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Kokborok Literature from Tripura

Voices from Below

By: Dustin Lalkulhpuia

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This study delves into the folktales and literature of the Borok tribe, revealing their struggle for cultural identity. Writers draw on myths and folklore to challenge mainstream stereotypes and reclaim a heritage shaped by cultural domination and conflict.

Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000

Exploring the Great Divide

Edited By: Lorella Bosco, Micaela Latini

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These 10 essays explore the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. Revising cultural dichotomies, they consider animals not as objects, but as active agents that have left forgotten traces in texts.

Understanding Anne Enright

By: Ana-Karina Schneider

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Understanding Anne Enright is an introduction to one of the most original contemporary Irish writers. It analyses the evolution of themes and forms in her work, particularly her treatment of the corporeality of women’s experiences and the embodied language of her fiction.

The Poetics and Hermeneutics of Pain and Pleasure

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul, Hanene Baroumi

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This volume challenges how we think about pain and pleasure. It explores their literary expression as potent forces that shape both writer and reader, forging new meaning for these experiences in a world defined by the dynamics of power.

Shifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders and Identities

Edited By: Oana-Celia Gheorghiu

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When geopolitical changes occur, they alter our identity. This book looks at contemporary history with new eyes, from a scholarly perspective that cancels borders. It explores migration, geopolitics, and human rights, making the old self-other dichotomy obsolete.

The Mahābhārata and Dharma Discourse

A Vision of Clarity through Its Tales

By: Nitin Malhotra

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This engaging text provides unique insights into ‘dharma’ in the Mahābhārata. Often mistaken for religion, dharma is revealed as an umbrella term for all the deeds in one's life. Each chapter uses the epic's own tales and parables as evidence to explore this complex concept.

This engaging text provides unique insights into ‘dharma’ in the Mahābhārata. Often mistaken for religion, dharma is revealed as an umbrella term for all the deeds in one’s life. Each chapter uses the epic’s own tales and parables as evidence to explore this complex concept.

Reflections on Ecotextuality from India

Greening Literature Anew

Edited By: Jibu Mathew George, Mathew John Kokkatt

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In response to the current ecological crisis, this collection of critical essays engages with the intricate relationship between literature and ecology. The volume unravels the premises and assumptions that sustain the modern world view and contemporary knowledge systems.

A Cartographic Journey of Race, Gender and Power

Global Identity

Edited By: Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque, Sameer Afzal

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This book explores how spatial borders are social constructs used to define hierarchies of race, gender, and power. Through literary narratives from East and West, it follows voices crossing these boundaries to envision a new model for a diverse global identity.

Contested Histories in Contemporary Travel Writing on India

By: Antara Datta

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This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.

The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post-9/11 Plays

By: Qurratulaen Liaqat

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Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option to express the horror of the post-9/11 era? This book reflects on the tradition's ongoing currency and its changing contours in the plays of American dramatist Rajiv Joseph, establishing its continued relevance today.

Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option to express the horror of the post-9/11 era? This book reflects on the tradition’s ongoing currency and its changing contours in the plays of American dramatist Rajiv Joseph, establishing its continued relevance today.

The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry

By: John A.F. Hopkins

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Traditional criticism is inadequate for modernist poetry. This book offers a new methodology, showing how these poems are built around deep-level propositions. By comparing images, readers can reconstruct meaning and uncover signifying mechanisms that may well be universal.

Whiteness at Work

Edited By: Michael A. Moreno, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Michele Shaul

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Personal essays illuminate the effects of whiteness in the workplace. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this collection makes a compelling case for changing the individuals and systems that perpetuate disparities in opportunity, advancement, and well-being.

Mobilizing Narratives

Narrating Injustices of (Im)Mobility

Edited By: Hager Ben Driss

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In a world defined by forced migration, who is free to move and who is not? This volume uncovers the injustices of (im)mobility—driven by war, climate change, and inequality—as powerfully represented in literary texts.

A Contemporary Interpretation of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: Indrani Deb

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This book is a collection of nineteen critical essays on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist. The author goes beyond established critical material, providing analyses from twenty-first century lenses. It serves as a reference for all readers–students, scholars, and teachers.

Essays in Narrative and Fictionality

Reassessing Nine Central Concepts

By: Brian Richardson

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By one of postclassical narrative theory's preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.

By one of postclassical narrative theory’s preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.

Baltic Postcolonial Narratives

Literature and Power

By: Almantas Samalavičius

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This book explores postcolonialism's difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

Nat Turner in Black and White

Race, Trauma, and the American Cultural Imaginary

By: Luminita Dragulescu

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This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.

The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction

By: José M. Yebra

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This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.

Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London

Shining a Spotlight onto the Blitzed City

By: Evelina Garay Collcutt

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This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.

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.