This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic…

This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues…

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone…

American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture brings together essays from international experts to examine one of the most vital andenergized decades…

Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as…

Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it…

Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential…

Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It…

Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to…

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to…