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Contemporary Literature in Context – UiS podkast episodes
- 14. Susan Cahill “A Girl is a Half-formed Thing?: Girlhood, Trauma and Resistance”
An analysis of the innovative elements of Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, such as language and narrative style.
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
7 min - 13. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan “Trauma and Narratives of Recovery” – Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
A discussion of Costello-Sullivan’s argument that contemporary Irish writing seeks to represent and work through processes of healing and recovery through form and narrative.
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
6 min - 12. Melania Terrazas Gallego “Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture”
An introduction to the contemporary issues of cultural trauma, cultural memory, and identity in contemporary Irish writing.
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
A podcast from the University of Stavanger.
3 min - 11. Simon Abramowitsch “Negotiating 21st-Century Race and Readership in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me.”
A discussion of Abramowitsch’s article which addresses key issues in relation to Coates’ novel, such as the abstraction of whiteness, race and the black body, and the readership of the novel.
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
6 min - 10. Dana Williams “Everybody’s Protest Narrative” – Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me
A look at how Williams argues we might read Between the World and Me through the limitations of the “protest narrative”.
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
4 min - 9. Anna Hartnell “From Civil Rights to BLM”
An overview of Hartnell’s chapter on the contemporary issues surrounding African American Literature from the Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Fiction (2019).
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
4 min - 8. Michael Perfect “Black holes in the fabric of the nation” – Representations of refugees in Exit West
A discussion of the Perfect’s article on the representation of refugees in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017).
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
A podcast from the University of Stavanger.
7 min - 7. Amanda Lagji “Waiting in motion: mobilities and migration in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West”
A consideration of the major debates in Lagji’s article on the contemporariness of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017).
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
A podcast from the University of Stavanger.
7 min - 6.Emily Hogg “Displacement” – Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
An introduction to the contemporary issues of migration, identity, and displacement with a discussion of Emily Hogg’s essay from the Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Fiction (2019).
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
7 min - 5. Adam Kelly “George Saunders’ New Sincerity”
A look at Kelly’s discussion of George Saunders’ New Sincerity aesthetic with particular focus on “Escape from Spiderhead”.
Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.
A podcast from the University of Stavanger.
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Contemporary Literature in Context presents the latest research on the issues that emerge in the best works of contemporary writing.