Naslov
Cognitive Postcolonial and Ecocritical Explorations in Three Novels by Kiana Davenport

Autori
Troskot, Slavica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
CELLTTS 2015, Abstracts, First International Conference on English Language, Literature, Teaching and Translation Studies / Word, Context, Time / - , 2015, 74-74

Skup
CELLTTS 2015, First International Conference on English Language, Literature, Teaching and Translation Studies / Word, Context, Time

Mjesto i datum
Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina, 18.09.2015. - 19.09.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
antiuniversalism, human universal, cognitive postcolonial theory, environment, indigenous writing, Hawaii

Sažetak
According to Partick Colm Hogan 'antiniversalism" blocks the histrocal research and contextalisation and is manifested thruogh patriarchal, colonial and other oppressive ideologies. Cognitive postcolonial theory based on the rethinking of the controversial idea of the 'human universal' offers an interesting platform for the research in the contemporary Hawaiian writing in English. Nancy Easterlin's argument that "human relationships and cultural factors profondly influence attitudes towards nonhuman nature" acknowledging the mediatory role of consciousness offers the interdisciplinary ground for a cognitive ecocritical approach. Kiana Davenport's novels Shark Dialogue (1994), Song of the Exile (1999), House of Many Gods (2006) offer a solid base for the historical and cultural analysis reflected in the topics of nature, ecology and environment as global universal values. At the turn of the century, with the English language as one of the most important values that connects the contemporary globalised world at almost every level of human communication, from economy to education, it is intriguing to try to understand what the contemporary indigenous writing in English offers from the Pacific side of the globe, where the new economic powers have risen around the Pacific Rim with Hawai'i in its very centre, and, what global universal values are inscribed in its literary production.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost, Kognitivna znanost (prirodne, tehničke, biomedicina i zdravstvo, društvene i humanističke znanosti)

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