Ways of Being Free (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Costerus New Series (del 194)
Antal sidor
244
Utgivningsdatum
2012-01-01
Förlag
Brill
ISBN
9789042035348

Ways of Being Free

Authenticity and Community in Selected Works of Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Okri

av Adnan Mahmutovi?, Adnan Mahmutovic
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-01-01
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Iconic migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential "nervous conditions," caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been largely ignored or left undeveloped in criticism. Although Rushdie has argued that they primarily write back to the imperial centre(s), in their signature novels, The English Patient, Midnight's Children and The Famished Road, they respond to their conflicting cultural and ethnic heritages by dramatizing characters in traumatic struggles with belonging and affiliation. As a way of coping with their identity crises, most characters succumb to the political rhetoric of communalism. The central characters, however, are driven by a powerful desire for self-sufficiency. Yet, since this individualism clashes with their need for communal sharing, they enact a form of creative destruction of their singular selfhood and communal identity. They experience a certain plurality of singular selfhood and participate in forms of "inoperative communities," which elicit bonds without ties and coexistence without the necessity of a common work and essence.
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Adnan Mahmutovi? is a Bosnian-Swedish lecturer of literature in English, cultural studies, and creative writing at the Department of English, Stockholm University. Although his primary work has been focused on the postcolonial immigrant writers from South-East Asia and Africa, such as Rushdie, Ondaatje, Okri, and Khair, he has published academic and popular scientific articles on Coleridge, Von Trier, and some contemporary popular culture. His fiction has been anthologised and collected in How to Fare Well and Stay Fair (Salt publ), and his novel Thinner than a Hair came out with Cinnamon Press in 2010. He is currently the writer in residence at Stockholm University.

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