Tagged: fiction

Nnedi Okorafor & Ken MacLeod, Scottish Pen Talk, Newington, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, June 14, 2014 | © Courtesy of byronv2/Flickr.

22/02/2019

The Artistic Value of BAME Literary Texts, the Popularity of BAME Authors and the British Publishing Industry

This essay discusses the decline in the interest in Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, which has triggered in academic circles and in the mainstream and trade press a debate about the artistic...

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, The Freedwomen's Bureau, BLACKNUSS: books + other relics, Malcolm X Blvd. 131, Harlem, New York, NY, USA, October 12, 2014 | © Courtesy of j-No/Flickr.

Topical Spotlights

15/02/2019

BAME Authors, the Literary Establishment and the Publishing Industry in the UK

This essay discusses the creation of literary canons of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) fiction. A Blog Article by Izabella Penier. Literary canons are instruments of creating national identities. As Benedict Anderson has...

L'exposition "The boat is leaking. The captain lied" (Fondation Prada, Venise), Venice, Italy, June 26, 2017 | © Courtesy of Jean-Pierre Dalbéra/Flickr.

open cultural studies / Special Issue: Transmediating Culture(s)? / Topical Spotlights

17/03/2018

Transdisciplinary Studies Show How Hybridity Crosses the Boundaries of Cultural Media

In a special issue of Open Cultural Studies entitled “Transmediating Culture(s)?” that appeared in 2017, Justyna Stępień and Beata Zawadka, as its guest editors, have brought together contributions from cinema, literary, visual, epistemological and...

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Multicultural Cervantes

25/12/2017

Cervantes, the Journey, and What it Tells Us About Becoming a Writer

Lania Knight Published Online: 2017-12-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0036 Abstract The article traces the notion of empathy in fiction writing and how Cervantes’s treatment of characters in Don Quixote initiated a tradition which is ongoing in literature even...