From Literature to Cultural Literacy [electronic resource] /
Segal, Naomi.author.
Koleva, Daniela.author.
Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Remembering and Forgetting; 1 Remembering and Forgetting: Introduction; 2 Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture; 3 Textualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d'État Novels; 4 Can Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff's 'The Missing Voice' in Spitalfields; Part II: Migration and Translation; 5 Migration and Translation: Introduction; 6 Migrant Poet(h)ics
7 Translating the In-Between: Performance Poetry and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society8 Lost and Gained in Migration: The Writing of Migrancy; Part III: Electronic Textuality; 9 Electronic Textuality: Introduction; 10 Non-Consumptive Reading; 11 Reading (and Writing) Online, Rather than on the Decline; 12 I Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and the Implied Player; Part IV: Biosociality, Biopolitics and the Body; 13 Biopolitics, Biosociality and the Body: Introduction; 14 Human Enhancement: Is It 'Mere' Science Fiction? The Rise and Rise of Disembodied Ethics
15 History in the Gene? How Biohistories are Implicated in Biopolitics and Biosocialities16 Between Hybrid and Graft; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.
Cultural studies.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Communication.
Creative writing.
Civilization—History.
Cultural Studies.
Social Theory.
Media Studies.
Creative Writing.
Cultural History.