Verbal-visual configurations in postcolonial literature : intermedial aesthetics

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    • Neumann, Birgit
    • Rippl, Gabriele

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Verbal-visual configurations in postcolonial literature : intermedial aesthetics

Birgit Neumann and Gabriele Rippl

(Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 72)

Routledge, 2020

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-271) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation with visual practices in Anglophone literatures addresses the power of images, vision and visual aesthetics to regulate cultural visibility and modes of identification in an unevenly structured world. The representation of visual practices in the imaginative realm of fiction opens up a zone in which established orders of the sayable and visible may be revised and transformed. In 12 chapters, the book examines narrative fiction by writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie, David Dabydeen and NoViolet Bulawayo, who employ word-image relations to explore the historically fraught links between visual practices and the experience of modernity in a transcultural context. Against this conceptual background, the examination of verbal-visual relations will illustrate how Anglophone fiction models alternative modes of re-presentation that reflect critically on hegemonic visual regimes and reach out for new, more pluralized forms of exchange.

目次

1 Introduction: The Art and Power of Seeing in Postcolonial Contexts 2 Intermedial Aesthetics in Postcolonial Contexts: Transcultural Contests, Contact Zones and Translations 2. 1 State of the Art: Theoretical Approaches to Word-Image Configurations in Narrative Literature 2. 2 Intermediality Research 2. 3 Ekphrasis 2. 4 Visuality, Ekphrasis and Postcolonial Theory 2. 5 Battles against and Encounters with Otherness 2. 6 Verbal-Visual Configurations: Practices of Translation 2. 7 The Politics of Visuality and the Gaze 3 Visuality and the Ethics of Seeing: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient 3. 1 Visuality and Ethics - Some Philosophical Perspectives 3. 2 Re-visioning History in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992) 3. 3 Mapping Processes and the Colonial Gaze 3. 4 Ekphrases - Transcultural Solidarities 3. 5 Partial Points of View and the 'Multiplication of the Eyes' 3. 6 Visibilities, Invisibilities and "Reserves of Alterities" 4 Renegotiating Frames and Visibility in David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress 4. 1 Hogarth's and Dabydeen's Blacks 4. 2 "Can the Subaltern Speak?" And Can the Subaltern See? - Configurations of Voice and Vision in Dabydeen's Fiction 4. 3 A Harlot's Progress (1985): Navigating the Imagery of 18th-century Britain 4. 4 Challenging Visual Transparency in A Harlot's Progress 4. 5 Looking beyond the Frame 4. 6 Arts, Commerce and Appropriation 4. 7 The Predicament of Representing Black Subjectivities 5 Salman Rushdie's Entangled Histories, Travelling Images and Alternative Visions of the Secular Modern Nation-State in Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh and The Enchantress of Florence 5. 1 Salman Rushdie's Intermedial Aesthetic and Indian Visual 5. 2 Negotiating Postcolonial Identities: Ekphrasis as Counter-Reading in Midnight's Children (1981) 5. 3 Rushdie's Ekphrastic Hope: The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) 5. 4 The Power of Painting and Ekphrasis: The Enchantress of Florence (2008) 5. 5 Ekphrasis and Ethics 6 Derek Walcott's "Twin Heads": Postcolonial Ekphrasis and Counter-Visions in Tiepolo's Hound 6. 1 Derek Walcott: Navigating the Interstices between Visual and Verbal Art 6. 2 'The Art of Seeing' 6. 3 Contesting Origins and Originals: 'Lime trees trying to be olives' 6. 4 Re-Visioning Impressionism, Provincialising Europe 6. 5 Possibilities and Limits of a Caribbean Aesthetics 6. 6 Walcott's Painterly Re-Visions 6. 7 Toward a New World Aesthetics and Ethics of Seeing 6. 8 Double Visions, Caribbean Re-Vision and 'Seeing Shadows' 7 Serial Intermediality: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and See Now Then 7. 1 Postcolonial Subject Positions: Repetition with a Difference 7. 2 Photography and Seriality in Lucy (1990) 7. 3 Repetition and Ekphrasis in See Now Then (2013) 8 Monstrous Alterity: The Intermedial Aesthetics of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red 8. 1 Word-Image Configurations in Anne Carson's Oeuvre 8. 2 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) 8. 3 Geryon's Autobiographical Project: Sculpture - Writing - Photography 8. 4 Radicalising Ekphrasis 9 'African' and 'American' Ekphrases: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names 9. 1 The Intensity of Impression in Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013) 9. 2 Darling's Art of Description 9. 3 Africa in the Western Mass Media 9. 4 'African' Ekphrases 9. 5 'American' Ekphrases 9. 6 Visual Contact Zones 10 Global Media Cultures, Travelling Images and Transcultural Ekphrasis in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of A Yellow Sun 10. 1 Rebalancing Stories in a Globalised World 10. 2 Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) - Re-Membering the Nigerian Civil War 10. 3 Transcultural Ekphrases: Igbo-Ukwu Art and Photography 10. 4 War Photography and the Voyeuristic Gaze in Western Media 10. 5 Intermedial Encounters - The Roped Pot as a Narrative Principle 11 Reflections and Refractions of Contemporary Media Cultures in Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City 11. 1 Convergence Culture and Social Linking 11. 2 Verbal-Visual Configurations in Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief (2007/2014a) - Plays of In-Between-Ness 11. 3 Re-visioning Travel Writing: Peripatetic Viewing and Lagos' "non-linear nature" 11. 4 'The Empty Frame' - Moments of Absence 11. 5 The Ethics and Affects of Visual Practices 11. 6 Restructuring Nigerian Visual Cultures: Photography in Every Day Is for the Thief 11. 7 Ekphrasis in the Digital Age: Open City (2011) 11. 8 New York: Painting and Architecture 11. 9 Brussels: Monuments and Global Communication 11. 10 Back in New York City: Photography 11. 11 Blind Spots 12 Conclusion

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