Full Description
Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures. Grounded in Cultural Studies, English and Anglophone Literature, and Linguistics, the volume examines how narrative practices reframe identity, challenge systemic inequalities, and foster interconnectedness between human and more-than-human beings. Through analyses of speculative fiction, postcolonial narratives, feminist reimaginings, and contemporary media, contributors investigate how stories reshape our understanding of bodies, spaces, and subjectivities.
Whether through the subversive humour of a contemporary TV anti-heroine, the reconfiguration of colonial pasts in Africanfuturist fiction, or the embodied resistance found in post-apocalyptic landscapes, Narrating Multiplicities in Motion invites readers to engage with storytelling not merely as reflection, but as political action. In an age marked by crisis and uncertainty, it reaffirms narrative as a site of resistance, responsibility and radical possibility.
Contents
List of Contributors
"Introduction"
Elena Ogliari, Anna Pasolini, and Carla Tempestoso
"Postcolonial Lagos. Voices from the Brink"
Nicoletta Vallorani
"'More than Women': Unveiling Complex Bodies and Exploring Gender Dynamics in The Blood of the Vampire and The Great God Pan"
Carla Tempestoso
"Irony as Defiance, Manipulation and Subversion: A Pragma-cultural Analysis of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag"
Valentina Vetri
"Defiant Languages and Bodies in Fiction Films: The Case of James Cameron's Avatar"
Ester Gendusa
"Queering Nigerian Literature. Blurring Gender Lines in Akwaeke Emezi's The Death of Vivek Oji"
Aminat Emma Badmus
"Embodied Narratives: Reshaping Identity through Speculative Storytelling in Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots"
Anna Pasolini
"Five Little Indians: a Narration of Trauma and Witnessing"
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
"Envisaging Eternity, or the Overturning of Cupio Dissolvi in Science-Fiction Literature"
Alessia Guidi
"Post-Apocalyptic Bodies and Spaces in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003)"
Bruna Mancini
"Ecological Citizenship and Trans-species Collaborative Survival in Young Adult Climate Fiction: Lauren James's Green Rising"
Chiara Xausa
"Feminist Utopias and Queer Apocalypses: A Science-Fiction Approach"
Serena Guarracino
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