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Criticism of exile literature has tended to analyse these works according to a binary logic where exile either produces creative freedom or traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. This title offers a theory of exile writing that accounts for the persistance of these dual impulses.

Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. This book analyzes fictional texts as a discursive territoriality that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging.

Examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. This book presents an interdisciplinary approach which integrates media, cinema, and literary studies. It analyzes how media and politicians use the crime story as a tool for upholding the dominant ideology.

This is the second annual of ""CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture"", a thematic volume with selected papers from material published in the journal in volumes 3.1-4 (2001) and 4.1-4 (2002).

In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that ¿with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary.¿ The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer¿s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally. The book takes the ¿root-seeking¿ movement with which Mo Yan¿s works are associated as a metaphor for its organizational structure. The four articles of ¿Part I: Leaves¿ focus on Mo Yan¿s works as world literature, exploring the long shadow his works have cast globally. Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan¿s English translator, explores the difficulties and rewards of interpreting his work, while subsequent articles cover issues such as censorship and the ¿performativity¿ associated with being a global author. ¿Part II: Trunk¿ explores the nativist core of Mo Yan¿s works. Through careful comparative treatment of related historical events, the five articles in this section show how specific literary works intermingle with Chinäs national and international politics, its mid-twentieth-century visual culture, and its rich religious and literary conventions, including humor. The three articles in ¿Part III: Roots¿ delve into the theoretical and practical extensions of Mo Yan¿s works, uncovering the vibrant critical and cultural systems that ground Eastern and Western literatures and cultures. Mo Yan in Context concludes with an epilogue by sociologist Fenggang Yang, offering a personal and globally aware reflection on the recognition Mo Yan¿s works have received at this historical juncture.

Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory.

The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. In addition to the papers, the volume contains a bibliography of Kertesz's works including translations, and a bibliography of studies in several languages about his work.

This volume of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent scholarship about Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. The papers are followed by a bibliography of scholarship about Ondaatje's oeuvre, a list of his works, and the bio-profiles of the contributors to the volume.