Palimpsests in ethnic and postcolonial literature and culture 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Kalogeras, Yiorgos D.
• Kardux, Johanna C.
• Mueller, Monika
• Nyman, Jopi

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030645861

Series

Subject(s)

• COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
• LITERATURE AND HISTORY
• PALIMPSESTS

Notes

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Abstract

This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Based on contemporary theories of the palimpsest, the innovative chapters reveal hidden histories and uncover relationships across disciplines and seemingly unconnected texts. The contributors focus on diverse forms of the palimpsest: the incarceration of Native Americans in military forts and their response to the elimination of their cultures; mnemonic novels that rework the politics and poetics of the Black Atlantic; the urban palimpsests of Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Johannesburg, and Los Angeles that reveal layers of humanity with disparities in origin, class, religion, and chronology; and the palimpsestic configurations of mythologies and religions that resist strict cultural distinctions and argue against cultural relativism.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xv, 231 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Palimpsestuous Historiographies in Lisa Lowe's "The Intimacies of Four Continents" and Karen Tei Yamashita's "I-Hotel" --
The Body as a Palimpsest: Stor(y)ing Memories in Michelle Cliff's Clare Savage Novels and Gayl Jones's "Corregidora" --
Cultural Palimpsests on the Ethnic Shore: Refunctionalizing Seaside Forts --
Littoral/Literal Watermarks: Layers of Signification in Maritime Marseille --
Memory, History, and Identity: Postcolonial Urban Palimpsests in the Writing of Ivan Vladislavić --
Ominous Borders, Liminal Bridges: Narrative Palimpsests of Cultural History and Racial Subjectivity in Alejandro Morales's Epic Novel "River of Angels" (2014) --
Locating the Favela: Place and Representation in the "Marvelous City" of Rio de Janeiro --
On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict's Palimpsestuous Writings --
A Palimpsest of Herstories: Intertextuality as a Womanist Practice in Gloria Naylor's "Linden Hills" --
A Palimpsestuous Reading of Octavia Butler's "Lilith's Brood."

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00766/21	809.93358 Pal	Online !	Available