ReFiguring global challenges

• Titel: ReFiguring global challenges
• Titelzusatz: literary and cinematic explorations of war, inequality, and migration
• Mitwirkende: Minervini, Amanda [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Björck, Amelie [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Grinberg, Omri [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Ghosh, Amrita [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg, and Amrita Ghosh
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: XIV, 168 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustration
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Cross/cultures ; volume 221
• Fussnoten: Includes index
• ISBN: 978-90-04-67760-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Film / (s)Literatur / (s)Krieg <Motiv> / (s)Ungleichheit <Motiv>
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: ReFiguring global challenges. - Leiden : Brill, 2023
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: ReFiguring Global Challenges. - Leiden : Brill, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 168 pages)
• RVK-Notation: EC 5410
• K10plus-PPN: 1851992057

Abstract

"An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close dialogue with literary and cinematic works and practices, the essays of this volume help refigure and rethink such pressing contemporary issues as migration, inequality, racism, post-coloniality, political violence and human-animal relations. A range of fresh perspectives are introduced, amounting to a call for intellectuals to remain critically engaged with the social and planetary"--