Transforming Tragedy, Identity, and Community by Lilla Crisaf... - 9781032928753

Transforming Tragedy, Identity, and CommunityAuthor(s): Lilla Crisafulli, Tilottama Rajan, Diego Saglia\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032928753, 978-1032928753\nSynopsis\nThe volume explores the interrelated topics of transnational identity in all its ambiguity and complexity, and the new ways of imagining community or Gemeinschaft (as distinct from society or Gesellschaft)) that this broader climate made possible in the Romantic period. The period crystallized, even if it did not inaugurate, an unprecedented interest in travel and exploration, as well as in the dissemination of the knowledge thus acquired through print media and learned societies. This dissemination expanded but also unmoored both epistemic and national boundaries. It thus led to what Antoine Berman in his study of translation tellingly calls the experience of the foreign, as a zone of differences between and within selves, of which translatw