Literature, Memory, Hegemony

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This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this collection seeks out the interpenetrating dynamic between both terms. Highlighting the inherent instability of East and West as oppositional categories, it focuses on the ‘crossings’ between East and West and this nexus as a highly-charged arena of encounter and collision. Drawing from varied literary contexts ranging from Victorian literature to Chinese literature and modern European literature, the book covers a diverse range of subject matter, including material drawn from psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory and studies related to race, religion, diaspora, and gender, and investigates topical social and political issues —including terrorism, nationalism, citizenship, the refugee crisis, xenophobia and otherness. Offeringa framework to consider the salient questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our societies, this book is a key read for those working within world literary studies.

Considers the concepts of 'East' and 'West' in terms of interpenetrating dynamic

Offers an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 'East' and 'West' as oppositional categories in the humanities and social sciences.

Offers a new framework to consider the salient questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our societies

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Sharmani Patricia Gabriel

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East-West Relations and Literature Conceptual and Cultural Hegemonies of ‘East’ and ‘West’ East and West as Oppositional Categories Literary Crossings between East and West East, West and the Other Postcolonialism and Traumatic Memories Empires and East-West Relations

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