Search results for "British literature"
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Le paysage médial et la facture de l’œuvre : Livre, impression, illustration
2023
All changed, changed utterly: endangered identities in Autumn by Ali Smith.
2019
The essay intends to look at the well-known book,Autumn, by Ali Smith, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and analyse the ways in which the debates leading to as well as the events following the 2016 Brexit referendum contribute to the writing of a desfunctional narration in which borders, domestic spaces and identities are questioned on a daily basis. The essay argues that there is strong link between the making of the story and the deconstruction of a national identity: the fragile exploration of anxieties of belonging and nationhood opens up a space for thought through words, inviting the reader to think about the relationship between language, space and time and affirming the importance …
'Sinking Hopeful Roots into Difficult Soil': Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River.
1998
This article proposes a reading of Caryl Phillips Booker-shortlisted novel Crossing the River as an exemplary text of the African Diaspora.
A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore
2012
Questioning the Canon and Re-Writing/Re-Righting the Female Colonized Subject: Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures and George Bernard Shaw’s The Adve…
2021
Albeit different in terms of formal solutions and conception, Mary Seacole’s 'Wonderful Adventures' (1857) and G.B. Shaw’s 'The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God' (1932) share an oppositional aesthetics which, in both cases, helps undermine any prevailing representation of the colonial Other. Indeed, Seacole’s and Shaw’s works manipulate the trope of travel in such a way as to overcome traditional conceptions of the literary canon as well as hegemonic visions of subjectivities. In taking into consideration the innovative representation of the Black colonized woman as delineated in both works, the essay aims to show the way in which they present an anti-normative identity mo…
Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism
2016
Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the modernist credo, ‘Make it New!’, as a desire to break away from the past, the authors of this book suggest reading it as a continuation and a reappropriation of the spirit of the ‘New’ that characterizes Aestheticism. Basing their arguments on recent reassessments of Aestheticism and Modernism and their articulation, contributors take up the challenge of interrogating the connections, continuities, an…
Clemence Dane. Forgotten feminist writer of the inter-war years
2021
The figure now better known as Clemence Dane—who was born Winifred Ashton in 1888 and who died in 1965—is not usually found in canonical works on British literature. However, during her lifetime Da...