Author: Ana Mª Manzanas
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: literature, approaches, ethnic, critical, american, across, transits, culture, border, line
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-07-20
List price: $59.85
ISBN-10: 9042022493
ISBN-13: 9789042022492

What constitutes a border situation? How translatable and "portable" is the border? What are the borders of words surrounding the border? In its five sections, Border Transits: Literature and Culture across the Line intends to address these issues as it brings together visions of border dynamics from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The volume opens with "Part I: (B)orders and lines: A Theoretical Intervention," which explores the circle and the cross as spatial configurations of two contradictory urges, to separate and divide on the one hand, and to welcome and allow passage on the other. "P

中文参考译名:不确定镜：美国民族文学魔幻写实主义。 （CAEAL）
Authors:Jesus Benito, Ana Mª Manzanas, Begona Simal,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: literatures, caeal, ethnic, realism, mirrors, magical, uncertain
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-05-18
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 9042026006
ISBN-13: 9789042026001

Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Le?vinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term "mimesis" as both a "world-reflecting" and a "world-creating" mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic m