The Brontë Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds [electronic resource] /
Qi, S.editor.
Padgett, J.editor.
Looking at the works of the Brontë sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontës as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 No Simple Love: The Literary Fortunes of the Brontë Sisters in Post-Mao, Market-Driven China; Chapter 2 Rhys's Haunted Minds: Race, Slavery, the Gothic, and Rewriting Jane Eyre in the Caribbean; Chapter 3 On the Migration of Texts: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Maryse Condé's La Migration des coeurs, and Richard Phil; Chapter 4 The Melodrama of the Hacienda: Luis Buñuel's Abismos de pasión as Postcolonial Trans/Plantation; Chapter 5 The Undying Light: Yoshida, Bataille, and the Ambivalent Spectrality of Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Chapter 6 Michael Berkeley and David Malouf's Rewriting of Jane Eyre: An Operatic and Literary Palimpsest*List of Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Looking at the works of the Brontë sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontës as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849
Brontë family.
British literature.
Sociology.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary History.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.