Beyond Boundaries

Textual Representations of European Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-1543-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: European Studies - An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics

Despite the recent growth in university courses on European Studies and Cultural Studies, and notwithstanding increasing public concern about questions of national identity within Europe, there is currently little material available which explores the diversity of European identities specifically within the context of European literary and filmic culture. In tackling ten novels, six plays, four films, three short stories, three books of travel writing and one diary, covering fifteen nationalities in all, the authors of this volume are seeking to fill this gap. The twelve essays contain detailed textual analysis embedded within a framework of cultural theory whose most celebrated reference points include Freud, Edward Said, Benedict Anderson and Homi Bhabha.
This volume is aimed not only at specialists in identity studies and those concerned with the artistic landscape of a wider Europe - including Russia, the Balkans, Finland and Turkey. It will also interest those preoccupied with building an imaginative and imagined identity for Europe, an identity which might help to sustain it as a political entity and lend it greater popular legitimacy than it enjoys at present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hollis, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Andy HOLLIS: Introduction
Deborah PARSONS: Nationalism or Continentalism?: Representing Heritage
Culture for a New Europe
Parvati NAIR: Homing the Other:the Immigrant as New European in David Planell’s Bazar
Ortwin de GRAEF and Henriëtte LOUWERSE: The Alteration of Amsterdam: Hafid Bouzza’s Entertainment of Cultural Identity
Moray McGOWAN: ‘The Bridge of the Golden Horn’: Istanbul, Europe and the ‘Fractured Gaze from the West’ in Turkish Writing in Germany
Philip DINE: Memorial Boundaries and Textual Transgressions: the Narrative Politics of France’s Algerian War
Ludmilla KOSTOVA: Inventing Post-Wall Europe: Visions of the ‘Old’ Continent in Contemporary British Fiction and Drama
Irina KABANOVA: Two Kinds of Vagueness: ‘Europeanness’ in Tim Parks and Anastasia Gostova
Andy HOLLIS: Shifting of Boundaries: Humour and National Identity in Three Versions of Ulrich Plenzdorf’s Freiheitsberaubung (‘Wrongful Detention’)
Juliet WIGMORE: Holofernes Commits Harakiri: Elisabeth Reichart’s Das vergessene Lächeln der Amaterasu
Richard ROBINSON: The European Border: Joyce’s Triestine Ulysses
John SUNDHOLM: The Non-Place of Identity: On the Poetics of a Minority Culture
William HOPE: The Silent Traveller: Self-Reinvention in Curzio
Malaparte’s ‘Diary of a Foreigner in Paris’