Exit : endings and new beginnings in literature and life /
Exit : endings and new beginnings in literature and life /
edited by Stefan Helgesson.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Cross/cultures ; 130 .
- Cross/Cultures 130. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004357914. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Some Thoughts on the Idea of Exit: in Recent African Narratives of Childhood / Generation and Complicity: in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light / “Let Me Tell You About Bekolo’s Latest Film, Les Saignantes, But First . . . ” / Tradition and Creativity: in Zakes Mda’s Cion / Paton’s Discovery, Soyinka’s Invention / Writing Out Imperialism?: A Note on Nationalism and Political Identity in the African-Owned Newspapers of Colonial Ghana / After Exit: Exile, Creativity, and the Risk of Translation / African Presences and Representations: in the Principality/Markgrafschaft of Bayreuth / Taking Flight: and the Libertarian Crow-Scarer / “In my end is my beginning”: The Death of Virginia Woolf / Following the Race Track?: Swedish, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Canadian in Diamond Grill by Fred Wah / Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation / “Gazing into the future”: Beginnings, Endings, and Midpoints in Paul Muldoon’s Why Brownlee Left / Exiting the Environmental Trap: Knowledge Regimes and the Third Phase of Environmental Policy / The End of the “Earth” / Myself as a Puff of Dust: A Ghost Story / TIXE YLNO: or Redefining Identities / Contributors. Richard K. Priebe -- Maria Olaussen -- Kenneth W. Harrow -- David Bell -- Bernth Lindfors -- Stephanie Newell -- Stefan Helgesson -- Eckhard Breitinger -- Gerald Porter -- Catherine Sandbach–Dahlström -- Elisabeth Mårald -- J. Hillis Miller -- Lars–Håkan Svensson -- Sverker Sörlin -- Willy Bach -- Jane Bryce -- Janice Kulyk Keefer --
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If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible, necessary or desirable. This collection of essays, which celebrates the achievement of the Swedish Africanist and postcolonial scholar Raoul Granqvist, deal with the broad theme of exit – in the form of exile, displacement, suicide, endings and, indeed, beginnings. After all, “In my end is my beginning” (T.S. Eliot). Childhood as exit rite in contemporary African literature (Camara Laye’s L’Enfant Noir and Ishmael Beah’s Long Way Gone ); the Cameroonian director Jean Pierre Bekolo’s controversial film Les Saignantes ; an early play by Wole Soyinka; Ghana during the First World War; Zakes Mda’s Cion ; proto-nationalist writing on the Gold Coast; passing in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light ; the exile of South African and Caribbean writers; translation theory in the global South; public representations of Africans in north-east Bavaria; oral poetry in rural England; Fred Wah’s Swedish-Chinese background in twentieth-century Canada; Toni Morrison’s Beloved and infanticide; the open endings of the poetry of Paul Muldoon; the suicide of Virginia Woolf; the viability of global environmental policies – these are some of the topics that this book, in defiance of neat disciplinary boundaries, addresses. The closing section, “Voicing the Exit,” transcends the academic format with its evocative literary representations of the experience of exit (in Tanzania, Uganda, Ukrainian Canada and elsewhere).
9789042032521
10.1163/9789042032521 DOI
2011453608
African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Exiles' writings, African (English)--History and criticism.
Transnationalism in literature.
African literature (English)
Exiles' writings, African (English)
Transnationalism in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9340.5 / .E95 2011
820.996
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Some Thoughts on the Idea of Exit: in Recent African Narratives of Childhood / Generation and Complicity: in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light / “Let Me Tell You About Bekolo’s Latest Film, Les Saignantes, But First . . . ” / Tradition and Creativity: in Zakes Mda’s Cion / Paton’s Discovery, Soyinka’s Invention / Writing Out Imperialism?: A Note on Nationalism and Political Identity in the African-Owned Newspapers of Colonial Ghana / After Exit: Exile, Creativity, and the Risk of Translation / African Presences and Representations: in the Principality/Markgrafschaft of Bayreuth / Taking Flight: and the Libertarian Crow-Scarer / “In my end is my beginning”: The Death of Virginia Woolf / Following the Race Track?: Swedish, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Canadian in Diamond Grill by Fred Wah / Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation / “Gazing into the future”: Beginnings, Endings, and Midpoints in Paul Muldoon’s Why Brownlee Left / Exiting the Environmental Trap: Knowledge Regimes and the Third Phase of Environmental Policy / The End of the “Earth” / Myself as a Puff of Dust: A Ghost Story / TIXE YLNO: or Redefining Identities / Contributors. Richard K. Priebe -- Maria Olaussen -- Kenneth W. Harrow -- David Bell -- Bernth Lindfors -- Stephanie Newell -- Stefan Helgesson -- Eckhard Breitinger -- Gerald Porter -- Catherine Sandbach–Dahlström -- Elisabeth Mårald -- J. Hillis Miller -- Lars–Håkan Svensson -- Sverker Sörlin -- Willy Bach -- Jane Bryce -- Janice Kulyk Keefer --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible, necessary or desirable. This collection of essays, which celebrates the achievement of the Swedish Africanist and postcolonial scholar Raoul Granqvist, deal with the broad theme of exit – in the form of exile, displacement, suicide, endings and, indeed, beginnings. After all, “In my end is my beginning” (T.S. Eliot). Childhood as exit rite in contemporary African literature (Camara Laye’s L’Enfant Noir and Ishmael Beah’s Long Way Gone ); the Cameroonian director Jean Pierre Bekolo’s controversial film Les Saignantes ; an early play by Wole Soyinka; Ghana during the First World War; Zakes Mda’s Cion ; proto-nationalist writing on the Gold Coast; passing in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light ; the exile of South African and Caribbean writers; translation theory in the global South; public representations of Africans in north-east Bavaria; oral poetry in rural England; Fred Wah’s Swedish-Chinese background in twentieth-century Canada; Toni Morrison’s Beloved and infanticide; the open endings of the poetry of Paul Muldoon; the suicide of Virginia Woolf; the viability of global environmental policies – these are some of the topics that this book, in defiance of neat disciplinary boundaries, addresses. The closing section, “Voicing the Exit,” transcends the academic format with its evocative literary representations of the experience of exit (in Tanzania, Uganda, Ukrainian Canada and elsewhere).
9789042032521
10.1163/9789042032521 DOI
2011453608
African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Exiles' writings, African (English)--History and criticism.
Transnationalism in literature.
African literature (English)
Exiles' writings, African (English)
Transnationalism in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9340.5 / .E95 2011
820.996