Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance.

In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of Western societies generally.

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf's modernist poetics.

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.

Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature.

This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design.

The term "e;cyberpunk"e; entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south.

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.

This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "e;war on terror"e; to advocate for marginalised perspectives.

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures.

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.

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious.

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Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its characterization as 'children's literature'.

Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers.

The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century.

Representations of violence surround us in everyday life - in news reports, films and novels - inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethics of viewing or reading about harm done to others.

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture.

This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry.

Who are the most important Canadian crime and detective writers?

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were-in Holmes's words-"e;Brother Souls.

A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism.

Shows Wright''s art was intrinsic to his politics, grounding his exploration of the intersections between race, gender, and class.

Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist seances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siecle.

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment.

This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer.

This book focuses on the projection of the hero's masculinity in a selection of post-millennial popular romance narratives and attempts to discover if, and to what extent, this projection reinforces or challenges patriarchal ideas about gender.

This volume offers extensive information on preventive and infection surveillance procedures, routines and policies adapted to the optimal infection control level needed to tackle today's microbes in hospital practice.

Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America explores mobility, spatialized violence, and geographies of activism in a diverse archive of literary and visual art by Indigenous authors and artists.

What comes after postmodernism in literature?

NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative.

While globalization is often associated with economic and social progress, it has also brought new forms of terrorism, permanent states of emergency, demographic displacement, climate change, and other "e;natural"e; disasters.

This book explores some of the ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction.

This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history.