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Sex Work in Caribbean Fiction
Towards the end of Dany Laferrière’s Vers la sud (2006)—published in English as Heading South in a translation by Wayne Grady in 2009—Missie Abel, a...
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Economic Informality in South African Fiction
As many scholars including Patrick Bond, Gillian Hart, and Martin Murray have shown, the end of apartheid did not mean an end to racial capitalism....
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From Malandros to Agregados: The Precarious Labourer and the Novel Form in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
In this chapter I identify a number of formal characteristics in the nineteenth-century Brazilian novel that will recur later in other places. Using...
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Aging and the Drain of Empire: Postcolonial Age Studies
From the expansion of the British Empire in the nineteenth century to its decline in the twentieth, writers from both Great Britain and India used...
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Conclusion: Unevenness as ‘Hidden Symmetry’
The book’s conclusion starts with a summary of the preceding four chapters, drawing attention to what each chapter has contributed to our...
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Introduction
The introduction outlines the central theoretical and methodological concerns of the book, including its place in current world literature debates,...
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Between Nation and World: Semi-Peripheral Nationalism and Global Capitalism in Halldór Laxness’s The Atom Station and William Heinesen’s The Black Cauldron
Chapter two progresses the arguments about national allegory and form advanced in chapter one, by exploring the relationship between nationalism,...
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A Female Lineage
Whilst to date there has been no single, systematic exploration of a Shelleyan presence in the work of the Brontës, nor a detailed study into the...
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The Ice People (1968), a Story of Humankind’s Auto-destruction
The Ice People (1968), a romantic science fiction by René Barjavel, tells the story of a French scientific expedition in Antarctica, which uncovers...
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Black Time Travel, Chronotopicity, and the Reparative Desire for Beauty in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self
Contrary to H. G. Wells’s Time Traveler, who flings himself into futurity, Pauline E. Hopkins’s mixed-race protagonists, Reuel Briggs and Dianthe...
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Alisa in a Futuristic Wonderland: Traveling Through Time and Space with a Girl from Tomorrow
Time traveling has always been a fascinating theme for science fiction writers. Their narratives varied due to the mental differences of their...
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Fantasies of Prolongevity in Early Modern Culture
Of all notions regarding senescence to survive from early modernity, none is more iconic than the “fountain of youth.” The legacy of medieval French...
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Grief Representation in Late Poetry: Thomas Hardy’s “Poems of 1912–13” and Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letters
An experience that frequently accompanies the process of growing older is the loss of a loved one, particularly one’s life partner. Whereas the...
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Reading Africa in the Neoliberal World-System
In this chapter, the contextual and conceptual foundations of the book are consolidated by scrutinising ideas and terms commonly used to think about...
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The Frankenstein Trio: A Romantic Writing Methodology
Given my analysis of the Brontës’ writing methodology and reading habits, alongside their evidenced engagement with a Shelleyan narrative in print,...
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Appropriated Print: The Brontës as Writers
This chapter sets out the evidence for the Brontës’ general childhood writing practice, exampling how they borrowed from their reading material...
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The Last Man: Placing a Significant Source Text
In addition to Emily likely borrowing from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, as noted earlier, I now provide evidence to show Charlotte, Branwell and Anne...
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Do Australian Modernisms Strike Back? Still Har** on ‘Margins’
New modernist studies problematise the term ‘modernism’, its uses and abuses, therefore views on non-hierarchical modernist constellations exemplify...
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A Departure from Modernism: Stylistic Strategies in Modern Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity
Starting from a poignant survey of the most important recent critical reappraisals of Modernism which broadened its formation and its temporalities...
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Child Figures, Conceptualisations of Time, and Notions of Progress in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
The vast social and technological transformations of the nineteenth century resulted in both a widespread spirit of optimism and a sense of...