishing houses, a move that Enoch, the Nazi authorities, and French intelligence found suspicious.

scholarly journals FEMINIST AND STRUCTURAL NARRATOLOGIE AS IDENTITY (RE)-CONFIGURATIONS IN AFRICAN NARRATIVES: A META-CRITICAL EXPOSITION OF LITERARY ARTICLES

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The World ◽  
Feminist Narratology ◽  
The Way

Research in African literature articulated a number of literary and philosophical theories, particularly in the way that they can potentially undo conventional understandings of gender in the Nigerian context. This paper seeks to apply these insights in the form of a critical narratology.� Although narratology has a structuralist or formalist orientation, having its theoretical beginning in Saussure�s modern linguistics, and like structuralism, aspires to �scientific� or �universalist� claims, it, also, examines the way in which narratives affect the way we perceive the world. This paper will attempt to mobilise narratology critically, with the benefit of the insights emerging from various articles, in order to help our understanding of the question of gender and social themes in Nigerian post-colonial literature. Most especially, this paper will visualise the analysis of structural narratology and finally with feminist narratology in order to correct the inadequacies of structural narratology and the suppression of women in texts.Keywords: African literature, feminist narratology, gender identity, structural narratology

Introduction. What the postcolonial means to us: European literature(s) and postcolonialism

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
THEO D'HAEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Moment ◽  
European Review

‘Postcolonialism’ and ‘postcolonial’ are fashionable terms in literary studies these days. Henk Wesseling, in his ‘Editorial’ in the European Review (12(3): 267–271, 2004), with regard to another fashionable term, ‘empire,’ warned that the same word may mean different things to different people. So too it is with ‘postcolonial’ and ‘postcolonialism’.To begin with, there is the matter of orthography. I have used unhyphenated ‘postcolonial’ and ‘postcolonialism.’ In fact, the hyphenated forms are the older and more conventional. Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin use them in their 1989 The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures, still a landmark publication in the field, as does John Thieme in his 1996 Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Both restrict the use of ‘post-colonial’ to ‘writing by those peoples formerly colonized by Britain’ (Ref. 1, p. 1) and ‘the anglophone literatures of countries other than Britain and the United States’ (Ref. 2, p. 1). Both spurn chronology, reaching back to the 19th and early 20th centuries for examples of ‘post-colonial’ literature. Ashcroft et al. and Thieme thoroughly differ, though, as to the term's precise charge. Ashcroft et al. see ‘post-colonialism’ as covering ‘all the culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day,’ and this because they find there to be ‘a continuity of preoccupations throughout the historical process initiated by European imperial aggression’ (Ref. 1, p. 2). Thieme finds this use of the term problematic, because of its association with ‘writing and other forms of cultural production which display an oppositional attitude towards colonialism, which are to a greater or lesser degree anti-colonial in orientation’ (Ref. 2, p. 1-2).

Queering America: Joy Harjo’s Vision of Radical Contingency

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Burbick
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Way

Joan Burbick reads Jay Harjo from a queering as well as post-colonial perspective, analyzing the way in which normative discourses of social cohesion are questioned and re-formulated from the vantage point of Native American categories such as the berdache. Harjo's vision promotes radical contingency and a seemingly spiritual notion of transference.

Biblical Criticism and the Challenge of Postmodernism

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Terence J. Keegan
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

AbstractPostmodernism involves recognizing that the objective certitude sought by modern scientific and humanistic methods is not possible. Deconstruction paved the way for postmodernism in literary studies, but it is most evident in the work of some reader-response critics. Many reader-response critics utilize the indeterminacy of postmodern insight but are hesitant to accept its subjectivist implications. Biblical scholars tend to prefer methods that yield verifiable results, but some have successfully used postmodern approaches. Christian scholars, though committed to an idea of transcendence to which postmodernism seems to deny access, can still profitably use postmodern approaches but must be prepared to deal with such questions as inspiration and the relation of scholarship to the Church.

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