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Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt?
Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany
At long last the mechanisms behind and the implications of racialized power relations in German society and the humanities are up for discussion.
An Organon of Life Knowledge
Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America
The short story as a tool for acquiring knowledge of and about life? This study offers a fresh take on the the genre and explores how it constructs and circulates `life knowledge'.
Elena Furlanetto
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Dietmar Meinel
(eds.)
A Poetics of Neurosis
Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
This volume investigates how neuroses are romanticized or vilified in literary and cultural texts to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions.
Belonging and Narrative
A Theory of the American Novel
Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.
Re-discovering Age(ing)
Narratives of Mentorship
This book offers an analysis of the narrative of mentorship as reflected in various cultural texts, which cover fiction, drama, film, life writing.
History's Queer Stories
Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
History's Queer Stories disrupts seemingly well-established knowledge of the Second World War and its literary negotiation when adding homosexuality to the battlefield.
The Ghosts Within
Literary Imaginations of Asian America
Janna Odabas argues that ghost figures in Asian American literature trouble a morally preconceived answer to what `Asian America' entails.
Carmen Concilio
(ed.)
Imagining Ageing
Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? Representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.
British White Trash
Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King
Major British novels examined as interdiscursive reflections of the figurations of race and class. A contribution to a critical understanding of racism and classism and its underlying cultural processes.