Multiculturalism, multilingualism and the self: literature and culture studies

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Multiculturalism, multilingualism and the self: literature and culture studies

Jacek Mydla, Małgorzata Poks, Leszek Drong, editors

(Second language learning and teaching / series editor, Mirosław Pawlak, . Issues in literature and culture)

Springer, c2017

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Description

This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific examples of multicultural contexts in which individuals and communities strive to maintain their identities. The book is divided into two major parts, the first of which comprises literary representations of multiculturalism and discussions of its impasses and impacts in fictional circumstances. In turn, the second part primarily focuses on culture at large and real-life consequences. Taken together, the two complementary parts offer an illuminating and well-rounded overview of representations of multiculturalism in literature and contemporary culture from a variety of critical perspectives.

Table of Contents

Fear of Multilingualism and the Uses of Nostalgia in Ivan Vladislavic's The Restless Supermarket.- The Self Between "Two Incongruous and Incompatible Cultures" in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky.- Kazuo Ishiguro's Buried Giant as a Contemporary Revision of Medieval Tropes.- Multiculturalism, the Foreign and Early Gothic Novels.- The House Sofi Built: Critique of Multiculturalism and Christian Patriarchy in Ana Castillo's So Far From God.

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  • NCID
    BC07721086
  • ISBN
    • 9783319610481
  • LCCN
    2017944296
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 198 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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