20th Century and Contemporary American Literature
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- ISBN 9783034306669
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 150 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Juan Ignacio Oliva is Professor of Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and Head of the Center for Canadian Studies at the University La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain). He is the editor of Canadaria (Revista Canaria de Estudios Canadienses). Recently, he has been elected Member of the Advisory Board of EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture & Environment), Secretary of AEDEI (Spanish Association for Irish Studies) and committeeperson of AEEII (Spanish Association for India Studies).
