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A Political Choice
This chapter provides insight into the role Dutch-language literature played for Czech publishers during the Nazi occupation of the Czech territory...
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Conclusion
Taking cues from the concept of migration as a “pilgrimage,” this concluding chapter of Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain puts an...
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The Speculative Politics of Meat: Utopia, Carnism, and Critical Animal Studies
This introductory chapter lays out a theoretical framework through which to analyse science fiction as a form of utopian literature that necessarily...
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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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Topographies of Adolescence
Adolescence is a culturally determined concept that is discursively shaped by the framework of a social context. In definition, the term is...
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B(l)ack home in the Middle Ages: Medievalism in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s ‘My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein’
This essay contends that the writings of Jessie Redmon Fauset, styled the ‘midwife of the Harlem Renaissance’ by her protégé Langston Hughes, reveal...
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John Updike in Serbia
This chapter examines the rationale for teaching the works of John Updike in Serbia. The first part, written by Biljana Dojčinović, outlines the...
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Hallucination, Localisation, and Folk Narrative Tradition: Mo Yan and Literary Criticism
The difference, argument, or consensus caused in the criticism of Mo Yan embodies the confusion, exploration, and pain at this stage of the era. Mo...
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Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-Ming’s Fiction
This chapter introduces short stories and novels written by Gan Yao-ming (甘耀明) vis-à-vis the genre of xiangtu fiction. I consider possible influences...
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Von jugendbewegten Mädchen. Von Wanderungen und Wandervögeln in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
The youth movement has often been viewed as a political, historical and cultural phenomenon, while research into children’s and young adult...
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Introduction
Critical introduction and historical background for Mexico during the post-Revolution cultural renaissance and early feminist movement of the early...
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Introduction: New Perspectives
This chapter provides an overview of German science fiction (SF) and its position in a transcultural context. Map** its historical trajectory from...
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Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of Ideas
Readers have observed how Huang Chong-kai’s (黃崇凱) novels present new ways of writing the local literary history of Taiwan. In this chapter, I argue...
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The birth of modern Chinese epics: Shi Tang and his Hero of the prairie
The paper discusses what it means to write a modern epic in the Chinese context using Shi Tang’s heroic narratives as an example. Through a brief...
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Camus, Roth, Covid-19: the dangers of forgetting
Pandemic literature (and there is a sprawling canon of it) tells us much about the past so that we can learn for our future, but we have been poor...
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The Owl as Cultural Symbol from the Perspective of Comparative Iconology
This chapter uses prehistoric relics to illustrate discussion of the universal connection between the owl image and mythological belief in a goddess.
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Time Travel in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Novel The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita by M.A. Bulgakov is considered the most mysterious novel of the twentieth century. Meanwhile, of all aspects of this...
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World literature in and through translation
World literature has continued to draw attention in humanities research. Since the possibility of world literature rests on international...
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Coded, Transcoded, Encoded, Mapped: Reading Film Adaptations of Ibsen’s Plays in the Digital Age
Henrik Ibsen has exerted a great impact in the world through his drama, which has been performed on the stage and adapted into film. His way of...
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