Françoise Kral

Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture

The Fractal Gaze

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Produktbeschreibung

Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-40138-0
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781137401380
• ISBN-10: 1137401389
• Artikelnr.: 41122074

Autorenporträt

Françoise Kral is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France. Her publications include Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature (2009), Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self'/Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand (ed, 2004) and Architecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Gins (co-edited with Jean-Jacques Lecercle, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORIZING INVISIBILITY STUDIES 1. Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility 2. Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility PART II: ARTISTIC SCENES OF VISIBILITY 3. Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question 4. Films and Mass Visibility PART III: SITES OF INVISIBILITY 5. Nation Building and Home Thinking 6. Invisibility and the Fractal City Concluding Remarks: On Fractal Visibility Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Françoise Král's Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture therefore does raise a number of essential issues, in an often compelling manner ... . It remains an extremely fascinating and illuminating work whose call for the development of invisibility studies no doubt will be heeded." (Mathilde Rogez, Miranda, Vol. 12, 2016)