Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture: The Fractal Gaze

ISBN-13: 9781137401380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 230 str.

Francoise Kral

Opis

Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.

Recenzje

"Françoise Král's Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture therefore does raise a number of essential issues, in an often compelling manner ... . It remains an extremely fascinating and illuminating work whose call for the development of invisibility studies no doubt will be heeded." (Mathilde Rogez, Miranda, Vol. 12, 2016)

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORIZING INVISIBILITY STUDIES 1. Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility 2. Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility PART II: ARTISTIC SCENES OF VISIBILITY 3. Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question 4. Films and Mass Visibility PART III: SITES OF INVISIBILITY 5. Nation Building and Home Thinking 6. Invisibility and the Fractal City Concluding Remarks: On Fractal Visibility Bibliography Index

O autorze

Françoise Kral is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France. Her publications include Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature (2009), Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self'/Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand (ed, 2004) and Architecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Gins (co-edited with Jean-Jacques Lecercle, 2011).