LITERARY CRITICISM

Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner By André Bastian The first volume to focus entirely on the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek.

This is the first volume entirely published on Jelinek’s work in Australia and gathers a series of analyses around the first-ever production of one of her plays on an Australian stage, in Melbourne, 2011. It discusses questions of the Austrian writer’s complex writing strategies, potential problems of cultural transfer, the international reception of Jelinek’s work, and the contribution her work for theatre can make to a series of fundamental aspects of the global discourse of current times: feminism, sports and racism.

Women in Literature and Philosophy By Supakwadee Amatayakul and Ilenia De Bernardis Deals with the issue of women’s absence from the visible horizons of literature and philosophy. This book explores why and how women authors and philosophers are not included in the literary and philosophical canon. Women authors and philosophers seem to be left out of classes on great literature or the history of philosophy, leaving students with the impression that both literature and philosophy are shaped almost exclusively by men’s hands. The authors examine the sources and consequences of such exclusion and investigate the scholarly movements that have been set in place to rectify women’s absence in these fields.

On the Writings of Giannina Braschi Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O'Dwyer Explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi.

Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles

This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi’s linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical thinking, and poetic hilarity have spanned the genres of theatre, poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, political philosophy, and spoken word. This volume explores how Brasci’s texts shake up our ideas of ourselves and enrich our understanding of how powerful narratives can wake us to our higher expectations.

An Anthology Edited by Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd and Rebecca Stephens A diverse and comprehensive anthology from and about Appalachian writers.

Despite the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Appalachia, the region has nurtured and inspired some of the nation’s finest writers. Featuring dozens of authors born into or adopted by the region over the past two centuries, this collection showcases for the first time the nuances and contradictions that place Appalachia at the heart of American history.

Perspectives on Resistance Edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh Explores the controversies surrounding African American author Richard Wright. A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. Here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.

Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century through Knowledge Exchange By Adam Coward Series: Celtic Studies Publications

The correspondence of nineteenth-century Welsh scholar Thomas Stephens. Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. This book examines his correspondence, includes comments by many of the most noted historians, literary critics and Celticists of his day on a wide range of subjects. More than this, however, Stephens’s correspondence shows the complex networks of knowledge exchange which stretched across the nineteenth-century scholarly world.