Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature

Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature

Intermedial Aesthetics

Rippl, Gabriele; Neumann, Birgit

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2021

296

Mole

Inglês

9781032236339

15 a 20 dias

550

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1 Introduction: The Art and Power of Seeing in Postcolonial Contexts

2 Intermedial Aesthetics in Postcolonial Contexts: Transcultural Contests, Contact Zones and Translations

2. 1 State of the Art: Theoretical Approaches to Word-Image Configurations in Narrative

Literature

2. 2 Intermediality Research

2. 3 Ekphrasis

2. 4 Visuality, Ekphrasis and Postcolonial Theory

2. 5 Battles against and Encounters with Otherness

2. 6 Verbal-Visual Configurations: Practices of Translation

2. 7 The Politics of Visuality and the Gaze

3 Visuality and the Ethics of Seeing: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

3. 1 Visuality and Ethics - Some Philosophical Perspectives

3. 2 Re-visioning History in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992)

3. 3 Mapping Processes and the Colonial Gaze

3. 4 Ekphrases - Transcultural Solidarities

3. 5 Partial Points of View and the 'Multiplication of the Eyes'

3. 6 Visibilities, Invisibilities and "Reserves of Alterities"

4 Renegotiating Frames and Visibility in David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress

4. 1 Hogarth's and Dabydeen's Blacks

4. 2 "Can the Subaltern Speak?" And Can the Subaltern See? - Configurations of Voice and

Vision in Dabydeen's Fiction

4. 3 A Harlot's Progress (1985): Navigating the Imagery of 18th-century Britain

4. 4 Challenging Visual Transparency in A Harlot's Progress

4. 5 Looking beyond the Frame

4. 6 Arts, Commerce and Appropriation

4. 7 The Predicament of Representing Black Subjectivities

5 Salman Rushdie's Entangled Histories, Travelling Images and Alternative Visions of the Secular Modern Nation-State in Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh and The Enchantress of Florence ?

5. 1 Salman Rushdie's Intermedial Aesthetic and Indian Visual

5. 2 Negotiating Postcolonial Identities: Ekphrasis as Counter-Reading in Midnight's Children (1981)

5. 3 Rushdie's Ekphrastic Hope: The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)

5. 4 The Power of Painting and Ekphrasis: The Enchantress of Florence (2008)

5. 5 Ekphrasis and Ethics

6 Derek Walcott's "Twin Heads": Postcolonial Ekphrasis and Counter-Visions in Tiepolo's Hound?

6. 1 Derek Walcott: Navigating the Interstices between Visual and Verbal Art

6. 2 'The Art of Seeing'

6. 3 Contesting Origins and Originals: 'Lime trees trying to be olives'

6. 4 Re-Visioning Impressionism, Provincialising Europe

6. 5 Possibilities and Limits of a Caribbean Aesthetics

6. 6 Walcott's Painterly Re-Visions

6. 7 Toward a New World Aesthetics and Ethics of Seeing

6. 8 Double Visions, Caribbean Re-Vision and 'Seeing Shadows'

7 Serial Intermediality: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and See Now Then

7. 1 Postcolonial Subject Positions: Repetition with a Difference

7. 2 Photography and Seriality in Lucy (1990)

7. 3 Repetition and Ekphrasis in See Now Then (2013)

8 Monstrous Alterity: The Intermedial Aesthetics of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red

8. 1 Word-Image Configurations in Anne Carson's Oeuvre

8. 2 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998)

8. 3 Geryon's Autobiographical Project: Sculpture - Writing - Photography

8. 4 Radicalising Ekphrasis

9 'African' and 'American' Ekphrases: NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names

9. 1 The Intensity of Impression in Bulawayo's We Need New Names (2013)

9. 2 Darling's Art of Description

9. 3 Africa in the Western Mass Media

9. 4 'African' Ekphrases

9. 5 'American' Ekphrases

9. 6 Visual Contact Zones

10 Global Media Cultures, Travelling Images and Transcultural Ekphrasis in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of A Yellow Sun ?

10. 1 Rebalancing Stories in a Globalised World

10. 2 Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) - Re-Membering the Nigerian Civil War

10. 3 Transcultural Ekphrases: Igbo-Ukwu Art and Photography

10. 4 War Photography and the Voyeuristic Gaze in Western Media

10. 5 Intermedial Encounters - The Roped Pot as a Narrative Principle

11 Reflections and Refractions of Contemporary Media Cultures in Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City

11. 1 Convergence Culture and Social Linking

11. 2 Verbal-Visual Configurations in Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief (2007/2014a) -

Plays of In-Between-Ness

11. 3 Re-visioning Travel Writing: Peripatetic Viewing and Lagos' "non-linear nature"

11. 4 'The Empty Frame' - Moments of Absence

11. 5 The Ethics and Affects of Visual Practices

11. 6 Restructuring Nigerian Visual Cultures: Photography in Every Day Is for the Thief

11. 7 Ekphrasis in the Digital Age: Open City (2011)

11. 8 New York: Painting and Architecture

11. 9 Brussels: Monuments and Global Communication

11. 10 Back in New York City: Photography

11. 11 Blind Spots

12 Conclusion
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