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Margaret Atwood and Social Justice

A Writer's Evolving Ideology

By: Theodore F. Sheckels

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Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women's rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.

Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women’s rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.

Women Writing Trauma in Literature

Edited By: Laura Alexander

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This collection studies trauma and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines how literature helps to heal the wounded self, concentrating on how women explain the traumatic experiences of war, violence, or displacement and recover the voices buried by intense suffering.

Representations of the Local in the Postmillennial Novel

New Voices from the Margins

Edited By: Milena Kaličanin, Soňa Šnircová

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This book maps a rich variety of voices from the margins of our globalized world. Through contemporary novels by international authors, it explores the rising tension between global and local identities for those overshadowed by the intense pressure of globalization.

100 Years of the American Dream

Representations and Conceptions in American Literature, 1919-2019

Edited By: Michael Kearney

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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.

The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers

The Long, Strange Trip of a Generation

By: Lawrence R. Samuel

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The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.

Responsiveness to Comparison in Literature

By: Fatima Festić

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This book proposes a framework for rethinking world literature in nomadic terms. A unique, itinerant scholarly autobiography, it exemplifies how literary and cultural comparisons are shaped by real-life circumstances, violence, and wars across the globe.

Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Academic and Societal Implications

Edited By: Jensine Andresen, Octavio A. Chon Torres

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What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.

Postcolonial Representation of the African Woman in the Selected Works of Ngugi and Adichie

By: Eren Bolat

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Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.

Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

Daemonic Angels

By: Chitra Sreedharan

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This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.

The Anthropology of Poiesis

By: Mihai Popa

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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.

Culture and Literature

Edited By: Tawhida Akhter

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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.

Rushdie’s Cross-Pollinations

By: Dana Bădulescu

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This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.

A Comparative Analysis of Violence in Margaret Drabble and Four Selected Iraqi Novels

By: Bushra Juhi Jani

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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.

Space, Place and Hybridity in the National Imagination

Edited By: Christine Vandamme, André Dodeman

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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.

Re-examining Arthur Conan Doyle

Edited By: Nils Clausson

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This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.

Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts

Edited By: Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong

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This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.

Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas

An Updated Compendium

Edited By: Arshad Ahammad A., Nada Rajan

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How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.

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.

The Female Performer between Exhibitionism and Feminism in Novels by James, Hawthorne, and Zola

By: Nodhar Hammami Ben Fradj

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This book explores the figure of the female performer in 19th-century fiction, analyzing the clashing attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emile Zola. It examines women’s public roles as either a commitment to the feminist project or a mere exhibitionist demeanour.

Prospects and Impediments of Feminist Monolithism

Re-Reading Mid-Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry

By: Rosalyn Mutia

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This book reads poetry by British, American, and Sub-Saharan women to argue for feminist monolithism. It finds remarkable consistency in themes of resisting oppression across geographical divides, proposing this as a stable ground for unity without ignoring their differences.