Kristian Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 5084328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristian Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristian |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reframing the Refugee: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Compassionate Politics
Countless polls, studies and surveys conducted prior to and following the 2016 UK Referendum on Membership of the European Union confirmed immigration to be the key emotive issue for not only the British electorate, but several Western European nations. By critiquing key pieces of EU legislation, Go, Went, Gone (2015) by Jenny Erpenbeck offers a humanising, caustic warning of the troubling politicisation of EU and non-EU migration in Germany, sug…
Kazuo Ishiguro
Reading Brexit Backwards: British Eurosceptic Fiction from the European Coal and Steel Community to Maastricht
The post-war years were a period of introspection for British society as the nation endeavoured to remain fiercely insular yet became increasingly troubled by geopolitical relations reshaping the war-torn continent. Britain swiftly assumed the role of the reluctant European; their opposition to integration hindered by a destructive nostalgia for the past, the perceived erosion of cultural heritage and a sense of English exceptionalism. Beginning …
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918-2018: An Introduction
Introducing a Special Collection focused on exploring the engagement of artists, writers and intellectuals with Britain’s relationship to Europe, this short essay reflects on common strands and recurring themes in such engagement across a turbulent century. It draws out parallels between three time periods covered by articles included in the collection: the inter-war period, the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and the period from the…
Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project
Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society – from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives – that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath. \nReading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-…
CosmopolitanismsNegative Cosmopolitanism: Culture and Politics of World Citizenship after Globalization
Although much has been written on cosmopolitanism in recent years, two timely edited collections demonstrate an attempt to move beyond and reconfigure more normative understandings of the term (while continuing to note cosmopolitanism's emancipatory potential), to consider how multiple cosmopolitanism(s) may allow us to navigate the cultural, socioeconomic, and ethno-political concerns of the twenty-first century.Cosmopolitanisms includes chapter…
The Transglossic: Contemporary Fiction and the Limitations of the Modern
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…
Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
Review of Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement, Alexander Beaumont, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 239 pp., £55.00 \n(hardback), ISBN: 9781137393715
The Transglossic: Contemporary Fiction and the Limitations of the Modern
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…
Reading Brexit Backwards: British Eurosceptic Fiction from the European Coal and Steel Community to Maastricht
The post-war years were a period of introspection for British society as the nation endeavoured to remain fiercely insular yet became increasingly troubled by geopolitical relations reshaping the war-torn continent. Britain swiftly assumed the role of the reluctant European; their opposition to integration hindered by a destructive nostalgia for the past, the perceived erosion of cultural heritage and a sense of English exceptionalism. Beginning …
Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement
Review of Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Disenfranchisement, Alexander Beaumont, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 239 pp., £55.00 \n(hardback), ISBN: 9781137393715
Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project
Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society – from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives – that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath. \nReading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-…
CosmopolitanismsNegative Cosmopolitanism: Culture and Politics of World Citizenship after Globalization
Although much has been written on cosmopolitanism in recent years, two timely edited collections demonstrate an attempt to move beyond and reconfigure more normative understandings of the term (while continuing to note cosmopolitanism's emancipatory potential), to consider how multiple cosmopolitanism(s) may allow us to navigate the cultural, socioeconomic, and ethno-political concerns of the twenty-first century.Cosmopolitanisms includes chapter…
The Transglossic: Contemporary Fiction and the Limitations of the Modern
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…
Reading Brexit Backwards: British Eurosceptic Fiction from the European Coal and Steel Community to Maastricht
The post-war years were a period of introspection for British society as the nation endeavoured to remain fiercely insular yet became increasingly troubled by geopolitical relations reshaping the war-torn continent. Britain swiftly assumed the role of the reluctant European; their opposition to integration hindered by a destructive nostalgia for the past, the perceived erosion of cultural heritage and a sense of English exceptionalism. Beginning …
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918-2018: An Introduction
Introducing a Special Collection focused on exploring the engagement of artists, writers and intellectuals with Britain’s relationship to Europe, this short essay reflects on common strands and recurring themes in such engagement across a turbulent century. It draws out parallels between three time periods covered by articles included in the collection: the inter-war period, the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and the period from the…
Kazuo Ishiguro
Reframing the Refugee: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Compassionate Politics
Countless polls, studies and surveys conducted prior to and following the 2016 UK Referendum on Membership of the European Union confirmed immigration to be the key emotive issue for not only the British electorate, but several Western European nations. By critiquing key pieces of EU legislation, Go, Went, Gone (2015) by Jenny Erpenbeck offers a humanising, caustic warning of the troubling politicisation of EU and non-EU migration in Germany, sug…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Economic history (2 works)