Reimagined Communities

Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1657-8
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, 217 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

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These contributions offer fundamental insights into how literary works address and reconceptualize issues of nationalism, groupism, belonging and denationalization in selected European contexts. Various critical perspectives are employed here to highlight modern social and political processes as registered and, to a certain extent, also fashioned by contemporary literary discourses. ‘Reimagined communities’ emerge from literary redescriptions of existing or imaginary sociopolitical configurations in several European states or regions. All the contributions share a heightened sensitivity to the individual as enmeshed in oppressive geopolitical circumstances. Thereby, literary expressions of how individuality is constrained by social pressures may offer inspiring blueprints for emancipation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartnik, Ryszard

Drong, Leszek

Sikorska, Liliana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Bartnik, Ryszard
Ryszard Bartnik is Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His research focuses on Northern Ireland, ‘peace walls’ and human rights.

Sikorska, Liliana
Liliana Sikorska is Professor of English Literature and Head of the Department of English and Irish Literature and Literary Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

Drong, Leszek
Leszek Drong is Professor of Humanities in the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Silesia, Poland, and a Vice-President of the Polish Association for Irish Studies.