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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"English Language, Literatures, and Cultures"”.
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Novel Infrastructures: Urban Literary Forms in Contemporary Lagos, Johannesburg, and Mumbai
… postcolonial cities like Lagos, Mumbai, and Johannesburg from the last decade of the 20th century to the present, a period of hyper-accelerated infrastructural and ideological reconstruction after the formal end of colonialism. I argue that the representation of urban infrastructure in …
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Between Fantasy & Reality: Ludonarrative Dissonance and Black Affect in the Present
… digital archives, video games, play studies and phenomenology, it asks: What are the fundamental ways around which black social life is structured in the early 21st Century? I assert that video games—most of which are Japanese in origin—are the most popular aesthetic objects in the world and …
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Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America
… River, the Florida Everglades, Lake Superior, and the Colorado River. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, infrastructure such as canals, aqueducts, dredges, and dams transformed the continent. This project tracks settlers’ shifting understandings of water— from something to defend …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… that express gender variance in late medieval and early modern literature: the monstrous birth, the virgin, the hermaphrodite, and the angel. Drawing together trans theory, premodern critical race studies, and classical reception history, I construct a long genealogy of what we now call …