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  2. 1. The Woke Franchise : Representing and Co-opting Resistance in Young Adult, Superhero, and Speculative Fiction

    Author : Amélie Hurkens; David Watson; Ashleigh Harris; Paul Crosthwaite; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; identity politics; the publishing industry; popular literary culture; woke capitalism; neoliberalism; racial capitalism; the franchise; blockbusters; awards; YA fiction; superhero fiction; comic books; speculative fiction; science fiction and fantasy; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : In the last decade, U.S. popular literary culture has been under increasing pressure to include more racially and other marginalized groups. READ MORE

  4. 2. Fieldwork and Fiction : Ethnography and Literature in the French Caribbean

    Author : Christina Kullberg; Högskolan Dalarna; []
    Keywords : Karibiska studier; Litteraturvetenskap; postkoloniala studier; etnografi och litteratur; franskspråkig litteratur;

    Abstract : The birth of French Caribbean literature is in many ways tied to a nontheorized and circumstantial use of ethnography. Ethnography is mainly referred to as a discourse of knowledge having to do with defining and questioning the notion of culture which, in this case, was important to Martinican authors trying to articulate identity. READ MORE

  5. 3. Life and Fiction : On intertextuality in pupils’ booktalk

    Author : Katarina Eriksson (Barajas); Karin Aronsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reader response; children’s literature; discourse analysis; booktalk; gender; barn och böcker; bokprat; diskursanalys; intertextualitet; litteraturpedagogik i skolan; Children; Barn;

    Abstract : This study examines booktalk, that is, teacher-led group discussions about books for children in a Swedish school. The empirical data comprise 24 hours of videorecorded booktalk in grades 4–7. In total, 40 children (aged 10–14 years) were recorded during 24 sessions. READ MORE

  6. 4. The written and the unwritten world of Philip Roth : fiction, nonfiction, and borderline aesthetics in the Roth books

    Author : Roger Edholm; Lars-Åke Skalin; Greger Anderson; Magnus Ullén; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philip Roth; Fiction; Nonfiction; Borderline Aesthetics; Narrative Theory; Autobiography; Authorship; Referentiality; Literature; Identity; Counterfacts; Ethics; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines five books by the American author Philip Roth commonly referred to as the “Roth Books,” which are The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography(1988), Deception (1990), Patrimony: A True Story (1991), Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993), and The Plot Against America (2004). These books, held together by the author’s proper name, are often viewed as texts that conflate fiction and nonfiction or demonstrate the “fictionality” of all factual narrative accounts in compliance with well-known postmodernist and poststructuralist theories. READ MORE

  7. 5. Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue

    Author : Karin Axelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tag questions; fiction dialogue; direct speech; spoken conversation; pragmatics; corpus-based study; BNC; British English;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a Fiction Subcorpus and the demographic part of the spoken component. READ MORE