Solitaires, Solidaires
Reflecting on the theme of female solidarity, the contributions to this volume focus on its representation in French and Francophone society, literature, journalism and history from the 17th-21st centuries.
South African Literary Cultural Nationalism—Abalobi beSizwe eMzansi—1918-45
Creary’s intellectual history uses Amílcar Cabral’s theory of the “return to the source” to examine Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi, Vilakazi’s poetry, and Jordan’s The Wrath of the Ancestors within the broader context of African cultural nationalisms in the early twentieth century.
South Asia and its Others
These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use “exoticization” as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.
Southern Horrors
This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.
This volume explores space, place, and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies. It considers how art, film, and literature can reinvigorate representations of modern nations and celebrate their dynamic communities without relegating minorities to the margin.
States of Decadence
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
States of Decadence
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
Stephen King in the New Millennium
This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium, tracing his shifts from print to the digital.
Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
Studies in Philology
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
Surfing the Waves of Identity
Asian Americans have often been viewed as a monolithic group. This book traces the origins and impacts of racist stereotypes through a chronological study of dramatists’ works, offering nuanced perspectives on the evolving portrayals of Asian Americans in U.S. culture.
Taking a Hard Look
This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.
Texts and Textiles
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
This book explores the cultural field of poiesis—creativity in art, science, and philosophy. It connects the creative act to metaphysical spirituality and the sacred, revealing it as a synthesis of opposites like intuition and reason that is fundamental to human existence.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region’s turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
The Central and the Peripheral
The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete. How can we find our way in a world where peripheries become centres and centres turn into peripheries? This book explores how this problem is dealt with in literature and culture.
The Construction of Latina/o Literary Imaginaries
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.