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The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading

Over the last few decades, the short story has been the subject of a fierce medical dispute. Observers have gathered to ask, like Ishmael of the Leviathan in Moby-Dick…

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A New Century of Trauma?

Lewis Ward December 9, 2012 6 Comments Aminatta Forna Austerlitz Cathy Caruth Citizen and Me contemporary American trauma narrative Delia Jarrett-Macauley Dominick LaCapra Eurocentricism incomprehensibility Interrogating Trauma in the Humanities Jean-Michel Ganteau Kali Tal Kantian sublime Kazuo Ishiguro Moses multidirectional memory negative capability pathologization pathology psychiatric responses to trauma Shoshana Felman Sierra Leone civil war Susana Onega The Memory of Love trauma literature trauma theory University of Lincoln W. G. Sebald

According to Shoshana Felman, “The twentieth century can be defined as a century of trauma” (171 n.1). But is the trauma paradigm relevant for…

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‘Planetarity’ and Pakistani Post-9/11 Fiction

Daniel O' Gorman December 9, 2012 1 Comment

In Death of a Discipline (2003), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak argues that a merging of Comparative Literature with Area Studies can help provide…

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Insurgent Subliteratures: Fictions of Resistance

Mark P. Williams December 9, 2012 1 Comment alternative fictioneers Ann VenderMeer Antonio Negri Attack!avant-garde literature Bad Wisdom Bill Drummon Bizarro Brian Stableford Cabinet of Curiosities China Mieville Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror CodeX Boks Creation Books cult writing D M Mitchell Death Is No Obstacle Decadent Surrealist writing EZLN globalisation HOE#999 Iain Sinclair insurgent subliteratures Jarett Kobek Jeff VanderMeer Lord Horror Mark Manning Michael Hardt Michael Moorcock micro-fascism multitude networks New Weird New Worlds SF Oneiros Books postmodernism Reverbstorm Richard Marshall Richard Meadley Savoy Books Seaton Point Simon Strong Steve Beard Stewart Home Subcommandante Insurgente Marcos The Lambshead Guide The Leda Tape Organisation Tim Etchells Zapatistas Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction

This article is concerned with the fictional forms of cultural resistance and experiment of the last twenty years, which I have called alternative fictioneers…