Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut
1st Edition
Edited
By Zbigniew Białas
November 10, 2025
When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer. He had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010 and had been the author of eight novels and four plays, but before the success of The Promise, he remained ...
Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine Ebury, Christin M. Mulligan
October 26, 2025
This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault ...
Hybrid Novels: Post-postmodernism, Sincerity, and Race at the Turn of the 21st Century
1st Edition
By George Kowalik
October 02, 2025
The phrase “post-postmodernism” has appeared in Contemporary Literary Studies since the 20th century, but what does it mean? Scholars have defined the term in various, often contradictory ways. Existing studies also rarely centralise race – an essential component in the transition from postmodern ...
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits
1st Edition
Edited
By Claus-Peter Neumann, Pilar Royo-Grasa
September 29, 2025
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth examination of how transmodern literatures in English over the last two decades have addressed the phenomenon of the limit. The 14 chapters that make up the volume examine how geographical, racial,...
Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels
1st Edition
By Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
September 28, 2025
This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of...
The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
September 28, 2025
Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language ...
Ethics and Aesthetics in Ali Smith’s Fiction
1st Edition
By José I. Prieto-Arranz
July 28, 2025
This study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smith’s work, analysing her fiction through a truly interdisciplinary lens. José I. Prieto-Arranz explores Smith’s engagement with contemporary issues such as digital violence, disinformation, pornography, nationalism, climate change, discrimination, and...
Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture
1st Edition
By Andrew Nyongesa
June 26, 2025
This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame...
Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync
1st Edition
By Sonia Front
June 19, 2025
This book investigates representations of time in twenty‑first‑century Anglo‑American literature. In the digital era, characterized by a new regime of time, fiction offers revisions of prevalent, oppressive notions of time that can serve as productive political strategies to reclaim the agency of ...
Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary
1st Edition
By Erin Mercer
December 18, 2024
Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and ...
Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
1st Edition
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By Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann
December 18, 2024
Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give ...
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels
1st Edition
By Eva-Maria Windberger
November 29, 2024
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary studies: empowerment. Aiming to situate and establish empowerment firmly within the context of literary studies, it offers the ...