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Volume Editor:
Despite the recent growth in university courses on European Studies and Cultural Studies, and notwithstanding increasing public concern about questions of national identity within Europe, there is currently little material available which explores the diversity of European identities specifically within the context of European literary and filmic culture. In tackling ten novels, six plays, four films, three short stories, three books of travel writing and one diary, covering fifteen nationalities in all, the authors of this volume are seeking to fill this gap. The twelve essays contain detailed textual analysis embedded within a framework of cultural theory whose most celebrated reference points include Freud, Edward Said, Benedict Anderson and Homi Bhabha.
This volume is aimed not only at specialists in identity studies and those concerned with the artistic landscape of a wider Europe - including Russia, the Balkans, Finland and Turkey. It will also interest those preoccupied with building an imaginative and imagined identity for Europe, an identity which might help to sustain it as a political entity and lend it greater popular legitimacy than it enjoys at present.
This volume is aimed not only at specialists in identity studies and those concerned with the artistic landscape of a wider Europe - including Russia, the Balkans, Finland and Turkey. It will also interest those preoccupied with building an imaginative and imagined identity for Europe, an identity which might help to sustain it as a political entity and lend it greater popular legitimacy than it enjoys at present.
ââ¦valuable anthologyâ¦â in: The European Legacy, Vol. 10, 2005
Andy HOLLIS: Introduction
Deborah PARSONS: Nationalism or Continentalism?: Representing Heritage
Culture for a New Europe
Parvati NAIR: Homing the Other:the Immigrant as New European in David Planellâs Bazar
Ortwin de GRAEF and Henriëtte LOUWERSE: The Alteration of Amsterdam: Hafid Bouzzaâs Entertainment of Cultural Identity
Moray McGOWAN: âThe Bridge of the Golden Hornâ: Istanbul, Europe and the âFractured Gaze from the Westâ in Turkish Writing in Germany
Philip DINE: Memorial Boundaries and Textual Transgressions: the Narrative Politics of Franceâs Algerian War
Ludmilla KOSTOVA: Inventing Post-Wall Europe: Visions of the âOldâ Continent in Contemporary British Fiction and Drama
Irina KABANOVA: Two Kinds of Vagueness: âEuropeannessâ in Tim Parks and Anastasia Gostova
Andy HOLLIS: Shifting of Boundaries: Humour and National Identity in Three Versions of Ulrich Plenzdorfâs Freiheitsberaubung (âWrongful Detentionâ)
Juliet WIGMORE: Holofernes Commits Harakiri: Elisabeth Reichartâs Das vergessene Lächeln der Amaterasu
Richard ROBINSON: The European Border: Joyceâs Triestine Ulysses
John SUNDHOLM: The Non-Place of Identity: On the Poetics of a Minority Culture
William HOPE: The Silent Traveller: Self-Reinvention in Curzio
Malaparteâs âDiary of a Foreigner in Parisâ
Deborah PARSONS: Nationalism or Continentalism?: Representing Heritage
Culture for a New Europe
Parvati NAIR: Homing the Other:the Immigrant as New European in David Planellâs Bazar
Ortwin de GRAEF and Henriëtte LOUWERSE: The Alteration of Amsterdam: Hafid Bouzzaâs Entertainment of Cultural Identity
Moray McGOWAN: âThe Bridge of the Golden Hornâ: Istanbul, Europe and the âFractured Gaze from the Westâ in Turkish Writing in Germany
Philip DINE: Memorial Boundaries and Textual Transgressions: the Narrative Politics of Franceâs Algerian War
Ludmilla KOSTOVA: Inventing Post-Wall Europe: Visions of the âOldâ Continent in Contemporary British Fiction and Drama
Irina KABANOVA: Two Kinds of Vagueness: âEuropeannessâ in Tim Parks and Anastasia Gostova
Andy HOLLIS: Shifting of Boundaries: Humour and National Identity in Three Versions of Ulrich Plenzdorfâs Freiheitsberaubung (âWrongful Detentionâ)
Juliet WIGMORE: Holofernes Commits Harakiri: Elisabeth Reichartâs Das vergessene Lächeln der Amaterasu
Richard ROBINSON: The European Border: Joyceâs Triestine Ulysses
John SUNDHOLM: The Non-Place of Identity: On the Poetics of a Minority Culture
William HOPE: The Silent Traveller: Self-Reinvention in Curzio
Malaparteâs âDiary of a Foreigner in Parisâ