Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture: The Fractal Gaze

by F. Kral

Overview

Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137401380
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/17/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Françoise Kral is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France. Her publications include Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature (2009), Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self'/Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand (ed, 2004) and Architecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Gins (co-edited with Jean-Jacques Lecercle, 2011).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THEORIZING INVISIBILITY STUDIES 1. Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility 2. Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility PART II: ARTISTIC SCENES OF VISIBILITY 3. Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question 4. Films and Mass Visibility PART III: SITES OF INVISIBILITY 5. Nation Building and Home Thinking 6. Invisibility and the Fractal City Concluding Remarks: On Fractal Visibility Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

Françoise Král’s Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture therefore does raise a number of essential issues, in an often compelling manner … . It remains an extremely fascinating and illuminating work whose call for the development of invisibility studies no doubt will be heeded.” (Mathilde Rogez, Miranda, Vol. 12, 2016)

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