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In the wake of addressing multiculturalism, transculturalism, racism, and ethnicity, the issue of xenophobia and xenophilia has been somewhat marginalized. The present collection seeks, from a variety of angles, to investigate the relations between Self and Other in the New Literatures in English. How do we register differences and what does an embrace signify for both Self and Other? The contributors deal with a variety of topics, ranging from theoretical reflections on xenophobia, its exploration in terms of intertextuality and New Zealand/Maori historiography, to analyses of migrant and border narratives, and issues of transitionality, authenticity, and racism in Canada and South Africa. Others negotiate identity and alterity in Nigerian, Malaysian, Australian, Indian, Canadian, and Caribbean texts, or reflect on diaspora and orientalism in Australian–Asian and West Indian contexts.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Xenophobia. --- Zenophobia --- Phobias --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- History and criticism. --- Xenophobia in literature.

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Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th' 21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the.

Travel in literature --- Literature and globalization --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Cultural pluralism in literature --- Travelers' writings --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Globalization and literature --- Voyages and travels in literature --- History and criticism --- Globalization

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Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated cable shows in the United States to comic books and other visual art forms to low-budget films from Cuba and the Philippines. The zombie's ability to embody a variety of cultural anxieties-ecological disaster, social and economic collapse, political extremism-has ensured its continued relevance and legibility, and has precipitated an unprecedented deluge of international scholarship.Zombie studies manifested across academic disciplines in the humanities but also beyond, spreading into sociology, economics, computer science, mathematics, and even epidemiology. Zombie Theory collects the best interdisciplinary zombie scholarship from around the world. Essays portray the zombie not as a singular cultural figure or myth but show how the undead represent larger issues: the belief in an afterlife, fears of contagion and technology, the effect of capitalism and commodification, racial exclusion and oppression, dehumanization. As presented here, zombies are not simple metaphors; rather, they emerge as a critical mode for theoretical work. With its diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, Zombie Theory thinks through what the walking undead reveal about our relationships to the world and to each other.Contributors: Fred Botting, Kingston U; Samuel Byrnand, U of Canberra; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington U; Jean Comaroff, Harvard U; John Comaroff, Harvard U; Edward P. Comentale, Indiana U; Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut; Karen Embry, Portland Community College; Barry Keith Grant, Brock U; Edward Green, Roosevelt U; Lars Bang Larsen; Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky U; Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan U; Shaka McGlotten, Purchase College-SUNY; David McNally, York U; Tavia Nyong'o, Yale U; Simon Orpana, U of Alberta; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Ola Sigurdson, U of Gothenburg; Jon Stratton, University of South Australia; Eugene Thacker, The New School; Sherryl Vint, U of California Riverside; Priscilla Wald, Duke U; Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky U; Jen Webb, U of Canberra; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan U.

Cultural pluralism in literature --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- American fiction --- Globalization in literature --- American literature --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- History and criticism --- Southern States --- In literature. --- E-books --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture --- Zombies in popular culture --- Zombies --- Zombis --- Dead --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Globalization in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Zombies. --- Zombies in popular culture. --- Social aspects.

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Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic relations in literature. --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Yan, Geling --- Alameddine, Rabih --- Zhang, Chengzhi, --- Kuo, Alexander --- Criticism and interpretation. --- United States --- China --- Ethnic relations. --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Government policy

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The essays investigate how Canada has pursued the construction of its national identity through symbolic cultural expressions. Analysing manifestations of Canada's cultural memory, the essays therefore engage in a search for the Canada of the mind. In particular, they turn to the fields of cultural and of literary studies to show how writers have projected an image of Canada as a desired space and have rendered the search for meaning within this space. En cette année du quatrième centenaire de la fondation de la ville de Québec, le volume a pour objet de radiographier le concept de l'invention de la nation canadienne. Nous savons que la configuration nationale du Canada, ainsi que celle du Québec, est loin d'être acquise, et qu'il faut se demander dans quelle mesure ce concept en question relève d'une donnée historique ou bien plutôt d'un travail imaginaire sur un ensemble culturel vaguement défini. Nous avons réuni les analyses de spécialistes pour la plupart d'origine centre-européenne afin de fournir des réponses adéquates au fait littéraire et culturel de l'invention de la nation canadienne ou québécoise.

Canadian literature --- Littérature canadienne --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Canada --- History --- Histoire --- 840 <71> --- 820 <71> --- Franse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 840 <71> Franse literatuur--Canada --- Littérature canadienne --- Cultural pluralism in literature --- Cultural pluralism --- Literature and society --- National characteristics, Canadian --- National characteristics, Canadian, in literature --- Canadian national characteristics --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Social aspects --- Ethnic relations.