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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Barbara Johnson and Deconstruction in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a note on the changing definition of deconstruction and the critical priorities surrounding the concept of difference in two of Barbara Johnson’s works, ‘The Critical Difference’ (1980) and ‘A World of Difference’ (1987).
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Enchanting Literary Modernity: Idris Bazorkin’s Postcolonial Soviet Pastoral (The Modern Language Review, 2020) in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis article introduces the Ingush writer Idris Bazorkin. Bazorkin’s novel Dark Ages (1968) is examined as a pastoral novel that cultivates a Soviet style of postcolonial reflection on the cultural and historical memory of colonial rule.
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Thank you Rebecca Ruth Gold. The comparisons you draw between the novels of Thomas Hardy and Idris Bazorkin’s novel provide us with a picture of a complicated pastoral and sophisticated critique of colonialism (and, as you suggest, by implication the Soviet regime). At one point, the article contrasts Hardy’s “dense palimpsests of multiply…[Read more]
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Dear Francois, Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and questions! Yes, I think you are correct. In both Hardy (esp. The Woodlanders) and Bazorkin, the landscapes are part of the plot itself. I don’t think one can begin to understand the literature of the Caucasus without reflecting deeply on the way in which mountains frame our sense of humans’…[Read more]
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As we exchange remarks about the impetus and impact of time & place in the generation of ecocritical discourse, I am reminded of Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope. There is a certain imbrication of time, place and person and the question, for me, of who has access to the ecopoetical sublime and when. I wonder if the literary theory derived from…[Read more]
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Thanks so much, Francois, for the thought-provoking questions and suggestions! I look forward to continuing the conversation!
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