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Cover of Suranjana (North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India) Choudhury & Nabanita (University of Calcutta, India) Sengupta: Understanding Women s Experiences of Displacement

Suranjana (North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India) Choudhury & Nabanita (University of Calcutta, India) Sengupta: Understanding Women s Experiences of Displacement

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women s …

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Philipp Wolf: Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo

This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don De Lillo. It focuses on Underworld to The Silence, along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death …

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Alistair (University of Newcastle) Rolls: Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction

This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book’s approach …

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Deirdre Flynn & Ciara L. Murphy: Austerity and Irish Women s Writing and Culture, 1980 2020

Austerity and Irish Women s Writing and Culture, 1980 2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus …

Cover of Grzegorz Bartusik & Radoslaw Biskup: Adam of Bremen s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum

Grzegorz Bartusik & Radoslaw Biskup: Adam of Bremen s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum

Adam of Bremen s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period …

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Isabelle (University of Nice Cote d’Azur, France) Licari-Guillaume: Vertigo Comics

This book explores the so-called "British Invasion" of DC Comics Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early …

Cover of Lieven (University of Turku, Finland) Ameel: Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies

Lieven (University of Turku, Finland) Ameel: Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies

Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to …

Cover of Paloma (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) Fresno-Calleja & Janet M. (University of Northampton, UK) Wilson: Beyond Borders

Paloma (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) Fresno-Calleja & Janet M. (University of Northampton, UK) Wilson: Beyond Borders

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace. Combining postcolonial …

Cover of Ashmita (Lasell University, USA) Khasnabish: Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism

Ashmita (Lasell University, USA) Khasnabish: Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism

This book analyses the resolution of the psychic problem of diasporic existence from a postcolonial feminist perspective, by inscribing and defining the meaning of virtual diaspora through the lens …

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Nishi (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) Pulugurtha: Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence

Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of …