Transcultural Perspectives in Literature, Language, Art, and Politics

Aristi Trendel, Indra Karapetjana

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978775244
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Kulturpolitik

Transcultural Perspectives in Literature, Language, Art, and Politics is a contribution to the field of transcultural studies that has been gaining ground since the turn of the twentieth century. Embracing the transcultural lens in the humanities and social sciences, it demonstrates how the relevance, necessity and wide range of this approach can better enhance our understanding of the contemporary world as well as the past. Though all the contributors have a humanities background, they work in different research fields such as literary studies, linguistics, translation studies, cinema, or intellectual history, and use a variety of theoretical frames. A transdisciplinary framework also seems to be the most practical one to meet the challenges that transcultural phenomena and developments present. In sixteen chapters organized in five sections (literature, translation and linguistics, cinema, communication and politics), the volume explores the dynamics of transculturality at a micro and macro level, its benefits and limits. These studies suggest that transculturality is not only used as an intellectual working tool but also as an identity in motion that may represent a glimmer of hope in a world that seems to be in the throes of unreason and on the brink of self-induced destruction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Part I: Literature
• Chapter 1: The Fabric of Transculturality: Weaving the Transcultural American Text
• Chapter 2: Viet Than Nguyen’s “Just Memory” and the Future of Transculturalism
• Chapter 3: Transculturality: Ethics and Politics in Eva Hoffman’s Appassionata
• Chapter 4: Translingual Literature/Transcultural Literature: A Comparison Reading of David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish and Ha Jin’s “An English Professor”
• Chapter 5: Literary Translingualism and the Case of World Literature: A View from Eastern Europe
• Part II: Translation and Linguistics
• Chapter 6: Transcultural Gastropoetics: The Depiction of Oranges in Contemporary Latvian Prose and Challenges in Translation
• Chapter 7: Transculturality and Translation: A Transcultural, Multipolar Experience I: Translating English and Spanish Creole into French
• Chapter 8: Transculturality and Translation: A Transcultural, Multipolar Experience II: Translating Japanese American Poet Amy Uyematsu
• Chapter 9: Transcultural Engagement with Holocaust Memory in Spain: A One-Way Process?
• Chapter 10: Bilingual and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories: Literary and Linguistic Approach
• Part III: Cinema
• Chapter 11: Transcultural Collaboration: A Journey of an Animated Film: The Scarlet Flower between the Former USSR, Syria, and the UK
• Chapter 12: Home-Longing in Fatih Akın’s Transcultural Heimat Western The Cut
• Chapter 13: “Great Storytelling Transcends Borders”: Transculturation Effects of Multinational Video-On-Demand Streaming
• Part IV: Communication
• Chapter 14: English as a Lingua Franca in Academia and Beyond
• Chapter 15: Transculturality and Transnationalism: Supranational Identities in the European Union
• Part V: Politics
• Chapter 16: Transculturality and Transnationalism: The Influence of Anti-Capitalist and Internationalist Counter-Cultures in the New Environmentalist Movements and the Case of Extinction-Rebellion
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors