Book · January 1, 2023
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
What happens when we shift our attention from the progress of history to the movement of actual people? This is the question we set ourselves in 2017, when we, along with several colleagues at Duke University, convened a humanities lab entitled Representin ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
In Ailbhe Darcy’s “Alphabet” (analyzed in this section by Ailbhe McDaid), the formal acceleration of the lines reflects the awareness of imminent ecological collapse. The poem, however, also records a hopeless resilience: it isn’t really about the end of e ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
A palimpsest is a parchment or tablet used one or more times after the earlier writing has been erased, although traces may still remain. The Greek palimpsestos, “scraped again,” indexes an economy of scarcity haunted by fragmented remnants of the past. (I ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
This chapter engages critically with Jean Raspail’s best-selling novel The Camp of the Saints (1973), in which one million Indians invade Europe through France, leading to the “conquest” of the West a few days later. In 2011, Renaud Camus transformed this ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Postcolonial Writing · November 2, 2018
Through close engagement with Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Go, Went, Gone (first published in German as Gehen, ging, gegangen in 2015), this article makes a case for refugee literature as a body of texts by and about refugees which represent migration as part o ...
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Book · January 1, 2018
In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Wa ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Reading the scene from the “Sirens” episode, Jean-Michel Rabate suggests that just as the sound produced by the seashell is an imaginary one, reproduced in an echo-chamber but existing without actual presence, the song of the sirens is a silent one. While ...
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Journal ArticleEnglish Studies · April 2, 2016
ABSTRACT: One of the most famous essays in the sociology of intellectuals, “Inside the Whale” (1940), has been commonly understood as an anomaly: by endorsing Henry Miller's quietism in the face of world-scale disaster, George Orwell seemed to waver from h ...
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