Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 1-15

3. Theorizing Invisibility Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Mapping the Invisible: Critical Perspectives on Invisibility

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 19-41

   3. Space, Discourse and Visibility: Towards a Phenomenology of Invisibility

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 42-66

4. Artistic Scenes of Visibility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Visibility, Representation and Agency in the Visual Arts: the Body in Question

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 69-100

   3. Films and Mass Visibility

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 101-130

5. Sites of Invisibility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Nation Building and Home Thinking

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 133-152

   3. Invisibility and the Fractal City

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 153-177

6. Concluding Remarks: Fractal Visibility

   1. Concluding Remarks: Fractal Visibility

      • Françoise Král

      Pages 178-186

7. Back Matter

   Pages 187-230

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Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones.

• bibliography
• body
• building
• corpus
• culture
• discourse
• English literature
• knowledge
• literature
• media
• nation
• phenomenology
• space
• visual arts

“Françoise Král’s Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture therefore does raise a number of essential issues, in an often compelling manner … . It remains an extremely fascinating and illuminating work whose call for the development of invisibility studies no doubt will be heeded.” (Mathilde Rogez, Miranda, Vol. 12, 2016)

• Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France

  Françoise Král

Françoise Kral is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France. Her publications include Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature (2009), Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the Colonial 'Self'/Mapping the Indigenous 'Other' in the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand (ed, 2004) and Architecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Gins (co-edited with Jean-Jacques Lecercle, 2011).

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