Publishing Practices and Identity Formation, 1998-2005
This book examines autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes written by ethnic minority women writers in early twenty-first century France. In their publications, select authors denounce the ethnic hierarchies created and propagated by French institutions, and contend with the neocolonial marketing practices of key metropolitan publishers.
In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of the American secular scripture by analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series
Volume 47 showcases a variety of transnational and translingual perspectives, analyzing the works of humanist authors from across Europe, and how language can affect the interpretation of the literature. It expands beyond the Eurocentric appraisal of medieval works and takes into consideration a broader response.
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to comprehend them fully.
Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American "romancers" and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain's diffused, tenuous, and ......
Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature and film called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas in ways that encourage empathic responses.
This book traces the emergence of modern Korean literature and its trajectory towards the turn of the twentieth century. In examining the entanglements of literary style, form, and contemporaneous institutions, Young Min Kim illuminates an oft-overlooked period in modern Korean literary history.
Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Performing Arts: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the African feminine divine is being reclaimed by scholars, practitioners and cultural scholars worldwide. This volume addresses the complex ways in which the reclamation of and recognition of Yemonja ......
This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.
