Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.

First published in 1985, C.

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing.

Am Beispiel zahlreicher deutsch-jüdischer Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren die Beiträge dieses Bandes aufschlussreiche Briefwechsel, die als Seismograph für gesellschaftliche Prozesse, geistige Bewegungen und geschichtliche Entwicklungen betrachtet werden können.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary framework.

This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States.

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed.

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity.

Undecidability is a fundamental quality of literature and constitutive of what renders some works appealing and engaging across time and in different contexts.

As a result of its imperial role, Britain was closely involved with such romantic and disruptive myths of power such as the imperial adventure hero and the self-deified charismatic leader.

In his classic study Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War.

Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation.

Jonathan Coe is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary British writers.

This study uses popular literature to offer a fresh account of Victorian manliness as it was transformed by imperial and colonial politics.

Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it.

This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction.

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities.

In 1962, The Christian Century published C.

This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucia Etxebarria's fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society.

Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry examines the transactions between the two main languages of Irish literature, English and Irish, and their formative role in contemporary poetry by Irish women.

This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of J.

Kann man, zehn Jahre nach dem Ende der DDR, noch neue Erkenntnisse über fundamentale Strukturen der DDR-Literatur gewinnen, Erkenntnisse, die nicht längst durch die offizielle DDR-Ästhetik oder die westliche DDR-Literaturforschung formuliert worden wären?

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection.

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Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney's Late Work considers the ways that memory functions in Heaney's poetry.

Through attending to the nonhuman, E.

Originally published in 1980, this book introduces the student to twelve of the most exciting and significant African authors of the 20th Century, whose work represents Anglophone and Francophone writing (with translation) drawn from West, East and Southern Africa.

European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality.

What is often termed 'Nordic Noir' has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades.

This book shows how realism in twentieth-century Indian literature functioned as a mode of experimentation and aesthetic innovation.

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy.

This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature.

Working within a global frame, The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature considers postcolonial and decolonial literary works across multiple genres, languages, and both regional and transnational networks.

This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead.

In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death.

Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in literary and cultural contexts from many regions of the world.

This book argues that modernists engaged creatively with modernity''s expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities.

Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of "e;last things"e; in Don DeLillo's works-things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and the end of the world more generally.

This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.