Perspectives on Regional and National Literatures
The Perspectives on Regional and National Literatures book series publishes monographs and edited volumes that each focus on specific literatures from around the world. The breadth of the series comes from the deep investigations of regional and national literatures as well as their presence and perception within the international literary field. Viewed as a whole, this series is located at the cutting edge of literary studies research, with volumes for students and scholars in any area of comparative and world literature. Transnational and comparative approaches will also be welcome.
This collection brings contemporary Nigerian poetry into focus, bridging the gap between celebrated masters like Wole Soyinka and Christopher Okigbo and the dynamic voices emerging in the 21st century. It features fifteen essays, offering fresh perspectives on the intersection of poetry and political dissidence, responses to terrorism, the poetics of trauma and healing, questions of national identity, and peace-building through poetic expression.
This volume with contributions on the literature of the Heisei era (1989-2019) contains analyses of contemporary Japanese literature. It presents authors such as Shimada Masahiko, Abe Kazushige, Tawada Yôko and Shôno Yoriko, who use sophisticated, self-reflective language and subversive arguments against systems of power to criticize the times in the context of the question of national identity and transculturality.
