Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English

Ralf Hertel is Professor of English Literature (University of Trier) and has published widely on contemporary fiction, including Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s and On John Berger (co-edited with David Malcolm).Eva-Maria Windberger is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Trier. Her PhD project investigated the poetics of empowerment in David Mitchell’s novels.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsIntroductionEmpowering Contemporary FictionRalf Hertel and Eva-Maria WindbergerPART 1Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy LiteratureFeminist Fiction and Forms of EmpowermentSarah DillonReclaiming DidacticismEmpowerment and the Representation of Science in Genetic FictionPaul Hamann-RoseEmpowering the Reader and the ViewerStrategies of Empowerment in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of ThronesBritta Maria ColligsPART 2Stories and Histories'The Power to Liberate'Telling Tales of the Contemporary PastPeter ChildsOf Memory Boxes and Rhizomatic StructuresStrategies of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s ‘Über-book’Eva-Maria WindbergerThe Empowering Allohistorical? Some Questions on a Stochastic BorderlineDavid MalcolmPART 3Transcultural PerspectivesXiaolu Guo’s Empowering FictionsRalf HertelEmpowerment through Multiple VoicesCulture, Media, and Identity in Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the BoatEleanor TyOf Monkey Kings and Fox LadiesIntersectionality, Empowerment, and Myth in Wayson Choy’s The Jade PeonyDiana Thiesen