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Cities in the South Asia Subcontinent
This entry should be read alongside “Indian Subcontinent Cities in Colonialism and Postcolonialism” with which it has many overlaps. It gives a brief...
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Theoretical Foundations: Literacy, Critical Literacies and Children’s Literature in the Western World
The notion of literacy has a long, prehistoric and ancient history; from the invention of writing to the development of script, humans have always...
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Transnational Emancipationism: Fanny Salazar Zampini’s Commitment to Women’s Liberation
Fanny Salazar Zampini was one of the first Italian intellectuals engaged in the battle for the emancipation of women at the end of the nineteenth...
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The Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival as an Extracurricular Activity Exemplifying Prominent Approaches to English Language Learning
In this chapter, Olive explores the Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival (CUSF), which brought university students from across greater China...
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Economics and Novels: Good, Evil and Becoming Better People
This paper considers differences in how economists and novelists view the importance of good and evil in determining social outcomes. As opposed to...
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Degrees of Peripherality: The Rhetoric of Architecture in Late Twentieth-Century Iran
This chapter reflects back on aspects of architectural production in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, as a vehicle for exploring...
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Italian Travelogues on Maoist China (1950s–1970s) through the Lens of Mobilities Studies
This chapter employs a mobility-focused approach to examine the changes in Italian left-wing intellectuals’ collective response to the People’s...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter provides an overview of styles of argument concerning the value of the humanities in England. These include critical...
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Introduction
When eyewitnesses to a formative event are no longer active members of society, it marks a crucial shift in the memorial landscape of the collective....
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At a Slight Angle to the British Empire
Cavafy’s connection to the British Empire has mainly been tackled with reference to the poet’s biographical situation and social standing or as...
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The Uses of Poe. Book Market, Translation, Disciplinarity
This article traces the history of Edgar Allan Poe’s reception across transatlantic literary space. It shows that Poe’s different appropriations—from...
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Interrupting How the Literary Canon Is Taught
The project-practice of decolonising the university and the curriculum needs to continuously move forward on the path to emancipation, always linking...
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Slum Clearance
This chapter scrutinises the means and dialogic methods used by Galsworthy to ensure that the working poor at least had suitable and adequate housing...
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Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour
Beyer’s chapter explores pedagogical strategies for decolonising the literature curriculum through contemporary writing by women of colour on a...
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Open Philology: Dealing with Foreign Worlds
One moment condemned as hotbeds of racism, colonialism and nationalism, and the next praised as places of origin of cross-cultural conviviality, the...
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Digital Resources for African Languages Technologies: Challenges, Prospects and Strategies
This chapter addresses challenges, prospects and strategies for develo** and deploying digital resources for modern computing technology, to...
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Do Museums Still Need Objects? Politics of Museums Reconsidered in the Digital Era
Following the question proposed by Steven Conn, this study discusses the politics of museum under the digital context from two aspects: the first...
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Decolonising Pedagogical Approaches to Queer Postcolonial Texts
This chapter reflects on my teaching of queer postcolonial texts and their contextualisation, within the broad aims of ‘decolonising the curriculum’....
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“Literature Revolution” and “New Literature of May Fourth”
In 1915, Youth Magazine was born in Shanghai with Chen Duxiu as the editor in chief. This fellow publication gathered a group of former writers from...