Diversity and Homogeneity
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
Emerald Green
Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature’s reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.
These essays explore Claire Messud’s fiction and its complex narration of cosmopolitan entanglements. Foci include emigrant identities, 1960s Pop Art, and 9/11 trauma. This collection also provides an interview with the author.
Experiencing Gender
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
Handmaids, Tributes, and Carers
This book studies the role of female figures in dystopian narratives, from fiction to film, addressing how such characters, from all stages of life, are often critical to these narratives, positing females as particularly powerful heroines or catalysts to action.
These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.
Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
Samuel Beckett and Europe
This conference proceedings presents an international response to the question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for understandings of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It examines this issue to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s work challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’.
The Edges of Trauma
A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.