Search Results - "Papers on Language and Literature"

Discourses of Decolonization/Decoloniality by Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J

“…The decolonization/decoloniality of the twenty-first century should not be confused with postmodernism and postcolonialism, which cascaded from the powerful…”
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Uncomfortable Truths: Queer Strangers and Gendered Necropolitics in Akwaeke Emezi's The Death of Vivek Oji by Duran-Almarza, Emilia Maria

“…In their latest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi delves into the exploration of the violent death of one of its…”
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Mapping the Contours of Spiritual Oppression: Thematic Parallels of Magical Reality in O. V. Vijayan's The Legends of Khasak and Olga Tokarczuk's Primeval and Other Times by Karasinski, Maciej

“…Karasinski discussesthematic parallels in O. V. Vijayan's The Legends of Khasak and Olga Tokarczuk's Primeval and Other Times and interpret forms of spiritual…”
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The Politics of Reconciliation: Revolutionary Leadership of Zitkala-Sa for Indian Education and Cause by Ozkan, Hediye

“…Despite her early veiled anti-assimilation rhetoric, Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) is criticized by many twentieth-century scholars as a controversial literary…”
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Wading through the Flood: The Transcultural Counterwitness, Hurricane Katrina, and Video Poetry by Moran, Matthew

“…Moran explores how poetry counterpublic exists as an alternative source of pedagogy for citizens following a public crisis. More specifically, he explores the…”
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"To Start: I Should Never Have Been Born": The Antiheroine as Stranger in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Gone Girl by Gardner, Eleanore

“…As two figures that exist on the margins of society and culture, the antiheroine and the stranger are uncannily alike in their boundary-crossing and liminal…”
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Trespass to Success: Breaking Rules and Solving Crimes in Colombia's First Woman-Authored Detective Series by Godsland, Shelley

“…Despite the publication of Hubert Pöppel's 2001 study, La novela policiaca en Colombia [The Detective Novel in Colombia], local writers have not demonstrated…”
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Mandarin Oriental: The Cosmopolitan Stranger in Lisa See's Dragon Bones by Capdevila, M. Isabel Santaularia I

“…In their edited volume The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations, Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, and Barbara Pezzotti define…”
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Strangers and Trespassers in Contemporary Women's Crime Fiction by Gonzalez, Carla Rodriguez, Lopez, Esther Alvarez

“…Crime fiction is a "strange" genre traditionally situated at the paradoxical coordinates of best-selling success and academic marginality.1 Often considered a…”
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Asian Encounters: Hybridity, Female Inheritance, and Intertextuality in Fiona Kidman's Songs from the Violet Cafe by D'Cruz, Doreen

“…D'Cruz discusses Fiona Kidman's Songs from the Violet Café. Songs from the Violet Café turned its lens upon other New Zealand ethnicities, in particular upon…”
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Ethical Literary Animal Studies and Ecolinguistics: Approaching Animals by Kompatscher, Gabriela, Heuberger, Reinhard

“…Kompatscher and Heuberger deal with human-animal relations specifically in medieval hagiographic texts. The commonness of friendly interspecies relationships…”
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The Punch Line for Nineteenth-Century Women by Esser, Helena

“…Esser highlights the Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century conference. Miriam Zarif and Flore Janssen organize the online event to discuss "all the…”
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Nostos, Nostalgia, and Pastoral in Twentieth-Century British Prose Fiction by Wojciechowska, Sylwia Janina

“…Although nostalgia connotes pastoral, the historical development of both modes is divergent. In its three-century-long history, nostalgia's ontological…”
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"Everything is Attended": Artistry and Audience in the Novels of Dana Spiotta by Bernstein, Stephen

“…Bernstein examines the novels of Dana Spiotta. Since her first novel, Lightning Field, appeared in 2001, Spiotta has published new novels in five-year…”
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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE WORLD: The Punch Line for Nineteenth-Century Women by Esser, Helena

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Petites Histoires, Meta-perspective: Meaning and Narrative in Julian Barnes by Piccolo, Samuel

“…More than a one observer has called the work of Julian Barnes "odd" or "strange". Part of this surely comes from the form his books tend to take-some sort of…”
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The Vulgarity of Spiritualism: Modernity's Privileged Discourses in Rachel Ferguson's The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rea, Ann

“…Rachel Ferguson's eccentric 1931 novel, The Brontes Went to Woolworths, troubles many assumptions about modernism and the middlebrow and modernity's…”
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Between the Sublime and the Traumatic: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Toni Morrison's Beloved by McCarthy, Lucas

“…Though seemingly counter-intuitive, the violence of enslavement has both sublime and traumatic dimensions that can be considered in relation to Harriet…”
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"work might be Electric Rest": Rereading Dickinson's Dao through Emerson by Kang, Yanbin

“…Emily Dickinson's poetry presents two conflicting strands of thought featuring a paradox of power and powerlessness. Some of her personae are small, meek and…”
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Invasion of the Copyright Trolls by Roh, David S

“…Roh reviews Enter the Undead Author: Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s by George Pate…”
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