Books in the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature series

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

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

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.

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

This collection includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea, the geography and the representation of the American West.

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity, and convey ideology. Specifically, this study proposes the elaboration and application of postcolonial stylistics, i.e. an interdisciplinary methodology that uses different disciplines, such as literary linguistics and postcolonial studies as a critical lens to read contemporary Indian authors like Jeet Thayil, Deepa Anappara, Avni Doshi, Tabish Khair, and Megha Majumdar. The linguistic fabric of their fiction is investigated in a series of case studies, observing the stylistic rendition of a wide range of themes and tropes, such as the representation of Otherness, drug discourse, lament and the senses, which cumulatively portray aspects of the current Indian narrative scenario. The book develops ideas growing out of several disciplines to reach a fuller understanding of cultural phenomena in the postcolonial context, and by extension in the social world.

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing shape representations of human rights violations and claims in literary texts across a range of genres (including poetry, the novel, graphic narrative, short story, testimonial, and religious fables); and consider a range of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights and their representations. The authors reflect on the imperial and colonial histories of human rights as well as the cynical mobilization of human rights discourses in the name of war, violence, and repression; at the same time, they take seriously Gayatri Spivak''s exhortation that human rights is something that we "cannot not want," exploring the central function of storytelling at the heart of all human rights claims, discourses, and policies.

This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This innovative collection discusses the relevance of the concept of limina

This book's most notable contribution lies in linking the notion of 'glocality', that is, the intermeshing of local and global forces to representations of subjectivity in the material and figurative space of the Canadian city. Dealing with oppositional discourses as multiculturalism, postcolonialism, feminism, diaspora, and environmentalis

Singularity and Transnational Poetics brings together scholars working in the fields of literary and cultural studies, translation studies, and transnational literatures. The volume's central concern is to explore 'singularity' as a conceptual tool for the comparative study of contemporary literatures beyond national frameworks,

This book reflects on how recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. Essays explore the links between technologies and the proliferation of the Gothic in a range of texts and tropes, such as the machinery of Steampunk or the corporeal modifications of Edward Scissor

This study examines the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern Iberian and Latin American literature. Investigating how writers reflect on the personal, social, and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the art of healing in general are

Grappling with the technologies that shape global society, this book visits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to today. It examines literature alongside the newest media, including videogames, blogs, electronic literature, and social networking sites, as well as film, photography, television