Recycling the Remnants of the Literary Text
Verandas for the Residual and the Emergent
Recycling the Remnants of the Literary Text
Verandas for the Residual and the Emergent
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Recycling the Remnants of the Literary Text: Verandas for the Residual and the Emergent addresses literary recycling as a creative endeavour that supplements meaning through appropriating remnants of texts and transforming them into traces or echoes of their former selves within a new narrative design. It approaches recycling as a process that extends verandas of meanings and creates sites for ongoing discursive accretion of signification through the dialogic encounter between the old and the new, “the residual” and “the emergent.” Whether seen as markers of the capacity of the literary text to surprise and haunt it readers, or residues of systems of representations predicated on selective inclusion and strategies of exclusion, remnants can offer rich material for setting in motion new cycles of renewal. The contributors of this volume propose recycling as writing and reading strategies. The first grants the remnants an afterlife and allow for an opening up of new narrative possibilities; while the second constructs alternative readings by allowing unwanted remnants to return and fill in gaps and silences. These oddments of the literary text are essential to question the iniquities of cultural, racial, and class prejudices. They are unavoidable in the construction of an emergent literary and cultural matrix for disruption and change.
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Introduction, Henda Ammar-Guirat
Part One: Recycling Between Transformation and Resistance
Chapter One: Intertext, Tradition and Recycling: Examples of Shakespeare and Aesop Repurposed, Sue Matheson
Chapter Two: Henry Mayhew’s Recycling and the Problem of Genre, Thomas Prasch
Chapter Three: Recycling as Conversation with the Canon: Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” and Modernist Experimental Poetics Foreshadowed, Lamia Jaoua-Sahnoun
Chapter Four: Poetics of Parody and the Ethics of the Residual in Experimental Literature: A Night at the Movies by Robert Coover, Saloua Karoui-Elounelli
Part Two: The Politics and Ethics of Recycling
Chapter Five: Recycling Muslim Otherness in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, Mounir Guirat
Chapter Six: When Otherness is Recycled into Sameness: Hyperreality and the Disappearance of the Real in Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Henda Ammar-Guirat
Chapter Seven: “Caliban is bound to raise uncomfortable issues”: Recycling The Tempest and Disposing of Caliban in Modern Canadian Fiction, Imed Sassi
Chapter Eight: Orientalism Recycled in the Postcolonial Texts of Nadeem Aslam: The Blind Man’s Garden and The Golden Legend, Rim Souissi-Souidi
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| Published | 15 Jul 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 170 |
| ISBN | 9781666950281 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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