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Author:

Kral, Françoise, author.

Title:

Social invisibility and diasporas in Anglophone literature and culture : the fractal gaze / Françoise Kral, Professor, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
Social classes in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Cultural fusion in literature.
Women and literature--Commonwealth countries.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Cultural fusion in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Women and literature.
Commonwealth countries.
Commonwealth.
Literatur.
Englisch.
Gesellschaft.
Minderheit.
Unsichtbarkeit.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-226) and index.

Contents:

Part 1. Theorizing invisibility studies -- Mapping the invisible: critical perspectives on invisibility -- Space, discourse and visibility: towards a phenomenology of invisibility -- Part 2. Artistic scenes of visibility -- Visibility, representation and agency in the visual arts: the body on question -- Films and mass visibility -- Part 3. Sites of invisibility -- Nation building and home thinking -- Invisibility and the fractal city.

ISBN:

1137401389 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781137401380 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881318320

LCCN:

2014022747

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)