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Bioregion and Indigeneity in Literary Imagination

By: Aleena Manoharan

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This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.

Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma

Re(-)membering in Neo-Slave Narratives

By: Valérie Croisille

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This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.

Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond

Away from Home

Edited By: Camille S. Alexander

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This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?

Black Writers and the Left

Edited By: Kristen Moriah

£44.99

Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.

Blood on the Page

Interviews with African Authors writing about HIV/AIDS

By: Lizzy Attree

£39.99

In fourteen unprecedented interviews, the first authors to publish fiction on HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe discuss their ground-breaking work. They give voice to silence and humanize an epidemic otherwise unimaginable statistically.

Bodies of Speech

Text and Textuality in Aristotle

By: Gabriel Zoran

£47.99

Aristotle was the first to conceive of poetry and oration as written texts. This book reads his Poetics and Rhetoric to reveal a systematic text theory—a profound theory able to hold a fruitful dialogue with modern thinking.

Bodies of Water in African American Literature, Music, and Film

Edited By: Sharon A. Lewis, Ama S. Wattley

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This volume of original essays explores the meaning of water in creative narratives by African Americans. Across literature, film, and music, these writers embody provocative, innovative, and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.

Bombay Novels

Some Insights in Spatial Criticism

By: Mamta Mantri

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Walk the streets of Mumbai through the eyes of literary wanderers. Analyzing four novels, this book reveals how the act of flânerie uncovers hidden histories and exposes power relations, offering a transgressive, alternative vision of the city and its people.

Bonds and Borders

Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature

Edited By: Rebecca DeWald, Dorette Sobolewski

£34.99

This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.

Border Crossings

Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture

Edited By: Lauren Clark, Colin Younger

£44.99

Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.

Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture

Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space

Edited By: Mbuh Tennu Mbuh, Emelda Ngufor Samba

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Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.

Boundaries

Edited By: Jenni Ramone, Gemma Twitchen

£39.99

This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.

Bridges, Borders and Bodies

Transgressive Transculturality in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women’s Novels

By: Christine Vogt-William

£47.99

This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists' identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.

This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists’ identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.

Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature

Edited By: Alejandro Coroleu

£61.99

The studies gathered here engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874–1946), whose Einfache Formen (“Simple Forms”) was first published in 1930. This anthology will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature.

British Children’s Adventure Novels in the Web of Colonialism

By: Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız

£58.99

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.

Broadening Critical Boundaries in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Edited By: Amie A. Doughty

£61.99

The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.

Business and Institutional Translation

New Insights and Reflections

Edited By: Éric Poirier, Daniel Gallego-Hernández

£61.99

As the demand for economic, business, and financial translation increases, this peer-reviewed publication gathers practitioners, researchers, and teachers to discuss new issues in institutional, finance, and specialized translation.

But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body

Blake’s Revelation Unlocked

By: Eliza Borkowska

£39.99

This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.

Byron and Bob

Lord Byron’s Relationship with Robert Southey

By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

Byron's most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he "dedicated" his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron's literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.

Byron’s most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he “dedicated” his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron’s literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.

Byron and Orientalism

Edited By: Peter Cochran

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Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.