“The Turn of the Hand”
This memoir, written by an “insider,” recalls the lives of the Irish Traveller community during an era of enormous social and cultural change. It tells the stories of a people whose history has often been forgotten or relegated to the cultural margins.
Ayyıldız fills a remarkable void in literary studies which has escaped the attention of many researchers. Her work interrogates the extent to which nineteenth-century children’s adventure novels justify and perpetuate the British Imperialist ideology of the period.
Ecofeminism explores the interconnections between feminism and ecology. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to address the most pertinent issues in this emerging field, examining them from various perspectives to avoid any hegemonic categorization.
Food is central to children’s literature. This collection examines the uses of food in books from the nineteenth century to modern fantasy, showing how it reflects society and culture and is used by authors to instruct and deliver moral messages.
Manfred
Byron’s famous play Manfred established him as a bold genius. This new text is created from primary manuscripts, so it can be read as it left Byron’s pen. It includes a decoded note on his demonology and essays on the play’s sources and staging.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
This book provides critical research on the representation of ideologies in electronic media for children and young adults, including TV cartoons, animation, videos, and computer games. It will appeal to anyone interested in cultural studies, sociology, and ideology.
This book shows how literature is central to children’s education. Literary works open young minds and help them understand the world. This approach motivates students to improve literacy skills and develop literary competence for independent interpretations.
Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis
This volume shows the impact of trauma on memory and identity, foregrounding the suffering of the marginalised to give them a voice. It shows how victims confront the past to (re)assert their shattered identity and challenge official history by rewriting the past.
Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels
This book explores how magical realism gives literary representation to the historical trauma of the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid. It analyses how unspoken memories, particularly those of female victims, become narratives that highlight a universal experience of trauma.