Representations of the Local in the Postmillennial Novel: New Voices from the Margins
This book discusses a rich variety of voices from the margins and experiences of living in the postmillennial globalised world represented in selected novels by Irish-Canadian, British, American, Serbian, Australian, Iraqi and Māori authors. Contributions focus on illustrative examples of the contemporary novel that reflects acute awareness of globalizing processes and the rising tension between global and local identities, discourses and trends. In its diversity, the book serves to map voices from the new margins overshadowed by the intense pressure of globalization. Whether these new margins are ethnic minorities living in globalized centres of contemporary metropoles or authors whose national, local or regional voices are marginalized by works with more global ones, they are equally deserving of the attention of general readers, university students and literary scholars. The book will primarily appeal to scholars in the fields of literary, gender, postcolonial and food studies, but will also be of interest to a broader readership involved in explorations of literary works in the context of globalizing processes.
Milena Kaličanin, PhD, is Associate Professor in the English Department in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Niš, Serbia. She is the author of the books The Faustian Motif in the Tragedies by Christopher Marlowe (2013); Political vs. Personal in Shakespeare’s History Plays (2017); Uncovering Caledonia: An Introduction to Scottish Studies (2018); and English Renaissance Literature Textbook (2020, with Sanja Ignjatović). Her academic interests include Renaissance English literature, Canadian studies and British (especially Scottish) studies.
Soňa Šnircová is Associate Professor in Literary Studies in the Department of British and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovakia. She is author of the books Girlhood in British Coming-of-Age Novels: The Bildungsroman Heroine Revisited (2017), Feminist Aspects of Angela Carter’s Grotesque (2012), and Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism: Five Modern Literary Texts in Contexts (2015). Her academic interests include gender studies, feminism, postfeminism, metamodernism, and performatism.
"[This] volume will appeal both to university scholars and to advanced-level students of literature interested in exploring contemporary fiction in the context of globalizing processes. This book is also commendable as a well-conceived and well-structured collection of essays, which the editors have skilfully organized into a coherent whole. The individual works it comprises are characterized by a variety of critical approaches, but firmly interconnected by their focus on the 'new voices' they have explored."
Nataša Tučev, Associate Professor of Modern Anglo-American Literature, University of Niš, Serbia
Karzan Aziz Mahmood
Silvia Baucekova
Zuzana Buráková
Vladislava Gordic Petkovic
Milena Kaličanin
Igor Maver
Rudolf Sárdi
Soňa Šnircová
Elena A. Tuzlaeva
Michaela Weiss
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