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  • 1. Ahmed, Sara
    Lorenzoni, Patricia (Translator)
    Åsard, Maria (Translator)
    Vithetens hegemoni2011Book (Other academic)
  • 2.
    Andersson Cederholm, Erika
    et al.
    Lund University.
    Björck, AmelieSödertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature. Lund university.Jennbert, KristinaLund University.Lönngren, Ann-SofieUppsala University.
    Exploring the Animal Turn: Human-animal relations in Science, Society and Culture2014Collection (editor) (Other academic)
  • 3. Aurelius, Eva Haetnner
    et al.
    Björck, Amelie
    Jonsson, Stefan
    Malm, Mats
    Rudeke, Lena Ulrike
    Kanon och kanoner: En e-postdiskussion2007In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, ISSN 1104-0556, E-ISSN 2001-094X, no 3, p. 7-22Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 4.
    Björck, Amelie
    Lunds universitet.
    Ansikte mot ansikte: Om etiska kortslutningar i mötet mellan människor och apor – och om skönlitterära motarbeten2013In: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, ISSN 0013-0818, E-ISSN 1500-1989, Vol. 113, no 1, p. 15-29Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The modernisation of human civilisation demands sacrifices of other species for work, food, clothing, medical research, space exploration – and human self affirmation. To enable the asymmetrical relations, a hierarchical dualism between Man and Animal has been constructed and is maintained by a mechanism of continual differentiation. My aim in this article is to consider how literary fiction may take part in the denaturalisation of this mechanism, named by Giorgio Agamben as the ”anthropological machine”. For this purpose I highlight five different meetings between apes and humans, as narrated in Swedish novels from the last decades, and analyse them from an ethical and animal discourse point of view. My readings demonstrate how literature can call acute attention to the recurrent human blockage of the face of the animal other, and to the emotional unsettlement evoked by this act. Hereby, I argue, the human/animal divide is put into question as a relevant basis of ethical decision.

  • 5. Björck, Amelie
    Att ha rätt till sin egen skräck: om Elfride Jelinek2006In: Lyrikvännen, ISSN 0460-0762, no 3/4, p. 168-175Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 6. Björck, Amelie
    Att tänka med apor: utvecklings(mar)drömmar i artöverskridande fiktioner2012In: Ord och bild, ISSN 0030-4492, E-ISSN 1402-2508, no 4, p. 10-16Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 7.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Decolonizing Animals: A Surface Reading of Wisława Szymborska’s Poem Bruegel’s Two Monkeys2023In: ReFiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration / [ed] Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg, Amrita Ghosh, Brill Academic Publishers, 2023, p. 115-135Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The European cultural heritage from the early modern era is full of colonial content. For instance, “exotic” animals, trafficked to Europe from the colonies, often appear as motifs in paintings and sculptures. This is the case in the oil painting Two Chained Monkeys by Bruegel the Elder from 1562. Through the centuries, the two monkeys in the painting have been interpreted in different ways: as material proof of the owner’s worldwide power, as religious symbols of the debased human, or as political metaphors for human warfare and imprisonment. With her ekphrastic poem “Bruegel’s Two Monkeys” (1957), the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska breaks this trend of “symptomatic interpretation” and reads the monkeys as monkeys. As I argue in the chapter, Szymborska hereby makes the type of critical “surface reading” for which the academic field of human-animal studies generally aims. Szymborska’s poem, furthermore, creatively rearranges the painting’s scenery, thereby effectively blocking the anthropocentric-colonial gaze and creating new space for the monkeys’ agency. Principally, the chapter argues that artistic and academic endeavors may have mutually supportive functions in their acts of critically revisiting and rereading the cultural heritage from the colonial era.

  • 8.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature. Södertörns högskola.
    Den nomadiska repliken – tankar från Strindbergs Intima Teater2020In: Kulturmöten: En festskrift till Christine Farhan / [ed] Amelie Björck, Eva Jonsson, Claudia Lindén & Mattias Pirholt, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2020, p. 53-64Chapter in book (Other academic)
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    Den nomadiska repliken – tankar från Strindbergs Intima Teater
  • 9.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Discerning the Ghostly Voices of Animals2019In: Perspectives on Ecocriticism: Local Beginnings, Global Echoes / [ed] Ingemar Haag; Karin Molander Danielsson; Marie Öhman; Thorsten Päplow, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, p. 133-148Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 10. Björck, Amelie
    Dokumentärteaterns ansvar2010In: Teatertidningen, ISSN 1101-9107, no 1, p. 39-40Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 11. Björck, Amelie
    Därför äter riktiga karlar kött2012In: Dagens Nyheter, ISSN 1101-2447, no 21 juniArticle, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Artikeln bygger på en jämförande analys av Hemingways Och solen har sin gång och Michael Roskams film Bullhead. Enligt argumentationen använder båda dessa verk nötkreaturet - tjuren - för att problematisera manlig sexualitet, men också för att utvinna mänsklig dramatik genom att visa upp djurs lidande och död. Djuren blir på detta sätt medel för att tala om mänskliga problem, medan narrativet lämnar deras eget öde därhän. Artikeln gör gällande att denna tendens hänger samman med det maktschema mellan varelser av olika arter och kön som Jacques Derrida kallat "carnofallogocentrism".

  • 12. Björck, Amelie
    Følelsernes materiale: Refleksioner over Sonja Åkessons digt "Hvordan ser din farve rød ud"?2013In: Kritik, ISSN 0454-5354, no 208, p. 60-65Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Essän undersöker känslornas plats och materialisering i Sonja Åkessons poetiska språk och hur känslokommunikationen i hennes dikt samexisterar en grundläggande misstro mot språkets funktionalitet.

  • 13.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Humans, Cows, and Bacteria: Three Modes of Reading the Film Bullhead2022In: Squirrelling: Human–Animal Studies in the Northern-European Region / [ed] Amelie Björck; Claudia Lindén; Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2022, p. 217-230Chapter in book (Refereed)
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    Humans, Cows, and Bacteria: Three Modes of Reading the Film Bullhead
  • 14. Björck, Amelie
    Höra hemma: familj och social förändring i svensk radioserieteater från 1930-talet till 1990-talet2010Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
  • 15.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Jenny Jarlsdotter Wikström, Materiella vändningar: Läsningar av Parland, Lispector, Berg och Byggmästar. Umeå Universitet. Umeå 20202020In: Samlaren: Tidskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur, ISSN 0348-6133, E-ISSN 2002-3871, Vol. 141, p. 193-198Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 16. Björck, Amelie
    Kollektivt kvinnokött: om Forough Farrokhzads poesi2013In: Kritiker, ISSN 1653-7432, no 28/29, p. 22-30Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Essän gör en läsning av den persiska poeten Forough Farrokhzad och undersöker hennes röst och roll i iransk litterär kvinnofrigörelse, utifrån en parallell med svensk och europeisk kvinnlig poesi på 60-70-talet och den position/handling som Cixous kallar écriture féminine.

  • 17.
    Björck, Amelie
    Lunds universitet.
    Konsten att göra djuren synliga2013In: Svenska Dagbladet, ISSN 1101-2412, no 13 juliArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Essän tar avstamp i en installation med uppstoppade hästar av konstnären Javier Balmaseda, visad på konstbiennalen i Venedig 2013. Diskussionen rör de etiska dimensionerna vid användning av djurkroppar i konsten, med referens även till Robert Rauschenbergs getinstallation "Monogram" på Moderna museet, samt till Steve Bakers forskning om djur i konsten, inklusive den nyutgivna boken Artist Animal.

  • 18.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Korna och begäret2020In: Litterär kalender 2020 / [ed] Magnus Halldin, Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag, 2020Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 19.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Kärlek över artgränserna?2023In: Med kärlek: En festskrift till Claudia Lindén / [ed] Eva Jonsson, Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Mattias Pirholt, Oscar von Seth, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2023, 1, p. 205-225Chapter in book (Other academic)
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    Kärlek över artgränserna?
  • 20. Björck, Amelie
    Könspolitisk historia manar till handling2012In: Respons, ISSN 2001-2292, no 2, p. 20-21Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Köttätande som omedvetet trossystem2014In: Svenska Dagbladet, ISSN 1101-2412, no 12 augusti, p. 23-Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 22. Björck, Amelie
    Lever - en triamonolog om Sonja och döden2008In: Att göra av med sig själv: texter om författarsjälvmord / [ed] Daniel Westerlund, Hägersten: Eolit Förlag , 2008, p. 93-106Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 23.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives2016In: Narrating Life: Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art / [ed] Stefan Herbrechter; Elisabeth Friis, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, p. 245-266Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 24. Björck, Amelie
    Linær och revolutionær tid: om mennesker, aber, tid och krop i videnskabelige og skønlitteræra fortællinger2014In: Kritik, ISSN 0454-5354, no 211, p. 73-86Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Artikeln undersöker hur berättelser om människor och apor, från scala natuae, via evolutionsberättelsen till moderna romaner förhållit sig till konstruktionen av tid och temporalitet - hur exempelvis bilden av tävling mellan människa och apa - där människan tar sig upp och fram, medan apan hamnar på efterkälken, bidragit till idén om progressiv, kronologisk tid, medan andra mer hybridiska berättelser öppnar möjligheter för andra sätt att tänka tid. Artikeln anknyter teoretiskt bl a till Julia Kristevas tidstankar, tolkade av Fanny Söderbäck i termer av "revolutionär tid".

  • 25.
    Björck, Amelie
    Lunds universitet.
    Metaforer och materialiseringar: om apor hos Vladimir Nabokov och Sara Stridsberg2013In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, ISSN 1104-0556, E-ISSN 2001-094X, no 1, p. 5-20Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    By tradition the humanities have been anthropocentrically focused on the lives of human beings in arts and literature. The limited analysis of what other species do in literature – and of the different relations between humans and animals that are represented – has sustained the notion of a hierachical divide between humans and other species, thereby reducing the ethical potential of literature to resist that dualism. The growing field of human–animal studies proposes that we return to our artefacts and epistemologies, with new attention to human–animal relations. Inspired by this movement, forefronted by scholars such as Cary Wolfe and Sara McHugh, this article offers a comparative reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Sara Stridsberg’s Darling River (2010). In Lolita Nabokov makes frequent use of animal and especially monkey metaphors, and carries out an ongoing animalization of his characters. In Stridsberg’s novel, which is written as a kind of hypertext of Lolita, Nabokov’s animalizations are interestingly molded and materialized into one physical creature: the caged schimpanzee Ester. The central concern of the study is to understand the process and effects of this materialization. I argue that the consequential reorientation of the reader to a non-hierarchical species discourse is a major ethical feat of the novel.

  • 26. Björck, Amelie
    Minnesarbete: om livsmaterialets gestalter2005In: Lyrikvännen, ISSN 0460-0762, no 5, p. 11-29Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 27.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    När litteraturen blir akademi2020In: Lyrikvännen, ISSN 0460-0762, no 2, p. 8-15Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 28. Björck, Amelie
    När underhållningen höjer rösten: om myteriet mot folkbildningens värdetänkande i efterkrigsårens radio2009In: Litteraturens värden / [ed] Anders Mortensen, Eslöv: Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag, 2009, p. 221-234Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 29. Björck, Amelie
    Om radions familjeseriedramatik från mobiliseringsår till millennieskifte2012In: Årsbok om folkbildning: 2011 Forskning & utveckling, Stockholm: Föreningen för folkbildningsforskning , 2012Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 30.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature. Lunds universitet.
    Omläsning: Donna Haraway "Manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the 1980s"2014In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, ISSN 1104-0556, E-ISSN 2001-094X, Vol. 44, no 1, p. 70-72Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 31. Björck, Amelie
    Pervers orgie på mammas lapptäcke2003In: Bang : feministisk kulturtidskrift, ISSN 1102-4593, no 1, p. 67-70Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 32.
    Björck, Amelie
    Lunds universitet.
    Primater emellan: en läsning av Henry Drummonds berättelse ’’Apan som ingen kunde döda’’2013In: Barnboken, ISSN 0347-772X, E-ISSN 2000-4389, Vol. 36, p. 1-19Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In children’s literature nonhuman primates are often represented either as ferocious beasts or as curios and charmful vicarious children. In this article I demonstrate how these different constructions interestingly coexist in the popular story ‘‘The monkey that would not kill’’, written by the Scottish evangelist and professor of the natural sciences Henry Drummond in 1891. My study anchors the figuration of the monstrous ape historically in a Christian discourse and the figuration of the childlike ape in a zoological discourse, and link them to the literary genres of horror and comedy, respectively. Both of the figurations are anthropocentric in their reductive ways of representing the ape as strange enemy or subordinate ‘‘friend’’: they confirm the hierarchic dualism between man and ape. My reading also points out the excessive passion that characterizes the meeting between the species in the story, as a kind of leakage from the dualism. In light of Giorgio Agamben’s concept of the ‘‘anthropological machine’’, I conclude the article reflecting on the human shepherd’s energetic attempts to kill the animal not only as an act of domination, but also as bearing witness to the obsession with ‘‘experimenting’’ with other primates, in order to consolidate a human species identity.

  • 33. Björck, Amelie
    Puppor att spränga: från proletärdikt till mer fritt fladdrande fjärilar2002In: Lyrikvännen, ISSN 0460-0762, no 4, p. 3-19Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 34. Björck, Amelie
    [Recension av] Margareth Hagen, Randi Koppen och Margery Vibe Skagen (red.): The Human and its limits : explorations in science, literature and the visual arts2012In: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, ISSN 0013-0818, E-ISSN 1500-1989, Vol. 99, no 4, p. 347-349Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 35. Björck, Amelie
    Som om öronen blev smutsiga2009In: Ord och bild, ISSN 0030-4492, E-ISSN 1402-2508, no 1/2, p. 30-33Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 36. Björck, Amelie
    Sonja Åkesson2008Book (Other academic)
  • 37.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Stemmer2014In: Ord&Bild, ISSN 0030-4492, no 3-4Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Recension av bokserien Stemmer (1-12) från Aschehougs förlag

  • 38. Björck, Amelie
    Svensk diplomati och dansk passion: om radiochefen Hjalmar Gullberg och samarbetet med Kaj Munk under danska ockupationen2007In: Möten: festskrift till Anders Palm / [ed] Karin Nykvist, Anna Smedberg Bondesson, Mona Sandqvist, Johan Stenström, Lund: Anacapri förlag , 2007Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 39.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature. Lund University, Sweden.
    Telling stories of humans, animals, and modernization2014In: Exploring the Animal Turn: Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture / [ed] Erika Andersson Cederholm; Amelie Björck; Kristina Jennbert; Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet , 2014, p. 193-205Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 40.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Turteatern, politiken och estetiken2021In: Turteatern 50 år: Del V, Stockholm: Teatern utan reaktionärer , 2021Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 41. Björck, Amelie
    Varför ska jag vara bäbis?: bilderbokens tid och rum2009In: Kritiker, ISSN 1653-7432, Vol. 923, no 13, p. 21-26Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 42. Björck, Amelie
    Vidga scenvärldar2010In: Teatertidningen, ISSN 1101-9107, no 4, p. 10-13Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 43.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Zoopoetikens tankar om språk och art: En bakgrundsteckning2022In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, ISSN 1104-0556, E-ISSN 2001-094X, Vol. 51, no 3-4, p. 220-234Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Zoopoetic studies investigate “texts that are, in one way or another, predicated upon an engagement with animals and animality (human and nonhuman),” to quote Kári Driscoll and Eva Hoffman. A central question in this field concerns the relation between language and species. This article suggests that two basic views can be discerned: one that conceptualizes language as a human-specific capacity, and another that frames language as a broader phenomenon that humans and most other species have in common. These two starting points – the first accentuating differences, the second emphasizing similarities – give rise to two different approaches to zoopoetry. In the first case, zoopoetry is associated with the deconstruction of human semantics and, thus, of human power. In the second case, zoopoetry is seen as an experiment in which the attentive human poet comes together with animals in a natural act of mutual poiesis.

    The aim of the article is to uncover the genealogy of these two views – here named the “language sceptic” perspective and the “language affirmative” perspective, respectively – and to problematize them as scholarly reading positions. Using examples from Les Murray’s animal poetry, the article argues that the two perspectives might more fruitfully be explored as two dimensions that exist and create interesting friction within zoopoetic texts – hence an oscillation between the perspectives is preferable.

  • 44.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Zoopoetiska och metonymiska läsarter2022In: Ekokritiska metoder / [ed] Camilla Brudin Borg; Jørgen Bruhn; Rikard Wingårdh, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2022, p. 89-116Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 45.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Zooësis: om kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv2019Book (Other academic)
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  • 46.
    Björck, Amelie
    et al.
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Jonsson, EvaSödertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.Lindén, ClaudiaSödertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.Pirholt, MattiasSödertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Kulturmöten: En festskrift till Christine Farhan2020Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Mötet är ett ledord i Christine Farhans långa gärning som forskare, lärare och ledare. För att hylla henne på hennes sextiofemte födelsedag, den 1 april 2020, har vänner och kollegor samlat texter som på olika sätt belyser kulturmötets viktiga roll i humaniora i allmänhet och litteraturvetenskap i synnerhet. Som alla kulturmöten är också denna bok en brokig samling. Materialet är hämtat från 1700-, 1800-, 1900- och 2000-talen, från böcker, filmer, scener, sånger och tidigare stängda arkiv, från Sverige, Frankrike, Tyskland och USA, från det offentliga livet och det privata.

    Festskriften har redigerats av Amelie Björck, Eva Jonsson, Claudia Lindén och Mattias Pirholt, samtliga kollegor från litteraturämnet vid Södertörns högskola.

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  • 47.
    Björck, Amelie
    et al.
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Lindén, ClaudiaSödertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.Lönngren, Ann-SofieSödertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Squirrelling: Human–Animal Studies in the Northern-European Region2022Collection (editor) (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This collection maps out the current state of the field of literary and cultural animal studies in Northern Europe. With contributors from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, and Sweden, the work spans a wide variety of issues regarding human and non-human life in relation to different kinds of cultural expression, while others are more general in character. Above all others, one urgent and overarching question is addressed: How can we challenge the current anthropocentric paradigm in ways that benefit the production of less violent, more ethically sound and sustainable knowledge regarding the relationship between human and non-human life?   

    Ratatϙskr, in Norse mythology, is a squirrel that scurries up and down Yggdrasil (the tree of life), carrying messages between the dragon at its roots and the eagle at its top. Being a representation  of a ‘real’ animal species, but also a part of the mythology organizing the human world, Ratatϙskr is ideally situated for literary and cultural animal studies. Apart from directing the scope of interest towards Northern Europe, this figure reminds us that the “squirrelling” and storage of productive and just knowledge about all forms of life is an important undertaking if there is to be a future for any of them.

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  • 48.
    Minervini, Amanda
    et al.
    Colorado College, USA.
    Björck, Amelie
    Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.
    Grinberg, Omri
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
    Ghosh, Amrita
    University of Central Florida, USA.
    Introduction2023In: ReFiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration / [ed] Amanda Minervini, Amelie Björck, Omri Grinberg, Amrita Ghosh, Brill Academic Publishers, 2023, p. 1-10Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 49.
    Minervini, Amanda
    et al.
    Colorado College, USA.
    Björck, AmelieSödertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Comparative Literature.Grinberg, OmriHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Ghosh, AmritaUniversity of Central Florida, USA.
    ReFiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration2023Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    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.

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