Contextual Confluence

Media, Text and Traditions

Elisabetta Marino, Ajit Kumar (Herausgeber)

Ajit Kumar (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

213 Seiten

2026 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781036461461 (ISBN)

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This book explores the multifaceted relationship between media, literature, and culture, mainly focusing on mutuality, transformation, and subtextuality. It delves into Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, ecological reimaginings, and spectral cinematic values. It shows a radical mutuality where narrative, image, and ideology concur to create meanings, revealing hidden layers of vulnerability beneath dominant masculinities. The book also highlights literature's ability to transcend geographical boundaries while rooted in race, ecology, and gender. Each chapter contributes to a larger conversation, demonstrating that literature may function as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation when mediated through diverse cultural perspectives. Thus, it thoroughly underscores the sensible values of media, literature, and culture, examining ecological possibilities, postcolonial female visibility, ghostly cinematic hauntologies, and Black feminist ethics.

Elisabetta Marino is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and head of "Asia and the West" research centre. She is the author of four monographs: a volume on the figure of Tamerlane in British and American literature; an introduction to British Bangladeshi literature; a study on the relationship between Mary Shelley and Italy; an analysis of the Romantic dramas on a mythological subject. In 2006 she published the first Italian translation of poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan. In 2022 she translated Parkwater, a Victorian novel by Ellen Wood, for the first time into Italian. Between 2001 and 2025 she has edited/co-edited fifteen collections of essays and several special issues of prestigious international journals.Ajit Kumar, PhD is an academic, editor, reviewer and interviewer from Haryana, India. His research interests include cross-cultural conversations, critical analyses of marginalized narratives, women's writing, and cinematic representation. He has interviewed many writers and poets from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, France, Brazil, Sri Lanka and India. Currently, he works as Assistant Professor of English (Emp. ID 12453) in a Govt. College running under the aegis of the Department of Higher Education, Haryana, India.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2026
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781036461461 / 9781036461461
Zustand	Neuware