Language, Literature, and the Dynamics of Conflict.
Informed by a global space animated by various conflicts, this book brings a refreshing perspective on how the disciplines of literature and language engage this phenomenon. In its shift from a purely political interrogation of conflict, the volume provides a broad analytic canvas on which human beh...
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| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Oxford :
Spears Books,
2023.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13167966 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Cover
- Contributors
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- List of Abbreviations
- Part One: Literary Interrogations of Conflict
- 1 "The Agony of my Country": Sierra Leone's Turbulent History in Syl Cheney-Coker's Poetry
- 2 Bob Marley and the Discourse of Conflict
- 3 Spatial Transcendence and the (Re)Invention of Space in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 4 Male Assertion and the Arts in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
- 5 Re-Building Paradise: Islamic Ecosphere in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
- Part Two: Language, Conflict Creation and Conflict Resolution
- 6 Insults and Spear Words in Music: Cameroon Pidgincreole as a Shield
- 7 Mitigating Linguistic Identity Differences in Cameroon: The Role of Bilingual Education
- 8 The Power of Language in Persuasion: A Lexico-semiotic Reading of Evangelisation Crusade Posters in Cameroon
- Index
- Back cover