Recognitions

Crossing Territories across Time, Space, and Textuality in the US and Beyond

Enrico Botta, Gianna Fusco, Pilar Martínez Benedí, Anna Scannavini

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111545387
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Literature

This volume offers a critical exploration of the many ways in which transcodification acts at the intersection of literature, art, history, and social and cultural artifacts to foster instances of recognition in the US.

Recognition covers a wealth of meanings: from the mere acknowledgement of existence, validity or legality, or appreciation of something as valuable, to the identification of something as known or familiar. Accordingly, this volume deals with different struggles for recognition. One focus of the volume is the assessment of artistic achievement in relation to a so-called original, with essays concerned with cultural codes and with the role that translation, adaptation, and cross-cultural encounters have played in US artistic and literary productions. A second, parallel, strand focuses on the fight for political and social inclusion, or on the dynamics beneath the recognition of group and gender identities, to explore how activism and artistic/literary productions challenge received identity boundaries and accepted social and cultural hierarchies.

Bringing together recognition and transcodification/transculturality, the book deconstructs crystalized and codified categories and celebrates the crossing of boundaries.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: “One Shock of Recognition”
• Fabulations of the Exception: Law, Justice, and Violence in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House
• Representations of the Massie/Kahahawai Case: Recognizing Racial and Gendered Conflicts in Honolulu
• What’s in “the heart of every Native citizen”? Definitions of Americanness in the John-Donkey
• The Song of Hiawatha: From an Indian Tale to the Epos of Manifest Destiny
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Reimagining of (Captain) America
• Negotiating Paradigms in Transbellum American Culture: Walt Whitman, James Jackson Jarves, and the Old Masters
• Synesthesia, Photography, Intransitive Comparison: Worlding the World as Home in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt
• Intercultural Encounters, Translations, and Understanding as Smooth? Michael Cooperson’s Impostures as a Translation Quandary
• Muslim Gatsby(s) in the Shadow of the Towers: Trans-codifications of The Great Gatsby in Twenty-first Century Pakistani-American Fiction
• “[S]howing Gatsby that there was more to life than just him”: Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful and the Ethnic Afterlife of Jordan Baker
• White Ethnics and U.S. Urban Neighborhoods in the 1970s: The Spatial Justice Mission of Geno Baroni
• “Shut your mouth! Leave your worries outside, Mistress Elektra will take good care of you”: Interracial BDSM, Ultra Fetishes and the Hauntology of Black Transness
• Conjure Feminism: The Root(work) of Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition
• Note on Contributors
• Index