Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bola o, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction.
This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities.
En diversos procesos de memoria se ha comprobado el rol decisivo de los archivos a la hora de recuperar experiencias y saberes atravesados por la violencia, de reconstruir relatos e historias individuales y colectivas, y subvertir el modo en que nuestras sociedades piensan la historia y performan su praxis politica y vital.
Akram Aylislis People and Trees is the first major work in a long, illustrious literary career by the only contemporary writer from Azerbaijan to occupy a significant place on the world stage.
From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces masculinist values of aggression and competition.
Dans ses mémoires, Seydou Diawara retrace son parcours au service du Trésor public sénégalais, où il a consacré 27 ans de sa vie à la gestion rigoureuse des finances publiques.
This volume explores the possibilities and potentialities of "e;negative"e; affect in postcolonial literature and literary theory, featuring work on postcolonial studies, First Nations studies, cognitive cultural studies, cognitive historicism, reader response theory, postcolonial feminist studies, and trauma studies.
Murat Karakaya (Minasyan) avait 6-7 ans lorsque les Arméniens et les Kurdes ont été amenés à Beyaz Dağ (Montagne blanche) et massacrés par l’armée turque.
Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender – seit über 130 Jahren die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene – umfasst in seiner 72.
In kulturwissenschaftlichem Verständnis ist Literatur Teil der Schriftkultur, die Monumentalwerke ebenso wie pragmatische Texte umfasst und die in verschiedenen literarischen Räumen unterschiedlich ausgeprägt ist.
Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.