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Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works. Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction and fantasy" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O. Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and the oeuvre of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. The volume also critically examines modern African texts from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga, as well as critically looking at the terms 'Afrofuturism' and 'Africanfuturism' vis-à-vis their particular cultural aesthetics and suitability in describing tradition rooted African speculative arts. This volume also includes a Literary Supplement. Guest Editors: LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE (Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University) and CHIMALUM NWANKWO (Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria). Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint) Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of English University of Central Florida).Trade ReviewThis constructive volume 39 of African Literature Today arrives with absorbing focus on the inherently speculative nature of African writing. The articles, interviews, literary supplements comprising short fiction, poetry and reviews will enchant lovers of black speculative fiction. [...] This is truly a worthwhile read. * Aurealis *Table of ContentsEDITORIAL ARTICLE Introduction: Science & Speculative Fiction - What is Past and Present . . . and What is Future? LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE and CHIMALUM NWANKWO ARTICLES 'Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in the world': Lagos as a Site of Africanfuturist Invasion in Lagoon and Godhunter JANELLE RODRIQUES Southern Africannearfutures: black-tech, ambivalence, and speculation in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift and Masande Ntshanga's Triangulum JEFFREY G. DODD Woman of the Aeroplanes and the Prediction of the Future CHUKWUNONSO EZEIYOKE Re-membering the Past: Black Panther, Sovereignty, and the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism KAYODE ODUMBONI African Counter-utopias: from Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds ERIC TSIMI Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God as Speculative Narratives CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon? EDGAR NABUTANYI Moving the Centre: Positions and Locations of African Speculative Fiction JAMES ORAO FEATURE ARTICLE Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela's Something Old, Something New' and Tomi Adeaga's 'Marriage and Other Impediments' GABRIEL BAMGBOSE INTERVIEWS With Chigozie Obioma LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o KADIJA GEORGE With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu KUFRE USANGA LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Poison for the Dogs' (Short Story) ESHITIKA L. LUTOMIA 'Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It' (Short Story) A. ONIPEDE HOLLIST 'The Song-Warrior' (Short Story) REGINALD OFODILE 'Answers that will not be swallowed' (Poem) 'When a bitch eats her young' (Poem) 'This is how' (Poem) 'A Daughter, Coming Undone' (Poem) 'Crumbs' (Poem) 'Not Crying' (Poem) IQUO DIANAABASI 'The String of Discord' (Poem) "Destiny's Dish" 'Tasha' (Poem) AISHA UMAR 'African Children' (Poem) TIJANI ABDULLAHI OLANIYI 'Nun's Twilight Call' (Poem) CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI 'To Mokwugo Okoye - A Forsaken Freedom Fighter' (Poem) IFEOMA OKOYE REMEMBERING ELDRED JONES (1925-2020) Farewell, Othello's Countryman NIYI OSUNDARE Professor Eldred Jones: A Humanist and Critic ELIZABETH I.A. KAMARA TRIBUTE Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination AUSTINE AMANZE AKPUDA REVIEWS Sakui Malakpa, Black Professor, White University OBI NWAKANMA Daria Tunca (ed), Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie KATE HARLIN Ernest Emenyonu, The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages KUFRE USANGA Jack Mapanje, Greetings from Grandpa OLUFEMI DUNMADE Ada Uzoamaka Azodo & Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds), Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora INI UKO

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Book SynopsisExplores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies. Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age, by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. Emenyonu (Nigeria), in 1988 generated the consciousness that African literature had attained maturity by the evolution of diverse concerns among scholars, critics, and researchers over the decades following the publication, in the English language, of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in 1958. Since the publication of the first volume of African Literature Today (ALT) in the 1970s, the writings of Africans across the continent have spread across the globe, constituting refreshing and hitherto unimaginable epistemologies. This 40th volume provides a serious critical response to those changing horizons and reflects African literature's maturity, diversity, scope, spread, and above all, relevance. The topics discussed range from sickle cell disease to the animalization of humans, new feminisms and stereotypes of womanhood, the different shades of black masculinity, and political exploitation in creative works. Reaching across boundaries, recent fictions are seen to suggest a widening of conventional literary genres, and new forms that change the known trajectories of dramatic theatre. The substance, freshness, and vitality that characterize the articles in this volume of African Literature Today bring a welcome perspective to the continent's rich creative life. Funded by the Knowledge Unlatched Select 2023 collection, this title is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons License: CC BY NCTable of ContentsEDITORIAL ARTICLE African Literature Comes of Age ERNEST N. EMENYONU ARTICLES Of Literature & Medicine: Narrating Sickle Cell Disease in a Nigerian Novel KAZEEM ADEBIYI-ADELABU Posthumanism & Speciesism in African Literature: Animals & the Animalized in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness CHIKWURAH DESTINY ISIGUZO Manifestations of Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels: Initiating a Talk on Black Masculinity Studies PARAMITA ROUTH ROY Transformative Female Narratives & New Visions in African Women's Writing: A Re-reading of NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE Religion, Capitalism & Politics: The Revolutionary Imagination in the Plays of Nawal El Saadawi H. OBY OKOLOCHA Approaching Gang Violence on the Cape Flats in Rehana Rossouw's What Will People Say? ALEXANDRA NEGRI The Denunciation of Religious Collusion with Colonization in Devil on the Cross & Matigari CHRISTOPHE SÉKÈNE DIOUF The Weapons of Subjugation in Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were BENEDICTA ADEOLA EHANIRE Abrogating Aesthetic Boundaries in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A Reading of Femi Abodunrin's Poetry as Drama SANI GAMBO The End of Robert Mugabe: On Knowledge Production & Political Power TINASHE MUSHAKAVANHU The Text & Textual Fields of African Popular Literature: The Agency of Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy JOHN UWA LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Ezuga' (Short Story) KASIMMA Four Poems: 'Mis/Identity'; 'Portable Longing'; 'Darkling Shores'; 'Mea Culpa' EUGEN M. BACON TRIBUTES Remembering Professor Charles R. Larson (14 January 1938-22 May 2021) TIJAN M. SALLAH The End of an Era: A Tribute to Nawal El Saadawi (27 October 1931-21 March 2021) RAZINAT T. MOHAMMED REVIEWS Kasimma, All Shades of Iberibe NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE Ikechukwu Otuu Egbuta and Nnenna Vivien Chukwu, World on the Brinks: An Anthology of Covid-19 Pandemic ISIDORE DIALA Evelyn N. Urama, The Writer in the Mirror: Conversations with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 'Zikora' IJEOMA IBEKU-NGWABA Isidore Diala (ed), Obumselu on African Literature: The Intellectual Muse AFAM EBEOGU Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers IJEOMA IBEKU-NGWABA Tijan Sallah, Saani Baat: Aspects of African Literature and Culture OBI NWAKANMA

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their day-to-day engagement with their societies and the world, Shola Adenekan explores this transformative development in Nigeria and Kenya, both significant countries in African literature and two of the continent's largest digital technology hubs. Queer Kenyans and Nigerians find new avenues for their work online where print publishers are refusing to publish short stories and poems on same-sex desire. Binyavanga Wainaina's rise to critical acclaim arguably started on the literary blog Generator 21. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's literary celebrity partly relies on her prolific use of social media to tell the story of powerful Nigerian women. With further examples from the development of literature across the continent, this innovative book sheds new light on narratives about digital Africa. It will also be the first major work to provide a trajectory of class consciousness in Kenyan and Nigerian writing. Through this analysis, the book articulates the difference in attitudes towards queerness, sexuality, and hetero-normativity among successive generations of writers. Funded by the Knowledge Unlatched Select 2023 collection, this title is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons License: CC BY NCTrade ReviewShola Adenekan breaks new ground with the first book-length study of digital creative expression in an African context with African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya. [...] This book will be a staple not only for African digital literature courses, but for the parent African literature and digital humanities classes. This first monograph-length study of African digital literature should inspire those of us with scholarly interests in the field to expand upon the research done here to look at the nature of digital writing on the continent in competing and complementary ways. * Journal of the African Literature Association *African Literature in the Digital Age matters as a field-defining work. It impels the reader to refuse the single story of Africa as a continent that is perpetually confronted with an increasing digital divide. Although the digital divide is real, and restates one of Adenekan's central arguments on class, this book excellently reveals many other stories and narratives. [...] The author has done the excellent work the rest of us must now build on. * Research in African Literatures *It is often the purpose of pioneer texts to lay the foundation upon which others can build, and African Literature in the Digital Age achieves much in this regard. -- English Academy ReviewWith this scholarship, he gives shape and substance to African digital literature while deepening understandings of class and sexuality in Kenya and Nigeria. Moreover, Adenekan's deployment of the network as an interpretative framework will prove applicable to other contexts, allowing us to read other regions of African digital production through the affordances of his study. -- Journal of Postcolonial WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Kenyan and Nigerian Writers in the Digital Age Network Thinking: Literary Networks in the Digital Age Class and Poetry in the Digital Age Class Consciousness in Online Fictions Digital Queer: The Queering of African Literature Middle-Class, Transnational, Queer and African 'Ashewo no be Job': The Figure of the Modern Girl in the Digital Age The Erotic in New Writing from Nigeria Social Media and the Aesthetics of the Quotidian Conclusion: Connecting the Dots

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Book SynopsisHow are contemporary authors reimagining the idea of 'Ecuador' following the worst financial crisis in the nation's history, and how do countries on the periphery of the global literary market challenge and enrich World Literature? Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize In March 1999, in an effort to stave off financial collapse, the Ecuadorian government suspended all banking operations and froze all bank accounts in the country for a period of five days. This episode, the Feriado Bancario, represents the peak of the worst financial crisis in the nation's history and one which had far-reaching and long-last effects on society, politics, the economy, and cultural production. The very idea of 'Ecuador' was transformed, as Ecuador became a country marked by constant interaction with the world beyond its borders. This book explores how contemporary Ecuadorian authors are reimagining the nation following the Feriado Bancario. Starting from a rereading of Ecuador's national novel, Jorge Icaza's Huasipungo (1930), which saw the nation as rooted in the land, the book examines post-crisis fiction which offers an image of Ecuador as a transnational space. It posits that these novels - Eliécer Cárdenas' El oscuro final del Porvenir (2000), Leonardo Valencia's Kazbek (2008), Carlos Arcos' Memorias de Andrés Chiliquinga (2013), and Gabriela Alemán's Humo (2017) - both reflect and explain the new reality of Ecuador as a nation that can no longer be defined by its territory. At the same time, the book uses the Ecuadorian case to challenge the conceptualisation of Latin American literature as 'post-national' and to show how countries on the periphery of the global literary market can, from the very fact of their minoritarian position, enrich and better define World Literature.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction I: Land, History, Nation II: Crisis, Fiction, Transformation III: Reimagining Ecuador Transnationally IV: Latin America, Ecuador, the World Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more fl exible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor.If postapartheid literature’s founding moment was the ‘transition’ to democracy, writing over the ensuing years has viewed the Mandelan project with increasing doubt. Instead, Authors from all quarters are seen to be reporting, in different ways and from divergent points of view, on what is perceived to be a pathological public sphere in which the plot– the mapping and making of social betterment – appears to have been lost.The compulsion to forensically detect the actual causes of such loss of direction has resulted in the prominence of creative nonfi ction. A significant adjunct in the rise of this is the new media, which sets up a ‘wounded’ space within which a ‘cult of commiseration’ compulsively and repeatedly plays out the facts of the day on people’s screens; this, De Kock argues, is reproduced in much postapartheid writing. And, although fi ctional forms persist in genres such as crime fiction, with their tendency to overplot, more serious fi ction underplots, yielding to the imprint of real conditions to determine the narrative construction.Trade Review"De Kock has a strong story to tell about writing in the postapartheid era and, more especially, the 'post-postapartheid' era, the period in which the high expectations of 1994 and the golden era of the Mandela presidency turned sour. It is detailed, lively, and full of sharp observation." - Derek Attrridge, professor of English, University of York and co-editor of the Cambridge History of South African Literature. "De Kock is concerned both with drawing lines of continuity and mapping trajectories of difference between apartheid and postapartheid fiction ... the intervention Losing the Plot makes in the field of South African literary and cultural studies is substantial." - Harry Garuba, author, poet and associate professor at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.Table of ContentsIntroduction: 1 From the Subject of Evil to the Evil Subject: 'Cultural Difference' in Postapartheid South African Crime Fiction; 2 Freedom on a Frontier? The Double Bind of (White) Postapartheid South African Literature; 3 The 'Transitional' Calm Before the Postapartheid Storm; 4 Biopsies on the Body of the 'New' South Africa; 5 Referred Pain, Wound Culture and Pathology in Postapartheid South African Writing; 6 Fiction's Retort; Endnotes; Works Cited.

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Book SynopsisBefore the 1970s, Maori existed in New Zealand literature as figures created by Pakeha writers. The Maori renaissance of the 1970s changed all that. Fiction writers led by Ihimaera and Grace challenged earlier stereotypes and inherited literary forms, creating a new body of writing that has redefined the Maori in literature. Until now no single comprehensive critical work has followed this evolution. Paola Della Valle''s landmark book sets that to right. From Silence to Voice portrays the early silence'' of Maori in New Zealand literature -- characterised in caricature by colonial writers, then in increasingly sympathetic portraits from the likes of Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame and Noel Hilliard -- through to the new and challenging works presented by Maori writers themselves. In an academically brilliant yet easily read analysis, Della Valle also stresses important links with the literature and culture of Italy.

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Book SynopsisA chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as white supremacy, desperation and class conflict collide on the streets of London. Through exquisite juxtaposition, Ananda Devi exposes the tensions of an increasingly nationalistic and polarised metropolis. At once realistic and fantastical, The Living Days encapsulates Devi's daring, unflinching talent and paints an unforgettable portrait of London at it's most bewitching, and most dangerous.Trade ReviewUK reviews: 'The Mauritian author explores how legacies of colonialism and empire persist amid acts of cruelty and violence in London ... A meditation on urban inequality, in which the politics of race and class loom large.' (Guardian).'This is a novel of great beauty as well as discomfiting disclosure. Ananda Devi's writing challenges us to reconfigure our own beliefs about right and wrong and to look beyond our own comfortable lives to consider the reality of others. ' (New Internationalist). ''Mary Grimes, the central character of The Living Days exists, like the novel itself, in a liminal space between the possible and the mythic; between material being and ghostly half-life... This is not a novel which offers any reassurance. We never enter a settled space of familiarity. Even within the internal logic of the novel, the nature of what we are reading becomes unstable... Living Days is never a predictable novel, indeed it is never less than perplexing and unsettling.' (The Irish Times). `Beautifully written, visceral and ecstatic. Unafraid, as Angels might be, to bear witness to the force of entropy pulling us all towards death.' (Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young). `A demanding and important book by a true artist and a great writer'.' (Lara Pawson, author of This Is the Place To Be).`; US reviews: 'Devi is alert to the ways in which social forces, such as racism and ageism, are reshaping London's already complex post-colonial landscape, and her fluid, poetic language memorably conjures a union of two outcasts.' (The New Yorker). The finest Mauritian novelist at work today, Ananda Devi has long been the francophone saint of the outcast, the oppressed, and the derelict. This fluid translation of one of her darkest works gives the reader a glimpse at her profound talent and her unique ability to synthesize political rage with poetic lyricism.' (Adam Hocker, Albertine). 'Brutal and entirely believable, a gorgeous and haunting depiction of London and the real lives and memories of those unseen within it.' (Publishers Weekly). 'A gorgeously written, profoundly upsetting fairy tale of race, class, power, and desire.' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review); French reviews: 'A fierce portrait of our times. . . Sensual and provocative writing, woven of dreams and nightmares, which slowly closes around the reader and holds them in its grasp.' (Le Monde des Livres). 'Old age always bears a private violence. Ananda Devi describes its inevitable symptoms whilst ever letting us glimpse an illusion of spring.' (L'Humanite).

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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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Book SynopsisThis book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic “sobriety” in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a “dialectics of intoxication” that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence. Trade Review“Patteson’s work makes a highly original and suggestive contribution to the study of drugs, intoxication, addiction and trafficking in Latin America. In particular, his work is a much-needed answer to the critical current, exemplified by Osvaldo Zavala and others, that is quick to discount works that supposedly do little to oppose narco-culture. ... it will certainly be required reading for anyone studying drugs, intoxication or drug trafficking going forward.” (Brandon P. Bisbey, Chasqui, Vol. 51 (1), May, 2022) Table of Contents1. Introduction2. A Dialectics of Intoxication3. Loaded and Exploded: Countercultural Travel and Its Colonialist Shadow4.From Flower Power to Les fleurs du mal: la Onda literaria5. High Crimes: Élmer Mendoza’s “Zurdo” Mendieta Series and the Psychotropic Economy6. Disturbing Innocence: Defamiliarizing Narco Violence Through Child Protagonists in Fiesta en la Madriguera and Prayers for the Stolen7. Escape Velocity: Narcossism, Contagion, and Consumption in Julián Herbert8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media, sustained examinations of pedagogies involved in decolonising the literature at university level are still lacking in English and related subjects. This book makes a crucial contribution to these evolving discussions, presenting current and critically engaged pedagogical scholarship on decolonising the literature curriculum. Offering a broad spectrum of accessible chapters authored by experienced national and international academics, the book is structured into two parts, Texts and Contexts, presenting case studies on decolonising the literature curriculum which range from the undergraduate classroom, university writing centres, through to the literary doctorate.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Decolonising EnglishPart I Texts: Decolonising the Literature Canon Decolonising Pedagogical Approaches to Queer Postcolonial Texts Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour Smart Latinas Are Latinas: On Teaching Chicana/Latina Young Adult (YA) Literature as Feminist Resistance “Hard and Rocky” Soil: Decolonising the General Education Introduction to Literature Course with August Wilson’s Fences Redesigning the Curriculum: Teaching Multicultural Literature in Non-native English-Speaking University Settings in Turkey and Italy Part II Contexts: Beyond the Boundaries of Literary Texts Decolonising Wuthering Heights in the Semi-peripheral Classroom ‘Culinary Cultures’: Theorising Postcolonial Food Cultures A Border-Crossing Teaching Body: Reflections on a Decolonial Pedagogy for Literary Studies in a South African Context Teaching Academic Literacy in the Co-curriculum: Creating Culturally Safe Spaces Decolonising the Literary Doctorate

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Book SynopsisHydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical “turn” known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and society. This volume proposes a hydro-critical approach to issues related to the colonial period. The analysed texts demonstrate not only the presence of water and oceanic trajectories as metaphorical devices, but the inherent implication of navigation, ports, islandic territories, drainage systems, floodings and the like in configuration of collective imaginaries, from colonial times to the present. This book encompasses studies of the decisive role water played in the world view from/about the “New World” since the discovery, both for the monarchy and the church, and the impact of oceanic journeys for the advancement of colonization and slavery. In chapters that combine historical, linguistic, literary and ethnographic approaches, this volume constitutes an attempt to expand the scope and methodology of colonial studies. At the same time, the continuity of maritime perspectives reaches the analysis of contemporary literature, thus demonstrating the importance of this critical paradigm for the study of Caribbean cultures. In this respect, studies particularly illuminate the connection between popular beliefs and oceanic dimensions, as well as on issues of gender and ethnicity.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Texts, Textures, and Water Marks2. The Pacific Ocean as a Space of Freedom, Danger, and Economic Success for the Colonial Project in Verdadera descripción de la Provincia y Tierra de Las Esmeraldas3. English and Irish Missionaries in New Spain: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Religion and Empire4. On Paper Ships, Sailors, and Cosmographers: Spanish Maritime Narratives and Political Networks of an Imperial Project5. Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts6. Alonso Ramírez’s Circumnavigation of the World (1675–1689) and the Universal Claim to the American Spirit in the Open Seas7. Pantitlán or Desagüe: Technology and Secularization in Colonial Mexico City8. “Water, Only Water on All Parts”: Re/imagining the Middle Passage in Teresa Cárdenas’ Mãe Sereia

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Book SynopsisHydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical “turn” known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and society. This volume proposes a hydro-critical approach to issues related to the colonial period. The analysed texts demonstrate not only the presence of water and oceanic trajectories as metaphorical devices, but the inherent implication of navigation, ports, islandic territories, drainage systems, floodings and the like in configuration of collective imaginaries, from colonial times to the present. This book encompasses studies of the decisive role water played in the world view from/about the “New World” since the discovery, both for the monarchy and the church, and the impact of oceanic journeys for the advancement of colonization and slavery. In chapters that combine historical, linguistic, literary and ethnographic approaches, this volume constitutes an attempt to expand the scope and methodology of colonial studies. At the same time, the continuity of maritime perspectives reaches the analysis of contemporary literature, thus demonstrating the importance of this critical paradigm for the study of Caribbean cultures. In this respect, studies particularly illuminate the connection between popular beliefs and oceanic dimensions, as well as on issues of gender and ethnicity.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Texts, Textures, and Water Marks2. The Pacific Ocean as a Space of Freedom, Danger, and Economic Success for the Colonial Project in Verdadera descripción de la Provincia y Tierra de Las Esmeraldas3. English and Irish Missionaries in New Spain: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Religion and Empire4. On Paper Ships, Sailors, and Cosmographers: Spanish Maritime Narratives and Political Networks of an Imperial Project5. Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts6. Alonso Ramírez’s Circumnavigation of the World (1675–1689) and the Universal Claim to the American Spirit in the Open Seas7. Pantitlán or Desagüe: Technology and Secularization in Colonial Mexico City8. “Water, Only Water on All Parts”: Re/imagining the Middle Passage in Teresa Cárdenas’ Mãe Sereia

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Book SynopsisThis book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven transformational figures for Mexican feminism. This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, and Nellie Campobello, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos, and Pita Amor, forerunner writers and poets whose works laid a path for Mexican women writers in the later twentieth century. Poniatowska’s essays discuss their fervent activity, interactions with other prominent figures, details and intricacies about their specific works, their scandalous and irreverent activities to draw attention to their craft, and specific revelations about their lives. The extensive critical introduction surveys the early feminist movement and Mexican cultural history, explores how Mexico became a more closed society by the mid-twentieth century, and suggests further reading and films. This book will be of interest both to the general reader and to scholars interested in feminist/gender studies, Mexican literary and cultural studies, Latin American women writers, the cultural renaissance, translation, and film studies. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Elena Poniatowska: Legacy and Biography Chapter 3 Diego I’m Alone, Diego I am no longer alone, Frida Kahlo Chapter 4 María Izquierdo, Backwards and Forwards Chapter 5 Nahui Olin, She who Made Waves Chapter 6 Pita Amor in the Arms of God Chapter 7 Elena Garro, The Rebellious Particle Chapter 8 Rosario From “My Dear Beloved Guerra” to the “Little Boy with Corn-Colored Hair” Chapter 9 Nellie Campobello, Who Was Not Granted Death

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Book SynopsisThis book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and symbolic capital. Taking a geocritical approach, the book shows how its different case studies can be seen as ‘literary capitals’ in terms of their role within the wider nation, region or empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One discusses Kolkata, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. Part Two considers ‘semi-peripheral’ European cities: Pest-Buda (Budapest), Helsinki and Dublin. Part Three focuses on cities within Italy: Trieste, Florence and Rome. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts and different genres, the book reads the nineteenth-century literary field as a constellation where different connections can be plotted across various points on the map at different times. Table of Contents1 Introduction: Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century—Spaces beyond the Centres Part I Beyond Europe2 Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks 3 World-Weaving in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: The Case of Hong Kong’s Earliest Chinese Newspaper, Gems from Near and Afar (Chinese Serial) 4 Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires: A Capital of Queer Spectacles Part II Redefining Peripheries 5 Bilingual Authors, Multilingual Printing Presses and‘Informal Capital’: Pest-Buda in the Early Nineteenth Century 6 Helsinki or Helsingfors? Jean Sibelius and the Stage 7 ‘A Place in Hungary’: The Phantasmal Dublin of Ulysses Part III Polycentric Italy 8 Trieste’s ‘Adventurers of Culture and Life’ 9 Untimely, Modern City: Literary Interventions on Florence as an Intellectual Capital at the Turn of the Century 10 From World Capital to National Capital: Literary Periodicals and the Construction of Modern Rome

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Book SynopsisThe main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author's methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography. The Perceptions of the metropolis of Delhi interestingly vary between authors and their characters. The images of Delhi in plethora of literary works show a wide spectrum of colors. The images evoke feelings of reverence, love, adoration, dislike, indifference or neutrality. Experiences vary from places of beauty and grandeur to utterly ugly environments. Natives express different views and attitudes toward the city of Delhi from those of expatriate writers.Table of ContentsHumanistic study of urban images.- Delhi: Evolution of an urban region.- Images of Delhi in Indo-Anglian and Hindi literary works.- Delhi: As an idea.- Old Delhi (Shahjehanabad) and adjacent regions.- New Delhi and neighboring colonies.- Four authors and their perceptions of Delhi.- Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placing it in the context of Brazil and world literature. During her lifetime, Hilst won several major national literary awards and attracted legions of devoted readers. Her writing spanned styles and genres, encompassing poetry, theatre, and experimental fiction. She was also considered to be “a writer’s writer,” and her literary achievements eluded both mainstream acclaim and international recognition. In recent years, Hilst’s books have enjoyed increased visibility in Brazil and beyond. A host of translators (including three contributors to this volume) have finally made some of her masterpieces available in English. This pioneering collection of essays should excite longtime readers and introduce her to a new audience.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Who’s Afraid of Hilda Hilst? An Author Between Brazil and ‘World Literature’”; Adam Morris & Bruno Carvalho.- PART I: HILST ON STAGE- 1. “A Brazilian Teorema: Queering the Family in Hilda Hilst’s O Visitante (The Visitor)”; David William Foster.- 2. “Is the Word Alive? An Inquiry into Poetics and Theater in As aves da noite (Nightbirds) by Hilda Hilst”; Tatiana Franca R. Zanirato.- PART II: OBSCENITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION- 3. “Figurations of Eros in Hilda Hilst”; Eliane Robert Moraes.- 4. “Hilda Hilst, Metaphysician”; Adam Morris.- PART III: HILST IN NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT- 5. “A Nation on the Ground Floor: The Face of Brazil, Drawn with Hilda Hilst’s Political Pen”; Deneval Siqueira de Azevedo Filho.- 6. “When Life is Extremely Bourgeois”: Ideal love and non-conformism in the love poems of Hilda Hilst; Alva Martínez Teixeiro.- PART IV: HILST IN TRANSLATION.- 7. “Translating Brazil’s Marquise de Sade”; John Keene.- 8. “Derelict of Duty”; Nathanaël.- 9. Hilst on Hilst: Excerpts from interviews with the author, 1952-2003.

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Book SynopsisDas Schriftenverzeichnis eines renommierten Slawisten

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Book SynopsisErinnerungsnarrative Ãber das Ende des Sozialismus

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