Refiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration (Cross/Cultures, 221)

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
	Works Cited
Part 1 Films as Sites of Transformation
	Chapter 1 Migratory Aesthetics: Proximity and Mutuality
		1 What Is Migratory Aesthetics?
		2 Binding through the Senses in Public Space: Colony
		3 Narration Disqualified: Access Denied
		4 Voice versus Voice-Over: Elena
		5 Opening, No Closure
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	Chapter 2 Inequality and Contemporary World Cinema
		1 Inequality Research from a Globalized Perspective
		2 World Cinema, Interculturality, and Third Cinema
		3 Latin American Cinema and Inequality
		4 Class, Youth, and Inequality
		5 Devouring Colonial Inequality
		6 Epistemological Inequality
		7 Concluding Remarks
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	Chapter 3 Haider: Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial Specters in Kashmir
		1 Shakespeare and Indian Cinema
		2 Ghosts in Hamlet and Haider
		3 Haider’s Spectral Landscape and “Haunting” in Kashmir
		4 Haider’s Living Dead
		5 Conclusion
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Part 2 On Ethical Readings and Subversions
	Chapter 4 Reading as Imaginative Resistance: Negotiating the Censor in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country
		1 Censoring Content
		2 Coetzee and Ravan Press
		3 Reading for Absence
		4 Voices in the Sky
		5 Concluding Thoughts
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	Chapter 5 Reader as Witness: Rethinking Perpetrators of Political Violence through Contemporary Literature
		1 The Concept of the Witness
		2 Why Literature?
		3 Conclusion
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Part 3 Planetary Connections
	Chapter 6 Decolonizing Animals: A Surface Reading of Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Bruegel’s Two Monkeys”
		1 A Cultural Human-Animal Studies Perspective on Reading
		2 The Ekphrasis—Tradition and Subversion
		3 The Painting: “Two Chained Monkeys”
		4 The Poem: “Bruegel’s Two Monkeys”
		5 Distribution of Agency
		6 The Shame of Becoming Human
		7 Becoming Animal and Giving up Space
		8 Conclusion
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	Chapter 7 Globalization and Critical Animal Studies
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	Coda: It’s Time to Go Outside: A Dialogue with Dominick LaCapra
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