Beyond Pug's Tour

National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-420-0168-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

At a time when the world, Europe especially, is once more threatened by murderous conflicts between groups of people claiming ethnic and national identity as a basis for sovereignty over specific territories, it is timely to consider the part that literature has played and is playing in the creation of ethnic and national stereotypes. What role do such stereotypes have in literature? How are they created? From what materials are they constructed? What purpose do ethnic and national stereotypes serve? Can it ever be a useful one? Are they avoidable? Can we live without them? What can be done about the deleterious effects they may be thought to produce? Stereotyping is worldwide — is there a tribe, race and nation in existence which escapes being stereotyped by its neighbours? In what sense are these stereotypes "accurate"? How are these stereotypes reflected in and reinforced by literature? Should and can literature do anything about them? In Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice, literary scholars, as well as academics engaged in sociological and psychological research, consider these and other questions by examining the work of specific authors and the circumstances in which stereotyping plays such a crucial part.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barfoot, C.C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations. Preface. C.C. BARFOOT: Beyond Pug's Tour: Stereotyping Our Fellow-Creatures. Marco CINNIRELLA: Ethic and National Stereotypes: A Social Identity Perspective. Steve REICHER, Nick HOPKINS, and Susan CONDOR: The Lost Nation of Psychology. Ton HOENSELAARS: National Stereotypes in English Renaissance Literature. Patricia SHAW: Sensual, Solemn, Sober, Slow and Secret: The English View of the Spaniard, 1590-1700. J.P. VANDER MOTTEN: James Howell's Instructions for Forreine Travell (1642): The Politics of Seventeenth-Century Continental Travel. Juan E. TAZÓN: The Evolution of a Stereotype: The Indian In English Renaissance Promotional Literature. David FAUSETT: Another World, yet the Same: Ethnic Stereotyping in Early Travel Fiction. Ann THOMSON: Eighteenth-Century Images of the Arab. Annemieke MEIJER: National Stereotypes in Contemporary Reactions to Sentimental Literature. Marysa DEMOOR: The Black and White Minstrel show: Rider Haggard's Exotic Romances. Annemieke MEIJER: National Stereotypes in Contempporary Reactions to Sentimental Literature. Marysa DEMOOR: The Black and White Minstrel Show: Rider Haggard's Exotic Romances. Robert DRUCE: National and Racial Stereotypes in the British Raj. Susan CONDOR: Having History: A Social Psychological Exploration of Anglo-British autostereotypes. Phillip MALLETT: Rudyard Kipling and the Invention of Englishness. Menno SPIERING: Englishness and Post-War Literature. Jane MALLINSON: Neighboorhoods of Silence: T.S. Eliot and the Stereotype. Joep LEERSSEN: The Allochronic Periphery: Towards a Grammar of Cross-Cultural Representation. Susan de SOLA RODSTEIN: John Bull and Paddy's Pig: Shaw and the Stage Irishman. Nick HOPKINS and Steve REICHER: Constructing the Nation and Collective Mobilization: A Case Study of Politicians' Arguments about the Meaning of Scottishness. Claire LAMONT: The Stereotype Scot and the Idea of Britain. Iain HALLIDAY: Base and Basic Instincts: Italians in English Letters. Harald HUSEMANN: The Colditz Industry. Marion SCHNÖINK-JUPPE: The Image of Nazi Germany in British Popular Literature. Gerd ROHMANN: Images of Germany in Post-War English Fiction. Lachlan R. MOYLE: Once a German - Always a German! Germans in Germany in Contemporary British Press Cartoons. A. Robert LEE: I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen: Native Identity and the Novels of Thomas King, Linda Hogan, Louis Owens and Betty Louise Bell. Nicole SLAGTER: Maxine Hong Kinston Under Review: the Response to China Men. Lars M. FANT: The Stereotypical Response of Intercultural Interactant. Joseph L. SOETERS and Mireille van TWUYVER: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Organizations. Bibliography. Notes on Contributors. Index.