New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 279 p. — ISBN-10: 1349491918; ISBN-13: 978-1349491919.
Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.
Introduction.
Naomi SegalRemembering and ForgettingRemembering and Forgetting: Introduction.
Daniela KolevaVisual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture.
Isabel Capeloa GilTextualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d’État Novels.
Sibel IrzıkCan Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff’s ‘The Missing Voice’ in Spitalfields.
Ricarda VidalMigration and TranslationMigration and Translation: Introduction.
Loredana PolezziMigrant Poet(h)ics.
Borbála FaragóTranslating the In-Between: Performance Poetry and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society.
Robert CrawshawLost and Gained in Migration: The Writing of Migrancy.
Mary GallagherElectronic TextualityElectronic Textuality: Introduction.
Leopoldina FortunatiNon-Consumptive Reading.
Susan SchreibmanReading (and Writing) Online, Rather than on the Decline.
Kathleen FitzpatrickI Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and the Implied Player.
Espen AarsethBiosociality, Biopolitics and the BodyBiopolitics, Biosociality and the Body: Introduction.
Ulrike LandfesterHuman Enhancement: Is It ‘Mere’ Science Fiction? The Rise and Rise of Disembodied Ethics
Heather Bradshaw-MartinHistory in the Gene? How Biohistories are Implicated in Biopolitics and Biosocialities.
Marianne SommerBetween Hybrid and Graft.
Uwe Wirth