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Title ReFiguring global challenges : literary and cinematic explorations of war, inequality, and migration / edited by Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg, and Amrita Ghosh
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 168 pages) : illustrations
Series Cross/cultures ; volume 221
Cross/cultures ; 221.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2023)
Subject Social problems in literature.
Social problems in motion pictures.
Postcolonialism.
Humanities.
postcolonialism.
Humanities
Postcolonialism
Social problems in literature
Social problems in motion pictures
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Minervini, Amanda, editor.
Björck, Amelie, editor.
Grinberg, Omri, editor.
Ghosh, Amrita, editor.
LC no. 2023024165
ISBN 900468042X
9789004680425
9004677607
9789004677609
Other Titles Literary and cinematic explorations of war, inequality, and migration