This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address...
CURSUS ZWERVENDE VERHALEN IN EUROPA: Boek: Adaptation and appropriation - Julie Sanders
From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. Combining theoretical grounding...
CURSUS: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Book: Foe - J.M. Coetzee
Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. In the early eighteenth century, a woman finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave...
CURSUS: LITERATURE ACROSS CULTURES: Boek: Comparative literature in an age of globalisation - Haun Saussy
As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldview—not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation—comparative literature has benefited from regular reexamination of its basic principles and practices. The American...
CURSUS: LITERATURE ACROSS CULTURES Book: Tokyo Fiancee - Amélie Nothomb
A darling of the French literary scene, Nothomb delivers a complex story of first love set in late 1980s and early 90s Tokyo. Amélie is a 21-year-old Belgian student studying Japanese in Tokyo when she begins tutoring Rinri, a sweet, shy and wealthy 20-year-old, in French. The...
CURSUS: LITERATURE ACROSS CULTURES Book: Algerian White - Assia Djebar
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for...
CURSUS: LITERATURE ACROSS CULTURES Book: Mediterraen Crossings - Iain Chambers
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With...
CURSUS: POSTCOLONIAL CONFIGURATIONS Boek: The post-colonial studies reader - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics and issues, and features nearly ninety of the most widely read pieces of writing. The...
CURSUS: BASISCURSUS LETTERKUNDIG ONDERZOEK Boek: Max Havelaar - Multatuli
De Max Havelaar is niet alleen de beste roman uit de Nederlandse literatuur; het is ook een roman die na meer dan een eeuw nog steeds actueel is. Inhoudelijk misschien niet eens zozeer: als 'de Javaan' nog steeds mishandeld wordt dan is het tenminste niet meer door ons, en ook...
CURSUS: BASISCURSUS LETTERKUNDIG ONDERZOEK Boek: Het leven van teksten - Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Ann Rigney
Hoe komt het dat sommige teksten lang in de cultuur blijven circuleren en dat ze doorwerken in andere teksten en andere media? Hoe komt het dat lezers bepaalde teksten veranderen en andere niet? Waarom is een nationale canon geen vanzelfsprekendheid? Hoe beďnvloedt literatuur...
