Rita Keresztesi – författare

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in theanglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts,music and film.This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists intheir evaluations of, and insights on, the relevance of the Black Power messageacross the region. The author takes a cultural studies approach to bring togetherthe political with the aesthetic, enriching an already fertile debate on the era andthe subject of Black Power in the Caribbean region. The chapters discuss variousaspects of Black Power in the Caribbean: on the pages of journals and magazines,at contemporary conferences that radicalized academia to join forces with communities,in fiction and essays by writers and intellectuals, in calypso and reggaemusic, and in the first films produced in the Caribbean.Produced at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Portof Spain, Trinidad, this timely book will be of interest to students and academicsfocusing on Black Power, Caribbean literary and cultural studies, African diaspora,and Global South radical political and cultural theory.

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in theanglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts,music and film.This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists intheir evaluations of, and insights on, the relevance of the Black Power messageacross the region. The author takes a cultural studies approach to bring togetherthe political with the aesthetic, enriching an already fertile debate on the era andthe subject of Black Power in the Caribbean region. The chapters discuss variousaspects of Black Power in the Caribbean: on the pages of journals and magazines,at contemporary conferences that radicalized academia to join forces with communities,in fiction and essays by writers and intellectuals, in calypso and reggaemusic, and in the first films produced in the Caribbean.Produced at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Portof Spain, Trinidad, this timely book will be of interest to students and academicsfocusing on Black Power, Caribbean literary and cultural studies, African diaspora,and Global South radical political and cultural theory.

Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to conventional notions of America and American modernism. By engaging with modernist literary studies from the perspectives of minority discourse, postcolonial studies, and postmodern theory, Rita Keresztesi questions the validity of modernism's claim to the neutrality of culture. She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America. With the changing racial, ethnic, and cultural makeup of the nation during the interwar era, literary modernism also changed its form and content. Contesting traditional notions of literary modernism, Keresztesi examines American modernism from an ethnic perspective in the works of Harlem Renaissance, immigrant, and Native American writers. She discusses such authors as Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Josephina Niggli, Mourning Dove, D'Arcy McNickle, and John Joseph Mathews, among others. Strangers at Home makes a persuasive argument for expanding our understanding of the writers themselves as well as the concept of modernism as it is currently defined.

Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to conventional notions of America and American modernism. By engaging with modernist literary studies from the perspectives of minority discourse, postcolonial studies, and postmodern theory, Rita Keresztesi questions the validity of modernism's claim to the neutrality of culture. She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America. With the changing racial, ethnic, and cultural makeup of the nation during the interwar era, literary modernism also changed its form and content. Contesting traditional notions of literary modernism, Keresztesi examines American modernism from an ethnic perspective in the works of Harlem Renaissance, immigrant, and Native American writers. She discusses such authors as Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Josephina Niggli, Mourning Dove, D'Arcy McNickle, and John Joseph Mathews, among others. Strangers at Home makes a persuasive argument for expanding our understanding of the writers themselves as well as the concept of modernism as it is currently defined.

The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.