Intercultural crossings : conflict, memory and identity
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Intercultural crossings : conflict, memory and identity
（Europe of cultures, vol. 4）
P.I.E. Peter Lang, c2012
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Description
Intercultural crossings, which are at the core of our contemporary society, are underpinned and shaped by three essential elements: time, space and people. Such encounters and interactions have the capacity not only to promote diversity and a healthy exchange of ideas, but also to act as a catalyst for conflict. This volume examines the topics of conflict, memory and identity through a collection of insightful viewpoints and perspectives, reflecting a diversity of cultural and social backgrounds, which combine to give a contemporary interdisciplinary analysis of cultural interactions and their effects. The themes covered by the authors, such as memory and forgetfulness, migration, ecological concerns, mixed cultural landscapes, storytelling, postcolonial trauma and internal struggles for identity, offer the reader a fascinating glimpse into the ongoing and evolving social debate about identity and purpose.
Table of Contents
Contents: Lenia Marques/Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia/Gloria Bastos: Introduction - Joao Luis Jesus Fernandes: Dynamics of Cultural Landscapes, Identities and Diffusion Processes - Christian Hummelsund Voie: Permeable Borderlines: Discovering an Ecocritical and Architectural Ecotone - Joana Miranda: Women's Journeys to Portugal: Identitary Reconstructions and Memories of the Country of Origin - Belen Martin-Lucas: "The Heaviness of a History that Couldn't Leave": Diasporic Trauma in Multicultural Canada - Rosa Maria Sequeira: Stories of Lebanese Migration in Brazilian Literature - Gloria Bastos: Revisiting History and Identity: National Heroes in Contemporary Portuguese Theatre - Manuela Malheiro Ferreira/Manuela Tavares: School Manuals in Estado Novo: The Reproduction of a Sexist and Colonialist Culture - Maria Isabel Joao: The Colonial Journey: Confrontations between Europe and Africa - Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia: Colluding Strokes: Imperialistic Brutality and Affection in Andre Brink's The Other Side of Silence - Joana Passos: Heart of Violence and Healing Words: Europe, Decolonization and Mobility - Lars Jensen: From Anglophone to Danophone Postcolonialism: The Difficulties of Developing a Critique - Lenia Marques: Creating Stories, Mapping Memories: Nicolas Bouvier at Intercultural Crossings - Dionisio Vila Maior: Bakhtinian Dialogism and the Adding of Meaning.
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