Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary StudiesBRILL, 01.01.2005 - 244 Seiten Transcultural Graffiti reads a range of texts – prose, poetry, drama – in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary creation for the manner in which it gives hints about the teaching of literary studies in our postcolonial, globalizing era. Transcultural Graffiti suggest that cultural work, in particular transcultural work, assembles and collates material from various cultures in their moment of meeting. The teaching of such cultural collage in the classroom should equip students with the means to reflect upon and engage in cultural ‘bricolage’ themselves in the present day. The texts read – from Césaire’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest, via the diaspora fictions of Marica Bodrožic or David Dabydeen, to the post-9/11 poetry of New York poets – are understood as ‘graffiti’-like inscriptions, the result of fleeting encounters in a swiftly changing public world. Such texts provide impulses for a performative ‘risk’ pedagogy capable of modelling the ways in which our constitutive individual and social narratives are constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed today. |
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Transcultural Graffiti | 11 |
POSITIONS | 23 |
TRANSLATION | 57 |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 111 |
INDIGENOUS STUDIES | 151 |
TEACHING | 171 |
What is your name? | 201 |
227 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aboriginal academic activity Aimé Césaire ambivalence Australian autobiography Berlin Bodrožić's Böll Böll's translation bricolage Césaire Césaire's character classroom collage colonial complex concrete constructed contemporary context creative critical cultural studies Dabydeen David Dabydeen Dessaix's diasporic discourse dramatized elided Emmanuel Lévinas English European Frankfurt/Main function Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak German graffiti Heinrich Böll identity indigenous inherent interrogation Janette Turner Hospital knowledge language Lévinas linguistic listening literature London Lost in Translation meaning metaphor metonymic mode Muecke narrative narrator narrator's Nearamnew notion novel Paddy Roe's Paris Patrick White Paul Carter pedagogical performance play poems political postcolonial studies postcolonial texts postmodern potential production Prospero question reader reading relationship Routledge selfhood seminar sense Shakespeare situation social space Spivak Stephen story strategies structures suggests teacher teaching Tempest Tempête textual theory tion tive trans transcultural transformation triangulation Turner Hospital Turner Hospital's University Press WIYN words writing