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Transnationalism and American Literature

Literary Translation 1773–1892

By Colleen G. Boggs

What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?

This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99989-2 (Routledge)

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The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell

By Mary Hricko

This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95792-2 (Routledge)

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Philip K. Dick

Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

By Lejla Kucukalic

Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96242-1 (Routledge)

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A Life Adrift

Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

By Azembo Soeda

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-7103-1337-9 (Routledge)

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The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo

By Yasuko Claremont

Ôe Kenzaburô was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This critical study examines Ôe’s entire career from 1957 – 2006 and includes chapters…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41593-4 (Routledge)

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Ted Hughes

By Terry Gifford

For the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31189-2 (Routledge)

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The Literary Quest for an American National Character

By Finn Pollard

"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96373-2 (Routledge)

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Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

A Study of Contemporary Fiction

By Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae MacCann

In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99390-6 (Routledge)

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Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

By Marisa Parham

Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99094-3 (Routledge)

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Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Origins

By Justine Tally

This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32045-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
By James Graham
To be published February 27th 2009

Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
By Jaime Osterman Alves
To be published March 4th 2009

German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter
By Jocelyn Holland
To be published March 23rd 2009

Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing: International Encounters
By Helena Grice
To be published March 30th 2009

Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination
By Pratima Prasad
To be published April 1st 2009

Trauma Texts
Edited by GILLIAN WHITLOCK, Kate Douglas
To be published April 15th 2009

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
By George Cusack
To be published April 16th 2009

Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches
By Hans-Heino Ewers
To be published April 20th 2009

American Literary Criticism since the 1930s
By Vincent B. Leitch
To be published April 30th 2009

Dickens's Secular Gospel: Work, Gender, and Personality
By Chris Louttit
To be published May 1st 2009

The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
By Hania A.M. Nashef
To be published May 4th 2009

Kazuo Ishiguro
By Wai-chew Sim
To be published May 12th 2009

The Poet-historian Qian Qianyi
By Lawrence C.H Yim
To be published May 19th 2009

Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel: The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore
By Renée Dickinson
To be published May 27th 2009

African City Textualities
Edited by Ranka Primorac
To be published June 1st 2009

Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change
By Gerardine Meaney
To be published June 1st 2009

Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations
Edited by Toyin Falola, Fallou Ngom
To be published June 15th 2009

Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory: Russian Literary Mnemonics
By Mikhail Gronas
To be published June 15th 2009

Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-War France
By Angela Kershaw
To be published September 15th 2009

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English
By Rajeev Patke, Philip Holden
To be published September 30th 2009

Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era
By Lara Whelan
To be published October 31st 2009

Re-Routing the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millenium
Edited by Janet Wilson, Sarah Lawson Welsh, Cristina Sandru
To be published November 1st 2009

The Tale of Genji
Edited by Richard H. Okada
To be published November 15th 2009

The Postcolonial Secular: God and Country in South Asian Anglophone Fiction
By Manav Ratti
To be published December 1st 2009

Representing Mixed Race Women: THE 'BROWN WOMAN' IN JAMAICA AND ENGLAND FROM THE ABOLITION ERA TO THE PRESENT
By Sara Salih
To be published February 1st 2010

Recognition in Arabic Islamic Literature: Anagnorisis in the Narrative Tradition
By Philip Kennedy
To be published February 1st 2010

The Routledge Companion to Caribbean Literatures in English
Edited by Alison Donnell
To be published March 1st 2010

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Sourcebook
By Shelley Fisher Fishkin
To be published March 1st 2010

Travel Writing and Atrocities: Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola and the Putumayo
By Robert Burroughs
To be published April 15th 2010

Milton: James Joyce, 4-vol. set
Edited by Colin Milton
To be published June 15th 2010

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