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Offers a collection of essays that explores the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. This title focuses beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie and discusses staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.

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The first book to treat crime fiction in its full global, intercultural, and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature.

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The first book to treat crime fiction in its full global, intercultural, and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature.

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Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.

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"Crimes of the Future sees one of the world's leading literary theorists exploring the past, present and potential future of Theory"--

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"Crimes of the Future sees one of the world's leading literary theorists exploring the past, present and potential future of Theory"--

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Highlights the elements of Alice Walker's imagination by analyzing both her novels and her poems.

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Through narrative and rhetorical strategies that subvert genre and challenge the discourse of race and gender, black South African woman writer Bessie Head creates alternative healing spaces that empower and enoble the marginalized, provide potential for transcendence and self-creation, and render ineffective the power of language to subjugate.

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The book brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The essays explore varied aspects of detective fiction, offering new avenues of critical thought from a Postcolonial perspective.

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Critical Games is about the games we play, the ways we play them, and what happens when they get out of hand. With readings of a range of cultural texts, from the Ancient Greeks to contemporary auto-fiction, it pinpoints what is critical in games and game-playing.

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This book introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary studies, cultural studies and medical humanities that explores the potential of neurodiverse scholarly practice in literary and cultural studies.

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Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the fiction of South Asian American writer, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and her aesthetic of interconnectivity and wholeness. Two interviews and an essay by Divakaruni offer indispensable insights into the formal, socio-political, and thematic concerns of this multifaceted artist.

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This book shows the integral role of the conscious African family in developing commercial success stories such as those of Morrisons protagonist, Bride. Brides accomplishments are an extension of a superficial cult of celebrity until a significant journey helps her redefine success by building a community and family.

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This book shows the integral role of the conscious African family in developing commercial success stories such as those of Morrisons protagonist, Bride. Brides accomplishments are an extension of a superficial cult of celebrity until a significant journey helps her redefine success by building a community and family.

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"The critical vocabulary of the mainstream often give short shrift to the fantastic, and scholars of the fantastic have often had to look elsewhere for their critical termionology. Such scholars will find Wolfe's work an excellent resource." Choice

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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adornos work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adornos critique of modernity.

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Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adornos work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adornos critique of modernity.

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