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Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

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Introduction; Naomi Segal PART I: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING 1. Section Introduction; Daniela Koleva 2. Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture; Isabel Capeloa Gil 3. Textualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d´état Novels; Sibel Irz?k 4. Can Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff´s ´The Missing Voice´ in Spitalfields; Ricarda Vidal PART II: MIGRATION AND TRANSLATION 5. Section Introduction; Loredana Polezzi 6. Migrant Poet(h)ics; Borbála Faragó 7. Translating the In-Between: Literatures of Performance and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society; Robert Crawshaw 8. Lost (and Gained) in Migration: the writing of migrancy; Mary Gallagher PART III: ELECTRONIC TEXTUALITY 9. Section Introduction; Leopoldina Fortunati 10. Non-Consumptive Reading; Susan Schreibman 11. Reading (and Writing) Online, Rather than on the Decline; Kathleen Fitzpatrick 12. I Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and the Implied Player; Espen Aarseth PART IV: BIOSOCIALITY, BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY 13. Section Introduction; Ulrike Landfester 14. Human Enhancement: is it ´Mere´ Science Fiction? The Rise and Rise of Disembodied Ethics; Heather Bradshaw-Martin 15. History in the Gene? How Biohistories are Implicated in Biopolitics and Biosocialities; Marianne Sommer 16. Between Hybrid and Graft; Uwe Wirth Index

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Espen Aarseth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Heather G. Bradshaw-Martin University of Bristol, UK Robert Crawshaw, Lancaster University, UK Borbála Faragó, University of Budapest, Hungary Kathleen Fitzpatrick, New York University, USA Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy Mary Gallagher, University College Dublin, Ireland Isabel Capeloa Gil, Catholic University of Portugal Sibel Irz?k, Sabanc? University, Turkey Daniela Koleva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Ulrike Landfester, St. Gallen, Switzerland Loredana Polezzi, University of Warwick, UK Susan Schreibman, National University of Ireland Maynooth Naomi Segal, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Marianne Sommer, University of Lucerne, Switzerland Ricarda Vidal, King´s College London, UK Uwe Wirth, Justus Liebig University, Germany

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