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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2024.11

Cul­tur­al real­ism: recon­sid­er­ing mag­i­cal real­ism in the works of con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can women writ­ers
BuchcoverThis book is com­mit­ted to women as writ­ers and sto­ry­tellers; all the select­ed nov­els are female-cen­tric in that the main char­ac­ters are women. The authors, also women, are from three diverse Amer­i­can eth­nic groups from both the North and South. Through a close read­ing of sev­er­al nov­els, Babakhani shows how the rein­ven­tion of cul­tur­al tra­di­tions serves these women writ­ers as a polit­i­cal, decolo­nial, and fem­i­nist tool. Babakhani sit­u­ates her read­ings in a cri­tique of the con­cepts of real­ism and mag­i­cal real­ism. Because mag­i­cal real­ism sets real­ism against mag­ic and implies bina­ry oppo­si­tions, Babakhani pro­pos­es „cul­tur­al real­ism“ as a revi­sion­ary con­cept that takes the cul­tur­al impor­tance of rit­u­als and beliefs seri­ous­ly, with­out sim­ply dis­miss­ing them as super­sti­tion.
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The Tech­no­log­i­cal Uncon­scious in Con­tem­po­rary Fic­tion in Eng­lish
BuchcoverThe Tech­no­log­i­cal Uncon­scious in Con­tem­po­rary Fic­tion in Eng­lish ana­lyzes the way in which con­tem­po­rary Eng­lish-lan­guage prose explores the role that the broad­ly under­stood envi­ron­ment plays in shap­ing human con­scious­ness, with par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on tech­no­log­i­cal aspects of this envi­ron­ment. The dis­cus­sion of the cho­sen lit­er­ary texts aims to demon­strate that con­tem­po­rary nar­ra­tive fic­tion in Eng­lish presents con­scious­ness as inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the sur­round­ing tech­no­log­i­cal envi­ron­ment. Using a wide range of nar­ra­tive tech­niques and refer­ring to a vari­ety of con­scious­ness mod­els, the ana­lyzed texts also show that the con­nec­tion between tech­nol­o­gy and con­scious­ness is often invis­i­ble to the human agent due to the ubiq­ui­ty and trans­paren­cy of the tech­nol­o­gy.
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