Waltz (Catalan Literature) by Francesc Trabal PDF

By Francesc Trabal

ISBN-10: 1564789853

ISBN-13: 9781564789853

First released in 1936, and thought of essentially the most cutting edge and important novels written in Catalan, Waltz tells the story of an idle, introspective, and a bit oblivious younger "man with no qualities" as he stumbles via a milieu of civic upheaval and bourgeois tragedy as he waltzes from one potential bride to a different, by no means prepared to compromise his beliefs, and so by no means relatively changing into an grownup. With one foot within the romanticism of Goethe or Kleist, and one other within the wildly differing takes at the smooth novel supplied by means of Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust, respectively, Waltz is an sometimes absurd comedy of indecision and indolence established in imitation of the dance from which it takes its identify.

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The Khans realised the upward social mobility attached to the latter and aspired to have both Khan and his sister attend private school. While his sister did achieve this, Khan admits that ‘I just never got in. I tried all of them. I didn’t get in’ (Ak. Khan qtd in Patterson). Thus, from a young age, Khan’s complex identity evolved at the intersections of British education in the public domain and Bengali culture in the private sphere. We observe a similar openness to cultures and people in Anwara Khan’s anecdotes about her son learning Bangladeshi folk dance from the age of three while being simultaneously fascinated by the choreography of the late Michael Jackson.

It is the evocatively crafted marriage of the film and the choreography that suggests an intersection between Khan’s hybridised aesthetic and his equally complex identity-politics. By locating his diasporic body within a contested landscape that has long disenfranchised the migrant communities who inhabit it, the dance-film becomes a political intervention. In the spirit of auto-ethnography through the artefact of the dance-film both the enquirer – Khan – and the subject of his enquiry – his own lived conditions – are one and the same.

15 It is precisely through his influential presence and seeming conformity within such a mainstream space that Khan’s new interculturalism interrupts banal representations of otherness. By grounding it in the lived realities of non-white, privileged and mobile diasporic subjects who as others themselves negotiate multiple forms of otherness, Khan articulates his own selves through encounters with alterities within mainstream British culture. Khan thus critiques the naiveté of intercultural theatre’s appropriations of otherness by unapologetically representing othered realities as specific to non-white realities.

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