Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives, 

Автор: Bragg Beauty
Название: Reading Contemporary African American Literature: Black Women S Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon
ISBN: 149850714X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498507141
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison`s mythic fiction to Wahida Clark`s street lit.

Автор: Kaye Mitchell
Название: Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1441180842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441180841
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with popular and generic forms and narrative techniques and covered a number of important contemporary themes.

This critical guide is the first book to offer a wide range of current critical perspectives on Waters' work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues such as gender, sexuality, class, time and space in Waters' fiction, as well as her appropriation of a range of genres from the historical and neo-victorian novel to the gothic. The book also includes a new interview with Waters herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading, making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

Автор: Monica Germana, Emily Horton
Название: Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1441157603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441157607
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for the, this is the first comprehensive critical guide to Smith's work.


Bringing together leading scholars, Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives covers such topics as:

- Language, truth and reality
- Spectral presences and the uncanny
- Gender and sexuality
- Cosmopolitanism
- Smith's place in the contemporary canon

Including a new interview with the author, a chronology of her life and authoritative guides to further reading, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the best of contemporary fiction.

Автор: Jeannette Baxter, David James
Название: Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1441160450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441160454
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Описание: Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing on a familial history of emigration, her critically-acclaimed novels - including the multiple award-winning Small Island - attempt to bring a variety of voices to the representation of black experience in post-war Britain. This book is the first of its kind to be devoted to Levy’s work. Combining historical, theoretical and textual perspectives, the volume hosts a wide range of current critical approaches to Levy’s fiction. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars, the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island, while also shedding fresh light on Levy’s critically neglected early works. The book also includes a new interview with Levy herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries, as well as guides to further reading and online resources, making this an essential companion to the writings of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

Автор: Susan Alice Fischer
Название: Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1472513347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472513342
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Since his astonishing Academy Award-nominated film, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hanif Kureishi has been recognized as a major writer who has both documented and profoundly influenced contemporary British culture. His first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), remains a key work in redefining our sense of what it means to be English in the postcolonial era.

Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary British fiction and culture to reassess the full range of the author's writings, from novels such as The Black Album, My Son the Fanatic and Something to Tell You to films such as Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, My Son the Fanatic and Venus. As well as exploring Kureishi's handling of such themes as Thatcherism, terrorism, race, class and sexuality, the book move moves beyond sociological and psychoanalytical approaches, examining the stylistic features of his most recent novel, The Last Word. The volume includes interviews with Stephen Frears, the director of My Beautiful Launderette, and with Hanif Kureishi himself, as well as a foreword by Roger Michell, who has directed several of the author's screenplays, most recently Le Week-End.

Автор: Jeannette Baxter, David James
Название: Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 1441113606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441113603
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing on a familial history of emigration, her critically-acclaimed novels - including the multiple award-winning Small Island - attempt to bring a variety of voices to the representation of black experience in post-war Britain. This book is the first of its kind to be devoted to Levy’s work. Combining historical, theoretical and textual perspectives, the volume hosts a wide range of current critical approaches to Levy’s fiction. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars, the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island, while also shedding fresh light on Levy’s critically neglected early works. The book also includes a new interview with Levy herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries, as well as guides to further reading and online resources, making this an essential companion to the writings of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

Автор: Pink Hyacinth
Название: Critical Perspectives in American and African Literature
ISBN: 1925823202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925823202
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The book discusses the fundamental problem of how to combine the degree of individual initiative, which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion, which is necessary for survival. A community needs, if it is to prosper, a certain number of individuals who do not wholly conform to the general type. Practically all progress, artistic, moral and intellectual, has depended on such individuals who have been a decisive factor in the transition from barbarism to civilization. The book concludes that the need of the day is a socio-cultural grafting of the two best elements of the individual and the society.

The book is a valuable resource for both personal and academic research. It provides many clear images of Rand's and Achebe's theories. It applies to sundry audiences like philosophers (who may be interested in Rand's theory of objectivism and Achebe's view of the world), sociologists (who are interested in contemporary life and culture) and researchers of Rand and Achebe.

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Автор: Heidi Breuer, Natalie Wilson
Название: Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary Zombies, Vampires, and Witches: Radical Monstrosity in Literature, Film, and TV
ISBN: 1138906883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138906884
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This collection of essays brings together world-leading scholars and practicing architects including: Joseph Rykwert, Kenneth Frampton, Karsten Harries, Robin Middleton, Daniel Libeskind, Eric Parry, Alberto Perez-Gomez, David Leatherbarrow, Stephen Witherford and Patrick Lynch and explores the depth of architecture as it takes form in a living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking.

Автор: Clapp Jeffrey, Ridge Emily
Название: Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives
ISBN: 113891584X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138915848
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. The chapters in the volume span domestic spaces and detention camps, the experience of migration and the phenomena of tourism, interpersonal exchanges and cross-cultural interventions. The volume explores the multifarious ways in which subjects, citizens, communities, and states negotiate the mutual, and potentially exclusive, desires to secure themselves and offer hospitality to others. From the individual’s telephone and data, to the threshold of the family home, to the borders of the nation, sites of securitization confound hospitality’s injunction to openness, gifting, and refuge. In demonstrating an interrelation between ongoing discussions of hospitality and the intensifying attention to security, the book engages with a range of literary, cultural, and geopolitical contexts, drawing on work from other disciplines, including philosophy, political science, and sociology. Further, it defines a new interdisciplinary area of inquiry that resonates with current academic interests in world literature, transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism.

Автор: Hershberg
Название: Perspectives On Contemporary Literature
ISBN: 081315250X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813152509
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Today`s music, painting, and film share with literature in the development of a new aesthetic, even as these other arts influence (and are influenced by) literary themes and structures.

Автор: Hershberg
Название: Perspectives On Contemporary Literature
ISBN: 0813152496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813152493
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In all parts of the world and in every age, many of the greatest works of literature have been shaped or inspired by the swirl of historical events. In "Nature, History, and Art in Elizabeth Bishop`s `Brazil, January 1, 1502,`" for example, Barbara Page shows how Bishop "used and rearranged" knowledge derived from her study of Brazil`s history.

Автор: Heike Scharm, Natalia Matta Jara
Название: Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature
ISBN: 081305494X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813054940
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Taking a postnational approach, contributors examine works by Jos? Mart?, Carlos Ruiz Zaf?n, Junot D?az, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cecilia Vicu?a, Jorge Luis Borges, and other writers. They discuss how expanding worldviews have impacted the way these authors write and how they are read today. Whether analyzing the increasingly popular character of the voluntary exile, the theme of masculinity in This Is How You Lose Her, or the multilingual nature of the Spanish language itself, they show how contemporary Hispanic writers and critics are engaging in cross-cultural literary conversations. Drawing from a range of fields including postcolonial, Latino, gender, exile, and transatlantic studies, these essays help characterize a new “world” literature that reflects changing understandings of memory, belonging, and identity.