L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Comparative Literature
Liberalism and Education The Monopoly of an Idea
Francis O'Gorman, University of Edinburgh, UK Unquestionable liberalism in higher education, literature, and art has led to damaging consequences. In the 20th century, what had been open-minded inquiry gradually gathered an assumption that judgment, particularly moral judgment, had no part in a university education. Without intellectual critique of liberalism, populism, crude versions of nationalism, violent versions of exclusion, and a spurning of establishments that once looked secure – all extremist positions – have become the only realistic options for taking a different view. Francis O’Gorman reassesses the topics that liberalism has made taboo and is optimistic that serious thinking can revive the virtues of what has been cast-out. UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 192 pages HB 9781501336799 • £20.00 / $19.95 ePub 9781501336805 • £13.80 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501336812 • £13.80 / $17.95 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Off-White
Yellowface and Chinglish by AngloAmerican Culture Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USA Off-White interrogates seminal Anglo-American fiction and film on off-white bodies and voices. It commences with one Nobel laureate, Pearl Buck, and ends with another, Kazuo Ishiguro, almost a century later. The trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in Japanese anime. This universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial China creates an “off-yellow,” darker-hued Orient in Huallywood films to silhouette its global ascent. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 264 pages • 64 b&w images PB 9781501381478 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501352201 ePub 9781501352188 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501352195 • £27.60 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Transferences
The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
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Claiming Space
Locations and Orientations in World Literatures Edited by Bo G. Ekelund, Adnan Mahmutovic & Helena Wulff, Stockholm University, Sweden This book is available through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This volume explores literary works and practices in the dynamic relation between locations and orientations. Case studies demonstrate that 4 key concepts (cosmopolitan, vernacular, location, orientation) can frame analyses of different types of contemporary literary texts, allowing for distinctions not captured by other conceptual pairs like center-periphery, local-global and North-South. Expressive practices in a wide range of language areas – from Europe to the Pacific – are analyzed to show how spatiality is at stake in the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamic. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781501374104 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501374111 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501374128 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic
Psychoanalytic Horizons Mari Ruti, University of Toronto, Canada, Esther Rashkin, Peter L. Rudnytsky
Circumcision on the Couch
The Cultural, Psychological and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery Jordan Osserman, University College London, UK Male circumcision is a powerful site through which questions of gender, race, religion, sexuality and psyche have been negotiated throughout human history. In recent years, a movement of “intactivists” have fuelled debate internationally around their demand to keep penises “intact.” Whatever its medical consequences, the significance of male circumcision lies in realms beyond the purely organic and into the psychosocial and the fundamental problems therein. Jordan Osserman turns to ancient religious texts and more contemporary work by Lacan, Freud, Derrida, and Phillip Roth to analyze circumcision’s role in desire, one’s sense of belonging and entry into the symbolic order. UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 208 pages HB 9781501368165 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501368172 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501368189 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic
The Writing Cure
Emma Lieber, The New School, USA
Transferences investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure. The book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Peter Shaffer’s Equus, and the HBO series In Treatment. Transferences argues that psychoanalysts as well as writers and other artists are fascinated by the therapeutic relationship because it provides a unique site to negotiate the narrative and artistic underpinnings of psychoanalysis and reflect and reinvent the aesthetic and poetic potentiality of art.
Emma Lieber traces dreams, scenes, and signifiers that emerge from a decade-long analysis while critically exploring psychoanalytic theory and literary texts. By writing the moment of its termination in real time, performing the convergence of theory and life on which psychoanalysis itself balances, the volume articulates what psychoanalysis does for its patients. Lieber considers what psychoanalysis—"the talking cure"—has to do with writing, from the foundation of psychoanalysis on Freud’s distinctive writing practice to the extent to which the cure involves a new kind of self-writing.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 336 pages PB 9781501381447 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501352447 ePub 9781501352454 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501352461 • £27.60 / $35.95 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 160 pages PB 9781501370724 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501360169 ePub 9781501360176 • £69.79 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501360183 • £69.79 / $90.00 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic
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