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Reading Cold War Queer Literature Today: Recognition Beyond LGBTQ Identity Politics
The Cold War witnessed the worldwide emergence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) minority communities. Activists struggled for...
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From Closet to Absence: Queering Family Roles and Gender Norms in Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino and Happiness, As Such
This chapter aims to compare Ginzburg’s approach to gender from her first careful depiction of “closeted” characters such as Valentino, Kit, and...
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Identity and Contingency
This chapter explores contemporary debates over the nature and position of identity. Many such debates pit “conceptualism” against voices of...
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Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Tradiciones cuzqueñas: A Writer’s Perspective
The main purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of Clorinda Matto’s Tradiciones Cuzqueñas for three interconnected reasons. First,...
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The Player and the Avatar: Performing as Other
This article considers the ethics of identity play in game worlds. Although previous scholarship has examined the ways in which race, gender, and...
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Memory, History, and Identity: Postcolonial Urban Palimpsests in the Writing of Ivan Vladislavić
Basing his analysis on the dynamic tension between history and monuments, Ngara’s chapter argues that acts of covering up result in ironic renderings...
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Cartographies of Inclusion/Exclusion and Contested Belongings in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became a Latina
The rise of bordering processes within urban spaces underscores the need to re-evaluate a politics of space that reveals ethical lapses in...
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Environmental Identities
This chapter examines how identity develops similarly to syntax. First, I describe seven exemplary identity relations at different scales. Then, I...
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The Chinese Caribbean diaspora and performative subjectivity in Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Last Ship
Jan Lowe Shinebourne, previously published as Jan Shinebourne, is a Chinese-Caribbean writer born and raised in Guyana. Her first two novels, Timepiece ...
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The Threat of Silence in Mark Alpert’s Dystopian Simulation
This chapter analyzes a young adult trilogy that has yet to receive critical attention. Accordingly, the author first contextualizes the series...
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Latina Girlhood: Questions of Identity and Representation
In this chapter, Fernández-García offers a brief overview of the most common patterns for representing Latina girls in scholarly work, television,...
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Grief, Gardens, and the Staging of Tragedy in Richard II
Richard II is a history play that dramatizes the deposition of King Richard II who brought much woe to England because of his tyrannical rule. In his...
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Polymorphous Jack
Holmes and the Ripper are serial figures and, as demonstrated in previous chapters, share numerous features. One of them is their parallel...
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“I remember. Oh, I remember”: Traumatic Memory, Agency, and the American Identity of Holocaust Time Travelers
Holocaust time-travel fiction utilizes different conceptions of what constitutes the time traveler’s American identity. In Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s...
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David Bowie and Romanticism
David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and...
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The poetics of text editing
The article explores the interface between literature and ideas by highlighting a core »literary« idea, the notion of the text itself. All...
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“Then Something Started Growing in the Emptiness”: Revisiting the Lost Child in the Bush in Australian Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction
In colonial Australian children’s literature, the desire to exert control over the land, its inhabitants, and the construction of a national identity...
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Trieste’s ‘Adventurers of Culture and Life’
Kee** in mind Magris’s and Ferrini’s warning against a simplification of Trieste’s cosmopolitan character, and the pivotal role that commerce...
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets in the ELT Classroom: The Paradox of Early Modern Beauty and Twenty-First Century Social Media
Shakespeare’s works encapsulate universal questions that are still meaningful in the twenty-first century. Sonnets 127, 130, 131, and 132 appear to...
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Nation: A New Dimension of Literary Criticism in the Context of Globalization
Based on the discrimination of the nation and its related concepts, this chapter makes it clear that the unified, multi-ethnic Chinese nation varies...