Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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31. Cosmopolitan Fictions

    Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee

    By Katherine Stanton

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging. The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
32. The Colonizer Abroad

    Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London

    By Christopher McBride

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
33. Postmodern Counternarratives

    Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien

    By Christopher Donovan

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly contrasting ambitions and agendas, all four grow progressively more sympathetic to the expectations of a mainstream...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
34. Fictional Feminism

    How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality

    By Kim Loudermilk

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
35. Labor Pains

    Emerson, Hawthorne, & Alcott on Work, Women, & the Development of the Self

    By Carolyn Maibor

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
36. Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s

    Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant

    By Tatiana Teslenko

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
37. Wilderness City

    The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman

    By Ted Clontz

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
38. The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism

    By Nyla Ali Khan

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
39. Between the Angle and the Curve

    Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison

    By Danielle Russell

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the boundaries of the official canon. As Russell demonstrates, the unique depictions Cather and Morrison create of the American...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
40. The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction

    By Sharon DeGraw

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge