ReFiguring Global Challenges

Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration

Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg, Amrita Ghosh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-67760-9 (ISBN)

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This collection applies refigured critical theories to pressing contemporary issues such as migration, inequality, racism, postcolonial economies and socieites, political violence, human-animal relations, and intellectuals’ role in the world.

An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close dialogue with literary and cinematic works and practices, the essays of this volume help refigure and rethink such pressing contemporary issues as migration, inequality, racism, post-coloniality, political violence and human-animal relations. A range of fresh perspectives are introduced, amounting to a call for intellectuals to remain critically engaged with the social and planetary.

Amanda Minervini is the director of the Italian Program at Colorado College, USA, and the author of “Mussolini Speaks. History Reviewed” (The Massachusetts Review, 2019) and “Face to Face: Iconic Representations and Juxtapositions of St. Francis of Assisi and Mussolini during Italian Fascism” (M. Epstein, F. Orsitto, A. Righi, TOTalitarian Arts: the Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass Society, 2017). Amelie Björck is Associate Professor for Comparative Literature, Södertörn University, Sweden and author of Zooësis. Om kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv (2019), and editor and author of Squirreling. Human-Animal Studies in the Northern-European Region (2022). Omri Grinberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of “Testimony as Event: Israeli NGOs, Palestinian Witnesses, and the Bureaucratic Logic of Human Rights” (Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2021). With Yiftach Ashkenazy, he is also the author of “Who Let the Mad Dogs Out? Trauma and Colonialism in the Hebrew Canon” (Postcolonial Animality, edited by Suvadip Sinha & Amit Raul Baishya, 2019). Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor of South Asian literature at University of Central Florida. She is the co-editor of Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Reenvisioning (2022) and her monograph on Kashmir’s new literature is forthcoming.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg and Amrita Ghosh

Part 1

Films as Sites of Transformation

1 Migratory Aesthetics Proximity and Mutuality

Mieke Bal

2 Inequality and Contemporary World Cinema

Andreas Jacobsson

3 Haider Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial Specters in Kashmir

Amrita Ghosh

Part 2

On Ethical Readings and Subversions

4 Reading as Imaginative Resistance Negotiating the Censor in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country

Sunayani Bhattacharya

5 Reader as Witness Rethinking Perpetrators of Political Violence through Contemporary Literature

Cassandra Falke

Part 3

Planetary Connections Human and the Animal

6 Decolonizing Animals A Surface Reading of Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Bruegel’s Two Monkeys”

Amelie Björck

7 Globalization and Critical Animal Studies

Dominick LaCapra

Coda It’s Time to Go Outside: A Dialogue with Dominick LaCapra

Amanda Minervini

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Cross/Cultures ; 221
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-67760-7 / 9004677607
ISBN-13	978-90-04-67760-9 / 9789004677609
Zustand	Neuware