Literatura Latinoamericana Mundial (Latin American Literatures In The World / Literaturas Latino, #5)
We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind Underdays. Underdays is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war...
The Official Book Club Guide: The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder
by Kathryn Cope
An essential tool for all reading groups – a detailed guide to exciting debut novel, The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder! A comprehensive guide to Sarah J. Harris’s The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful literary context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses of themes & imagery; character analysis; twenty-two thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further reading and ev...
An essential tool for all reading groups – a detailed guide to exciting debut novel, The Rules of Seeing! A comprehensive guide to Joe Heap’s The Rules of Seeing, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful literary context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses of themes and imagery; character analysis; thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further reading and even a quick quiz. This companion guid...
Leaving the Grove is the first book-length work devoted to the phenomenon of "quit lit"—farewells to academia by those at all levels (graduate student through tenured professor) who have elected to resign their posts or stop looking for one. Part I anthologizes classics of the genre along with some original contributions, while Part II comprises secondary essays exploring quit lit from various critical and historical perspectives. The volume as a whole uses quit lit as a lens through which to ex...
Companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, this book examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature invokes the rich and complex legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of communities. The essays systematically question the traditional emphasis on autobiographies, memoirs and other testimonial narratives to show how poems, novels or short stories have just as great an impact as non-f...
The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination
by Professor Maxine Lavon Montgomery
Kiran Desai's 'The Inheritance of Loss'
Gender Violence in Twenty-First-Century Latin American Women's Writing
by Stephen M. Hart and Maria Encarnacion Lopez
This book analyses the portrayal of violence against women in the works of ten contemporary Latin American female authors: Alejandra Jaramillo Morales, Laura Restrepo, Ena Lucia Portela, Wendy Guerra, Selva Almada, Claudia Pineiro, Diamela Eltit, Carla Guelfenbein, Lydia Cacho and Fernanda Melchor. Governments in Latin America have routinely failed to protect women from abuse, threats, censorship, repressive policies on reproduction rights, forced displacement, sex trafficking, disappearances an...
Literaturpreise Und Weltliteratur (Latin American Literatures In The World / Literaturas Latino, #12)
by Judith Illerhaus
In Douglas Coupland's writing, the doldrums of a world afflicted by the pains of dotcom booms and busts, the ascendency of subcultures to pop cultures, and the subsequent struggle for identity are counterbalanced by droll, personal, and incisive analyses. This collection of nonfiction essays provides an illuminating meander through what we call culture today.Douglas Coupland is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and designer. His first novel, Generation X, was an international bestseller. He has...
City Poems and American Urban Crisis (Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics)
by Professor Nate Mickelson
From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algarin and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America's changing urban experience since 1945. City Poems and American Urban Crisis brings post-war American poetry into conversation with developments in city planning, activism, and urban theory to demonstrate that taking city poetry seriously as a mode of analysis and critique can enhance our attempts to produce more jus...
This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact—to perform, to stage, to represent—human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms in which justice often remains an illusory or promised future. In order to probe how cultural production embodies the tensions between the abstract universality of human rights and the materiality of violations on in...
Jenseitserzahlungen in Der Gegenwartsliteratur (Beitrage Zur Neueren Literaturgeschichte, #387)
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Winner of the 2020 British Society for Literature and Science book prize. In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores how the contemporary novel has drawn upon, and intervened in, debates about race in late 20th and 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers including Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead, B...
Unidentified Narrative Objects and the New Italian Epic (Italian Perspectives, #42)
by Kate Elizabeth Willman
Spatial Modernities (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that have shaped our current geographical sensibilities. In the early twenty-first century, we are still grapplin...
The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture
Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity through the lens of cultural narratives in many forms and expressions, The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture suggests that how we examine the stories that shape us in turn shapes our understanding of our current rea...
Jackie Kay served as Scotland’s Makar from 2016 to 2021 and is one of Scotland’s foremost writers. Much of her work explores her own life and heritage, her upbringing and the cultural forces which shaped her. Many of her poems illuminate the stuff of everyday existence, and commemorate the love of family and friends with great tenderness and humour. Often, too, her writing explores the lives of others, giving marginalised and persecuted individuals a voice and bearing witness to the consequences...