The painful chrysalis: essays on contemporary cultural and literary identity
Información General
- Autores: Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz (coord.)
- Editores: Peter Lang
- Año de publicación: 2011
- Colecciones: Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture, 6
- País: Suiza
- Idioma: inglés
- ISBN: 9783034306669
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Resumen
This collection of 12 essays offers detailed and varied studies of the unique problematic construction of contemporary identities from a literary and cultural perspective. The Painful Chrysalis covers transcendental, relevant and polemic topics like the difficulty of growing up, classist and interracial struggles, narratives of displacement and exile, queering the world, power politics and the individual, troubling poetics of the self, politically contesting documentaries, or boredom and male anorexia. It ranges from British authors of very different origin (such as David Lodge, Radclyffe Hall, Paul Golding, Zadie Smith or Abdulrazak Gurnah) to Canadian and American women writers (such as P.K. Page, Lalitha Gandbhir, Anita Rau Badami, Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Linda Hogan, Janice Mirikitani, or Gloria AnzaldGloria Anzaldúa). The heterodoxy in the critical approaches, together with the diversity of the contents offered, serve to trace an ample mosaic of the urges and drives of artists living in modern multicultural societies and suffering from specific traumatic experiences. Ultimately, their disturbances and fractures help us elucidate the way in which human fragility is transformed into cathartic creativity.
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págs. 11-34
Queer chrysalides in Tenerife: Radclyffe Hall and the music of Eden
págs. 35-50
“Striking to the mind’s eye”: shock, pessimism, and narration in Paul Golding’s work
págs. 51-80
Telling lies: the rhetoric of the 'Othello syndrome' in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s "Admiring Silence"
págs. 81-100
Reexamining canons of femininity: Zadie Smith’s "On Beauty"
págs. 101-116
Blind passages in multicursal labyrinths: P.K. Page’s "Poetic Journey"
págs. 117-142
'Polychromatic Disturbances': stories by south Asian American women writers
págs. 143-156
Nation, gender, and exile: narratives of displacement and meaning
págs. 157-170
American women’s poetry and the self: a poetics of pluralism
págs. 171-208
Female identity, power, and personal taste: burning deck, tinfish, and avec
págs. 209-228
'As seen on TV': American documentaries and the implosion of reaganism
págs. 229-250
'Hungry men or the modern art of boredom': Franz Kafka, David Blaine and Michael Krasnow
págs. 251-272
