Bibliography
This bibliography is in the process of being updated for 2022-23.
The list below focuses on secondary literature specific for each of the novels in the reading list (2021-22). Materials may be added only after each week's seminars have run. Materials for novels in previous reading lists appear at the end.
For general, theoretical, approaches to the novel, please see the 'Theory'Link opens in a new window page.
Week 1: Olga Tokarczuk. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. 2009. [Poland]
Gaard, Greta., Estok, Simon C., and Oppermann, Serpil. (eds.). International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism. New York and London: Routledge, 2013. https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9780203520840.
Karwowska, Bo偶ena. 鈥楳ythical Subversions (Olga Tokarczuk)鈥�. Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918, Tamara Trojanowska et al. (eds.), Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 417 - 422. JSTOR, .
Mars-Jones, Adam. 鈥楥onstellationality鈥� (Review of Flights). London Review of Books 39.19 (2017). .
Piotrowska, Agnieszka. (2020). What Does (a Nasty) Woman Want?. Feminist Encounters: A Journal ofCritical Studies in Culture and Politics, 4(2), 33. . Video: .
Piotrowska, Agnieszka (dir.). Spoor [Pokot]. Poland, Czeck Republic, Germany, 2017. DVD.
Riederer, Rachel. 鈥業s It a Crime? Olga Tokarczuk dismantles the murder mystery鈥�. The New Republic 250.11 (2019): 60-62. https://content.ebscohost.com/ContentServer.asp?EbscoContent=dGJyMMTo50SeqLc4yNfsOLCmsEmeprNSsqu4S7SWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGntk60p65Juerwgd%2FiuY%2Fx1%2B6B&T=P&P=AN&S=R&D=bth&K=139001155
Tokarczuk, Olga. 鈥楾he Tender Narrator鈥�. Nobel Prize Lecture. 7 December 2019. .
Wienroder-Skinner, Dagmar. 鈥楢ttempts at (Re)Conciliation: Polish-German Relations in Literary Texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk鈥�. Laurel Cohen-Pfister and Dagmar Wienroder-Skinner (eds.). Victims and Perpetrators 1933-1945. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2006. 262-282. DOI: .
Week 2: Dulce Maria Cardoso. The Return. 2011. [Portugal]
Gilroy, Paul. After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? London: Routledge, 2004.
Ferreira, Ana Paula. 鈥楲usotropicalist Entanglements: Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis鈥�. Hilary Owen and Anna M. Klobucka (eds.). Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections. New York and London: Palgrave, 2014, 49-68.
Lubkemann, Stephen C. 鈥楻ace, Class, and Kin in the Negotiation of 鈥淚nternal Strangerhood鈥� among Portuguese Retornados, 1975-2000鈥�. Andrea L. Smith (ed.). Europe鈥檚 Invisible Migrants (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003, 75-94.
Medeiros, Paulo de. 鈥樷�淐aring for the Sacred Heart鈥�: Eliete, Memory, And (Im)Possible Returns, or a Politics of Banality鈥�. Portuguese Studies, 36.1 (2020), 32 - 48. JSTOR, .
Medeiros, Paulo, et al. 鈥楧ulce Maria Cardoso: Interview鈥�. Portuguese Studies, 36.1 (2020): 49 - 66. JSTOR,.
Mendes, Ana Cristina. 鈥楻emembering and fictionalizing inhospitable Europe: The experience of Portuguese retornados in Dulce Maria Cardoso鈥檚 The Return and Isabela Figueiredo鈥檚 Notebook of Colonial Memories. Journal of Postcolonial Studies 53:6, 729-742, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2017.1353538.
Ovalle-Baham贸n, Ricardo E. 鈥楾he Wrinkles of Decolonization and Nationness: White Angolans as Retornados in Portugal. Andrea L. Smith (ed.). Europe鈥檚 Invisible Migrants (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003, 147-168.
Peralta, Elsa. 鈥楾he Return from Africa: Illegitimacy, Concealment, and the Non-Memory of Portugal鈥檚 Imperial Collapse. Memory Studies, May 2019, doi:10.1177/1750698019849704
Week 3: Max Porter. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. 2016. [UK]
Clark, Heather. The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Gross, Richard. Understanding Grief: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.
Hughes, Ted. Crow. London: Faber and Faber, 1970.
Kitamura, Katie. 鈥楾heir Grief Counselor is a Crow. It鈥檚 Fiction.鈥� The New York Times, 1 July 2016. .
Marzluff, John M. and Angell Tony. In the Company of Crows and Ravens. Illustrated by Tony Angell. Foreword by Paul Ehrlich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Porter, Max. 鈥業nterview with Sarah Crown鈥�. The Guardian. 12 September 2015. .
Porter, Max. 鈥業nterview with Frances Gertler鈥�. Foyles. .
Sarti, Sebastian. 鈥極n Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter鈥�. Kenyon Review. .
Week 4: Jesmyn Ward. Sing, Unburied, Sing. 2017. [USA]
Allardice, Lisa. 鈥業nterview: Jesmyn Ward: 鈥淏lack girls are silenced, misunderstood and underestimated鈥濃��. The Guardian. 11 May 2018. .
Green, Adrienne. 鈥楯esmyn Ward's Eerie, Powerful Unearthing of History鈥�. The Atlantic. 28 September 2017. .
Hartnell, Anna. After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century. Albany, SUNY Press, 2017.
Keeble, Arin. Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film, and Television. London: Palgrave, 2019. .
Khedhir, Yesmina. "GHOSTS TELL STORIES: CULTURAL HAUNTING IN JESMYN WARD'S SING, UNBURIED, SING." British and American Studies, vol. 26, 2020, pp. 17-23,269. ProQuest, .
MacNamee, Eoin. 鈥�Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward review: Deep darkness in the Deep South鈥�. The Irish Times. 6 March 2021. .
Maran, Meerdith. 鈥楯esmyn Ward: Why I Write About Myself鈥�. Chicago Tribune. 28 January 2016. .
McCord, Charline R., and Judy H. Tucker, editors. 鈥楯esmyn Ward鈥�. Coming Home to Mississippi. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013, pp. 111–113. JSTOR, .
Ward, Jesmyn. 鈥極n Witness and Despair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic鈥�. Vanity Fair. September 2020. .
Ward, Jesmyn. Editor. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Week 5: Patrick Modiano. Invisible Ink. 2018. [France]
Kawakami, Akane. Patrick Modiano. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Niroula, Pradick. 鈥楾he Mysteries and Melodies of Memory in Invisible Ink鈥�. Chicago Review of Books. 2 November 2020.
Ousselin, Edward. 鈥�Encre sympathique by Patrick Modiano鈥�. World Literature Today. Winter 2020.
Tonkin, Boyd. In search of No毛lle: Invisible Ink, by Patrick Modiano, reviewed. The Spectator. 9 January 2021.
VanderWolk, William. Rewriting the past: memory, history and narration in the novels of Patrick Modiano. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.
Week 6: Reading week
Week 7: Bernardine Evaristo. Girl, Woman, Other. 2019. [UK]
Brown, Wendy. 鈥楴o Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and Ressentiment鈥�. In Brown, Wendy. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 161-188.
Evaristo, Bernardine. 'These are unprecedented times for black female writers'. The Guardian. 19 October 2019. .
Gatti, Tom. Interview with Bernardine Evaristo: 鈥榃e Are Pretty Invisible in Fiction鈥�. New Statesman. 25-31 October 2019. .
Gilroy, Paul. There Ain鈥檛 No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 1987; 1992. .
Hall, Stuart. The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Le贸n, Concepci贸n de. 鈥楤ooker Prize Winner 鈥楪irl, Woman, Other鈥� Is Coming to America鈥�. Interview. The New York Times. 1 November 2019.
Nash, Jennifer C. Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019. .
Osborne, Deirdre, Editor. The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Sethi, Anita. 鈥業nterview. Bernadine Evaristo: 鈥淚 want to Put Presence into Absence鈥濃��. The Guardian. 27 April 2019. .
Pitts, Johny. Afropean: Notes from Black Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2019.
Week 8: Sally Rooney. Normal People. 2019. [Ireland]
Baucina, Anastasia. 鈥淗ow Sally Rooney Gave Normal People Radical Politics鈥�. Jacobin 5 June 2020.
Collins, Laureen. 鈥楽ally Rooney Gets in Your Head鈥�. The New Yorker. 31 December 2018.
Delistarty, Cody. 鈥楽ally Rooney鈥檚 Politics of Millennial Resignation鈥�. Vulture 11 April 2019.
Leszkiewicz, Anna. 鈥楪eneration Normal鈥�. New Statesman 14-20 September 2018. 40-43.
Nolan, Michael. Interview with Sally Rooney. 鈥楽ally Rooney: 鈥淎 large part of my style has definitely developed through writing emails鈥濃��. The Irish Times 13 November 2017.
Quinn, Annalisa. 鈥楾he Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney鈥檚 Normal People鈥�. Normal People. The Atlantic 21 April 2019.
Week 9: Kazuo Ishiguro. Klara and the Sun. 2020. [UK]
Bedgood, Daniel. 'Kazuo Ishiguro: Alternate Histories'. The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000. Ed. James Acheson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 109-118.
Hanson, Clare. 鈥楥lone Lives: Eva Hoffman and Kazuo Ishiguro鈥�. Genetics and the Literary Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 118-146.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs. Nobel Lecture. Svenska Akademien, 2017.
Ishiguro, Kazuo with Lisa Allardice. 鈥榠nterview鈥� The Guardian. 20-2.2021.
Matthews, Sean and Sebastian Groes, Eds. Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
Owen, Jean and Naomi Segal. Eds. On Replacement. Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations. London: Palgrave, 2018.
Rid, Thomas. Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2016.
Sim, Wai-chew. Globalisation and Dislocation in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. PhD Dissertation. University of 糖心TV, 2002.
Wood, James. 鈥楰azuo Ishiguro Uses Artificial Intelligence to Reveal the Limits of Our Own鈥�. The New Yorker, March 8, 2021.
Week 10: Oyinkan Braithwaite. My Sister, the Serial Killer. 2019. [Nigeria]
Barenbaum, Rachel. 鈥業nterview with Oyinkan Braithwaite, Author of My Sister, the Serial Killer. Dead Darlings. Everything Novel. 21 March 2019.
Griswold, Wendy. Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Irele, F. Abiola, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Nash, Jennifer C. Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019.
O鈥橤rady, Carrie. 鈥楳y Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – a morbidly funny slashfest鈥�. The Guardian. 4 January 2019.
Rocco. Fiametta. 鈥業n This Novel, One Sister Is a Nurse. The Other Is a Murderer鈥�. New York Times. 9 January 2019.
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G眉nter Grass. Crabwalk. 2002. [Germany]
Baker, Gary L. 鈥楾he Middle Voice in G眉nter Grass's Im Krebsgang鈥�. The German Quarterly 83.2 (2010): 230-244.
Bullivant, Keith. 鈥楪ermans as Victims?! G眉nter Grass' 鈥楥rabwise (Im Krebsgang)鈥�. SAMLA Presidential Address 16 November 2002.鈥� South Atlantic Review, vol. 68, no. 2, 2003. 91- 96. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3201722.
Fuchs, Anne. 鈥楩amily Narratives and Postmemory: G眉nter Grass鈥檚 Im Krebsgang, Tanja D眉ckers鈥檚 贬颈尘尘别濒蝉办枚谤辫别谤 and Marcel Beyer鈥檚 Spione. In: Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse. New Perspectives in German Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 45-76. .
Hall, Katharina. 鈥楪眉nter Grass鈥檚 鈥淒anzig Quintet鈥濃��. In S. Taberner (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to G眉nter Grass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 67-80. doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521876704.006.
Radstone, Susannah, and Bill Schwartz (eds). Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
Taberner, Stuart. 鈥樷�淣ormalization鈥� and the New Consensus on the Nazi Past: G眉nter Grass鈥檚 Im Krebsgang and the Problem of German War- time Suffering鈥�. Oxford German Studies 31 (2002): 161–86.
Veel, Kristin. 鈥榁irtual Memory in G眉nter Grass's Im Krebsgang鈥�. German Life and Letters 57.2 (2004): 206-218. .
Youngman, Paul A. 鈥楾he Realization of a Virtual Past in G眉nter Grass's Crabwalk鈥�. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 32.1 (2008): 1-23. .
Chico Buarque de Holanda. My German Brother. 2014. [Brazil]
Anderson, Perry. Brazil apart: 1964-2019. London and New York: Verso, 2019.
Coutinho, Eduardo F., ed. Brazilian Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Fitz, Earl E. Brazilian Narrative Traditions in a Comparative Context. New York: The Modern Language Association, 2005.
Gurria Quintana, Angel. 鈥淟unch with the FT: Chico Buarque鈥� Financial Times 3 September 2004. .
Hill, Matt Rowland. 鈥楰afka on Copacabana鈥�. Review of My German Brother. Literary Review 464 May 2018. .
Sch酶llhammer, Karl Erik. Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian fiction. London and New York: Anthem Press, 2020.