Bryan Yazell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Yazell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yazell |
| SIGNATURE | YAZELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2263-3488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theorising the collective in British estate literature
This article attends to recent examples of British estate literature, a literary form which extends across disparate genres and media. In general, estate literature attempts to correct pernicious prejudices about communities centred on the council estate, stereotypes which align classist, racist, and sexist rhetoric to marginalise this population. In addition to locating recent examples of estate literature – Caleb Femi’s, Poor (2020), Anders Lus…
Migrancy and utopia
This paper attends to the utopian imagination circulating in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997). These texts exemplify the formal innovation assigned to migrancy fiction more generally, a genre characterised by its embrace of mobility in content as well as in form. Alongside migrancy novels, utopian fiction both maps and distorts the networks and infrastructures that generate wealth inequality on a g…
The role of literary fiction in facilitating social science research
Scholars in literature departments and the social sciences share a broadly similar interest in understanding human development, societal norms, and political institutions. However, although literature scholars are likely to reference sources or concepts from the social sciences in their published work, the line of influence is much less likely to appear the other way around. This unequal engagement provides the occasion for this paper, which seek…
Literature, Economics, and a Turn to Content
In much of the recent scholarship on economics and literature, the depth of insight is inversely proportional to the status claimed for literature as such. For example, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro’s Cents and Sensibility argues that economists need to read literary works for their great moral wisdom, and they fault literary scholars for ignoring this appeal and for failing to understand basic economics. But as this survey of recent publi…
Naturalist Compulsion, Racial Divides, and the Time-Loop Zombie
This paper develops a dialogue between two lines of inquiry: on the one hand, Jennifer Fleissner’s groundbreaking reading of literary naturalism in terms of compulsive, repetitive gestures stuck in historical time; on the other hand, the recent special issue of Studies in Literary Naturalism on the topic of “Naturalism and Science Fiction.” Focusing on naturalism’s intersections with dystopian science fiction, this essay considers the transformed…
A Sociology of Failure
This paper identifies what it terms a sociology of failure at work in American climate fiction novels dealing with the subject of climate-induced migration within the United States. Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus exemplify this trend inasmuch as their accounts of future climate migrants derive from outdated migrant typologies. Drawing from C. Wright Mills’s Sociological Imagination and Kim Stanley Ro…
Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation
Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki Tatsumi
Cents and sensibility
Early on in Cents and Sensibility, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro diagnose a problem endemic to humanities departments. Faced with declining student enrollment and dwindling funding, humaniti
Governable Travelers
Near the end of the nineteenth century, the “tramp” embodied the most extreme aspects of the boom-and-bust economy in the US. More than any other writer of his day, the ethnographer Josiah Flynt assisted both the public and government officials in visualizing the lives of tramps with the intent of rehabilitating this population. The key text in this effort, Flynt’s Tramping with Tramps (1899) hinges on a comparison between US and European vagranc…
Naturalist Compulsion, Racial Divides, and the Time-Loop Zombie
This paper develops a dialogue between two lines of inquiry: on the one hand, Jennifer Fleissner’s groundbreaking reading of literary naturalism in terms of compulsive, repetitive gestures stuck in historical time; on the other hand, the recent special issue of Studies in Literary Naturalism on the topic of “Naturalism and Science Fiction.” Focusing on naturalism’s intersections with dystopian science fiction, this essay considers the transformed…
Governable Travelers
Near the end of the nineteenth century, the “tramp” embodied the most extreme aspects of the boom-and-bust economy in the US. More than any other writer of his day, the ethnographer Josiah Flynt assisted both the public and government officials in visualizing the lives of tramps with the intent of rehabilitating this population. The key text in this effort, Flynt’s Tramping with Tramps (1899) hinges on a comparison between US and European vagranc…
Cents and sensibility
Early on in Cents and Sensibility, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro diagnose a problem endemic to humanities departments. Faced with declining student enrollment and dwindling funding, humaniti
Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation
Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki Tatsumi
Naturalist Compulsion, Racial Divides, and the Time-Loop Zombie
This paper develops a dialogue between two lines of inquiry: on the one hand, Jennifer Fleissner’s groundbreaking reading of literary naturalism in terms of compulsive, repetitive gestures stuck in historical time; on the other hand, the recent special issue of Studies in Literary Naturalism on the topic of “Naturalism and Science Fiction.” Focusing on naturalism’s intersections with dystopian science fiction, this essay considers the transformed…
A Sociology of Failure
This paper identifies what it terms a sociology of failure at work in American climate fiction novels dealing with the subject of climate-induced migration within the United States. Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus exemplify this trend inasmuch as their accounts of future climate migrants derive from outdated migrant typologies. Drawing from C. Wright Mills’s Sociological Imagination and Kim Stanley Ro…
The role of literary fiction in facilitating social science research
Scholars in literature departments and the social sciences share a broadly similar interest in understanding human development, societal norms, and political institutions. However, although literature scholars are likely to reference sources or concepts from the social sciences in their published work, the line of influence is much less likely to appear the other way around. This unequal engagement provides the occasion for this paper, which seek…
Literature, Economics, and a Turn to Content
In much of the recent scholarship on economics and literature, the depth of insight is inversely proportional to the status claimed for literature as such. For example, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro’s Cents and Sensibility argues that economists need to read literary works for their great moral wisdom, and they fault literary scholars for ignoring this appeal and for failing to understand basic economics. But as this survey of recent publi…
Migrancy and utopia
This paper attends to the utopian imagination circulating in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997). These texts exemplify the formal innovation assigned to migrancy fiction more generally, a genre characterised by its embrace of mobility in content as well as in form. Alongside migrancy novels, utopian fiction both maps and distorts the networks and infrastructures that generate wealth inequality on a g…
Theorising the collective in British estate literature
This article attends to recent examples of British estate literature, a literary form which extends across disparate genres and media. In general, estate literature attempts to correct pernicious prejudices about communities centred on the council estate, stereotypes which align classist, racist, and sexist rhetoric to marginalise this population. In addition to locating recent examples of estate literature – Caleb Femi’s, Poor (2020), Anders Lus…
Art (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (2 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)