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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...
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Being Filthy Poor in Rising Asia: Precarity, Globalization and the Evolution of South Asian Literature in English
This chapter explores twenty-first-century representations of precarity in South Asian writing, in order to examine how literary narratives of...
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A World in “Small Hands”? Globalization as Risk and Rights
This essay discusses the vexed relations between rights as a protection against risk and risk as a constitutive feature of capitalist globalization....
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Internationalization or Globalization? Myth, Technology, and Mobility in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl Series
While Melling and Thompson caution against a causal jettisoning of the past in an uncritical embrace of modernity, Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series,...
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Introduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century
This volume involves wide-ranging topics, such as the rewriting of Taiwanese history, human rights, political and social transitions, post-nativism,...
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Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures
This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of...
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Introduction
What lies at the intersection of self, culture, identity and literature, and why is it important? How is self constituted and reconstituted in an age...
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Migration and Language: Introduction
The chapters in this section focus on writers and texts which explore a range of creative practices expressing the linguistic diversity of everyday...
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Post-global and post-digital children’s literature: some users’ legitimation strategies on the Net
Our starting point is the hypothesis that we live in a post-digital and post-global era, even a post-data one. In this current time, our objects of...
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Storied Waves: Maritime Connections and Subaltern Knowledge in Arctic and Mediterranean Literary Contact Zones
Woven around Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, and Merle Kröger’s...
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Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space
In this chapter, HOU Jie discusses the antebellum literary cartography and the construction of an American oceanic space. By using literary...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng’s Science Fiction
In 2003 and 2004, some emerging Taiwanese novelists established the society of “Novelist-Readers” (小說家讀者, later renamed “Eight Wolves” 八P狼) in an...
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200 Years of National Philologies From Romanticism to Globalization
The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which - based on the 'Volksgeist' (popular spirit) of the 19th century...
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Identitarian politics, precarious sovereignty
This essay investigates the intersection among postmodern neomedievalism, environmental activism, and nostalgic Southern pastoralism in crafting the...
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Introduction: Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry
This chapter offers an overview of the ways several central terms have been theorized, including scale, synecdoche, prosopopeia, and...
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Zeugmatic Formations: Balikbayan Boxes and the Filipino Diaspora
This chapter examines the practice of sending balikbayan boxes within the Filipino diaspora. Aside from monetary remittances, Filipinos all over the...
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African Cities: Modernity and Slums, Urban Literature, and Culture
This article attempts an introduction to some prominent themes in sub-Saharan African city literature, with the exception of South Africa. It is an...
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Civil War, Socialism’s Underworld, and the Environment
This chapter examines how Nguyễn Trí’s novel, The Fantasy of Paradise, along with his short stories from the collection Gold, Gems, Incense...