Transcultural Perspectives in Literature, Language, Art, and Politics

This book explores the dynamics of transculturality through five sections: literature, translation and linguistics, cinema, communication, and politics. The contributors’ diverse background in the Humanities allows for a wide enquiry into the far-reaching capabilities of transculturality both as an intellectual tool and as an identity in motion.
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.

Contributor: Olga Thierbach-McLean (Contributions by), Ralph J. Poole (Contributions by), Sophie Rachmuhl (Contributions by), Gunta Rozina (Contributions by), Kornelia Slavova (Contributions by), Madara Stade (Contributions by), François Thirion (Contributions by), Sabine Tinchant-Benrahho (Contributions by), Aristi Trendel (Contributions by), Theodora Tsimpouki (Contributions by), Stanislav Kolár (Contributions by), Shuang Liu (Contributions by), Lyudmila Razumova (Contributions by), Nagore Palomares (Contributions by), Nicole Ollier (Contributions by), Aristi Trendel (Edited by), Indra Karapetjana (Edited by), Rédouane Abouddahab (Contributions by), Nesrin Alrefaai (Contributions by), Iva Dedková (Contributions by), Lhorine François (Contributions by), María Jesús Fernández-Gil (Contributions by), Stefano Greco (Contributions by), Ieva Kalnina (Contributions by), Indra Karapetjana (Contributions by)

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