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Englishes in Africa is an important new edited collection which explores various aspects of English in contemporary Africa. The authors examine the current state of English in eight countries where the language plays a major role: Cameroun, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Morocco, and Zimbabwe. Collectively they demonstrate the growing strength of English in Africa as part of globalization, notwithstanding the time that has elapsed since these countries gained their independence. The book also illuminates the clear tendency among people in anglophone Africa to claim ownership of the forms of English spoken in those countries today."This book is different in that it opens a range of other topics of research that erupt when one thinks ¿from Africä and considers Englishes as African languages in all their functions. In this sense it is original and could be considered as seminal in a growing field." ¿Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics, Leiden University"The present volume, which brings together African scholars to present their research into African varieties of English, is a welcome and much needed addition to the World Englishes canon."¿Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt

Die Theorie des wilden Übersetzens, die dieses Buch entwickelt, beschreibt Verfahren des Übersetzens, die als generativer Mechanismus zur Produktion eigenständiger literarischer Texte eingesetzt werden. In diesem Umgang mit Übersetzung liegt ein gezielter Verstoß gegen die konventionellen Übersetzungsnormen, insofern sich das literarische Verfahren, das dabei zum Einsatz kommt, von der Bedeutung der fremdsprachigen Wörter löst. Das wilde Übersetzen orientiert sich stattdessen an den Zeichenträgern des fremden Sprachmaterials. Die theoretischen Überlegungen werden ergänzt durch zwei Lektüren, welche die Emergenz dieser Konstellation in zwei unterschiedlichen literaturgeschichtlichen Kontexten in Johann Fischarts Geschichtklitterung (1575) und in Arno Schmidts Zettel's Traum (1970) nachzeichnen. Über den Nachweis der Verfahren selbst und die Rekonstruktion ihrer jeweiligen Funktionsweise hinaus rekonstruiert diese Studie die poetologischen Reflexionen, die in beiden Texten zur Explikation des Verfahrens angestellt werden. Die Lektüren zeigen, dass das wilde Übersetzen nicht nur die formale Gestalt der Texte bestimmt, sondern auch Konsequenzen für deren inhaltliche Interpretation mit sich bringt.

Presents a collection of essays investigating the relationship between media and artistic expression. Explores self-reflexivity, transmediality and transposition within the realm of intermediality. Discusses interplay of different media forms and their transformative processes. Traces evolution of intermedial practices and analyzes their impact on contemporary culture. Provides insights into dynamic nature of intermediality through diverse topics and perspectives.

Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine breit angelegte, digital unterstützte, korpusbasierte Studie zur Referenzierung von Orten und Räumen in Erzähltexten. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, insbesondere narratologischer Forschung sowie mathematischen, philosophischen, physikalischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen zur Thematik des Raumes wird ein fuzzy-set-Modell herausgearbeitet, mit dem Raum in literarischen Texten analysiert und quantifiziert werden kann. Das Modell ist Grundlage eines Machine-Learning- Trainings, mit Hilfe dessen ein Tool trainiert wurde, das Ausdrücke, die in die Kategorien des theoriebasierten Modells fallen, automatisch erkennt und annotiert. In einem Kernkorpus aus 100 Romanen aus vier Jahrhunderten (18-21) wurden mit Hilfe dieses Tools mehr als eine Million Annotationen in die Texte eingefügt und anschließend analysiert.

This book is inspired by the author's work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: "What If-On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments." Having contributed to great discoveries, such as those by Galileo and Einstein, thought experiments are especially topical in the twenty-first century, since this is a concept that bridges the gap between the arts and the sciences, promoting interdisciplinary innovation. To study thought experiments in literature, it is imperative to examine relevant texts closely: this has rarely been done to date and this is precisely what this book does as a pilot study focusing on selected works of philosophy and literature. Specifically, thought experiments by Thomas Malthus are analyzed side by side with short stories and novels by Vladimir Odoevsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Alexander Bogdanov and Aleksei Tolstoy, Alexander Chaianov and Nina Berberova.

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Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in which to read and appreciate the effects of linguistic and cultural transfer in Chinese literary works. Translation matters. It always has, of course, but more so when we want to reap the benefits of intercultural communication. In many universities Chinese literature in English translation is taught as if it had been written in English. As a result, students submit what they read to their own cultural expectations; they do not read in translation and do not attend to the protocols of knowing, engagements and contestations that bind literature and society to each other. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation squarely addresses this pedagogical lack. Organised in a tripartite structure around considerations of textual, social, and large-scale spatial and historical circumstances, its thirty plus essays each deal with a theme of translation studies, as emerged from the translation of one or more Chinese literary works. In doing so, it offers new tools for reading and appreciating modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the global context of its translation, offering in-depth studies about eminent Chinese authors and their literary masterpieces in translation. The first of its kind, this book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching Chinese literature in translation.

Social engineering has created an illusion of what blackness truly means. Higher powers have led society to think that drug dealing, gang banging, promiscuity, going to jail, and living recklessly are intricate nuances of black culture.The financial status of middle-class black parents often mirrors the logistics of their children's social status. Being accused of talking white, not wearing the most up to date clothes or hair styles, and a lack of financial hardships has millions of black children feeling stuck between two social constructs.Being too black or too white shouldn't be a thing, and being yourself should be the only thing. K.K. Monon-Konmlan experienced both spectrums of being too black or too white on the path to discovering his true self and the misconceptions of black culture. The author delivers detailed cinematic passages of growing up in the south in the 1980's and 1990's, that takes readers on an action-packed path to another world in "All Of Me Welcomed."

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels, periodicals, letters, and reviews to that of colonial educational policies, this book provides a rich literary history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India. Sunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models, whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past, but coexisted, albeit contentiously, with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it traces the import of the Bengali reader's choices on her quotidian life, and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present.

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of socio-political concerns. This book is the first to explore - through history, criticism and creative interventions - the relationship between authorship, political activism and celebrity culture across historical periods, cultures, literatures and media. It brings together scholars, industry stakeholders and prominent writer-activists to engage in a conversation on literary fame and public authority. These scholarly essays, interviews, conversations and opinion pieces interrogate the topos of the artist as prophet and acute critic of the zeitgeist; analyse the ideological dimension of literary celebrity; and highlight the fault lines between public and private authorial selves, 'pure' art, political commitment and marketplace imperatives. In case studies ranging from the 18th century to present-day controversies, authors illuminate the complex relationship between literature, politics, celebrity culture and market activism, bringing together vivid current debates on the function and responsibility of literature in increasingly fractured societies.

This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical "snippets of experience" written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical. They illuminate the formative conditions for the thinking which she was to develop into her majestic work on nostalgia.Importantly, these pieces fill in gaps in understanding the genesis and scope of her take on the world. For readers both familiar with her work and for those new to it, The Origins of Nostalgia will enable our own cultural past as well as that of the former Soviet Union to be viewed in a different light.