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Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives
Disability Identity in Simulation Narrativesconsiders the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from...
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Identity
This chapter offers six writing prompts for exploring issues related to Identity: Names, Hair, Clothing, Physical Appearance, Food, and Language....
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Introduction: Nation, Identity, Species
The introduction to this monograph sets out the context for writing about animals in Canada, touching on the work of the famously named ‘Nature...
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Art, politics and identity in de Staël’s Corinne ou l’Italie
The aim of this paper is to analyze Anne Louise Germaine de Staël’s novel Corinne ou l’Italie (1807) from the point of view of the cultural studies...
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Identity and Culture War on Campus
This chapter follows from the axiom that the university is one of the primal scenes of the American culture wars. Of the many culture war discourses...
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Queerying Identity: Intersecting Identities in Qing Dynasty China
In this chapter, we contextualise our discussions of zhiguai tales by tracing ways identities were framed in the Qing Dynasty. Beginning with...
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Trying on a New Identity: Clothes, Coiffures, Cosmetics
While the last chapter got off the street and into the home, this chapter goes further inside, to the mirror: What did these publications demonstrate...
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One-T(w)o-Many: Neobaroque Articulations of Nomadic Identity
This chapter explains how categorical identities are decentered and rearticulated as trans-identity by means of neobaroque mechanisms of...
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Gender and Identity
As a genre that weaves together the narratives of a male and a female artist, the dual artist novel offers an exceptionally promising way to explore...
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Age Identity in Old and Middle English Literature
The study of aging in medieval literature has flourished in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a great deal of scholarship has...
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Light in August: Memory and Identity
This chapter shows how in William Faulkner’sFaulkner, William Light in August (1932) tradition, legacy, heritage, nostalgia, as well as collective...
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When the City Speaks Up: Nature, City, and Identity in Lê Minh Hà’s Phố vẫn gió
Theories of place identity provide a foundation for the analysis of identity in an urban context in the novel Phố vẫn gió by Lê Minh Hà. This essay...
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Introduction: Dutch Industry and English Identity
Early modern England and the United Provinces experienced an emulative rivalry between the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution. The English...
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K. S. Maniam’s Bestiary: Reading Animality and Identity in Selected Stories
This essay scrutinises the fictional animals appearing in texts by the Malaysian writer K. S. Maniam, by going beyond the confines of metaphor to...
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Augustan Visions of Hellenism and Roman Imperial Identity
Chapter 6 provides a close reading of the conflicting representations of Hellenic culture in Propertius 3.21 and 3.22, poems that make up part of a...
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Cosmopolitan Identity and Narration in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House: The Move Toward Vernacular Cosmopolitanism
At the center of this chapter is the engagement with cosmopolitan identity and narration, which will be explored in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House...
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The Myth of France: Identity Construction Through Migration in Young Adult Francophone Literature
Gisèle Pineau’s Un Papillon dans la Cité (1992) and Insa Sané’s Sarcelles-Dakar (2009) are two young adult, Francophone novels focused on the...
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The d’Urberville Family Portraits: Faciality and Identity
Hardy’s interest in his family tree developed to an almost obsessive degree in later life.
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Identity and Incarnation in the Poetry of C. H. Sisson
I consider Sisson to be a major religious poet, and, although recent critical attention has focused mostly on other aspects, to be more significant...