Books in the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature series

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic-the double.

Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays introduces the 'Queen of Crime' as an essential voice in the discussion of war, warfare, and twentieth century literature.

Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new, but in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in this theme in literature, art, comic books, video games, and TV shows. This volume investigates this pervasive theme through a critical analysis of works from a variety of disciplines.

Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature, is a collection of selected essays which brings to light the literary transformations of the captivity experience in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, Mozart, and Droste.Where most studies of slavery, until now, have

An international group of scholars examines the ramifications of the dynamic concept of resonance for ethnic studies. The chapters investigate specific ethnic phenomena in terms of relevant literature, cultural and theoretical thought, or historical intervention.

Biopolitics is one of the most influential paradigms in the human sciences and humanities today. This volume offers new ways to think of biopolitics as an explanatory model. Its contributors analyze theoretical paradigms for understanding and challenging the socioeconomic determinations of life and death in contemporary capitalism.

The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. The essays in this volume explore how The Legend of Zelda series puts players in touch with videogames' myth-making power.

This interdisciplinary volume discusses whether the increasing salience of the Anthropocene concept in the humanities and the social sciences constitutes an "Anthropocenic turn."

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness

Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with twenty innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives.

This book¿s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like ¿market,¿ ¿currency,¿ ¿exchange¿ and ¿money¿ suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences.

A collection of essays that investigates Charles Dickens¿ views about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture, regarding a myriad of controversial social issues relevant to the Victorians as well as to current readers/viewers of neo-Victorian multi-media representations

Exploring the history and range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, displacement, and other experiences of trauma, this book includes studies of intergenerational trauma; the therapeutic potential of trauma memoir; its ethical challenges; and trauma memoir giving voice to minority experiences.

New Visibilities: Victimhood and Other Forms of Vulnerability in 21st-century Fiction (eds. Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to engage with vulnerability studies in their relation to literature and literary form. It consists of an introduction

This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity.

Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities is the first full-length book devoted to Joseph Antenor Firmin. It reexamines the importance of his thought and legacy, and its relevance for the twenty-first century's culture of humanism, and the continuing challenge of race and racism

Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said¿s Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange and challenge elements of his thesis, looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by globalization.

A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, this book supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world.

This collection explores the consequences of accentism in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present.