Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012
By Gaoheng Zhang © 2019 The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and international media interpretations between 1992 and 2012. From paternalistic tones reducing migrants’ motives to poverty or political oppression to fear-mongering diatribes about illegal business practices, tax evasion, and unfair competition, the Italian […]
Canons of Fantasy: Lands of High Adventure
Canons of Fantasy: Lands of High Adventure by Patrick Moran has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. It is part of their new series titled “Elements in Publishing and Book Culture.” Description: Despite publishing endeavours such as the “Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series” in the 1970s and “Fantasy Masterworks” in the early 2000s, the canon of […]
Exchanges and Parallels between Italy and East Asia
This collection of essays is the first English-language study to present the latest research on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. It explores topics ranging from travel writing to creative arts, from translation to religious accommodation, and from Cold War politics to Chinese American cuisine. The volume draws on the expertise […]
Le monde en ruines : Espaces brisés de la littérature contemporaine
Dr. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire is excited to announce the recent publication of his edited volume on the poetics of ruins in contemporary literature. The publication consists of contributions from both established and young scholars from Canada, France and Switzerland. Their essays touch on a variety of topics and locales, from the trenches of the Great War […]
Historias de Montreal: “Miradas de Outremont”
Dr. María Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo’s short story titled “Miradas de Outremont” has been published in Historias de Montreal. Aiming to showcase a narrative vision of the contemporary urban landscape, the project places the Spanish language at the heart of the Canadian multicultural experience. These tales bring together 25 Latino- and Spanish- Canadian writers who call this […]
The Afrikaner
A hijacking in deeper Johannesburg goes horribly wrong. Zoe du Plessis, a paleontologist of Afrikaner origin, is suddenly confronted with her family’s secret, seemingly wrapped in an old Xhosa’s spell. As she heads for the Kalahari Desert in search of early human fossils, Zoe embarks on an inner journey into the unredeemable sense of guilt haunting her white […]
Oikosophia: Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei
Why «Oikosophia», and what does this new and yet archaic word mean? Sophia in Greek means Wisdom, a knowing, or intelligence, which once used to be called “of the heart”: that is to say, an inherently relational, inborn way of being in unison with the totality of the living world, rather than the analytical approach […]
Crónica de la minería de oro en Colombia: de la montaña al texto
This article evaluates the mining literary history of the mining town of Marmato, Colombia. Starting from novels like Tierra virgen (1897) by Eduardo Zuleta, La bruja de las minas (1938) by Gregorio Sánchez, I trace a line that follows the evolution of mining literature in Colombia, tracing its historical and cultural specificities. I introduce the term “Tropical Mining” to categorize some […]
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana: Asia en América Latina
This special issue of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, co-edited by Kim Beauchesne, Koichi Hagimoto, and Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, provides a wide array of perspectives on the varied representations of Asia in Latin American literature and culture from the colonial times until today, with an emphasis on the multifaceted connections between both regions. Its relevance lies […]
Tiempo del Sur
“Tiempo del Sur tells the story of a family through the voices of four women: Manuela, Titi, Elena and Elisa. Each of them, from their point of view, reveals the events that over the years have marked their path in several countries -Colombia, the United States and Canada- and the particular effect that those events have […]