TY - BOOK AU - Ette,Ottmar TI - Writing-between-worlds: transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode T2 - Mimesis SN - 9783110462876 AV - PN56.C85 U1 - 809 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Culture in literature KW - Cultural pluralism in literature KW - Literature and transnationalism KW - Nationalism and literature KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Globalisierung KW - gnd KW - Literatur KW - Transnationalisierung KW - Literaturwissenschaft KW - Literature - General KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1201624 ER -