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atlantic studies
atlantic studies Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies Series
World Literature
Series Editor: William Boelhower, University of Louisiana, USA
New in 2011
The series editors invite the work of scholars from many disciplines – history, cultural studies, critical theory, and literature who seek to probe the highly critical space of the Atlantic, centered not on a single nation or land mass, but on a new cosmopolitan interchange of ships and peoples, cultures and texts, ideas and tools.
World Literature
Darwin in Atlantic Cultures Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Edited by Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska, USA and Patrick B. Sharp, California State University, USA This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism – such as the theory of evolution, the ape-man theory of human origins, and the principle of sexual selection – on established transatlantic intellectual traditions and cultural practices. In doing so, it pays particular attention to how Darwinism reconfigured discourses on race, gender, and sexuality in a transnational context. 2009: 229 x 152: 318pp Hb: 978-0-415-87234-8: $110.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415872348
Defining the Atlantic Community Culture, Intellectuals, and Policies in the Mid-Twentieth Century
A Reader Edited by Theo D’haen, KU Leuven, Belgium, Cesar Dominguez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Series: The Routledge Literature Readers
Edited by Marco Mariano, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy In this volume, essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic open new perspectives on the construction of the ‘Atlantic community’ during World War II and the early Cold War years. Based on original approaches bringing together diplomatic history and the history of culture and ideas, the book shows how atlantism came to provide a solid ideological foundation for the security community of North American and European nations which took shape in the 1940s. The idea of a transatlantic community based on shared histories, values, and political and economic institutions was instrumental to the creation of the Atlantic Alliance, and partly accounts for the continuing existence of the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War. At the same time, this study breaks new ground by arguing that the emergence of the idea of ‘Atlantic community’ also reflected deeper trends in transatlantic relations; in fact, it was the outcome of the re-definition of ‘the West’ due to the rise of the US and the decline of Europe in the international arena during the first half of the twentieth-century. April 2010: 229 x 152: 226pp Hb: 978-0-415-99904-5: $95.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415999045
World Literature is not just a popular subject in its own right, but is infiltrating every aspect of literary study as the concept of ‘national literatures’, language and translation have been re-framed by World Literature.
World Literature offers the ideal introduction to the theories and debates surrounding World Literature through extracts from the essential texts and writers in the field. The Reader offers a number of different pathways through the material, all addressing the essential themes of globalization; cosmopolitanism; post/trans-nationalism; translation and nationalism. October 2011: 246 x 174: 560pp Hb: 978-0-415-60298-3: $135.00 Pb: 978-0-415-60299-0: $49.95 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415602990
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Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture Asia in Flight Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USA Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight from itself; Asia’s stunning self-transformation is haunted by self-alienation. The chapters discuss a wealth of topics, including Asianness, Orientalism, and Asian American identity, drawing on a variety of pop culture sources from The Matrix Trilogy to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Covering the mediums of literature, film, and visual cultures, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and students of Asian studies and literature, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and film. November 2010: 234 x 156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-59426-4: $125.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415594264
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