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Shapes of Silence
Drawing from the insights of subaltern studies and postcolonial feminisms, Proma Tagore brings together the work of a diverse group of writers - Toni Morrison, Shani Mootoo, Louise Erdrich, M.K. Indira, Rashsundari Debi, and Mahasweta Devi. She focuses on the visceral, affective nature of their narratives and explores the way that personal and historical trauma, initially silenced, may be recorded across generations, as well as across complex national, racial, gender, and sexual lines.
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La rhétorique de l’éloge: bilan et perspectives
Si, à la fin du xxe siècle, le genre dit “épidictique” était peu considéré par les chercheurs, l’enquête menée dans La rhétorique de l’éloge a fait apparaître l’importance historique de cette forme rhétorique, la richesse de sa technique et la complexité de ses enjeux sociaux, qui visaient à la formation d’un consensus. Sur cette base, des pistes de travail restent ouvertes pour l’avenir: elles portent sur l’envers du consensus (les sous-entendus éventuellement critiques), sur la périodisation de l’histoire de l’éloge (en prenant en compte, notamment, l’époque hellénistique, l’Antiquité tardive et la Troisième sophistique) et sur des enquêtes philologiques restant à mener dans le domaine de l’édition de textes et à propos de l’atticisme et des rythmes de la prose.
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The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives
Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways, Asian North Americans negotiate daily with 'birthmarks,' their shared physical features marking them legally, socially, and culturally as visible outsiders, and paradoxically, as invisible to mainstream history and culture.
Ty argues that writers such as Denise Chong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and Wayson Choy recast the marks of their bodies and challenge common perceptions of difference based on the sights, smells, dress, and other characteristics of their hyphenated lives. Others, like filmmaker Mina Shum and writers Bienvenido Santos and Hiromi Goto, challenge the means by which Asian North American subjects are represented and constructed in the media and in everyday language. Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies the techniques of various authors and filmmakers in their meeting of the gaze of dominant culture and their response to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies.
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A Literature of Questions
Nonfiction books for children-from biographies and historical accounts of communities and events to works on science and social justice-have traditionally been most highly valued by educators and parents for their factual accuracy. This approach, however, misses an opportunity for young readers to participate in the generation and testing of information.
InA Literature of Questions, Joe Sutliff Sanders offers an innovative theoretical approach to children's nonfiction that goes beyond an assessment of a work's veracity to develop a book's equivocation as a basis for interpretation. Addressing how such works are either vulnerable or resistant to critical engagement, Sanders pays special attention to the attributes that nonfiction shares with other forms of literature, including voice and character, and those that play a special role in the genre, such as peritexts and photography.
The first book-length work to theorize children's nonfiction as nonfiction from a literary perspective,A Literature of Questionscarefully explains how the genre speaks in unique ways to its young readers and how it invites them to the project of understanding. At the same time, it clearly lays out a series of techniques for analysis, which it then applies and nuances through extensive close readings and case studies of books published over the past half century, including recent award-winning books such as Tanya Lee Stone'sAlmost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to DreamandWe Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseballby Kadir Nelson. By looking at a text's willingness or reluctance to let children interrogate its information and ideological context, Sanders reveals how nonfiction can make young readers part of the project of learning rather than passive recipients of information.
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Recite and refuse : contemporary Chinese prose poetry
\"'Recite and refuse' is a genre study of contemporary mainland Chinese prose poetry that focuses on work produced after 1949. It reads prose poetry through its compositional processes, primary among which are the acts of recitation (the re-performance of prior texts) and refusal (the assertion of difference from prior art). These processes have their origin in the orthodox socialist poetics of the Hundred Flowers Movement, during which poets ventriloquized and subjectivized official party prose; over the course of several decades, they have migrated uneasily into the avant-garde, in which artists use recitation and refusal as a way to make prose something quite different from the trustworthy, transparent literary form it is sometimes assumed to be. The book also serves as a small anthology of translations: it includes pieces by Ke Lan, Guo Feng, Liu Zaifu, Xi Chuan, among others, and contains the first complete English version of the intricate, epic prose poem 'Hanging coffin' by Ouyang Jianghe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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La poétique de la nouvelle dans les Novelas amorosas y ejemplares de María de Zayas : de la novelle au roman
María de Zayas ha sido en los últimos años objeto de un intenso interés de la crítica motivado por su condición de mujer que escribe sobre la situación de la mujer de su tiempo. Sin embargo, la dimensión poética de su obra ha sido menos estudiada. Este trabajo pretende contribuir a este conocimiento poniendo de relieve el aporte fundamental de lasNovelas amorosas y ejemplaresa la poética de un relato en prosa en plena transformación en la España del siglo XVII à través de tres elementos clave: el relato marco, la verosimilitud y la ejemplaridad.
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