Power and Victimization - The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victimhood in Contemporary Literature. Proceedings of a Symposiu (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783898215336)

These proceedings of the symposium 'The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victim-hood in Contemporary Literature, ' conducted by the Department of American Culture and Literature at Haliç University, Istanbul, on 13-15 April 2005 contain discussions of power and victimization as represented in contemporary literatures in light of the leading questions and issues in contemporary literary criticism, the emphasis being on writing from the Anglophone world.The authors treated include Angela Carter, Colm Toibin, Alan Hollinghurst, Tony Harrison, Henry James, David Mamet, Anne Sexton, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Terry Tempest Williams, Margaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, J. M. Coetzee, Jean Anouilh, Thomas Mann, Ricardo Piglia, Luisa Valenzuela, Naguib Mahfouz, Kemal Yalçın, Orhan Pamuk, Kobo Abe.

Author: Oya Berk
ISBN-10: 3898215334
ISBN-13: 9783898215336
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2005
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.61d