The author looks beyond formal criticism to explore how black writers (and by implication all writers) present their views about the world, its society, and our relation to them. Writers included range from Charles W. Chesnutt to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-07 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
The Politics of Literary Prestige provides the first comprehensive study of prizes for Spanish American literature. Covering state-sponsored and publisher-run prizes including the Biblioteca Breve Prize – credited with launching the 'Boom' in Spanish American literature – the Premio Cervantes and the Nobel Prize for Literature, this book examines how
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-14 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s literature. In a period of shifting political claims, educational policy shaped writers' social and gender
The author looks beyond formal criticism to explore how black writers (and by implication all writers) present their views about the world, its society, and our relation to them. Writers included range from Charles W. Chesnutt to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-15 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Contemporary literature gathers in a commemorative site the remains of H/history and its own story by erecting literary tombs. Necrofiction and The Politics of Literary Memory argues that current narratives of the aftermath enable writers to honour the past while casting off its burdensome legacy, and to dismantle while reassembling
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-19 - Publisher: Routledge
After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the ‘Muslim’. The ‘argument’ of this book, therefore, is a question: despite the legal, political and social