{"product_id":"empowering-contemporary-fiction-in-english-the-impact-of-empowerment-in-literary-studies-9789004448742","title":"Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmpowerment as a concept is making its impact on the field of literary studies. This volume shows its intricate relation to contemporary fiction in English with a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies and dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, science fiction, TV adaptations, the historical novel and immigrant fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface   Notes on Contributors     Introduction   Empowering Contemporary Fiction    Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger    PART 1  Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Literature     Feminist Fiction and Forms of Empowerment    Sarah Dillon     Reclaiming Didacticism   Empowerment and the Representation of Science in Genetic Fiction    Paul Hamann-Rose     Empowering the Reader and the Viewer   Strategies of Empowerment in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones    Britta Maria Colligs    PART 2  Stories and Histories     'The Power to Liberate'   Telling Tales of the Contemporary Past    Peter Childs     Of Memory Boxes and Rhizomatic Structures   Strategies of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s ‘Über-book’    Eva-Maria Windberger     The Empowering Allohistorical? Some Questions on a Stochastic Borderline    David Malcolm    PART 3  Transcultural Perspectives     Xiaolu Guo’s Empowering Fictions    Ralf Hertel     Empowerment through Multiple Voices   Culture, Media, and Identity in Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat    Eleanor Ty     Of Monkey Kings and Fox Ladies   Intersectionality, Empowerment, and Myth in Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony    Diana Thiesen","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210816938327,"sku":"9789004448742","price":92.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empowering-contemporary-fiction-in-english-the-impact-of-empowerment-in-literary-studies-9789004448742","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}