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Diasporic Marvellous Realism highlights the interesting switch in perspective found in contemporary literary production where the supernatural is regarded from a diasporic perspective as marvellous rather than magical. The titular term is applied to the influence of transterritorialization on the works of first- and second generation immigrant writers when approaching and exploring the myths and legends of their culture of origin. The texts included in this analysis show that the employment of this literary philosophy and narrative technique in contemporary literature involves a fruitful refocusing of the rhetorical gaze regarding the importance of cultural heritage as vindicatory resistance to the lacunae of history and as celebratory re-enfranchisement of diasporic communities in host countries such as Canada and the UK.

Latin American literature --- Spanish literature --- Portuguese literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1900 - 1999

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German literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- History and criticism --- Africa --- Germany --- In literature --- Colonies --- German literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Africa - In literature --- Germany - Colonies - Africa - In literature

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In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire's collapse in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan actively erased these once ubiquitous cultural interactions that neither side wanted to remember. Kwon reconsiders these imperial encounters and their contested legacies through the rise and fall of Japanese-language literature and other cultural exchanges between Korean and Japanese writers and artists in the Japanese empire. The contrast between the prominence of these and other forums of colonial-era cultural collaboration between the colonizers and the colonized, and their denial in divided national narrations during the postcolonial aftermath, offers insights into the paradoxical nature of colonial collaboration, which Kwon characterizes as embodying desire and intimacy with violence and coercion. Through the case study of the formation and repression of imperial subjects between Korea and Japan, Kwon considers the imbrications of colonialism and modernity and the entwined legacies of colonial and Cold War histories in the Asia-Pacific more broadly.

Japanese literature--Korean authors--History and criticism --- Korea--History--Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 --- National characteristics, Korean --- Japanese literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Language and languages in literature --- Korean authors --- History and criticism

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Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study -- early modern England -- where the "Mediterranean turn" has radically changed the field. The essays in this wide-ranging literary and cultural study examine the rhetoric which surrounds imperial competition in this era, ranging from poems commemorating the battle of Lepanto to elaborately adorned maps of contested frontiers. They will be of interest to scholars in fields such as history, comparative literary studies, and religious studies. --Provided by publisher.

Imperialism in literature. --- History in literature. --- Religion in literature. --- Literature. --- 1517-1789. --- Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region. --- In literature. --- History --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- History of Southern Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- 1517 - 1789

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The first book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire, this book traces imperial memory in mainstream English literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan.

English fiction --- Decolonization in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Englisch. --- English fiction. --- Literature. --- Roman. --- History and criticism --- Commonwealth. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1945-2011. --- English literature --- Literature --- Literary Studies: From C 1900 --- -LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Ireland --- A Good Man in Africa. --- Anglo-American attitudes. --- British Empire. --- English novels. --- Englishness. --- John Masters. --- Josephine Tey. --- Kinjanja. --- Moon Tiger. --- Penelope Lively. --- William Boyd. --- William Golding. --- colonial fiction. --- family saga. --- female crime novel. --- postcolonial romance. --- travel fiction.