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Global romance as political aestheti...

Davis, Emily Suzanne.

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Global romance as political aesthetic and transnational commodity.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Global romance as political aesthetic and transnational commodity./
作者:	Davis, Emily Suzanne.
面頁冊數:	210 p.
附註:	Adviser: Maurizia Boscagli.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-07A.
標題:	Cinema. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3226255
ISBN:	9780542794773

Global romance as political aesthetic and transnational commodity.
Davis, Emily Suzanne.

Global romance as political aesthetic and transnational commodity. - 210 p.

Adviser: Maurizia Boscagli.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006.

The dissertation analyzes how contemporary writers and filmmakers connect narratives of interracial desire to international politics to create "global" romances. I designate as "global" those cultural productions by postcolonial, diasporic, and Western writers and filmmakers that foreground issues such as international political conflict, the movement of immigrants, refugees, and exiles across national borders, and the transnational production and circulation of goods, ideologies, and wealth that sustains the global economy. These texts and their authors tend to cross traditional markets and national literatures, creating new readerships out of diverse audiences. I track their consumption on the global literary market as a way to gauge their appeal and meaning in different contexts. I ask: Why has transgressive desire been such a recurrent trope for representing an array of late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century global exchanges? Does the romance narrative eclipse politics for Western readers who lack the knowledge to make sense of the texts' political critiques? Or, by providing a familiar narrative framework, does romance make international politics legible for certain readers and film audiences? Bringing together postcolonial literary analysis, film theory, transnational feminist cultural studies, and theories of globalization and audience reception, this project makes three key interventions. First, it demonstrates how several global texts put discourses concerning love and globalization in dialogue in ways that productively complicate feminist theories of coalition and forefront gender and sexuality in the study of global flows of capital. Second, the project illuminates how elements of more "popular" forms such as romance might be accessible to different audiences and do different political work than texts that are typically read as politically radical. Finally, it examines the ways in which a gendered understanding of "good literature" continues to operate in the U.S. academy's critical reception of literary texts. The project discusses novels by J. M. Coetzee, Andre Brink, Lewis Nkosi, Nadine Gordimer, Ahdaf Soueif, and Nayantara Sahgal, as well as the films Dirty Pretty Things, Maria Full of Grace, and the television series The X-Files.

ISBN: 9780542794773Subjects--Topical Terms:

854529
Cinema.

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