From Literature to Cultural Literacy

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 biopol

  • PDF / 3,259,101 Bytes
  • 275 Pages / 396.85 x 612.283 pts Page_size
  • 25 Downloads / 214 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


This page intentionally left blank

From Literature to Cultural Literacy Edited by

Naomi Segal Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Daniela Koleva St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Naomi Segal and Daniela Koleva 2014 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-42969-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-49191-9 ISBN 978-1-137-42970-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137429704

This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Notes on Contributors

xi

Introduction Naomi Segal

1

Part I Remembering and Forgetting 1 Remembering and Forgetting: Introduction Daniela Koleva

15

2 Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture Isabel Capeloa Gil

21

3 Textualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d’État Novels Sibel Irzık

43

4 Can Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff’s ‘The Missing Voice’ in Spitalfields Ricarda Vidal

62

Part II Migration and Translation 5 Migration and Translation: Introduction Loredana Polezzi

79

6 Migrant Poet(h)ics Borbála Faragó

86

7 Translating the In-Between: Performance Poetry and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society Robert Crawshaw 8 Lost and Gained in Migration: The Writing of Migrancy Mary Gallagher v

106 122

vi

Cont