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Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World.
Title:
Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World.
Author:
Gilsenan Nordin, Irene.
ISBN:
9783653054156
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World (Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Chatarina Edfeldt, Lung-Lung Hu, Herbert Jonsson, André Leblanc) -- Transcultural Transformations -- Multicultural: Stories of Political and Cultural (Mis)Understandings (Miguel Vale de Almeida) -- Curiously Mediating Identity Formations Across Borders and Interdisciplinary Boundaries: Transcultural Film Practice (Alan Grossman) -- Veil Dressing and the Gender Geopolitics of "What Not to Wear" (M. I. Franklin) -- Interview With Haitian Canadian Novelist Dany Laferrière, de l'Académie française (Christina Kullberg) -- Transcultural Memories -- Ethnic Differentiation and Assimilation in Marguerite Duras's Indochinese Texts (Mattias Aronsson) -- Transcultural Identity as a Personal Myth: The Case of Amélie Nothomb (André Leblanc) -- Cultural Relations and Aboriginal Identity in Sally Morgan's "My Place" (Britta Olinder) -- Remembering the Migrant Identity: A Comparative Study of "Les Pieds Sales", by Edem Awumey, and "Ru", by Kim Thúy (Christophe Premat and Françoise Sule) -- Transcultural Identities -- We Have to Keep Moving: Transnational Witnessing in Dany Laferrière's "The World is Moving Around Me" (Christina Kullberg) -- Transculturality in Thomas Mann's Novella "Tonio Kröger" (Ching-Chung Lin) -- Travelling Art Cultures: Transcultural Identities Illustrated by Baltic Artists (Emma Duester) -- Legal and Cultural Identity: A Case of Adultery in the Chinese Story "Drying Clothes" (Lung-Lung Hu) -- Language and the Untranslatable -- Not Crossing the Boundary: The Untranslatable in Japanese-English Bilingual Literature (Hiroko Inose) -- The "Dao" of Writing: Transcultural Literary Identity in Gao Xingjian's Novel "Soul Mountain" (Letizia Fusini) -- Filmic Representation of Transculturality.

Old Fear in New Face: Yellow Peril of the Twenty-First Century in "Sherlock" (Chu-chueh Cheng) -- Fallen Women on the Contemporary Global Screen: Transnational and Transhistorical Adaptations of Eça de Queirós's "The Crime of Father Amaro" and Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (Margarida Esteves Pereira) -- Globalisation and Cultural Contact in Crash (2004) and Babel (2005) (Tin Kei Wong) -- My Name is Gary Cooper, But it is also Samoan (Anita Purcell Sjölund) -- Contributors.
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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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