Writing-between-worlds : transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode /
by Ottmar Ette.
- 1 online resource
- Mimesis ; v. 64 .
- Mimesis. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: What does literature know? -- Transit -- Mobile interworlds: toward transareal (literary) scholarship -- Figurations: Odysseus and the angel of history: the vectoral imagination of Shoa literature -- Relations: Caribbean islandworlds: about the fractal geometry of the literary island -- Incubations: A national literature without a fixed abode? fictions and frictions in twentieth-century Cuban literature -- Translations: In others' words: literary translation as writing-between-worlds -- Oscillations: Writing-other(wise) between worlds: about translingual writing in contemporary german-speaking literature -- Confrontations: The transareal worlds of the Arabamericas: chronicle of a clash foretold -- In(tro)spections: Voyages into the realm of the dead: border experiences of a literature after migration -- Configurations. Literature as knowledge-for-living, literary scholarship as science-for-living.
This book proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature. For millennia, literature from a wide variety of geocultural areas has gathered knowledge about life, about survival, and about living together, without either falling into discursive or disciplinary specializations or functioning as a regulatory mechanism for cultural knowledge.
English.
9783110462876 3110462877 9783110462883 3110462885
900989 MIL
2016016114
Culture in literature. Cultural pluralism in literature. Literature and transnationalism. Nationalism and literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary. Cultural pluralism in literature. Culture in literature. Literature and transnationalism. Nationalism and literature. Globalisierung Literatur Transnationalisierung Literaturwissenschaft Literature - General. Languages & Literatures.