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Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

A Mosaic of Criticism

Edited By: Amie A. Doughty

£47.99

This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.

Children’s Literature and Culture

Edited By: Harry Eiss

£34.99

This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.

Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora

Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah

By: Amy Tak-yee Lai

From £19.99

Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora is a pioneering study of four writers whose popular and controversial works have received little scholarly attention: Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, and Adeline Yen Mah.

City Visions

The Work of Iain Sinclair

Edited By: Jenny Bavidge, Robert Bond

£34.99

$START$ This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain's most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

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This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes

Figurational Approaches to American Culture

Edited By: Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voetz

£44.99

This collection applies Norbert Elias’s theory of the “civilizing process” to American history and culture. Scholars explore topics from democracy in the early republic to the modern-day black ghetto, offering new answers to the question of America's peculiar characteristics.

Commercialization of Hinterland and Dynamics of Class, Caste and Gender in Rural India

By: Supriya Singh

£58.99

This book explicates the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility in rural India. It argues that villages near cities are no longer simple communities, but are more complex and mobile as a result of urban expansion, contextualizing this within the state's laws.

Constructing a New Canon of Post-1980s Indian English Fiction

By: Sahdev Luhar, Madhurita Choudhary

From £44.99

In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.

Constructing the Literary Self

Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited By: Patsy J. Daniels

£44.99

This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.

Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama

Changing Canons and Responses

Edited By: Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Himadri Lahiri, Arnab Kumar Sinha

From £30.99

This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.

Contested Identities

Literary Negotiations in Time and Place

Edited By: Roger Nicholson, Gertrud Szamosi, Claudia Marquis

£52.99

These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.

Creative Interventions

The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy

Edited By: Eugenio Bolongaro

£49.99

Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture

Edited By: Dorsía Smith, Tatiana Tagirova

£39.99

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.

Critical Reception of Arundhati Roy

The Unsuitable Girl

By: Urvi Sharma

From £32.99

Arundhati Roy is equally loved and disparaged. This book delves into the kaleidoscope of reactions to her writings that mediate her identity as a writer, activist and celebrity, exploring how factors from her Booker win to sedition charges shape how her work is read.

Cultural and Literary Traditions in India

History, Myth and Orality

Edited By: Prakash Chandra Pradhan, Devender Kumar, Arti Nirmal, Sandip Paul

From £35.99

Indian myth is a living force. This book traces the interplay of history and orality from The Ramayana to diverse folk traditions, revealing how ancient narratives of power, gender, and identity illuminate contemporary conflicts and crises.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World

Edited By: Cécile Cottenet, Jean-Christophe Murat, Nathalie Vanfasse

£39.99

This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.

Culture and Literature

Edited By: Tawhida Akhter

From £30.99

This book draws parallels between different cultures. It explores how culture plays an important role in the development of personality, examines how behavior has a positive and negative effect, and interrogates how literature portrays the reality of a culture.

Culture and Society in Crete

From Kornaros to Kazantzakis

Edited By: Liana Giannakopoulou, E. Kostas Skordyles

£64.99

The papers here explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, offering unique insights into already established fields. As a result, they will appeal to scholars of modern Greek studies, Renaissance Studies and comparative literature, among others.

De-stereotyping Indian Body and Desire

Edited By: Kaustav Chakraborty

From £29.99

This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.

Deep into the Labyrinths in the Novels by Louise Welsh

By: Eduardo García

£47.99

The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.