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White Horse Press The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional
Book Synopsis`We are fools to turn from the superhuman beauty’ The Forbidden Subject launches from Ed Abbey’s affirmation in Desert Solitaire: `This is the most beautiful place on earth’. How could such a sentiment become construed as problematic, elitist, or worse? How was a calculated and intentional attack on beauty sustained for more than a century? How did beauty become, and why does it largely remain, what Emory Elliot dubbed `the forbidden subject’? This book reviews the devastating impacts modernist avant-garde, Marxism, some feminisms and postmodernism have enacted – through paranoia, blame, cynicism – on beauty, hope and desire. Oppositional epistemologies deliberately eviscerated the possibilities and standing of beauty in criticism as well as in lived experience. According to Myra Jehlen, the orthodox critic thus became `an adversary of the work he or she analyses’, tasked with undoing the aesthetic deception of what was read to `expose its misrepresentations and false ideals, to strip away the lie and expose the liar’. Tracing the war on natural beauty through the literary and visual arts, The Forbidden Subject asks what it has meant for the humanities, for problem solving environmental issues, for educating students, for our personal lives and, more recently, for ecocriticism. The book asks if current ecocriticism has been misdirected by the corrosive weight of negativity – the requirement always to be `reading against’ – that has persisted in the arts and humanities for decades. It rehearses why a `return to beauty’ was imperative, and what has happened to that return since the turn of the twenty-first century. Pondering these questions, The Forbidden Subject intertwines the potential place and nature of beauty and the beauty of nature and place, concluding with a substantial reading of the poetry and thought of Robinson Jeffers.Table of Contents1. `Steel Flowers for the Bride’: The Emergence and Cooptation of Natural Beauty in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 2. Modernism, Beauty and the Permanent Avant Garde 3. Marxism and Neo-Marxist Aesthetics: Plotting the `Failure of the Present’ 4. Ecocriticism and the Abdication of Hope and Beauty: `I have to believe there’s a way we can get out of this mess’ 5. The Return of the Repressed: Beauty’s Re-emergence Index
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Black Ocean Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist
Book SynopsisWhat motivates writers to create purposefully difficult texts? In what ways is textual difficulty politically charged? In this collection of smart and accessible essays, Kristina Marie Darling seeks to answer these questions by delving deeply into the idea of difficulty in contemporary women’s poetry. Through close engagement with recent poetry and hybrid work from women, non-binary writers, and writers of color, Darling argues that textual difficulty constitutes a provocative reversal of power, in which writers from historically marginalized groups within society can decide who is allowed into the imaginative terrain they have created. In constructing this argument, she shows the full range and artistic possibilities inherent in contemporary texts that foreground textual difficulty as an aesthetic gesture. This is powerful reading that will change how you think about contemporary poetry and its subversive possibilities.
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Clemson University Digital Press Virginia Woolf and the World of Books
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Religion and Identity in the Post-9/11 Vampire: God Is (Un)Dead
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Realist Critiques of Visual Culture: From Hardy to Barnes
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin’s writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin’s related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin’s writings a conception of philosophy that is political in its dissociation from – its becoming renegade in relation to, its philosophic shame about – established laws, norms, and forms, the book compares Benjamin’s writings with relevant works by Agamben, Heidegger, Levinas, and others. In relating Benjamin’s writings on Kafka to Benjamin’s writings on politics, the study delineates a philosophic impetus in literature and argues that this impetus has potential political consequences. Finally, the book is critical of Benjamin’s messianism insofar as it is oriented by the anticipated elimination of exceptions and distractions. Exceptions and distractions are, the book argues, precisely what literature, like other arts, brings to the fore. Hence the philosophic, and the political, importance of literature. Table of ContentsIntroduction.PART I. INHUMANLY WISE SHAME.1. Gesture of Philosophy.2. Historico-Philosophic Shame.3. Unmythic Wisdom.4. Foolishness of Philosophy.5. Prophecy of Shame.Part II. ANXIETY AND ATTENTIVENESS.6. Anxiety.7. Study.8. Distractedly Attentive.9. Anxious Friendliness as Physical Attentiveness.PART III POLITICS.10. Exception and Decision.11. In the Epic ‘Vorwelt’.12. Philosophy, Literature, Politics.- Bibliography.-Acknowledgements.Index.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita Heredia reveals that, through their transnational experiences, they have developed multicultural identities throughout different regions and cities across the country. However, these authors' works also exemplify a return to their heritage in South America through memory and travel, often showing that they maintain strong cultural and literary ties across national borders. As such, they have created a new chapter in trans-American history by finding new ways of imagining South America from their formation and influences in the U.S.Trade Review“Mapping South American Latina/a Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers by Juanita Heredia is a welcome critical Intervention … . The volume is overall a much-needed contribution to the growing field of Latina/o literature in the United States. … Mapping will be valuable to scholars of Latina/o and Latin American contemporary literature, queer and gender studies, and multi-ethnic U.S. literature; and a companion to students reading works by these twelve authors in undergraduate or graduate courses.” (Manuela Borzone, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature STTCL, Vol. 46 (1), 2022)“This text may serve as a useful resource for educators wishing to provide students with a contemporary context to the works studied in their courses, and would also be an enjoyable read for the general intellectual.” (Carolyn González, Latino Studies, Vol. 19, 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Mapping South American Latinidad in the United States.2. The Task of the Translator: Daniel Alarcón.3. Bridges across Lima and Washington D.C.: Marie Arana.4. Dreaming in Brazilian: Kathleen De Azevedo.5. It Takes Two to Tango across Montevideo and California: Carolina De Robertis.6. Traveling the Caribbean, Colombia, and the U.S.: Patricia Engel.7. My Poetic Feminism between Peru and the U.S.: Carmen Giménez Smith.8. Gender and Spirituality in Colombia, Cuba and New Jersey: Daisy Hernández.9. The Colombiano of Greenwich Village: Jaime Manrique.10. A Meditation on Parenting from Syria to Peru to the U.S: Farid Matuk.11. From Dirty Wars in Argentina and Latvia to Listening to Music: Julie Sophia Paegle.12. Writing the Chilena NuYorker Experience: Mariana Romo-Carmona.13. Returning to the Fervor of Buenos Aires from the U.S.: Sergio Waisman.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Working-Class Writing: Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisThis book updates our understanding of working-class fiction by focusing on its continued relevance to the social and intellectual contexts of the age of Trump and Brexit. The volume draws together new and established scholars in the field, whose intersectional analyses use postcolonial and feminist ideas, amongst others, to explore key theoretical approaches to working-class writing and discuss works by a range of authors, including Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Jack Hilton, Mulk Raj Anand, Simon Blumenfeld, Pat Barker, Gordon Burn, and Zadie Smith. A key informing argument is not only that working-class writing shows ‘working class’ to be a diverse and dynamic rather than monolithic category, but also that a greater critical attention to class, and the working class in particular, extends both the methods and objects of literary studies. This collection will appeal to students, scholars and academics interested in working-class writing and the need to diversify the curriculum.Table of Contents1. Working-Class Writing and Experimentation - Ben Clarke.- 2. Interwoven Histories: Working Class Literature & Theory - Jack Windle.- 3. Meaning It: Everyday Hermeneutics and the Language of Class in Literary Scholarship - Cassandra Falke.- 4. Kings in Disguise and 'Pure Ellen Kellond': Literary Social Passing in the Early Twentieth Century - Luke Seaber.- 5. Democratic Art or Working-Class Literature? Virginia Woolf, the Women's Cooperative Guild and Literary Value in the 'Introductory Letter' - Natasha Periyan.- 6. The Bakhtin Circle in Caribbean London: Race, Class and Narrative Strategy - Matti Ron.- 7. 'Look at the State of this Place!': The Impact of Domestic Space on Post-War Class Consciousness - Simon Lee.- 8. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's Helen of Four Gates: Recasting Melodrama in Novel and Cinematic Form - Pamela Fox.- 9. Representation of the Working Classes of the British Colonies and/as the Subalterns in Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie - Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay.- 10. London Jewish... and Working-Class? Social and Geographic Mobility in Simon Blumenfeld and Alexander Baron - Jason Finch.- 11. The Deindustrialist Novel: Twenty-first Century British fiction and the Working Class - Phil O'Brien.- 12. Working-Class Heritage Revisited in Alan Warner's The Deadman's Pedal - Peter Clandfield.- 13. Respectability, Nostalgia and Shame in Contemporary English Working-Class Fiction - Nick Hubble.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThis book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude, opening up rich territory for cross-fertilization between philosophy and literature. The book traces debates on pessimism in the nineteenth century among French nonfiction writers who either lauded its promotion of compassion or condemned it for being a sick and unliveable attempt at renunciation. It then examines the way novelists and poets take up and transform these questions by portraying characters in lived situations that serve as testing grounds for the merits or limitations of pessimism. The debate on pessimism that emerged in the nineteenth century is still very much with us, and this book offers an interhistorical argument for embracing pessimism as a way of living well in the world, aesthetically, ethically, and politically.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Schopenhauer: Resignation, Compassion, and Narrative3 Debates on Pessimism in Late Nineteenth-Century France4 Pessimism and the Novel: Fiction and the “As-If”5 Pessimism and the Poetic Imagination6 Conclusion: Living Well with Pessimism, Then and Now
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Writing Cultures and Literary Media: Publishing
Book SynopsisThis Pivot investigates the impact of the digital on literary culture through the analysis of selected marketing narratives, social media stories, and reading communities. Drawing on the work of contemporary writers, from Bernardine Evaristo to Patricia Lockwood, each chapter addresses a specific tension arising from the overarching question: How has writing culture changed in this digital age? By examining shifting modes of literary production, this book considers how discourses of writing and publishing and hierarchies of cultural capital circulate in a socially motivated post-digital environment. Writing Cultures and Literary Media combines compelling accounts of book trends, reader reception, and interviews with writers and publishers to reveal fresh insights for students, practitioners, and scholars of writing, publishing, and communications. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1 Convergence culture: new book concepts for new audiencesChapter 2 Futurebook critics and cultural curators in a socially networked ageChapter 3 Curses and verses: Social media and the shock of the new in poetry and criticismChapter 4 Authentic fictions: Marketing stick storiesChapter 5 Visual editions: The analogue renaissance in an age of storytellingConclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in
Book SynopsisThis book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside maritime-imperial precursor Joseph Conrad. If postcolonial literatures are sometimes read as national allegories, this book presents an account of a different and significant strand of postcolonial fiction whose geography, in contrast, is coastal and transoceanic. This work imaginatively links east Africa, south Asia and the Arab world via a network of south-south connections that precedes and survives European imperialism. The novels and stories provide a vivid, storied sense of place on both a local and an oceanic scale, and in so doing remap the world as having its centre in the ocean and the south. Table of Contents1 The Literary Indian Ocean: An Introduction2 Joseph Conrad’s Imperial Indian Ocean3 Amitav Ghosh’s Subaltern Sea Histories4 Abdulrazak Gurnah’s African Ocean5 Lindsey Collen’s Oceanic Feminisms6 Towards a Planetary Sea—Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Embodying Difference: Critical Phenomenology and
Book SynopsisThis book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the consequences of stigmatization and the bodily dimensions of social differences. The texts include Robert F. Murphy’s The Body Silent, Simi Linton’s My Body Politic, Rod Michalko’s The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness, three memoirs by Stephen Kuusisto, Vincent O. Carter’s The Bern Book, as well as two novels, Matthew Griffin’s Hide and Armistead Maupin’s Maybe the Moon. All of the texts discussed in this book negotiate the significance of bodily and perceptual habits, the influence of language and culture on embodiment, the importance of relationality and community, the severe effects of misrecognition, and the possibilities of emancipation and social recognition. Hence, they are read as pioneering contributions to the emerging field of critical phenomenology.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Disability and Embodiment 3 Blindness and Perception 4 Blackness and Visibility 5 Gayness and Invisibility
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the
Book SynopsisWriting Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human “software” (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. In showing how in times of plague human beings repress their fears and fantasies and displace them onto the threatening “other,” Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19.2. The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the Pandemic: Jews and Other Scapegoats in Fourteenth-Century European Culture.3. Death and the Maiden: Mourning and Melancholy in Pearl and the Late Medieval European Elegy.4. The Plague’s The Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeare’s Drama.5. The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film.6. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Book SynopsisFantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work; situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in particular to the Hero’s Journey, urban fantasy, word play, social critique, and contemporary fantasy trends; and explores it as a case study in transmedial adaptation. The study ends with an interview with Neil Gaiman that addresses the novel and a bibliography of scholarly works on Gaiman. Table of ContentsIntroduction: It Starts With Doors Chapter One: Bridges to Fantasy: Neverwhere and Genre Chapter Two: “Mind the Gap”: Neverwhere, Language, and IntertextualityChapter Three:“Falling Through the Cracks”: Neverwhere as Social CommentaryChapter Four: Fidelity and Innovation: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Neverwhere Megatext Chapter Five: The KeyRecommended Reading Interview with Neil Gaiman
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Springer International Publishing AG Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds, and
Book SynopsisWhen we think of Iris Murdoch’s relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes – music and other types of sound – contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and moral tenor of Murdoch’s novels. This book will help readers to appreciate anew the sensuous nature of Iris Murdoch’s prose, and to listen for all kinds of music, sounds and silences in her novels, opening up a new sub-field in Murdoch studies in line with the emerging field of Word and Music Studies. This study is supported by close readings of selected novels exemplifying the subtle variety of ways she deploys music, sounds and silence in her fiction. It also covers Murdoch’s knowledge of music and her allusions to music throughout her work, and includes a survey of musical settings of her words by various composers.Trade Review“This book is also a rare example of appendices being as fascinating and as impressive as the main text. … Both scholarly and entertaining, it will be accessible to a general reader, although it is most likely to be of interest to those already reasonably familiar with Murdoch’s fiction who will surely find they hear things in the novels which they have never heard before.” (Janfarie Skinner, Iris Murdoch Review, 2022)Table of Contents1. Chapter 1 Listening to Iris Murdoch.Introduction.Music and sound in fiction: a review of the field.Music in Murdoch’s life.Discussions of music in Murdoch’s philosophy.The sound-worlds in Murdoch’s fiction.Part I – Music.2. Chapter 2 ‘The music is too painful’: Music as character and atmosphere.Introduction.‘Awaken, my blackbird’: Music in The unicorn.‘Like a breathless enchanted girl’: Music in The red and the green.The swan princess: Music in The time of the angels.‘The concourse of sweet sounds’: Music in The nice and the good.Conclusion.3. Chapter 3 ‘The point at which flesh and spirit most joyfully meet’: Singers and singing.Introduction.‘Che cosa e amor?’: Singing in The sea, the sea.Singing as exclusion in The message to the planet.‘Never to sing again? Never?’: Singing in The philosopher’s pupil (1983).Conclusion.4. Chapter 4 Musical women and unmusical men.Introduction: ‘Of course they never let the women sing.’.Quiet women: The good apprentice.Silent pianos.No women composers.Opera, intimacy, sexuality and androgyny in A fairly honourable defeat.Conclusion.Part II – Silence and sound.5. Chapter 5 ‘Different voices, different discourses’: Voices and other human sounds.Introduction: Serious noticing.‘The long search for words’: Something special.‘The quiet sound of voices’: The sandcastle.‘Intolerable with menace’: Henry and Cato.‘A mechanical litany’: The good apprentice.Conclusion.6. Chapter 6 ‘Like a clarity under a mist’: Ambient noise and silence, dreamscapes and atmosphere.Introduction.The sacred and profane love machine: The drama of silence.The black prince and Under the net: Silence and art.Bruno’s dream: Synaesthesia and perception.Nuns and soldiers.Conclusion.Part III – Settings.7. Chapter 7 ‘Just bring me the composers’: Musical settings of Iris Murdoch’s words.Introduction.The servants – opera: music by William Mathias, libretto by Iris Murdoch.The round horizon, cantata in five parts: music by Christopher Bochmann, words by Iris Murdoch.The one alone: Radio play with music by Gary Carpenter.A year of birds: Song cycle for soprano and orchestra by Malcolm Williamson.Forgive me. In memoriam Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, for unaccompanied vocal ensemble (SATB) by Paul Crabtree.Inspired by Iris: Paul Hullah and Kent Wennman.Paul Hullah, All the names under the sun and Home.Kent Wennman, A Jerusalem conversation and The thinker and the feeling one.Conclusion: Iris Murdoch set to music.Coda Sound, music, silence and listening.Part IV – The music.Appendix 1 Music mentioned in Murdoch’s fiction.Classical composers.Vocal music.Chronological list of music mentioned in Murdoch’s fiction.Appendix 2 Items in Iris Murdoch’s Oxford music collection held at Kingston University Library.Iris Murdoch’s manuscript notebooks of songs.Anthologies, collections, scores etc.Single works.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Language of Contemporary Poetry: A Framework
Book SynopsisThis book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author’s book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the features of poetic language that they come across and explain to themselves and others why these features convey the meanings that they do. While this volume focuses on contemporary poets writing in English and mostly based in the UK and Ireland, the framework will work just as well for other eras’ poetry, as well as for other cultures and languages.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Contemporary poetry and textual meaning.- Part 1: Core Features Of Textual Meaning.- Chapter 2. Naming and Describing: people, places and things in poems.- Chapter 3. Representing processes: actions, states and events in poetry .- Chapter 4. Prioritising: Subordination and information structure in poems.- Chapter 5. Representing time, space and society: constructing the world of the poem.- Part 2: Intermittent Features Of Textual Meaning.- Chapter 6. Equating and Contrasting: Constructing equivalence and opposition in poems.- Chapter 7. Enumerating and Exemplifying: Lists and open meaning in poems.- Chapter 8. Negating: Poetic construction of what is not.- Chapter 9. Hypothesising: Possible Worlds, hypothetical scenarios and wish fulfilment in poems.- Chapter 10. Alluding: Implying and Assuming in poems.- Chapter 11. Presenting others’ speech and thought: Multiple voices in poems.- Chapter 12. Evoking: experiencing the poem’s world.- Part Three: Conclusions.- Chapter 13. Putting it all together: Integrated analysis of poems.- Chapter 14. Textual meaning, linguistic theory and the stylistics of poetry.
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Springer International Publishing AG Canada Through American Eyes: Literature and
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Canada is imagined primarily by US writers, and what readers and scholars on both sides of the Canada-US border can learn from these recent depictions by examining a selection of US-authored fiction from 9/11 to the present. The novels — and occasionally paintings, films, and musicals — that are the subject of the book provide a deliberately varied set of case studies to probe how US texts, along with works of art produced on both sides of the Canada-US border, uncover moments in Canadian historical and literary studies that have been buried or occluded to protect Canada's self-representation as an exceptional nation. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Laying the Groundwork: Canada’s (In)visibility.Chapter 1: The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom.Chapter 2: Evangeline’s Revisioning: Reading Ben Farmer’s Post-9/11 Evangeline: A Novel. Chapter 3: German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land.Chapter 4: Becoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley’s The Tricking of Freya.Chapter 5: Playing The Odds: Fleeing to Canada in Stewart O’Nan’s Novel.Chapter 6: Turning Away, Going South and West: The Receding Promise of Canada in Future Home of the Living God and The Underground Railroad.Chapter 7: The Limits of Canadian Exceptionalism: Bowling for Columbine, Come From Away, and Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up.
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Springer International Publishing AG Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish
Book SynopsisThis Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish culture.Grant FFI2017-84619-P AEI, ERDF, EU (INTRUTHS “Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction”) Funded by the Spanish Research Agency AEI http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF "A Way of Making Europe" Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Silences that Speak.- Chapter 2: Conspicuously Silent: The excesses of Religion and Medicine in Emma Donoghue’s historical novels The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars.- Chapter 3: “To Pick up the unsaid, and perhaps unknown, wishes”: Reimagining the “True Stories” of the Past in Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky.- Chapter 4: “He’s been wanting to say that for a long time”: Varieties of Silence in Colm Tóibín’s Fiction.- Chapter 5: The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence.- Chapter 6: Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry’s Lives of Quiet Desperation.- Chapter 7: The Silencing of Speranza.- Chapter 8: “A self-interested silence”: Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon’s Rocky Road to Dublin (1967).- Chapter 9: Silence in Donal Ryan’s Fiction.- Chapter 10: “Sure, aren’t the church doing their best?” Breaking Consensual Silence in Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men.- Chapter 11: Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People.
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Springer International Publishing AG A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective
Book SynopsisThis open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists in literature and caters to a newly revived interest in form and New Formalist approaches in narratological research. The central aim of this book is to show how detective fiction makes use of lists in order to frame various conceptions of knowledge. The frames created by these lists are crucial to decoding the texts, and they can be used to demonstrate how readers can be engaged in the act of detection or manipulated into accepting certain propositions in the text.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues.- 2. Defining Detective Fiction.- 3. Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective.- 4. Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie.- 5. Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science.- 6. Lists and Knowledge.- 7. Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction.
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Palgrave Macmillan J. G. Ballards Crash
Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Crash and Canonicity.- 2. Reading Crash: The Making of a Modern Myth.- 3. Writing Crash: Modernism/Science Fiction/New Worlds.- 4. Rogue Anthropology: Crash, Surrealism, and The Independent Group.- 5. Vicissitudes of the Body: Cyborgs and Animots.- 6. Moral Pornograopy: "The Woman of the Future".- 7. Conclusion: Crash and Petromodernity.
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Springer International Publishing AG The BBC and the Development of Anglophone
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to analyse how BBC radio presented Anglophone Caribbean literature and in turn aided and influenced the shape of imaginative writing in the region. Glyne A. Griffith examines Caribbean Voices broadcasts to the region over a fifteen-year period and reveals that though the program’s funding was colonial in orientation, the content and form were antithetical to the very colonial enterprise that had brought the program into existence. Part literary history and part literary biography, this study fills a gap in the narrative of the region’s literary history. Table of ContentsContents Permissions Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Genesis of Caribbean Voices: People and Policies Chapter 2 The Critics’ Circle Chapter 3 Caribbean Voices and Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Community Chapter 4 A Sustaining Epistolarly Community Chapter 5 The Naipaul / Mittelholzer Years: 1954-58 Afterword Notes Works Cited Appendix Index
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Birkhauser Verlag AG Contemporary Physics Plays: Making Time to Know
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter the shape of space-time itself, drawing together disparate moments, reversing the flow of time, creating apparent contradictions, and iterating scenes for multiple branches of counterfactual history. With these changes both causality and responsibility shift, variously. The roles of iconic scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, are interrogated for their dramatic value, placing history and dramatic license in tension. Cold War strategies and the limits of espionage highlight the emphatically personal involvement of ordinary individuals. This study is vital reading for those interested in physics plays and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Ethics and Physics in Contemporary Plays.- 2. Playing Nuclear War: Learning Postmodern War from Modern Physics.- 3. Relativistic Intertextuality: Einstein as a Figure.- 4. What You Don’t Know Is Going to Hurt Like Hell: Knowledge, Power, and the Faustian Bargain.- 5. Torn Palimpsest and Recycled Time: Copenhagen and Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Multilingualism and Modernity: Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature
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Springer International Publishing AG Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility
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J.B. Hetzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel GmbH Spaces of Adolescence: Contemporary German-language Youth Literature in Topographical Perspective
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Hatje Cantz The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and
Book SynopsisThe Fire of Heaven presents the work of Enrique Martínez Celaya in conversation with the life and work of the influential twentieth-century California poet Robinson Jeffers. Despite existing in different lifetimes, Jeffers’ approach to life as art and his reverence for the natural beauty of the California coastline inextricably link the uncompromising poet to Celaya. The artist’s multi-faceted practice explores the map of a territory shaped by self, memory, ideations of home, exile, myth, and identity. His practice presumes art should be an ethical effort that aims to understand better and be engaged with the world and ourselves. Beyond these threads of commonality, Celaya draws from specific Jeffers’ writings, such as the 1928 poem The Summit Redwood, which serves as the exhibition’s namesake and describes “the fire from heaven” as a force untamed and ignited at whim. Celaya’s work created during his stay at the poet’s landmark home in Carmel-by-the-Sea is complemented by Jeffers’ handwritten poems, notes, and photographs.
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Casa de Velazquez Escribir la democracia: Literatura y transiciones
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Leuven University Press European Literatures of Military Occupation
Book SynopsisOccupation literature: a new perspective on European identitiesWhat does it mean to live under occupation? How does it shape the culture and identities of European nations? How does it affect the way we write and read literature? These are fundamental questions that set the stage for an in-depth exploration. Focusing on the literary works of writers from various European countries that were occupied by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Allies during and after World War II, the contributions in this edited volume seek to unravel the complex interplay between historical circumstances and literary expression. Centered on the concept of occupation literature as a genre in its own right, differentiating it from ''war literature'', the book navigates this subtle distinction, drawing connections with the Holocaust novel and extending the timeframe beyond Nazi occupation.European Literatures of Military Occupation argues that the multifaceted experiences of occupation have played a pivotal role in shaping European identities. Moreover, the volume links European identities to the experience of occupation by unveiling the complex and diverse ways in which writers respond to historical and political circumstances. Introducing the concept of ''affective realism'' and exploring its intersection with the occupation novel, the book provides nuanced insights into the intricate relationship between history, identity, and literature. It combines theoretical perspectives relevant to researchers in the humanities with detailed case studies, generating a truly interdisciplinary perspective, enriched by a strong transnational dimension, creating a cohesive narrative that intervenes innovatively in the fields of literary, cultural, and historical criticism.Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Contributors: Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Bielefeld University), Jan Andres (Bielefeld University), Benedikts Kalnacs (University of Latvia), Stefan Laffin (Leibnitz University of Hannover), Daniela Lieb (Centre national de littérature, Luxembourg), Atinati Mamatsashvil (Ilia State University), Christopher Meid (University of Freiburg), Aleksandar Momcilovic (independent scholar), Jeroen Olyslaegers (independent literary author), Joanna Rzepa (University of Essex), Sandra Schell (Heidelberg University), Meinolf Schumacher (Bielefeld University), Stefanie Siess (Heidelberg University)
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The Chinese University Press Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThe authors and audiences for twentieth century Chinese literature, especially fiction, are examined in a fresh light in this book. While modern Chinese fictions are imaginary in that they do not constitute reliable portraits of Chinese life, they can reveal fascinating insights into the writers themselves and their implied audiences. The book also includes substantial reference to poetry, drama, film, and the visual arts as well as to the political and social context in which they appear.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA AfroCentered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisIn this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.Features an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa.Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice. As Afrodecendant peoples with lived experience from the continent, award-winning authors use their intrinsic voices in critical conversations on Afrofuturism and Afro-centered futurisms. By engaging with difference, they present a new kind of African study that is an evaluative gaze at African history, African spirituality, Afrosurrealism, becoming, black radical imagination, cultural identity, decolonizing queerness, myths, linguistic cosmologies, and more. Contributing authors Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran and Xan van Rooyen offer boldly hybrid chapters (both creative and scholarly) that interface Afrocentric artefacts and exegesis. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African fiction, these writers contribute open and diverse reflections of Afro-centered futurisms. The authors in Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction feature in major genre and literary awards, including the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Ignyte, Nommo, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson and Otherwise Awards, among others. They are also intrinsic partners in a vital conversation on the rise of black speculative fiction that explores diversity and social (in)justice, charting poignant stories with black hero/ines who remake their worlds in color zones of their own image.
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Broadview Press Ltd Letters of a Hindu Rajah
Book SynopsisIn Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Elizabeth Hamilton engages directly with the major issues of her day, from colonialism and the “New Philosophy” to the present state of literature and female education. Satirizing British society and incorporating material from a wide range of the orientalists’ new translations of Indian writing, Hamilton’s book is a key document in the debates which raged in England over the British role in India. It remains one of the most interesting political novels of the 18th century.Trade Review“This edition is an important contribution to scholarship in the long eighteenth century. The text itself richly rewards even a casual reading, providing a broad exploration of Anglo-Indian relations as well as lively portraits of eighteenth-century British life, from debates surrounding the education of women to the constitution of coffee houses and theatres. The explanatory notes in themselves provide an education about India in the eighteenth century and the introduction deftly compresses a massive amount of research on how Britons saw themselves in relation to Empire, and manages, by the way, to raise large questions about domestic class structures, and the role of the ‘Oriental tale’ in establishing British identity.” — Tara Ghoshal Wallace, George Washington University“By bringing her Hindoo narrator to England, Elizabeth Hamilton offers a telling critique of British gender formation, educational institutions and politics in the 1790s from the perspective of the ‘outsider.’ This fascinating novel, here expertly edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, should be read and taught by anyone interested in post-colonial theory and gender studies, the literary representation of British imperialism in India and at home, the jacobin and anti-jacobin debates of the 1790s, the function of religion in women’s writing or the development of the political novel.” — Anne K. Mellor, UCLATable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWorks CitedElizabeth Hamilton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextTranslation of the Letters of a Hindoo RajahAppendix A: Select Contemporary Reviews The Critical Review, vol 17 (July 1796) The British Critic, vol 8 (Sept. 1796) Monthly Review, vol 21, second series (Oct. 1796) The Analytical Review, vol 24 (Oct. 1796) Scots Magazine, vol 59 (Jan. 1797) Appendix B: Major Revisions in the Second EditionAppendix C: Sir William Jones, Hymn to CamdeoAppendix D: Obituary attributed to Maria EdgeworthAppendix E: Selections from Letters
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Broadview Press Ltd Dubliners
Book SynopsisThis group of fifteen brief narratives connected by a place and a time, the city of Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century, was written when James Joyce was a precocious young graduate of University College. With great subtlety and artistic restraint, Joyce suggests what lies beneath the pieties of Dublin society and its surface drive for respectability, suggesting the difficulties and despairs that were being endured on a daily basis in homes, pubs, streets, and offices of the city: underemployment, domestic violence, alcoholism, poverty, hunger, emotional and sexual repression. No writer ever took more seriously the details, history, and culture of a particular place than Joyce did with his home city, and these stories combine dark humor with compassion and a searching eye for the causes of suffering.This new edition's historical appendices include contemporary reviews (including one by Ezra Pound) and materials on religion, the struggle for Irish independence, and Dublin's musical and performance culture.Trade Review“Keri Walsh’s Broadview edition of Dubliners will deepen and enliven any reader’s experience of Joyce’s book. Included here are extensive appendices of primary materials that contextualize Joyce’s fictional world in terms of Ireland’s social, cultural, religious, and economic history, and in terms of the book’s troubled publication history, its early reception, and its place in literary history. Walsh’s introductory essay lays out the stakes of Joyce’s fraught relationship with Dublin and its denizens with clarity, concision, wit, and readability. Nowhere else have I read Joyce’s early life and work so essentially distilled, and rarely have I read Dubliners so artfully described. I expect Walsh’s Broadview edition of Dubliners to be around for a long time to come.” - Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook University“Keri Walsh, as we already know from her collection of Sylvia Beach’s letters, is an archivist who blends the conscience of an ethnographer with the touch of a lover. She has achieved something genuinely exhilarating in this edition of Dubliners - transformed us into Joyce’s contemporaries while simultaneously renewing the book as a contemporary text, richly teachable and learnable, for twenty-first century readers, students, and scholars.” - Saikat Majumdar, author of Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire“In an age when anthologized literary may give students the impression that the texts they are given to study arrived already canonized, Walsh’s approach - the provision of text, subtext, pretext, and context - allows an appreciation of the contingency of both creation and reputation, and is therefore an approach full of merit.” - Stephen Whittaker, James Joyce Literary Supplement“Walsh’s entertaining prose moves competently and gracefully among many aspects of Dublin life and Irish history that have an immediate bearing on the stories…Deftly juggling and ordering so many layers of concerns, Walsh’s essay gives and ideal opening performance, drawing out questions and alerting readers to the details and controversies of the stories while refraining from editorializing or providing a simple, singular answer. In this sense, it makes a nicely polished critical looking glass that opens up many reflective possibilities for readers of Dubliners…The stories are evenly and skillfully annotated by Walsh; the level and depth of her notes also sustain the historical and cultural contexts developed in the critical essay and supplementary materials…Her annotative style is disciplined and concise, providing just the right amount of information about archaic vocabulary or arcane allusions. At their best, her annotations show readers the active interpretive choices that confront them in particular moments.” - Greg Winston, James Joyce QuarterlyTable of Contents Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews Times Literary Supplement (18 June 1914) Athenaeum (20 June 1914) New Statesman (27 June 1914) Everyman Review (3 July 1914) Academy (11 July 1914) From Ezra Pound, ""Dubliners and Mr. James Joyce,"" The Egoist (15 July 1914) The Irish Book Lover (November 1914) Appendix B: Literary Contexts From Matthew Arnold, ""On the Study of Celtic Literature"" (1867) From Padraic Colum, ""With James Joyce in Ireland"" (1922) From Henry James, ""The Story-Teller at Large: Mr. Henry Harland"" (April 1898) From Emile Zola, Preface to Thérése Raquin: A Realistic Novel (1887) Caroline Norton, ""The Arab's Farewell to His Horse"" (c. 1830) From W.B. Yeats, ""Ireland and the Arts"" (1903) From John Eglinton, ""The Philosophy of the Celtic Movement"" (1918) Appendix C: Dublin Musical and Performance Culture From Augusta Gregory, ""West Irish Ballads"" (1903) Charles Dibdin, ""The Lass that Loves a Sailor"" (1811) George Linley, ""Arrayed for the Bridal"" (1835) Anonymous, ""The Lass of Aughrim"" (date unknown) Alfred Bunn and Michael William Balfe, ""I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls"" (1843) ""Dougherty's Boarding House,"" Wheman Bros.' Pocket Size Irish Song Book (1909) Appendix D: Emigration From Rev. Michael J. Henry, ""A Century of Irish Emigration"" (1900) From Maud Gonne, ""Ways of Checking Emigration"" (15 October 1901) Philip Francis Little, ""Farewell to the Land"" (1901) From Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, ""Parents and Children"" (1904) Appendix E: Religion, Home Rule, and the Struggle for Independence From Charles Stewart Parnell's Address in Cork (22 January 1885) From Katharine Tynan, ""The Parnell Split"" (1912) From Filson Young, ""Holy Ireland"" (1903) Maud Gonne, ""The Famine Queen"" (7 April 1900) From Michael J.F. McCarthy, ""In Catholic Dublin"" (1903)
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Academic Studies Press Reading Novels Translingually:
Book SynopsisThis book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first century has seen a new fascination with the age-old phenomena of literary multilingualism and translation on the part of writers and readers alike. In case studies of contemporary novels by Rabih Alameddine, Olga Grushin, Olga Grjasnowa, Michael Idov, Zinaida Lindén, Andreï Makine, and Eugene Vodolazkin, as well as a new look at Leo Tolstoy’s nineteenth-century classic War and Peace, this book shows how reading can become a translingual process.Trade Review“Julie Hansen reads novels—by Olga Grushin, Andreï Makine, Michael Idov, Olga Grjasnowa, Zinaida Lindén, Rabih Alameddine, Leo Tolstoy, and Eugene Vodolazkin—translingually, in readings that are incisive, subtle, and supple. Navigating among overlapping instances of multilingualism, translingualism, and translation, she shifts the usual focus from authors to the reading experience. Her novel accounts of how multiple languages challenge and enrich our reading propel Hansen to the forefront of the burgeoning international community of scholars of literary multilingualism.” — Steven G. Kellman, Author, The Translingual Imagination and Nimble Tongues; Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio“At a moment when we are told that AI and machine translation will wipe away linguistic difference, Julie Hansen points to the importance of literary translingualism: the fertile clash and interaction of languages as her selected authors think and write. Writers are crossing ever more geographical and cultural borders in a globalizing world. Elegantly written, enriched with theoretical sophistication and thoughtful moves of interpretation, Reading Novels Translingually ‘calls on the reader to reflect on language itself.’”— Sibelan Forrester, Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian, Swarthmore College“Julie Hansen’s book makes a significant and original contribution to the growing scholarly debate on literary multilingualism. By bringing to bear concepts of estrangement and reader response to the analysis of multilingual and translingual novels, Hansen opens up a welcome new theoretical perspective. Her wide linguistic repertoire includes not only English, French, German, and Russian, but also the ‘minor’ language Swedish, and her insights apply equally to celebrated literary classics and the popular genre of crime fiction. Another original feature is the attention to translation as an essential component of translingual literature, which brings the book into dialogue with contemporary theories of translation and self-translation.” — Adrian J. Wanner, Liberal Arts Professor of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: Translingual Reading Chapter 2: Implied Readers in the Translingual Text: The Case of Olga Grushin’s The Dream Life of SukhanovChapter 3: Translingual Protagonists Go GlobalChapter 4: The Translingual Narrator and Language Gaps: The Case of Zinaida Lindén’s Many Countries AgoChapter 5: The Literary Translator as Reader: The Case of Rabih Aladmeddine’s An Unnecessary WomanChapter 6: Suspicion and the Suspension of Disbelief in Multilingual Fiction: The Case of a Nordic Suspense NovelChapter 7: Code-Switching and Language-Mixing in Lev Tolstoy’s War and PeaceChapter 8: Reading Between Medieval and Modern: The Case of Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks Bibliography
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Auckland University Press Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance
Book SynopsisAfter the stunning success of ""Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance AUP"" and editors Jack Ross and Jan Kemp now present readings on two CDs from a later generation of 27 poets born from 1944 to 1958. These are the great poets of the 1960s and 1970s such as Ian Wedde, Bill Manhire, Sam Hunt, Jan Kemp, Alan Brunton, as well as some whose names were made more recently such as Bernadette Hall, Stephanie de Montalk, Anne French and Keri Hulme. The CDs of the poets reading their own work are accompanied by a book of the texts of the poems reproducing them exactly as read, as well as brief biographies and bibliographies of each poet. The poets are arranged chronologically by date of birth and each reads for approximately five minutes in recordings made chiefly in 1974 and/or 2004. They were chosen for the quality and significance of their work and their commitment to voice and performance as an integral part of their poetry.
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Academic Studies Press A Mind Purified by Suffering : Evgenia
Book Synopsis“A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs represents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps, Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind, place her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The contributors address Ginzburg’s Gulag experience through various vantage points, covering such topics as: memory, trauma, motherhood, love, survival strategies, and metafictional structures. The volume also provides a history of prison camp writings, capped with her biography, analysis of her correspondence with her son, Vasily Aksenov, and an interview with him. Trade Review“This collection is an essential contribution to the literature on Evgenia Ginzburg, Krutoi marshrut, and the Soviet Gulag. These chapters offer a fresh look at a classic text, seeking to deepen and broaden our understanding of one of the most influential works in the Gulag literary canon. The collection reminds us of Ginzburg’s importance while offering new and productive ways to understand the richness of her work, relationships, and legacies.”— Alan Barenberg, Texas Tech University, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta and co-editor of Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies“A timely multi-faceted collection of intra- and interdisciplinary research papers on the memoirs of the Gulag veteran Evgenia Ginzburg. Placing Ginzburg’s narrative in a number of contexts, tracing the author’s emotional and ideological arc, and offering unexpected insights, this volume fills in a gap in the scholarship and provides a basis and a stimulus for further academic conversation about one of the most impressive and influential accounts of life under Stalinist terror.” — Leona Toker, author of Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors and of Gulag Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading“Justifiably introduced by Barbara Heldt as comparable to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Evgenia Ginzburg’s landmark memoir of eighteen years in the Soviet Gulag system, Journey into the Whirlwind, has influenced generations of Gulag eyewitnesses as well as scholarship on Gulag writing, Soviet political repression, and the gendering of writing about repression. In this collection, Olga Cooke has brought together an impressive variety of approaches to Ginzburg’s and others’ writing by recognized scholars of Ginzburg’s work that will be required reading for future scholarship in the field. This thoroughly documented and elegantly edited volume serves the needs of both researcher and teacher, a welcome (and long-overdue) addition to our libraries.”— Diane Nemec Ignashev, Class of 1941 Professor of Russian & the Liberal Arts, Carleton College (Northfield, MN)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsForewordBarbara HeldtIntroductionOlga M. CookeContributors1. A Cruel Journey of the Soul: the Initiation of Evgenia Ginzburg Dariusz Tołczyk2. Mimetic Resistance in Evgenia’s Ginzburg’s Krutoi marshrutNatasha Kolchevska 3. A Communist Woman in the Gulag: Gender, Ideology and Limit-Experience in Ginzburg and BudzyńskaAnna Artwińska4. My Son, My Self: Reevaluating a Culture of VulnerabilityKathryn Duda5. Vasily Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg in Magadan: Re-Conceiving Soviet Authorship through the Gulag ExperienceAnn Komaromi 6. The Survival of the Sublime in a Universe of Malice: Testimonies by Evgenia Ginzburg and Other Gulag WritersRimma Volynska7. “Up to Their Old Tricks Again? Taking Mothers from Their Children?” Evgenia Ginzburg as a Mother in the Stalinist Gulag Elaine MacKinnon8. Ethics, Play, and Poetry in the Interval: Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle to Survive in the WhirlwindOana Popescu-Sandu9. A Winter Coat for Vasya: The Evgenia Ginzburg-Vasily Aksenov Correspondence (1948–1976)Rimma Volynska 10. Evgenia Ginzburg at the End of Krutoi marshrutLev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova11. Interview with Vasily AksenovRimma Volynska and Olga M. CookeIndex
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Academic Studies Press Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others—to individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the "seventies" to the "war aliyah" of the recent times. Both the Russian-Israeli authors and their critics often hold different opinions of their respective roles in Israel’s historical and literary storms. While disagreeing on the definition of their place on the map of modern culture, Russian-Israeli writers are united by a shared bond with the fate of the Jewish state.Trade Review“While this book features many different authors and diverse objects of investigation, it also creates a panoramic view of Russian-Israeli literature—both in style and in chronology. The book should be of great interest to scholars and general readers alike. The very notion of ‘Russian-Israeli literature’ (similarly to the notion of ‘Russian-American literature’) will doubtless illicit questions. Some readers might even ask: And where does the writer belong if she or he has two addresses, sometimes even simultaneously, in two different countries? In what category should we place translations into the Russian language? What is the principal difference between Russian-Israeli literature and, say, Yiddish-Israeli or Polish-Israeli literatures? In other words, this book not only offers a great deal of new materials but also invites us to think of the directions of further research.”—Gennady Estraikh, Professor, New York University, author of Transatlantic Russian Jewishness“Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature is a unique and peerless project. Despite the fragmentary nature of the genre stated in the title, this collection captures many aspects of the previously unexplored, multibranched phenomenon of Russian-Israeli literature. The chronological span renders this collection particularly ponderous as it allows the reader to conceptualize Russian-Israeli literature as one of the most original, historically varied ‘hyphenated’ literatures with its own fairly rather rich traditions. The book brings together some of today’s leading researchers from a number of countries, thus reflecting a diversity of viewpoints, epistemological contexts and theoretical approaches; such diversity has never before been seen in any works on this subject. And this motley gathering of authors constitutes not a shortcoming but rather one of the collection’s great merits for it betokens the very complex nature Russian-Israeli literature, having come about at the intersection of various geographical and cultural identities and styles, which evolved and changed over the course of the waves of aliyah, political regimes, and many other circumstances. I urge you to read this book. It will be of great interest to all those interested not only in Israeli and Russian, but also the multilingual and multifaceted Jewish culture of different epoch.”—Klavdia Smola, Professor, University of Dresden, author of Inventing the Tradition: Contemporary Russian-Jewish Literature“Russian-Israeli literature is, perhaps, the most fascinating of all the literatures to have been created and still being created in the Russian language outside the boundaries of the Russian Empire, the USSR and the post-Soviet spaces. While the title of this book contains the modest term ‘studies,’ the book in fact carries out a tremendously complex task: to conceptualize the corpus of Russian-Israeli literature by concentrating the work along two principal axes, historical-cultural and generic. Additionally challenges faced by the book’s editors and contributors had to do with the fact that a significant part of Russian-Israeli literature resists cross-cultural translation into any of the dominant languages of contemporary culture. Much of what has been created by Russian-Israeli writers could be translated as ‘thoughtcrime.’ The project of delineating the historical contours of Russian-Israeli literature and to understand its provenance and development lies at the very heart of this remarkable book.”—Dennis Sobolev, Professor, University of Haifa, author of The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins Table of ContentsFrom the EditorsRussian-Language Literature in Eretz Israel (Basic Outlines and Authors)Vladimir KhazanJulius Margolin and His TimesLuba JurgensonIsraeli-Soviet Literary Ties in the 1950s–1980s: from Translations to Aliyah LibraryMarat GrinbergLeaving Russia: Russian-Israeli Literature of the 1970s–1980sAleksei SurinPaths of Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in IsraelMaxim D. ShrayerProse of the Aliyah of the 1990s–2000sRoman KatsmanRussian-Israeli Prose in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First CenturyElena PromyshlianskaiaGenres of Israeli-Russian Fantastic FictionElena RimonThe Phenomenon of Russian-Israeli Dramaturgy of the 1970s–2020sZlata ZaretskyFrom the History of Russian Israeli Literary Criticism (On One Method of Delineating Literary Contacts between Russia and Israel) Leonid KatsisAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Academic Studies Press Reinventing Tradition: Russian-Jewish Literature
Book SynopsisHow was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism? The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day. In this period, Jewish literature addresses the reader of the ‘post-human’ epoch, when the knowledge about traditional Jewry and Judaism is received not from the family members or the collective environment, but rather from books, paintings, museums and popular culture.Klavdia Smola explores how contemporary Russian-Jewish literature turns to the traditions of Jewish writing, from biblical Judaism to early-Soviet (anti-)Zionist novels, and how it ‘re-writes’ Haskalah satire, Hassidic Midrash or Yiddish travelogues.Trade Review“The reader, thanks to the author’s deep dive into the literary works she brings forward to make her case, will come away from this book with a recognition and appreciation of the work of a number of well-regarded (although not widely known) authors, whether resident in Russia, Israel, the US or elsewhere, concerned with Jewish identity as shaped and perceived through Soviet and Russian experience. … Reinventing Tradition is a distinguished contribution to the understanding of this revitalization and rediscovery, looking to make the search by Soviet and Russian Jewish authors more widely known and a source of insight and wisdom to be brought near.”— Mindy C. Reiser, AJL News & Reviews“It is well known that a driving force for the formation of underground cultures in former republics of the USSR was the national revival. In her excellent monograph, Klavdia Smola, a prominent scholar of the Soviet nonconformism, focuses on underground literature born by Jewish national revival—a decentralized process that engaged Jews from all republics and regions of the Soviet Union. She meticulously reconstructs a cultural dimension of the political movement for Jewish immigration from the USSR and through the analysis of Russophone Jewish underground literature, traces the development of its main myths and discourses, from their emergence in the 1960s prose of exodus to their ironic deconstructions in postmodernist writings of the 1980s-90s and essentialization in neo-Zionist narratives in the 2000s. This book will be invaluable not only for students of Jewish cultural history but also in courses on national revival in the late Soviet Union and on Russophone literature as a growing new field of studies. Klavdia Smola’s book is pioneering in all these directions.”— Mark Lipovetsky, Columbia University“Klavdia Smola’s superbly researched and deeply illuminating book is a must have for anyone interested in the pathways of Jewish creativity in Russian during the late Soviet and post-Soviet epochs. Especially noteworthy are Smola’s intricate readings of the little known writers who were part of the underground scene in the Soviet Union and later immigrated to Israel. With its breadth of the material covered and innovative theoretical approaches, Smola’s volume makes an invaluable contribution to the study of Russian Jewish literature and culture.”— Marat Grinberg, Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College, Author of The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity between the Lines“The course of Russian-Jewish literature never did run smooth: not when most Russian-speaking Jews were forced by the Tsars to live within the Pale of Settlement; not under Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev et al.; not after the collapse of the Soviet Empire—how much less so with the successive waves of mass Jewish emigration to Israel, Germany, and North America. Only an expert cartographer like Klavdia Smola, therefore, could see what no one else has seen: that it was through prose fiction and storytelling that three generations of Russian-Jewish writers have constructed their own ‘bridge of longing’ across the historical abyss. As this densely argued book demonstrates, the story doesn’t end with those who experienced corporate Jewish life first-hand. Rather, through all the tricks of the literary trade and by drawing creatively from a century of modern Yiddish writing, they succeeded in fashioning a complex new identity and a new Jewish mythology.”— David G. Roskies, Emeritus Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture, the Jewish Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Tradition and Innovation in Judaism—Text and CommentarySemantics of the Posthuman Era: The (Re)Invention of Jewishness Semiotic Context Cultural-Historical Context Poetics of (Anti-)Imperial (Anti-)Assimilation Research Approaches Research Trends and Research Deficits State of the Art Perspective and Boundaries of the StudyAbove the Ground Refocusing Jewish StudiesLiterary History, Poetics, and Cultural StudiesText Selection: Time and Geography Russian Jewish Literature as a Bicultural Phenomenon Jewish Dissent of the Late Soviet Era: Underground, Exodus, Literature Soviet Jews: Collective Images and MythsJews as Translators: Literary MimicryPolitical Context and Literary Reflections of Jewish Counter-Culture: An Overview Emigration, Literary Institutions, and Readers Prose of Exodus “The Excitement of Memory”: Efrem Baukh’s Jacob’s LadderThe Martyrdom of Refusal: David Shrayer-Petrov’s Herbert and NelliMysticism of the Exodus: Eli Liuksemburg“The Third Temple” The Tenth HungerEducation of the New Jew: David Markish’s PreambleLate Soviet Exodus Novels: Poetics and MessageBipolar Models: The Zionist and the Socialist-Realist NovelAxes of Nonconformist Jewish Literature Iuz Aleshkovskii: “Carousel” Grigorii Vol′dman: Sheremetyevo Feliks Kandel′: The Gates of Our Exodus and Semen Lipkin: Pictures and VoicesIakov Tsigel′man: The Funeral of Moishe DorferIuliia Shmukler: “This Last Day”Negated Dichotomies: The Failed Utopia of Aliyah Efraim Sevela’s Zionist Counter-Narratives Iakov Tsigel′man’s Novel-Palimpsest Time and Space Structures in Nonconformist Jewish Literature Reinvention of Yiddish Storytelling Jewish Narrative and Semiotics of YiddishShlemiels and Rogues: Efraim Sevela’s The Legends of Invalidnaia Street An Old Jewess in a Monologue with the Reader: Filipp Isaak Berman’s “Sarra and the Little Rooster”Conclusion: Yiddish as a QuoteAftermath and Impact of Jewish Counter-Culture Neo-Zionist Essentialist Narratives Jewish Revival Russian Jewish Literature after Communism (Post)Memorial Literature: Palimpsests, Residuals, Reinvention (Post)Memorial Jewish WritingMemory as Obsession and Fragment: Izrail′ Metter’s “Family Tree” (Post)Memorial Topographies: Grigorii Kanovich’s “Dream about the Disappeared Jerusalem” Jewish Deconstruction of the Empire Archaic Language of the Dictatorship: Mikhail Iudson’s Dystopia The Ladder onto the Closet Postcolonial Mimic Man: Aleksandr Melikhov’s The Confession of a JewOleg Iur′ev’s Hybrid Poetics: Peninsula ZhidiatinIakov Tsigel′man’s Postmodern Midrash: Shebsl the MusicianConclusion Bibliography Literary WorksResearch Literature Index of Names
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Verso Books Understanding Brecht
Book SynopsisThe relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht both independently minded Marxists with a deep understanding of and passionate commitment to the emancipatory potential of cultural practices continued to discuss, argue and correspond on topics as varied as Fascism and the work of Franz Kafka. Faced by the onset of the ‘midnight of the century’, with the Nazi subversion of the Weimar Republic in Germany and the Stalinist degeneration of the revolution in Russia, both men, in their own way, strove to keep alive the tradition of dialectical critique of the existing order and radical intervention in the world to transform it.In Understanding Brecht we find collected together Benjamin’s most sensitive and probing writing on the dramatic and poetic work of his friend and tutor. Stimulated
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Verso Books Mimesis
Book SynopsisThe Russian Revolution was a literary as well as political upheaval. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectations of fiction and poetry. The production of this groundbreaking new work was inextricably interwoven with the political and historical debates of the time.This volume expands on Podoroga’s critical exploration of the analytic anthropology of literature. Here he delves into the ways literature can be used in ‘world-building’, both in terms of what happens inside the narrative and how it reflects the external world. He explores the function of the work outside of its time: both as a means to project itself into the future and as a document of a former age. How are we to read the past through these works of the imagination?With an introductory essay from the author
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McGill-Queen's University Press L.M. Montgomery and Gender
Book SynopsisThe celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the White Feather campaign and discussions of adoption to medical discourses of death and disease, explorations of Montgomery's use of humour, and the author's rewriting of masculinist traditions.The essays span Montgomery's writing, exploring her famous Anne and Emily books as well as her short fiction, her comic journal composed with her friend Nora Lefurgey, and less-studied novels such as Magic for Marigold and The Blue Castle. Dividing the chapters into five sections on masculinities and femininities, domestic space, humour, intertexts, and being in time L.M. Montgomery and Gender addresses the degree to which Montgomery's work engages and exposes, reflects and challenges the genderTrade Review"A book-length study on this author's rich and complex relationship with gender norms and expectations, and her myriad depictions of gender, is overdue. Because modern understanding of gender identity and contemporary awareness of gender issues are increasingly prominent in cultural discussions, this book, with its many perspectives on gender in Montgomery's work, is extraordinarily timely." Caroline Jones, Austin Community College
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John Wiley & Sons Canadian Suburban Reimagining Space and Place in
Book SynopsisThis book considers the cultures of suburbia in English Canadian fiction published from the 1960s to 2019. Exploring works of various Canadian authors, Cowdy argues there is no one authentic definition of a Canadian suburban imaginary but multiple, at times contradictory, representations that disrupt the dominant cultural discourse of homogeneity.Trade Review“Canadian Suburban makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on often-denigrated but complex urban peripheries, arguing for the role of the humanities in the field of suburban studies. Clearly written and highly readable, this book will be of interest to scholars in any discipline who work on the built environment, as well as literary studies and Canadian studies. The suburbs, which compose such a large proportion of the constructed environment, appear to be entering scholarly and popular discourses with increasing frequency. Like other parts of the city, the suburbs are undergoing continuous change, not only in their physical fabric but also in how they are experienced and understood.” H-Environment“A compelling account of Canadian writers' resistance to the suburbs that flourished after WW II.” Choice“Cheryl Cowdy’s study of the fiction of Canadian suburbia invites us to re-evaluate our assumptions about the influence of place on identity and community. Cowdy’s adjustment of the boundaries of literary history to accommodate a new category of fiction is compelling.” *Canadian Literature *"Canadian Suburban … should encourage social scientists to pay more attention to fiction as a means of understanding urban places, while conveniently offering a useful reading list and many interpretative suggestions. In an era of disciplinary and subdisciplinary specialization, Canadian Suburban bridges academic solitudes. You could say that it occupies a liminal space.” Canadian Geographic
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Columbia University Press Second Skins The Body Narratives of
Book SynopsisExamining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative-thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: On Transitions -- Changing Bodies, Changing Narratives Part 1: Bodies 1. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex 2. A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual Embodiment Part 2: Narratives 3. Mirror Images: Transsexuality and Autobiography 4. "Some Primitive Thing Conceived in a Turbulent Age of Transition": The Invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the Narrative Origins of Transexuality 5. No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues Epilogue: Transsexuality in Photography -- Fielding the Referent Notes Index
£25.20
University of California Press Joyce Annotated
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Harvard University Press The OpEd Novel
Book SynopsisThe Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of El País. Their literary sensibility transformed opinion journalism, and their weekly columns changed their novels, which became venues for speculative historical claims, partisan political projects, and intellectual argument.Trade ReviewThe Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and literary fiction—salutary reading in the English-speaking countries, where politics and literature are still regarded as strangers to each other. -- Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and HideIn few places are novelists as powerful as in Spain, with the op-ed page serving as their pulpit and ring for political or cultural pugilism. In this hugely valuable study of the cross-fertilization between opinion writing and Spanish fiction, Seguín discovers a space where ideas are tested and novels are hatched. His book lets readers judge for themselves how much newspapers, novels, and public debate have been enriched as a result—and how much the opposite has happened. -- Giles Tremlett, author of España: A Brief History of SpainMost Anglophone literary critics have clicked on an op-ed whose byline they recognize from the cover of a favorite novel, but few have thought to examine, as Bécquer Seguín does in this bold study, cases where the writing of novels and op-eds overlap so much as to become a single enterprise. Tracing the growth of a culture in which novels mimic, grow out of, or usurp the functions of op-eds—and vice-versa—this book forces us to rethink our understanding of institutions and of genre, as well as received ideas about fictionality, the status of the intellectual, and the always slippery category of ‘nonfiction.’ -- Leah Price, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About BooksThere are two types of intellectuals: the brave and everyone else. Bécquer Seguín analyzes why after Franco’s death Spain encouraged the former. His case study should serve as a lesson to America’s public intellectuals, if there is still such a thing, the majority having become dispensable entertainers. -- Ilan Stavans, author of Quixote: The Novel and the World
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Harvard University Press Eurasia without Borders
Book SynopsisKaterina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet Union, Europe, Turkey, Iran, India, and China to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that would overcome national, cultural, and linguistic differences in the name of an anticapitalist and anti-imperialist aesthetic.Trade ReviewAmbitious and engrossing. -- Caryl Emerson * Times Literary Supplement *The scale and scope of Katerina Clark’s Eurasia without Borders match the contours of its subject: a grand vision of a leftist literary commons that might unite the peoples of interwar Eurasia…Clark marshals her cast of characters and organizations into a coherent narrative that never feels simplified or reductive. Anyone remotely concerned with the history of global socialism or world literature cannot afford to ignore it. -- Edward Tyerman * Russian Review *This magisterial book is indispensable for the study of world literature. Clark’s meticulous close readings, extensive archival research, and personal interviews offer captivating details and discoveries. She draws our attention to many writers and artists who are not generally considered within the traditional narrative of world literature and are therefore only known well in regional studies. -- Xiaolu Ma * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *[A] bold new study…It’s a mighty tale that ventures well beyond the usual scope of world literature, and timely too. Eurasia is back if you hadn’t noticed. -- Nicholas Jose * Australian Book Review *A powerful political history of world literature. From the Baku Congress to Mao’s Yan’an Talks, Eurasia without Borders fundamentally remaps the interconnected literary cultures of Europe and Asia. Clark illuminates how the literary international emerged in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution to transform the world and, by extension, the very idea of world literature. -- Lydia H. Liu, author of The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World MakingDuring a crucial era of decolonization, the Comintern fostered Marxist solidarity across Eurasia that would shake the imperial orthodoxies of the time and shape the postcolonial writing soon to come. Clark skillfully narrates a chapter in the history of world literature whose importance, though previously overlooked, cannot be overstated. -- Siraj Ahmed, author of Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the HumanitiesClark’s revelatory account of world literature recasts the vision of a Red East under the shadow of Orientalism, following the poets and avant-gardists who imagined a Eurasia that would transcend both language and nation. In its expansiveness, it is a fitting complement to her previous city-based studies of Petersburg and Moscow. Together, these works are the most powerful rendering of the dimensions of the Soviet cultural revolution that we have today. -- Michael Denning, author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical RevolutionAgainst the historical amnesia of post–Cold War world literature studies in the United States, Katerina Clark presents the history of an earlier literary internationalism committed to defining Eurasia as a contiguous cultural space. This is a crucial and indispensable book for readers interested in world literary relations. -- Aamir Mufti, author of Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures
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Princeton University Press Impermanent Blackness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Eye-opening. . . . Garibaldi’s conclusions regarding the ‘challenges and opportunities that underpin commitments to building an inclusive American society’ are timely and penetrating. This is a vital look at a transformative era in American literature." * Publishers Weekly *"A compelling and readable account of how the relationship between emerging Black authors and their predominantly white-run publishing firms developed in the USA between the 1910s and the 1960s. . . . Impermanent Blackness provides a window on an important aspect of American literary history."---Terry Potter, Letterpress Project"Impermanent Blackness is a very interesting and insightful read about a key period in American literary culture and publishing."---Ilina Jha, Redbrick Culture"Garibaldi’s critical work traces the ups and downs of [the] interracial aesthetic from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1960s. In the process, he adds another dimension to our understanding of the complex racial dynamics of this era. . . .Garibaldi does an excellent job of describing both the thick history and the wider conceptual stakes."---Paul Giles, Australian Book Review
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