Exploring the creations of Ba Jin (1904-2005), one of the most significant writers in modern China, this edited volume offers in-depth discussions of the writer and his works from a global perspective to initiate and advance dialogues between the Chinese- and English- speaking scholarly communities.
This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales.
This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India's economic liberalization.
This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India's economic liberalization.
Der ägyptische Schriftsteller Sonallah Ibrahim gewährt in seinem Notizbuch einen Einblick in zwei seiner Romane, die in einem eher dokumentarischen Stil geschrieben sind, eine persönliche Geschichte mit dem politischen Umfeld verweben und Exzerpte von Zeitschriften und Ansprachen zitieren.
Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents.
This meticulously annotated edition of Nella Larsen's novel Passing contextualizes the novel's many historical and cultural references and introduces readers to a central theme: crossing the color line in the hopes of living a more privileged life.
As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce's oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in the creation of his books, developing a two-way relationship with history, memory and national identity.
As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce's oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in the creation of his books, developing a two-way relationship with history, memory and national identity.
The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times.
Relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales and narrate their experience of cultural accommodation in serial autobiographical accounts.
John Grisham is one of the most prolific and beloved mystery writers today, still reaching the top of the bestseller lists with books like The Testament (1999) and King of Torts (2003).
Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.
In the twenty-first century, millions have been forcibly displaced due to ethno-religious conflicts, socio-political instability, and economic crises, turning migration into a global phenomenon.
Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacyFrom his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingways Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development.
In the twenty-first century, millions have been forcibly displaced due to ethno-religious conflicts, socio-political instability, and economic crises, turning migration into a global phenomenon.
Este volumen, compuesto por ocho ensayos y una suerte de epílogo dialogado con la escritora María Rosa Lojo, discute algunos de los ejes vertebradores de su obra: la conflictiva relación con lo sagrado y su constante interpelación, la memoria de la inmigración, la presencia de figuras femeninas cuestionadoras del discurso masculino hegemónico o de otros personajes marginales que resignifican la historia oficial, los siempre cuestionados y cuestionables rasgos autobiográficos en su obra a partir de las figuras parentales o de una posible cartografía de la intimidad, la problemática identitaria a través de los personajes que se ubican en un borde sospechoso entre dos mundos y el encuentro armonioso de diferentes estéticas, discursos y géneros en el seno de sus obras.
This book re-thinks the literary and social worlds of Mahasweta Devi, the prolific and influential writer and social activist, in connection to her praxis.
World Literature: Approaches, Practices, and Pedagogy combines theoretical explorations and pedagogy to explore approaches to teaching some of the key concepts, issues, and topics in world literary studies.
Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured.
Written by the author of "e;The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper"e; and "e;Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays"e;, this is a collection of critical essays on Seamus Heaney.
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject.
