Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma: Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves
1st Edition
By Beatriz Pérez Zapata
May 31, 2023
This monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith’s humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma,...
The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau
December 27, 2022
The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by ...
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Miriam Fernández-Santiago, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
December 09, 2022
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent technological and scientific developments have ...
Apocalyptic Territories: Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction
1st Edition
By Anna Hellén
December 13, 2021
Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a new world. This study, by ...
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat
1st Edition
Edited
By Celucien Joseph, Suchismita Banerjee, Marvin Hobson, Jr. Hoey
December 13, 2021
Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat starts out by exploring ...
Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis
1st Edition
By Wojciech Drag
December 13, 2021
Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to contemporary literature. It argues that collage is a perfect artistic vehicle to represent the crisis-ridden reality ...
Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism
1st Edition
By Roberto del Valle Alcalá
December 13, 2021
Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and ...
Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction
1st Edition
By Louise Squire
December 13, 2021
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this...
Displaced: Literature of Indigeneity, Migration, and Trauma
1st Edition
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By Kate Rose
December 13, 2021
Through specific and rigorous analysis of contemporary literary texts, this book shows how writers from inside affected communities portray indigeneity, displacement, and trauma. In a world of increasing global inequality, this study aims to demonstrate how literature, and the study of it, can ...
Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change: Lessons from the Underground Presses of the Late Sixties
1st Edition
By Matthew Pifer
December 13, 2021
Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change: Lessons from the Underground Presses of the Late Sixties, examines alternative presses’ critique of culture at a time of infamous transformation and revolution in the United States. In this new study, author Matthew Pifer seeks to delineate the structure...
Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance
1st Edition
By Chikako Nihei
December 13, 2021
Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to "...
Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion
1st Edition
By Matthias Eck
December 13, 2021
Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion shows the important contribution that literature can make to the understanding of masculinities, by offering insights into the mental structures of hegemonic masculinity. It argues that while there is evidence of frustrating ...