It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form. In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira expand our understanding of the history of social and political scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance, appropriation, and reception over ......
Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Lit
Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants' desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.
How Young Adult Literature is Shifting the Sidekick Paradigm
Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Three ways authors elevate sidekicks include letting sidekicks "evolve" over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekick's characterization, and telling a story from the sidekick's ......
The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those "places that thrive on disregard." By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book's author, an unemployed Egyptian ......
This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works - notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction - remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains reclusive.
This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works - notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction - remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains reclusive.
This study historicizes Tillie Olsen's fiction in the context of the Depression-era proletarian literary movement in the United States and its philosophy of dialectical materialism. It argues that dialectical materialism informs both the form and content of her fiction.
These studies are concerned with the questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.
