Contextual confluence : media, text and traditions /

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 mutu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Marino, Elisabetta (Editor), Kumar, Ajit (College teacher) (Editor), Chernoff, Maxine, 1952- (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
Subjects:	Culture in literature. Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. Literature > Themes, motives.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / by Prof. Emerita Maxine Chernoff
Introduction
Part I: Interactions: mutuality and altruism. Chapter I. The city of blues and jazz : reading Langston Hughes's "Railroad Avenue" / Dokubo Melford Goodhead
Chapter II. Love and reciprocity : Black feminism in Germany and ethics of community care / Tyler Akeem Anderson
Chapter III. Black women within the framework of race and gender : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Shahin Fatma
Chapter IV. Zeina : visibility gained, invisibility defeated in a postcolonial feminist text / Cyrine Kortas.
Part II: Cataclysmic: metamorphoses and temporality. Chapter V. Problematizing masculinities in Owen McCafferty's three Irish monologue plays / Wei H. Kao
Chapter VI. Multiple reconstructions in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Italian pieces / Elisabetta Marino
Chapter VII. A comparative study of the eco-poetry of Robert Frost and Tumonbai Baizakov / Rahat Alishova
Chapter VIII. Eliot's apocalypse: The waste land's depiction of humanity in terms of Heidegger's "being towards death" / Oran Ryan.
Part III: Symbiosis: transformations and redefinition. Chapter IX. The Indian eco-cinema : exploring the interplay between nature, people and life via The elephant whisperers and All that breathes / Sukriti Bhukkal
Chapter X. "Mr. Melancholy is the big bad" : hauntology, spectral intertextuality and lost queer futures in Jane Schoenbrun's I saw the TV glow / Ismail Onur Sonat.
Part IV: Subtextual: subtle and perceptive. Chapter XI. Reconciliation and destruction of peace in A passage to India / Mehmet Ali Çelikel
Chapter XII. The other : the disabled female as a construction, myth and reality in Dickens' two short works / Madhumita Majumdar
Chapter XIII. Re-writing/righting the narratives : creating a new discourse on Tawaifs / Khushi Khandelwal
Chapter XIV. The fangs of the moor : an ecogothic reading of The hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Sharmistha Chatterjee.