National and Transnational Literatures and Cultures
The National and Transnational Literatures and Cultures cluster draws together colleagues who work on the analysis of literary and other types of cultural 鈥榯ext鈥� as well as on the circumstances of production, circulation and consumption of those texts.
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There is a wide range of ongoing research projects in the cluster.
Some examples include:
- Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture, Socialist Realism, Soviet national literatures, Russian and Soviet film, critical theory and Soviet cultural history.
- Distinctive German forms of early realism, and many aspects of the German 18th and 19th century, as well as contemporary German-language literature (especially authors who rose to prominence after German unification); literature and philosophy in the Germanic world.
- Eighteenth-century French literature and cultural history; literature in contemporary France and in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean.
- Journalism and the 19th-century Spanish novel (including the Gald贸s Editions Project); Modern Catalan and peninsular Spanish literature and culture.
- Literature, popular and mass culture, sport and music in Latin America.
- Crime and fiction.
- Migration and literature (including the Portuguese global community, the Netherlands, the Hispanic USA, Africa and Europe).
- Transnational flows between Europe and Africa and the Americas as well as across the Americas.
- Politics, identity, globalization and national-transnational cultural theory.