Screen LibraryThe novel and Europe : imagining the continent in post-1945 fiction /
"This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and mar...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave studies in modern European literature
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| Summary: |
"This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization), offering a ground-breaking study of how modern and contemporary writers have participated in the European debate. The sixteen essays view the chosen writers, not as representatives of national literatures, but as participants in transcontinental discussion that has occurred across borders, cultures, and languages."--Page [4] of cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-341) and index. |
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9781137526267 1137526262 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106.4 |
| Call Number: | I106.4/N937-1 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Traumatic Europe: The Impossibility of Mourning in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Ágota Kristóf's Europe: (Un)Connectedness and (Non-)Belonging in The Third Lie / Between Yearning and Aversion: Visions of Europe in Hilde Spiel's The Darkened Room / The European Origins of Albania in Ismail Kadare's The File on H / Images of Conquest: Europe and Latin American Identity / Sissie's Odyssey: Literary Exorcism in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy / European Fiction on the Borders: The Case of Herta Müller / Borders, Borderlands and Romani Identity in Colum McCann's Zoli / A Betrayal of Enlightenment: EU Expansion and Tonu Onnepalu's Border State / The Dilemmas of 'Post-Communism': Elizabeth Wilson's The Lost Time Café / Minorities and Migrants: Transforming the Swedish Literary Field / 'My Dream Can Also Become Your Burden': Semezdin Mehmedinović's Poetics of Self-Determination / Blowing Hot and Cold: Georgia and the West / Becoming Black in Belgium: Chika Unigwe and the Social Construction of Blackness / Undivided Waters: Spatial and Translational Paradoxes in Emine Sevgi Ozdamar's The Bridge of the Golden Horn / Amara Lakhous's Divorce Islamic Style: Muslim Connections in European Culture / |