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Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English

The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Ralf Hertel, Eva-Maria Windberger

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Empowerment as a concept is making its impact on the field of literary studies. This volume shows its intricate relation to contemporary fiction in English, applying a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies. Dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, science fiction, TV adaptations, the historical novel, and immigrant fiction, this collection offers the first in-depth study of empowerment in literature. How, and to which end, do texts endow characters with power? In which ways can fiction become a tool of authorial self-empowerment? And which effects do such narratives have on readers?With this book, empowerment is put on the map of literary studies as a new, highly relevant critical concept stimulating fresh perspectives on contemporary fiction.Contributors: Peter Childs, Britta Maria Colligs, Sarah Dillon, Paul Hamann-Rose, Ralf Hertel, David Malcolm, Diana Thiesen, Eleanor Ty, Eva-Maria Windberger.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-11
Mått155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt455 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
Antal sidor186
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004448742

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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