Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures: Asnel Papers 14 (Cross Cultures, 116) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042027436 ISBN 13: 9789042027435

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Synopsis

Verbal imagery and visual images as well as the intricate relationships between verbal and visual representations have long shaped the imagination and the practice of intercultural relationships. The contributions to this volume take a fresh look at the ideology of form, especially the gendered and racial implications of the gaze and the voice in various media and intermedial transformations. Analyses of how culturally specific forms of visual and verbal expression are individually understood and manipulated complement reflections on the potential and limitations of representation. The juxtaposition of visual and verbal signifiers explores the gap between them as a space beyond cultural boundaries. Topics treated include: Caliban; English satirical iconotexts; Oriental travel writing and illustration; expatriate description and picturesque illustration of Edinburgh; ethnographic film; African studio photography; South African cartoons; imagery, ekphrasis, and race in South African art and fiction; face and visuality, representation and memory in Asian fiction; Bollywood; Asian historical film; Asian-British pop music; Australian landscape in painting and fiction; indigenous children's fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and the USA; Canadian photography; Native Americans in film. Writers and artists discussed include: Philip Kwame Apagya; the Asian Dub Foundation; Breyten Breytenbach; Richard Burton; Peter Carey; Gurinder Chadha; Daniel Chodowiecki; J.M. Coetzee; Ashutosh Gowariker; Patricia Grace; W. Greatbatch; Hogarth; Francis K. Honny; Jim Jarmusch; Robyn Kahukiwa; Seydou Keita; Thomas King; Vladyana Krykorka; Alfred Kubin; Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak; Kathleen and Michael Lacapa; László Lakner; George Littlechild; Ken Lum; Franz Marc; Zakes Mda; Ketan Mehta; M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam); Timothy Mo; William Kent Monkman; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; John Hamilton Mortimer; Sidney Nolan; Jean Rouch; Salman Rushdie; William Shakespeare; Robert Louis Stevenson; Richard Van Camp; Zapiro.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Meyer teaches in the Department of English at the University of Koblenz–Landau (Germany). He has published on colonial and postcolonial literature, Gothic fiction and film, British art, autobiography, poetry, short fiction, and teaching literature.

Review:

"Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cultures" is an impressive and attractive collection. It should be borne in mind that what is not at stake in "Word & Image" is a through-going investigation into the "realpolitik" of colonialism, but rather an examination of aesthetic representation in a cross-cultural context. In this sense, the collection overall avoids the difficult politics of colonial legacies, with most essays preferring instead to concentrate on the limits of word/image representation. In this regard it is a welcome addition to the store of recent postcolonial scholarship on the ideological impulses behind words and images. - Eoghan Smith, "Carlow College, Ireland," in: "The English Messenger" 23.1 (Summer 2014), pp. 82-84"

Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cultures is an impressive and attractive collection. It should be borne in mind that what is not at stake in Word & Image is a through-going investigation into the realpolitik of colonialism, but rather an examination of aesthetic representation in a cross-cultural context. In this sense, the collection overall avoids the difficult politics of colonial legacies, with most essays preferring instead to concentrate on the limits of word/image representation. In this regard it is a welcome addition to the store of recent postcolonial scholarship on the ideological impulses behind words and images. - Eoghan Smith, Carlow College, Ireland, in: The English Messenger 23.1 (Summer 2014), pp. 82-84"

"Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cultures is an impressive and attractive collection. It should be borne in mind that what is not at stake in Word & Image is a through-going investigation into the realpolitik of colonialism, but rather an examination of aesthetic representation in a cross-cultural context. In this sense, the collection overall avoids the difficult politics of colonial legacies, with most essays preferring instead to concentrate on the limits of word/image representation. In this regard it is a welcome addition to the store of recent postcolonial scholarship on the ideological impulses behind words and images." - Eoghan Smith, Carlow College, Ireland, in: The English Messenger 23.1 (Summer 2014), pp. 82-84

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9042027436
• ISBN 13: 9789042027435
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 379
• Editor: Meyer Michael