Overview

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.

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Author:   Ralf Hertel ,  Eva-Maria Windberger
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   203
Weight:   0.455kg
ISBN:  

9789004448742

ISBN 10:   9004448748
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   11 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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Ralf Hertel is Professor of English Literature (University of Trier) and has published widely on contemporary fiction, including Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s and On John Berger (co-edited with David Malcolm). Eva-Maria Windberger is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Trier. Her PhD project investigated the poetics of empowerment in David Mitchell’s novels.

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