Relocating Consciousness: Diasporic Writers and the Dynamics of Literary ExperienceRodopi, 2007 - 252 páginas This book deals directly with issues of consciousness within works of postcolonial and diasporic writers. It discusses fiction, autobiography and theory to re-formulate a "writing of consciousness", addressing contemporary cultural theory related to a wide range of dynamic writers and ground-breaking novels. A critical analysis of literature contextualises consciousness (understood here as the source of language and human creativity), and explores ways in which consciousness is involved in the creative process. Tackling the controversial nature of consciousness itself, the book argues that consciousness must be understood in its philosophical and social contexts. The idea of relocating consciousness calls for a new aesthetics and ethics of living in the diasporic world where we are all to some extent "migrant". The book explores notions of consciousness as alternative narrative structures to society, while expanding contemporary postcolonial theory beyond the limited dimension of power-based-on-violence to a more visionary exploration of experience based on consciousness as unity-in-diversity. Themes explored include sacred experience as empowerment; trauma, terror and the impact of consciousness; cosmopolitanism and globalisation; and the literature of human survival. Written in a lively and accessible manner the book will appeal to all readers who enjoy being on the cutting-edge of contemporary world literature. |
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003 Relocating cns chpt 2 | 29 |
004 Relocating cns chapt 3 | 57 |
005 Relocating cns chapter 4 | 83 |
006 Relocating cns chpt 5 | 115 |
007 Relocating cns chapter 6 | 137 |
008 Relocating cns chpt 7 | 171 |
009 Relocating cns chpt 8 corr | 191 |
010 RelocatingCns CHAp 9 corr | 213 |
011 Relocating cns X BIBLIOGRAPHY | 235 |
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Relocating Consciousness: Diasporic Writers and the Dynamics of Literary ... Daphne M. Grace Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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African Ahdaf Soueif Algeria alienation alternative argues Arjuna awakening awareness becomes Bhagavad-Gita boundaries Camus Caribbean century chapter characters colonial concept context create creativity culture Dandicat diasporic discussion Divakaruni Djebar dream dynamic English patient enlightenment ethics exile existence experience exploration expression Famished Road Fanon fiction gain gender global globalisation Haifa Zangana Haney Heart of Darkness homeland human consciousness ibid identity individual infinite infinity inner intellect intelligence journey knower knowledge language living located magic space Maharishi Maharishi Mahesh Yogi manifest meaning memory migration mind Mistress of Spices myth narrative narrator nature novel paradise past physical political postcolonial literature postcolonial studies postmodern problems pure consciousness quantum mechanical realisation reality religion religious Rushdie sacred Salman Rushdie self-referral sense silence social society spiritual story terror theme Tilo traditional transcendence Transcendental Consciousness transformation trauma truth ultimately understanding University Upanishads Vedic violence waking Wilson Harris women writers
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Página 22 - I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
Página 10 - The effect of mass migrations has been the creation of radically new types of human being: people who root themselves in ideas rather than places, in memories as much as in material things; people who have been obliged to define themselves — because they are so defined by others — by their otherness; people in whose deepest selves strange fusions occur, unprecedented unions between what they were and where they find themselves.