Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits
1st Edition
Edited
By Claus-Peter Neumann, Pilar Royo-Grasa
September 29, 2025
Transmodern Literatures in the 21st Century: Of(f) Limits offers an in-depth examination of how transmodern literatures in English over the last two decades have addressed the phenomenon of the limit. The 14 chapters that make up the volume examine how geographical, racial,...
Care and Crisis in Chinua Achebe's Novels
1st Edition
By Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
September 28, 2025
This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of...
The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature: Implicit and Symptomatic Readings
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
September 28, 2025
Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English. This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language ...
Ethics and Aesthetics in Ali Smith’s Fiction
1st Edition
By José I. Prieto-Arranz
July 28, 2025
This study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smith’s work, analysing her fiction through a truly interdisciplinary lens. José I. Prieto-Arranz explores Smith’s engagement with contemporary issues such as digital violence, disinformation, pornography, nationalism, climate change, discrimination, and...
Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture
1st Edition
By Andrew Nyongesa
June 26, 2025
This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame...
Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync
1st Edition
By Sonia Front
June 19, 2025
This book investigates representations of time in twenty‑first‑century Anglo‑American literature. In the digital era, characterized by a new regime of time, fiction offers revisions of prevalent, oppressive notions of time that can serve as productive political strategies to reclaim the agency of ...
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze
1st Edition
By Alyce Corbett
May 22, 2025
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze represents a novel and comprehensive study of the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective. This book both defines and helps shape the contours of four ...
Dynamic Processes and Reading Novels
1st Edition
By Irene O’Leary
May 11, 2025
This book is about the dynamic processes that generate novel-reading. It takes the view that the world is composed of dynamic processes and introduces a process dynamics approach to articulate this stance. This fresh perspective draws on literary studies, process philosophy and neuroscience to ...
Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary
1st Edition
By Erin Mercer
December 18, 2024
Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and ...
Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
1st Edition
Edited
By Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann
December 18, 2024
Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give ...
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels
1st Edition
By Eva-Maria Windberger
November 29, 2024
The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell’s Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchell’s novels with the introduction of a new critical concept to literary studies: empowerment. Aiming to situate and establish empowerment firmly within the context of literary studies, it offers the ...
Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises
1st Edition
By Kyra Piperides
November 28, 2024
Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South, East, and West Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and ...