Transcultural English Studies

Schulze–Engler, Frank; Helff, Sissy; Perner, Claudia; Vogt-William, Christine

doi:10.1163/9789042028845

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“…Doff et al 2011), have developed a discourse on Welsch's definition of 'transculturality.' Several critics of literary and cultural studies propose 'transculturality' as the appropriate descriptive term for the modern form of cultural mixing that does not exclusively rely on one nation state or culture in a globalizing age (Antor 2010;Huggan 2006;Schulze-Engler et al 2009;Eze 2005;Birkle 2004).…”

Section: Intra Inter Multi and Transmentioning

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DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon

Pooch¹

2016

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Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon. Thus, she contributes to a global, interdisciplinary, and multi-perspectival understanding of literature, culture, and society.

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DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon

Pooch¹

2016

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“…10Frank Schulze-Engler, “Introduction,” Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities , ed. Frank Schulze-Engler and Sissy Helff (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008), xiv.…”

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Transcultural Aesthetics and Postcolonial Memory: the Practices and Politics of Remembering in Tan Twan Eng’sThe Garden of Evening Mists

Poon¹

2016

Postcolon. Lit. inq

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The tension between the use of postcolonial memory to bear witness to the past and the aestheticization of memory lies at the center of Malaysian-born writer Tan Twan Eng's second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists (2012), a work that features the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II and the postwar period of the Malayan Emergency. The main protagonist is a former judge named Yun Ling who, faced with the prospect of eventual memory and speech loss, is moved to record her past experiences including the time she was a prisoner of war interred and when she was an apprentice to the gardener, Aritomo. In this article, I examine the novel's self-conscious musings about the nature of memory and the ways in which memory may be represented and preserved. Tan's novel attempts to provide a meditation on the transcultural mediation and aestheticization of memory by deliberately intermingling and overlaying various cultural features, artistic traditions and ethno-cultural subjectivities when it comes to processes of remembering. The attempt to transculturally aestheticize memory is on one level a metafictional and ostensibly inclusive move to affirm the plurality of stories and multiple perspectives. Yet, this is undermined by the novel's very strategies of aestheticization, which run the risk of making memory an artistic object so "precious" and rarefied as to counter the more avowedly political function of memory-that of bearing witness to history.

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Introducing Translocal Narratability

Mattheis

2021

Literary Urban Studies

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Transcultural English Studies

Cited by 17 publications

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DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon

DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon

Transcultural Aesthetics and Postcolonial Memory: the Practices and Politics of Remembering in Tan Twan Eng’sThe Garden of Evening Mists

Introducing Translocal Narratability

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