Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies
Jan 2005 · Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichende Book 87 · Rodopi
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Transcultural Graffiti reads a range of texts - prose, poetry, drama - in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary creation for the manner in which it gives hints about the teaching of literary studies in our postcolonial, globalizing era. Transcultural Graffiti suggest that cultural work, in particular transcultural work, assembles and collates material from various cultures in their moment of meeting. The teaching of such cultural collage in the classroom should equip students with the means to reflect upon and engage in cultural 'bricolage' themselves in the present day. The texts read - from Césaire's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest, via the diaspora fictions of Marica Bodrozic or David Dabydeen, to the post-9/11 poetry of New York poets - are understood as 'graffiti'-like inscriptions, the result of fleeting encounters in a swiftly changing public world. Such texts provide impulses for a performative 'risk' pedagogy capable of modelling the ways in which our constitutive individual and social narratives are constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed today.
About the author
Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of English Literature at the Free University of Berlin. He is the author of Conrad and Gide: Translation, Transference and Intertextuality (1996), Figures de la maladie chez André Gide (1997), and Spatial Representations on the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster (2002).
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