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English fiction --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Europe in literature

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Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing examines contemporary cultural representations of transforming identities in the era of increasing global mobility. It pays particular attention to the ways in which cultural encounters are experienced affectively and discursively in migrant literature. Divided into three parts that deal with refugee writing and displacement, migration and memory, and new European identities, the volume develops current methodologies and shows how postcolonial studies can be applied to the study of cultural encounters. Writers studied include Simão Kikamba, Ishmael Beah, Madhur Jaffrey, Diana Abu-Jaber, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Caryl Phillips, Jamal Mahjoub, and Monica Ali, and several refugee writers.

English literature --- Immigrants' writings, English --- American literature --- Immigrants' writings, American --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Cultural fusion in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Immigrants' writings, American. --- Immigrants' writings, English. --- History and criticism --- Minority authors. --- History and criticism. --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Memory as a theme in literature --- English immigrants' writings --- American immigrants' writings --- Immigrants as literary characters --- Minorities --- Hybridity (Social sciences) in literature --- Ethnic literature (American) --- Minority literature (American) --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Immigrant authors --- Comparative literature. --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature --- Memory in literature --- Travel in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- Cultural fusion in literature --- Minority authors --- Littérature anglaise --- Écrits d'immigrants anglais --- Littérature américaine --- Ecrits d'immigrants américains --- Déplacement (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Immigrants dans la littérature --- Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature --- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Ecrivains issus des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs issus des minorités

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This innovative volume discusses the significance of home and global mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction written in English. Through analyses of central diasporic and migrant writers in the United Kingdom and the United States, the timely volume exposes the importance of home and its reconstruction in diasporic literature in the era of globalization and increasing transnational mobility. Through wide-ranging case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants’ new homelands. The volume examines how diasporic novels inscribe hybridity and multiplicity in formerly uniform spaces and subvert traditional understandings of nation, citizenship, and history. Particular emphasis is on the ways in which diasporic fictions appropriate and transform traditional literary genres such as the Bildungsroman and the picaresque to explore the questions of migration and transformation. The authors discussed include Caryl Phillips, Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Benjamin Zephaniah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cynthia Kadohata, Ana Castillo, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Bharati Mukherjee. The volume is of particular interest to all scholars and students of post-colonial and ethnic literatures in English.

Home in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- English fiction --- American fiction --- American fiction. --- English fiction. --- English literature --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- 1900-2099

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This study examines masculinity and individualism in four American novels of the 1920s and 1930s usually regarded as belonging to the genre of hard-boiled fiction. The novels under study are Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, and To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. In this first full-length study of gender in hard-boiled fiction the genre is discussed as a representation of the ideologies of masculinity and individualism. Hard-boiled fiction is located in its historical and cultural context and it is argued that the genre, with its explicit emphasis on masculinity and masculine virtues, attempts to reaffirm a masculine order. The study argues that this emphasis is a counter-reaction to more general changes in the gender relations of the period. Indeed, hard-boiled fiction is argued to be an attempt to reconstruct a masculine identity based on anti-modern values generally accepted in the cultural context of the genre.

American fiction --- American fiction --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Individualism in literature --- Masculinity in literature --- Men in literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism

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As recent years have witnessed a strong interest in the cultural representation of the culinary, ranging from analyses of food representation in film and literature to cultural readings of recipes, menus, national cuisines and celebrity chefs, the study of food narratives amidst contemporary consumer culture has become increasingly more important. This book seeks to respond to the challenge by presenting a series of case studies dealing Other the representation of food and the culinary in a va...

Food in literature. --- Food in popular culture. --- Popular culture