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Masculinity in Conflict: Maxim Biller
This chapter examines masculinity in conflict in Die Tochter (2000; The Daughter) and, briefly, in Esra (2003) by Maxim Biller. Both novels play out...
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Translating Minorities and Conflict in Literature Censorship, Cultural Peripheries, and Dynamics of Self in Literary Translation
Minorities and Conflict are prevailing topics in literature and translation. This volume analyses their occurrence by focussing on the key domains:...
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Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives, and New Memory Cultures
A reaction against the death of the author provided one context in which autofiction started to develop in the 1970s. The rebuttal of the death of...
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Emotionalisation Between Sexuality, Generational Conflict, and Discourse on Power
A 19-year-old shoots his sister’s boyfriend and then himself. A classmate of the suicidal murderer is accused of complicity, spends eight months in...
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Conflict and Fusion: Liao, **, **a, and Yuan Dynasties
Regimes coexisting with the Song Dynasty comprised Liao, ** and **a (it was originally called “Great **a” and because it was located on the west of...
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Sexual Violence as Class Conflict: Seizing Patriarchal Privilege in Early Modern English Drama
Rape and other forms of sexual violence are frequent motifs in early modern English drama and poetry, but despite many studies of the topic, there...
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“Too Slight a Thing”: Jane Shore, Womanhood, and Ideological Conflict in Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV
In his History of King Richard the Third (More, 1513), the first early modern introduction to Mistress Shore, Sir Thomas MoreMore, Thomas, (1513)...
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Seeking Music for the State: Anthems, Nations and Political Conflict
Official anthems formed a substantial part of the history of states in the modern era. As tools at the service of political parties and rulers...
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Spiritualising the War: Religion, Conflict, and Politics
This chapter focuses on the period from 1914 to 1945 and examines the dynamic interface of religion, culture, and politics. It discusses the...
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‘A Perpetual State of War’: Legacy and Unresolved Conflict in Post-War Spy Fiction
The political landscape of the twenty-first century differs greatly from that of the Cold War and post-Cold War years. Modern threats are rooted in...
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The Learned Conquerors and Their Muslims: Intercultural Conflict and Collaboration in the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Llibre dels fets
Two thirteenth-century works, the autobiographical narrative Llibre dels fets and the compilation of poems Cantigas de Santa Maria, were either...
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Fighting Words: Songs of Conflict, Censure, and Cussout in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
Carnival is home to many cultural performances, especially in the context of the Caribbean—a complex crossroads of cultures. In Trinidad and Tobago,...
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Western European Literature and the East-West Conflict
Although Western Europe was protected from the worst violence of the Cold War, the region was shaped by the militarism, propaganda, espionage and...
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Memory as Method, Translaboration as Practice
This paper outlines how The A to Z of Conflict, a book art project created over a span of five years, bringing together ten...
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Welcoming the Orchid and the Scorpion: The Process of Inclusion and Nation-Building in Lloyd Fernando’s Scorpion Orchid and Cultures in Conflict
Lloyd Fernando, who possessed a long-range sight into the urgency of grappling with the problematics of nationalismNationalism/Nationality,...
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Conclusions
Humorous texts of the Great War provide valuable and often surprising insights into how the conflict was represented and processed emotionally. They...
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Humour and Britishness During the Great War: ‘If a man brings us a joke, we require to be satisfied of its durability’
Humorousness had become associated with Britishness before 1914, and during the Great War the ability to maintain a sense of humour was portrayed in...
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Narration as Raumschach: Kalila and Dimna in time, space and languages
This essay explores the fictionality and the gamefulness of Kalīla wa-Dimna (K&D), one of the earliest works of imaginative fiction in Arabic. The...
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The War and the Domestic Sphere: ‘That perpetual sense of the ridiculous’
Humorous texts which are focused on domestic home-front settings during the war range from narratives about jam shortages, to the disrupting effects...
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Introduction: ‘[A]s in most war fiction, humour predominates’
Humour in British First World War Literature uncovers the huge variety of texts that include humour in depictions of the Great War. It is intended...