Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender.
The simple act of inscription, both minute and epic, can be a powerful tool to bear witness and give voice to those who are oppressed, silenced, and forgotten.
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium's most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context.
This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing.
Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas explores how a collection of contemporary novels calls attention to the impact of ethnicity on national identities in the Americas.
Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics.
The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media provides students and scholars with an indispensable overview of the domestic and transnational dynamics at play within multi-lingual Latina/o media.
Understanding Broadcast Journalism presents an insightful exploration of broadcast journalism today; its characteristics, motivations, methods and paradigms.
The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way that Asian Americans have engaged with media, from the long history of Asian American actors and stories that have been featured in mainstream film and television, to the birth and development of a distinctly Asian American cinema, to the ever-shifting frontiers of Asian American digital media.
Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "e;digital native"e; who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone.
Spanish and Portuguese Across Time covers a diverse range of topics with a common focus, on the dynamic nature of languages and the social forces that shape them across time, place, and borders, and demonstrates how linguistic principles can offer productive angles to the study of literature.
Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic, and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations.
The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing.
First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscoring its relevance for contemporary debates on world literature.
This book offers a thorough investigation of the recent surge of webtoons and manga/animation as the sources of transmedia storytelling for popular culture, not only in East Asia but in the wider global context.
This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades.
This edited collection provides a critical forum for scholars to examine the evolution of queer kinship-encompassing the wide range of relationships, both biological and nonbiological, that queer individuals choose (or are compelled) to establish-through its representation in literature over time and across cultural contexts.
This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics.
Vor allem in den Fabliaux und in den Mären, aber auch in Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, fiel schon früh die Präsenz des Grotesken auf, das sich vor allem in entfesselter Gewalt, sexueller Triebhaftigkeit und Verhöhnung geistlicher Institutionen äußert.
The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs.
This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933.
Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Bandes steht das höchst aktuelle und mit dem Zeitgeist räsonierende Problem der Grenze, das grundsätzlich aus einer literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive untersucht wird.
