From Literature to Cultural Literacy

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by  Naomi Segal, Daniela Koleva (eds.)

From Literature to Cultural Literacy
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From Literature to
Cultural Literacy
Editedby
Naomi Segal
Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon,UK
Daniela Koleva
StKlimentOhridskiUniversityofSofia,Bulgaria
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
Acknowledgements ix
NotesonContributors xi
Introduction 1
NaomiSegal
Part I RememberingandForgetting
1 RememberingandForgetting:Introduction 15
DanielaKoleva
2 VisualRecallinthePresent:CriticalNostalgiaandthe
MemoryofEmpireinPortugueseCulture 21
IsabelCapeloaGil
3 TextualizedMemoriesofPolitics:TurkishCoupd’État
Novels 43
SibelIrzık
4 CanDevelopersLearnfromArt?JanetCardiff’s‘The
MissingVoice’inSpitalfields 62
RicardaVidal
Part II MigrationandTranslation
5 MigrationandTranslation:Introduction 79
LoredanaPolezzi
6 MigrantPoet(h)ics 86
BorbálaFaragó
7 TranslatingtheIn-Between:PerformancePoetryandthe
RelationshipbetweenLanguage,LiteratureandSociety 106
RobertCrawshaw
8 LostandGainedinMigration:TheWritingofMigrancy 122
MaryGallagher
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Part III ElectronicTextuality
9 ElectronicTextuality:Introduction 141
LeopoldinaFortunati
10 Non-ConsumptiveReading 148
SusanSchreibman
11 Reading(andWriting)Online,RatherthanontheDecline 166
KathleenFitzpatrick
12 IFoughttheLaw:TransgressivePlayandtheImplied
Player 180
EspenAarseth
Part IV Biosociality,BiopoliticsandtheBody
13 Biopolitics,BiosocialityandtheBody:Introduction 191
UlrikeLandfester
14 HumanEnhancement:IsIt‘Mere’ScienceFiction?The
RiseandRiseofDisembodiedEthics 198
HeatherBradshaw-Martin
15 HistoryintheGene?HowBiohistoriesareImplicatedin
BiopoliticsandBiosocialities 216
MarianneSommer
16 BetweenHybridandGraft 232
UweWirth
Index 250
Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 M.Pereira,Differenttypesandraces,AlbumdaProvíncia
deMoçambique(AlbumofMozambique,1891),9.Arquivo
HistóricoUltramarino(AHU) 27
2.2 M.HenriquesGonçalves,Fulawoman(Guinea-Bissau),
RoteirodoUltramar,1958(OverseasItinerary) 29
2.3 PedraFurada,Climbingacoconuttree,SãoTomée
Príncipe,1900–1910.Postcard.AHU 30
2.4 M.Pereira,Quelimane(ZambeziMission),Albumda
ProvínciadeMoçambique(AlbumofMozambique,1891),2.
AHU 32
2.5 SãoTomé,Plantation(Roça)Pay-day,c.1910–1920,
InstitutodosMuseusedaConservação,I.P.,Lisbon 33
2.6 MeansoftransportPostcardAngola1910–1920AHU 34
2.7 Twoblackstakingamonkeyforastroll.PostcardAngola
c.1920AHU 34
2.8 N’gungunhanaandhissevenwivesLisbon,March1896.
DiárioIllustrado,specialissue1897 35
2.9 N’gungunhana,Godide,MolunloandZizaxa,Angrado
Heroísmo,Azores,16April1899.A.N.T.T 35
4.1 ViewofSpitalfieldsMarketinApril2013 67
4.2 ViewofSpitalfieldsMarketfromthebalconyaboveLas
IguanasinApril2013 67
4.3 PublicsculptureinthenewlybuiltpartofSpitalfields
Market,February2008 69
7.1 Coverof4forMore(2002) 107
7.2 4forMore(2002),detailofpage18 109
7.3 4forMore(2002),detailofpage2 110
7.4 4forMore(2002),detailofp.8 111
10.1 FragmentfromamanuscriptcopyofThomas
MacGreevy’spoem‘Autumn1922’,heldatthe
ManuscriptsandArchivesResearchLibrary,TCDMS
7979/8.Reprintedwithpermissionfromtheestateof
ThomasMacGreevyandTheBoardofTrinityCollege
Dublin 149
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viii ListofFiguresandTables
10.2 AWordleofThomasMacGreevy’spublishedpoems 159
10.3 MacGreevy’spoemsviewedthroughthesoftware
TextArcdesignedbyBradPaley 159
10.4 Atopic-modellingclusteroncontemporaryscholarship
fromUnderwood’stopicmodellingofthePMLA,
1924–2006 162
10.5 Atopic-modellingclusteroncontemporaryscholarship
fromGoldstone’stopicmodellingofthePMLA,
1890–1999 163
12.1 MelonsinOblivion;theitemduplicationtrick(Bethesda
Softworks,2006) 187
16.1 ExemplificationoftheoperationsofgraftinginRobert
Sharrock,TheHistoryofthePropagationandImprovement
ofVegetablesbytheConcurrenceofArtandNature(Oxford,
1659),60 235
16.2 ‘TheChimeraofArezzo’,NationalArchaeological
Museum,Florence 244
16.3 StillfromDVDofJamesCameron’sAvatar(2009) 246
Tables
10.1 Allthepoemsinwhichtheword‘yet’appears,inthe
orderinwhichtheyappearinthetext 160
12.1 Dividingthefieldofgameplaystudiesintofour,along
empiricalandmethodologicallines 183
12.2 Three-levelimpliedplayermodel 184
Acknowledgements
This book has been a challenge for everyone who has engaged with it
at one stage or another. Its conception was the result of an awareness
that European humanities – and in particular what has traditionally
been known as Literary Studies – have played and are playing a more
important role in research and society than is usually acknowledged.
The effort to share this awareness has required a readiness to leave
the comfort of one’s own disciplinary assumptions, to question them
and to take alternatives seriously. It has also meant exploring border
areas between research fields; and borders, as is all too well known,
are areas of both contact and conflict. We are grateful to the 74 col-
leagues from 24 countries who accepted this challenge and took part
in the four workshops held in 2009 and 2010 to explore the rele-
vance of literary and cultural studies to the fields of memory studies,
migrant writing, electronic textuality, and biosociality and the body.
Their open and dialogical stance nourished many of the ideas featured
inthisbook.
None of this would have been possible without the support of the
ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities and the COST Domain
CommitteeIndividuals,Societies,CulturesandHealth;weareespecially
gratefultotheirchairsduringtheperiodoftheproject:MilenaŽic-Fuchs
and Marc Caball. Engaging in this strategic synergy, the two organiza-
tionshaveprovedyetagaintheindispensabilityoftheirmissioninthe
European research area. We would like to thank our colleagues from
the two committees – Marc Caball, Leopoldina Fortunati, Sibel Irzık,
Margaret Kelleher, Ulrike Landfester and Lea Rojola – who contributed
asmembersofthesteeringgrouptotheorganizationoftheworkshops
and the lessons learnt from them. The success of the initiative also
owes a great deal to the work of Dr Nina Kancewicz-Hoffman (ESF),
Dr Julia Stamm (COST), Ms Francesca Boscolo (COST) and Ms Claire
Rustat-Flinton(ESF).
Many individuals and institutions have contributed to the creation
of this book. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their
constructive critique and useful suggestions, and to Palgrave editors
Chris Penfold and Felicity Plester for guiding us through the process
ofproduction.
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