Sara Upstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 116901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Upstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Upstone |
| SIGNATURE | UPSTONE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Transglossic
In the past twenty years, the continued relevance of the term postmodernism for literary studies has increasingly been called into question. In the wake of this re-evaluation of literary terminology, many new terms have been coined, frequently associated still with a “-modern” suffix. This paper suggests that while the new modernisms hold relevance for specific concerns of contemporary literature, they have yet to provide an alternative framing f…
Do novels tell us how to vote
The dissolution of the USSR and the birth of Soviet democracy via a novel about furry-footed halflings. It is a funny example, bathetic perhaps. But Maria Kamenkovich's reading of Tolkien is the literature academic's dream. The idea that national and international identities are constructed presents a challenge perhaps to those who wish to uphold Europe's value in the current moment. Whether an individual has encountered these representations dir…
Beyond the Bedroom
Informed by psychoanalytic criticism, and rooted principally in deconstructive practice, this paper aims to add to the growing scholarship on EL James’s controversial trilogy by considering a significant and hitherto unexplored aspect of their engagement with female identity: that is, motherhood. I argue that while the novels can be seen to be positioned ambivalently in terms of sexual relationships, it is beyond the bedroom that the real violenc…
Postmodern Literature and Race
Mobilising Representations
Researching and representing mobilities
Postcolonial Spaces
With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary po
British Asian fiction
This text focuses solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant and postcolonial literature
You Are What You Eat
Spatial politics in the postcolonial novel
Same Old, Same Old
Close examination of White Teeth and Brick Lane illustrates why postcolonial frameworks continue to be relevant when discussing “black British literature”. To differing degrees, both these novels maintain postcolonial contexts in their representation of British‐born black and Asian individuals, even as they express the confidence of this new generation. This paper addresses how the tensions between British‐born confidence and familiar tropes of m…
The Fulcrum of Instability
In a recent lecture, postcolonial critic John Erickson has referred to what he has termed the ‘nomadic thought’ of the postcolonial novel.1 Such usage immediately draws our attention to the ways in
The Transglossic
In the past twenty years, the continued relevance of the term postmodernism for literary studies has increasingly been called into question. In the wake of this re-evaluation of literary terminology, many new terms have been coined, frequently associated still with a “-modern” suffix. This paper suggests that while the new modernisms hold relevance for specific concerns of contemporary literature, they have yet to provide an alternative framing f…
You Are What You Eat
The Fulcrum of Instability
In a recent lecture, postcolonial critic John Erickson has referred to what he has termed the ‘nomadic thought’ of the postcolonial novel.1 Such usage immediately draws our attention to the ways in
Same Old, Same Old
Close examination of White Teeth and Brick Lane illustrates why postcolonial frameworks continue to be relevant when discussing “black British literature”. To differing degrees, both these novels maintain postcolonial contexts in their representation of British‐born black and Asian individuals, even as they express the confidence of this new generation. This paper addresses how the tensions between British‐born confidence and familiar tropes of m…
You Are What You Eat
Spatial politics in the postcolonial novel
British Asian fiction
This text focuses solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant and postcolonial literature
Postcolonial Spaces
With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary po
Mobilising Representations
Researching and representing mobilities
Postmodern Literature and Race
Beyond the Bedroom
Informed by psychoanalytic criticism, and rooted principally in deconstructive practice, this paper aims to add to the growing scholarship on EL James’s controversial trilogy by considering a significant and hitherto unexplored aspect of their engagement with female identity: that is, motherhood. I argue that while the novels can be seen to be positioned ambivalently in terms of sexual relationships, it is beyond the bedroom that the real violenc…
Do novels tell us how to vote
The dissolution of the USSR and the birth of Soviet democracy via a novel about furry-footed halflings. It is a funny example, bathetic perhaps. But Maria Kamenkovich's reading of Tolkien is the literature academic's dream. The idea that national and international identities are constructed presents a challenge perhaps to those who wish to uphold Europe's value in the current moment. Whether an individual has encountered these representations dir…
The Transglossic
In the past twenty years, the continued relevance of the term postmodernism for literary studies has increasingly been called into question. In the wake of this re-evaluation of literary terminology, many new terms have been coined, frequently associated still with a “-modern” suffix. This paper suggests that while the new modernisms hold relevance for specific concerns of contemporary literature, they have yet to provide an alternative framing f…
Art (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)