ReFiguring Global Challenges : Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration (Cross/cultures)

Minervini, Amanda (EDT)/ Björck, Amelie (EDT)/ Grinberg, Omri (EDT)

Brill（2023/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004677609

Full Description

An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close dialogue with literary and cinematic works and practices, the essays of this volume help refigure and rethink such pressing contemporary issues as migration, inequality, racism, post-coloniality, political violence and human-animal relations. A range of fresh perspectives are introduced, amounting to a call for intellectuals to remain critically engaged with the social and planetary.

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

  Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg and Amrita Ghosh

Part 1

Films as Sites of Transformation

1 Migratory Aesthetics Proximity and Mutuality

  Mieke Bal

2 Inequality and Contemporary World Cinema

  Andreas Jacobsson

3 Haider Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial Specters in Kashmir

  Amrita Ghosh

Part 2

On Ethical Readings and Subversions

4 Reading as Imaginative Resistance Negotiating the Censor in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country

  Sunayani Bhattacharya

5 Reader as Witness Rethinking Perpetrators of Political Violence through Contemporary Literature

  Cassandra Falke

Part 3

Planetary Connections Human and the Animal

6 Decolonizing Animals A Surface Reading of Wisława Szymborska's Poem "Bruegel's Two Monkeys"

  Amelie Björck

7 Globalization and Critical Animal Studies

  Dominick LaCapra

  Coda It's Time to Go Outside: A Dialogue with Dominick LaCapra

  Amanda Minervini

Index