Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English : The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

Hertel, Ralf (EDT)/ Windberger, Eva-Maria (EDT)

Brill（2021/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 186 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004448742

Full Description

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 with a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies and dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, science fiction, TV adaptations, the historical novel and immigrant fiction.

Contents

 Preface

 Notes on Contributors

 Introduction

 Empowering Contemporary Fiction

  Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger

PART 1

Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Literature

 Feminist Fiction and Forms of Empowerment

  Sarah Dillon

 Reclaiming Didacticism

 Empowerment and the Representation of Science in Genetic Fiction

  Paul Hamann-Rose

 Empowering the Reader and the Viewer

 Strategies of Empowerment in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones

  Britta Maria Colligs

PART 2

Stories and Histories

 'The Power to Liberate'

 Telling Tales of the Contemporary Past

  Peter Childs

 Of Memory Boxes and Rhizomatic Structures

 Strategies of Empowerment in David Mitchell's 'Über-book'

  Eva-Maria Windberger

 The Empowering Allohistorical? Some Questions on a Stochastic Borderline

  David Malcolm

PART 3

Transcultural Perspectives

 Xiaolu Guo's Empowering Fictions

  Ralf Hertel

 Empowerment through Multiple Voices

 Culture, Media, and Identity in Eddie Huang's Fresh Off the Boat

  Eleanor Ty

 Of Monkey Kings and Fox Ladies

 Intersectionality, Empowerment, and Myth in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony

  Diana Thiesen