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Alex Tickell

City Fictions of the New India

This books adopts a parallel approach to literary and urban form to understand how contemporary Indian English fiction engages with the city as the exemplary site of the so-called 'New India'. A wide rang…

Amr Kamal

Emporialism

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1869 to the present. Honorable Ment…

Fiction

The Big Other

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce

This Fiction Called Nigeria

In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria's crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in …

Patrick Armstrong

Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

Alice Higgs

Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea tha…

Stephanie Bird

Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies this book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.

Sofie Behluli

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction

Since 2010, a number of Anglo-American novels on visual art have been published and critically acclaimed. Dr Behluli interprets this wave of novels as a particular literary genre: the 'ekphrastic novel'. …

The X

Smoke & Fiction

Großartig zu sein ist eine Sache, aber lange Zeit großartig zu bleiben eine andere. X waren siebenundvierzig Jahre lang großartig und haben mit sieben Alben zwischen 1980 und 1993 ihre Legende als eine de…

Simone Marchesi

Vernacular Edens

This book examines the literary representation of gardens - a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction - and the redeployment of classical material via vernacular translation.

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Crime Fictions

An explosive account of how America's shadow system of justice is purposefully designed to ensnare and criminalize innocent Black children---from an award-winning sociologistWrongful convictions have long…

Samuel Manickam

Mexican Women Writers of Science Fiction

This book is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly study of Mexican women writers of science fiction and highlight their innovative contributions to the growth and development of the genre in Mexico. B…

A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker

Edited by The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of short stories in the magazine which has been the most influential and important showcase for …

Simon O'Sullivan

On Theory-Fiction and Other Genres

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly prevalent as genres (or ¿hybrid genres¿) in the arts and criti…

The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions

Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and…

Vicente Lecuna

A Promising Past

An Examination of Venezuelan Culture Conceptualized through Urban Renewal

Toyin Falola,

Chinua Achebe

"Analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in a full range of Achebe's literary works--novels including Things Fall Apart, but also short stories, poems, and essays--to offer a critic…

Christopher Burlingame

Adapting Transgressive Fiction to Film

This book examines the role that the film and publishing industries play in promoting narratives that preserve and consolidate power among society's elite.

Starstuff: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Celebrate New Possibilities

"At once a collection of hard science fiction for curious middle-graders and an antidote to despair in the face of dystopian uncertainty, these ten ... stories ... follow the rules of physics and bio…