Exit : endings and new beginnings in literature and life

Exit : endings and new beginnings in literature and life / edited by Stefan Helgesson.

If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible, necessary or desirable. This collection of essays, which celebrates the achievement of the Swedish Af...

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Other Authors: Helgesson, Stefan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 130.
Subjects:
African literature (English) > History and criticism.
Exiles' writings, African (English) > History and criticism.
Transnationalism in literature.
Quality of life.
quality of life.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
African literature (English)
Exiles' writings, African (English)
Transnationalism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Exit
  • Southern Exits
  • Some Thoughts on the Idea of Exit in Recent African Narratives of Childhood / Richard K. Priebe
  • Generation and Complicity in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light / Maria Olaussen
  • "Let Me Tell You About Bekolo's Latest Film, Les Saignantes, But First ..." / Kenneth W. Harrow
  • Tradition and Creativity in Zakes Mda's Cion Bernth Lindfors: Paton's Discovery, Soyinka's Invention / David Bell
  • Writing out Imperialism? A Note on Nationalism and Political Identity in the African-Owned Newspapers of Colonial Ghana / Stephanie Newell
  • After Exit: Exile, Creativity, and the Risk of Translation Ending up and opting out in the North / Stefan Helgesson
  • African Presences and Representations in the Principality/Markgrafschaft of Bayreuth / Eckhard Breitinger
  • Taking Flight and the Libertarian Crow-Scarer / Gerald Porter
  • "In my end is my beginning": The Death of Virginia Woolf / Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström
  • Following the Race Track? Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Swedish in Diamond Grill by Fred Wah / Elisabeth Mårald
  • Literature and Scripture: An Impossible Filiation / J. Hillis Miller
  • "Gazing into the future": Beginnings, Endings, and Midpoints in Paul Muldoon's Why Brownlee Left Global Exit? / Lars-Håkan Svensson
  • Exiting the Environmental Trap: Knowledge Regimes and the Third Phase of Environmental Policy Voicing the Exit / Sverker Sörlin
  • The End of the "Earth" / Willy Bach
  • Myself as a Puff of Dust: A Ghost Story / Jane Bryce
  • TIXE YLNO or Redefining Identities / Janice Kulyk Keefer.

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