This study examines mixed-race characters in literature from the African diaspora across the US, Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. It analyzes the different ways multiracial characters look at the world, how the world looks at them, and their constant search for identity.
(Post)Colonial Passages
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
100 Years of the American Dream
This collection offers examinations of the American Dream across a diverse range of works. Each chapter’s innovative insights transcend literary critique to touch upon issues of economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion.
A Cartographic Journey of Race, Gender and Power
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.
This is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists, including Ahmed Saadawi. It analyses physical and soft violence in their novels, arguing they are interwoven and that soft violence can cause as much psychological and literal damage as hard violence.
A History of Alcman’s Early Reception
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
A History of Armenian Women’s Writing
A History of Armenian Women’s Writing introduces the diversity of literature from 1880-1921. Focusing on six key authors, it reveals how their work formed a literary genealogy and guided debates on national identity, education, the family, and society.
This is the definitive biography in English of Horacio Quiroga, the Latin-American Poe. Based on twenty years of work and newly discovered documents, it humanizes the writer and spotlights the marginalized women in his life, revealing a complex, contradictory man.
A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
A Social History of Rural Ireland in the 1950s
Galvin offers a brief history of Crotta Great House, County Kerry, Ireland, where Horatio Herbert Kitchener spent his boyhood years. Part memoir, part social history, it creates a snapshot of a moment in Ireland’s recent past embedded within a broader historical backdrop.
A Story of Perfume
Scent is an invisible force shaping memory, identity, and artistic expression. This groundbreaking volume redefines the role of olfaction, exploring its influence on literature, culture, and history, from classical texts to its implications in contemporary branding.
Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie’s Americanah
This title examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), investigating the novel through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.
Afroeurope@n Configurations
This volume explores the African presence across Europe, from Russia to the Canary Islands. These essays offer a wide spectrum of research on contemporary black literatures and identities, providing insights into previously little explored areas.
Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
American Multiculturalism in Context
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.
An Ethics of Reading
Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.
An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 2)
From sexuality and religion to quantum physics, this volume traces existentialism’s vast influence. It explores global mysticism, the minds of outcasts like van Gogh and Artaud, and the profound link between the absurd and the cosmos.
Andreas Gryphius and T.S. Eliot’s “The Dissociation of Sensibility”
A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.
Animal Narratives and Culture
Barcz’s monograph explains how realism is a narration that tests nonhuman vulnerable experience. The first part gives examples of realism’s redefinition in trauma studies, the second probes what is added to the narrative by literature, and the third analyses cultural texts.