Foretelling Pasts:
Unruly Narratives and Spiritual Realism
Project in development
Description:
Chapter 1:
Intertextual Conversations Among Othello’s Avatars: Season of Migration to the North (1966) and Native Son (1940)
Chapter 2:
The Serpent in the Heterotopia: How Lady Macbeth (2016) Inverts, yet Perpetuates the Elitist Gaze
Chapter 3:
Austere Shakespeare for Queer Rights: Minimalism Misbehaves in Jarman’s The Tempest (1979) and Edward II (1991)
Chapter 4:
Can Imagination Unlock Prison Cells?: Yarmysh’s Magically Real Prison Fiction Versus Navalny’s Prison Memoir
Chapter 5:
Deleuzian Proliferations of Possibilities: Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004) and Parallel Mothers (2021)
Chapter 6:
Ghost Allegories and Cognitive Linguistics: Syncreticism in Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo (1955)
Chapter 7:
Where the Hum-Drum Afterlife Serves as Bhabha’s Third Space: Dead Body Politics in Yu Hua’s The Seventh Day (2013)
Chapter 8:
The Sacrifice Calmly Drink His Tea: Disillusionment and Sadomasochism in Mushima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (1963)
Chapter 9:
How Erdrich Literalizes Oral Narratives and Algonquin Mino-bimaadiziwin: Love Medicine (1984, 1993, 2003) as a Living Canon
Chapter 10:
Alexis Wright’s Grounded Waanyi Spirituality: Ecopolitics in Carpentaria (2006), The Swan Song (2013), and Praiseworthy (2024)
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