Explores the relationship between literature and international relations and considers how writing resists norms and puts any fixed or final idea of community in question. Part I examines the European context (1860 to 1945) and Part II analyses the traditions of disruptive writing that emerged out of sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia after 1945.
Explores the relationship between literature and international relations and considers how writing resists norms and puts any fixed or final idea of community in question. Part I examines the European context (1860 to 1945) and Part II analyses the traditions of disruptive writing that emerged out of sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia after 1945.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Peter D. McDonald was born in Cape Town in 1964 and educated in South Africa and England. He writes on literature, the modern state and the freedom of expression; the history of writing systems, cultural institutions and publishing; multilingualism, translation and interculturality; and on the limits of literary criticism. His publications include British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1888-1914 (1997), Making Meaning: 'Printers of the Mind' and Other Essays by D. F. McKenzie (2002), edited with Michael Suarez, and The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences (2009). He is a Fellow of St Hugh's College and Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of Oxford.
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* Introduction * Part I: 1867-1945 * 1: Oxford at the Crossroads: England and the world beyond * 2: T. S. Eliot vs. the League and UNESCO * 3: 'Independence, Dependence, and Interdependence Day': Finnegans Wake and the Modern State * Part 2: 1946-2014 * Prologue: The 'C' in UNESCO: A Very Short Introduction * 4: Notes toward a Vagabond Humanism: Mphahlele's Tagore/Rabindrânâth's B¿uls * 5: Against State Literacy: J. M. Coetzee vs. the Novel * 6: Beyond Translation: Antjie Krog vs. the 'Mother Tongue' * 7: Against Naturalization: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and the 'Interplay of Languages' * 8: Beyond Multiculturalism: Tagore . . . Joyce . . . Rushdie . . . Chaudhuri * Postscript: Between Sky and Ground - The Art of Xu Bing
* Introduction * Part I: 1867-1945 * 1: Oxford at the Crossroads: England and the world beyond * 2: T. S. Eliot vs. the League and UNESCO * 3: 'Independence, Dependence, and Interdependence Day': Finnegans Wake and the Modern State * Part 2: 1946-2014 * Prologue: The 'C' in UNESCO: A Very Short Introduction * 4: Notes toward a Vagabond Humanism: Mphahlele's Tagore/Rabindrânâth's B¿uls * 5: Against State Literacy: J. M. Coetzee vs. the Novel * 6: Beyond Translation: Antjie Krog vs. the 'Mother Tongue' * 7: Against Naturalization: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and the 'Interplay of Languages' * 8: Beyond Multiculturalism: Tagore . . . Joyce . . . Rushdie . . . Chaudhuri * Postscript: Between Sky and Ground - The Art of Xu Bing
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