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Diverse Suburbias

Rowena Clarke January 12, 2013 1 Comment A Gesture Life A. M. Holmes Aloft Chang-rae Lee contemporary fiction David Lynch demographics Gary Shteyngart immigrant incorporation in Suburban America Ira Levin Jack Finney Jeffrey Eugenides Jhumpa Lahiri Junot Diaz literature Native Speaker New York Peter Weir Rick Moody suburbia suburbs Tom Perotta twenty-first-century American fiction Westchester

Rowena Clarke Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have…

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Shakespeare in the English National Curriculum

Sarah Olive January 12, 2013 1 Comment close reading cultural value English classroom English curriculum F. R. Leavis Henley Review of Cultural Education ideology literary canon literary value National Curriculum for English practical criticism Q. D. Leavis Scrutiny Shakespeare The Great Tradition

Cultural criticism and cultural histories of the development of English as a subject place special emphasis on the role of intellectuals, education and national identity…

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Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics

Harriet Earle January 12, 2013 4 Comments 9/11 Alan Moore Art Spiegelman Batman closure comics comics scholarship Dark Knight Returns Dave Gibbon DC Comics Fantagraphics Books form formal analysis Frank Miller genre gutter Marjane Satrapi panel transitions Persepolis Scott McCloud Sin City superheroes The Real Thing The Spirit Unreal Watchmen Will Eisner

Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form…

Issue 1.7 Previous Issues

The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading

Michael J. Collins December 9, 2012 15 Comments A Visit From the Goon Squad Allen Tate American short story annual canonicity Charles Dickens China Mieville consumption digital culture e-readers Edgar Allen Poe F. R. Leavis flash fiction Frank O'Connor generic instability history of the book Jennifer Egan John Crowe Ransom Kindle literary canon literary copyright literary fiction literary genre literary marketplace litfic Louisa May Alcott magazine market pressures mass market periodicals Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne print culture published fiction Raymond Williams seasonal periodical Short story The Man Booker Prize the novel form Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern twitter fiction Washington Irving

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…

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Extraordinary Renditions: Voicing Opposition to War

Alex Latter November 1, 2012 1 Comment Abu Ghraib Afghanistan Allan Jankins Andrea Brady Carol Ann Duffy Dante Descent George W. Bush Inferno Iraq literary criticism literature poetic voice poetry Quid Saw Fit terza rima The Guardian Tony Blair twenty-first-century poetry violence war

Andrea Brady’s recent poem ‘Saw Fit’ and Alan Jenkins’ ‘Descent’ explicitly address the historical context of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq…

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Fifty Shades of the Future

Katy Shaw November 1, 2012 3 Comments Amazon authorship BDSM Chick Lit circulation consumption e-books E. L. James Erotic literature Fifty Shades of Grey form gender genre Kindle Leveson Inquiry mummy porn publishing publishing industry romance ficiton sexuality Stephanie Meyer TwiFic Twilight Vintage yummy mummy fiction

In departure lounges, train stations and motorway services across the UK, one novel – or rather one trilogy – has graced the laps of engrossed readers for the past twelve months…

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Superhumanity: Refiguring the Superhero

Sarah Chihaya November 1, 2012 No Comments Barack Obama Black Panther California Christopher Nolan comics Democratic National Convention 2004 fiction genre Incredible Hulk John Carter Jonathan Letham Joss Whedon Juno Diaz Kavalier and Clay Mark Ruffalo Marvel Universe Michael Chabon novel reading Secret Skin Spiderman 2 superhero fatigue superheroes superhuman Telegraph Avenue The Avengers The Dark Knight Rises Wakanda

Like the urban thoroughfare it’s named after, Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) contains diverse and highly specific multitudes. It is a…