Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century : Selected Proceedings of the XXII Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand from 19-23 August 2002.
Title:
Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century : Selected Proceedings of the XXII Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand from 19-23 August 2002.
Author:
Duangsamosorn, Suthira.
ISBN:
9789401201278
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (415 pages)
Series:
Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature, 49 ; v.49
Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature, 49
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Bureau of FILLM 1999-2002 - Local Organizing Committee -- Commonwealth Literature and Comparative Literature -- SUBTHEME 1: New Foundations: Grounding Language and Literature Studies in Ethics -- Grounding Language and Literature Studies in Ethics or Altum Silentium -- The Possibility of Global Literary History -- "I Am Not a Consumer, I Am a Learner:" Language and Literature in Lean and Mean Universities -- The Medium of Teaching At South African Universities: the Position of Afrikaans -- Issues of Inclusion and Representation: Teaching Literature and Culture Across Art Forms -- SUBTHEME 2: New Contexts: Facing Social Change in Language and Literature Studies -- Social Change and Scholarly Mediation -- Language Shift in the Thai Chinese Community -- History in Memory: Problems of Literary Representation of the Holocaust in the Writing of Ingeborg Bachmann, Barbara Honigmann and Ruth Schweikert -- German Naturalist Drama in Film: the Case of Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber and Der Biberpelz -- Construction of A Cultural Identity in the Writings of Sia Figiel and Flora Devatine: the Case of The Girl in the Moon Circle (1996) and Tergiversations et rêveries de l'écriture orale (1998) -- 'Language War' for the Survival of the Fittest in the Era of Multi-cultural Society: Perspectives of Korean Literary Circles for the Vision and Re-Vision -- La métamorphose de la littérature et de l'art selon André Malraux -- SUBTHEME 3: New Instruments: Integrating Technology into Language and Literature Studies -- A World Without Authors -- Literature and Globalization: the Future of the Humanities -- Literature Teaching As A Challenge -- The Changing Form of Fiction: Narrative Technique in Chart Korbjitti's Time -- Journeys in Writing: Technology and Literature As the Art of Possibility.
A Revolutionary Medium: the World Wide Web in Peace Activism -- SUBTHEME 4: New Communications: East Meets West Meets North Meets South -- Contemporary Poetry As A Global Dialogue -- Post/Modernist East -- Writing Back to the Empire: From M. Butterfly to Madame Butterfly -- Akademi-Awarded Novels in English: Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope -- S.P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights: A Lesson in Orchestration and Mastery of Language -- A Comparison of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and S.P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights -- Representation in Philippine American Women Writers: Between Authenticity and Orientalism -- The Return of the Native: Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds (1986) Revisited in Post-apartheid Durban, 2001 -- Roland Barthes et le Japon.
Abstract:
In 28 essays selected from the proceedings of the XXII International Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, scholars and teachers of languages and literatures have noted, bemoaned and analyzed the waning influence of the humanities to varying degrees. They have raised questions, offered solutions and vigorously defended their languages and literatures, often in no uncertain terms - not as a politically correct thing to do, but as a human obligation.The papers presented here are true to the spirit of the Congress from the moment of the keynote address to what followed in a spontaneous outbreak of voices from scholars of more than 70 universities throughout the world. For the first time, in an international congress, scholars have described with great sensitivity many languages and literatures often considered the periphery, in a sincere attempt to understand 'the other', thus making a passionate plea for inclusion in the umbrella of the world's languages and literatures. With contributions by keynote speaker and authority on Comparative Literature Gayatri Spivak, USA and plenary speakers Vridhagiri Ganeshan, India; Roger Sell, Finland; Antoine Compagnon, France; and Chetana Nagavajara, Thailand this volume is of immense interest to scholars and teachers of languages and literatures the world over."The Federation embraces African, Asian, Pacific and Euro American universities. Comparative Literature cannot hold just the last item on this list as its material base."Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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