Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Studies
1st Edition
By Bertram D. Ashe
September 03, 2013
The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text ...
Narrative Mutations: Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature
1st Edition
By Rudyard Alcocer
September 03, 2013
Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and even radical-narratives retain physical and behavioral heredity as a guiding trope. The persistence ...
Regenerating the Novel: Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence
1st Edition
By James J. Miracky
September 03, 2013
In this exploration of the most innovative and iconoclastic modernist fiction, James J. Miracky studies the ways in which cultural forces and discourses of gender inflect the practice and theory of four British novelists: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, May Sinclair, and D. H. Lawrence. Building on ...
The End of the Mind: The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larking, Plath, and Gluck
1st Edition
By DeSales Harrison
September 03, 2013
This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible. DeSales Harrison draws a distinction between sites of unintelligibility and sights of difficulty; while much has been said about modernist difficulty, little has been said about ...
The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee
1st Edition
By Timothy Strode
August 21, 2013
The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and dispossession. The book approaches this problem by, first, providing a theoretical framework derived ...
The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory from Conrad to Greene
1st Edition
By Julia Rawa
August 21, 2013
The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory explores relationships between narrative and imperium in the context of Western Modernism by examining the Quest as a vexed trope in Heart of Darkness, Passage to India, The Sheltering Sky, and The Quiet American. The book takes stock of twentieth century theory...
Negotiating the Modern: Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World
1st Edition
By Amit Ray
May 14, 2013
This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ...
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature
1st Edition
By Laurel Plapp
May 14, 2013
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a ...
Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America
1st Edition
By Patsy J. Daniels
May 03, 2013
This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alic Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The book fins...
Masculinity and the English Working Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction
1st Edition
By Ying Lee
March 21, 2013
This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes...
Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission
1st Edition
By Perri Giovannucci
November 14, 2012
The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local ...
The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance: Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell
1st Edition
By Mary Hricko
October 10, 2012
This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting...