Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature (Literary Theory) - Softcover

Mariam Popal

 
9783837672619: Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature (Literary Theory)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837672611 ISBN 13: 9783837672619
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

Touch has manifold layers of meaning, especially so in the context of the affectivity unleashed by humor, where often touching spaces ensue in deconstructive ways that affect the senses as well as sense-making. Along these lines, Mariam Popal discusses the works of bell hooks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, among others. She combines them with close readings of literary texts to open up venues for the performativity of rhetorically and poetologically generated critical, transformative thought that also pays attention to the ethics of dialogicity, as well as the relation between philosophy and literature.

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About the Author

Mariam Popal is associate professor (PD) in comparative literature/world literature at Universität Bayreuth. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Universität Hamburg and a habilitation (second thesis) in general & comparative literature from Universität Bayreuth. She is a member of the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple/Arts & Aesthetics, and an associate scholar in American studies at Universität Potsdam. She has taught and conducted research at Universität Freiburg, Universität Basel, the University of Toronto, the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the University of Alberta.

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Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3837672611
ISBN 13 
9783837672619
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
400