In his autobiographical fiction Peut-être ou La nuit de dimanche, Roubaud blames the contemporary Oulipo members for betraying the founders' principles. Almost 60 years after its creation, such ...criticism reveals issues related to the group's openness to the world: the role of mathematics in the creation of structures, the place of women, Oulipo Lite / Hard. If the Oulipians are characters in Queneau's "unwritten novel," what chapter of this novel does Roubaud intend to write, fifty years after his co-option? This key novel emphasizes Roubaud's status as a disciple of Queneau, continuator of Le Lionnais, and "composer of mathematics and poetry."
"On a Clear April Morning, by Marcos Iolovitch, is a lyrical and riveting coming of age story set among early twentieth-century settlers brought to an almost unknown Jewish farming experiment in an ...isolated corner of Brazil. This autobiographical novel is filled with drama, joy, disasters, romance, and humor. It travels from farms where the crops won't grow to towns where the Yiddish-speaking protagonist falls in love, befriends sons of German immigrants, studies philosophy with the Jesuits, and becomes an important member of Brazil's literary world. This first English edition includes elucidating historical notes on the origin of Jewish farming communities in the U.S., Canada and South America by the translator, Merrie Blocker, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer"--.
The Radical Volte-Face of Place Herk, Aritha van
Commonwealth Essays and Studies,
10/2020, Letnik:
42, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
This critical exploration and the accompanying meta-fictional narrative explore the impetus of how place inspires, despite its inherent truancy of expectation, an articulated desire, a longing or ...initiation of not-quite memory and its placeless intensity. How do stories of the past of place teach us a way to write story about and within place, to embark on the epistemological anxiety of writing what is ordinary, and thus remarkable. The essay addresses strategies of evasion that writing place enables in worlds that negotiate concealed history. By exploring interstitial space when dwelling place and circumstance together insist on inscribing past inhabitants, place reflects its reflectors.
Ethiopian Orthodox Churches Woltemade, Peter Sean
Delos (College Park, Md.),
09/2022, Letnik:
37, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The Danish poet and travel writer Thomas Boberg was born in 1960. During his childhood, Boberg lived in the inner part of the 0sterbro district of Copenhagen. As a teenager, he lived in Roskilde for ...some years, and he subsequently lived abroad, based first in Barcelona. Spain, and later in Lima. Peru, before returning to the Copenhagen area to live. In 2021, Boberg moved his primary residence to the small Danish island of Fejo. In all, Boberg has spent eighteen years outside Denmark. He produced five volumes of travel memoirs before writing the "travel novel" Africana, which was inspired primarily by three journeys in Ethiopia of relatively brief duration and a stay of some months in the Gambia during the period 2013-2018.
Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women's repression and veiling,Anxiety of Erasurelooks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a ...productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw'udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland.Al-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of six prominent authors whose works span over half a century and define the current status of Arab diaspora studies-Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Na'na', Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi. Exploring the journeys in time and space undertaken by these women, Anxiety of Erasure shines a light on the ways in which writers remain participants in their homelands' intellectual lives, asserting both the traumatic and the triumphant aspects of diaspora. The result is a nuanced Arab women's poetic that celebrates rootlessness and rootedness, autonomy and belonging.
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