The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short story genre has yet to be fully explored by scholars. This book offers a deep-dive into crime short stories written by a wide range of authors, tracing the history and evolution of the crime short story. The book offers an accessible and original examination of crime short stories, focusing on compelling themes such as miscarriage of justice, feminism, environmental crime and toxic masculinity.

This compelling and unique collection of critical and creative work assesses for the first time cultural, literary, legal, and historical representations and narratives about mothers who kill and filicide. The idea of a mother killing her child to many presents the greatest taboo, and the most disturbing and distressing aspect of maternal experience. In Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved, escaped slave mother Sethe addresses her daughter Beloved whom she murdered out of desperation, in order to avoid her returning to a life of slavery and sexual abuse. Sethe reflects, "I'll explain to her, even though I don't have to. Why I did it. How if I hadn't killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her. When I explain it she'll understand." This book goes beyond Morrison's widely known literary portrayal, in order to investigate a range of other, less known but no less challenging, examinations of maternal filicide. Have mothers who kill inevitably been portrayed as monsters in cultural representations? Or are there certain contexts that may urge us to reevaluate maternal behavior? And how might we counter the misogynist narratives surrounding maternal filicide which have governed literary and historical accounts and affected legal discourses? This wide-ranging and innovative volume examines the complex issues of infanticide and mothers who kill from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, in order to counter the misogynist cultural narratives that underpin prevailing stereotypes of mothers. The book includes creative work, essays on crime fiction, literature from across a range of historical periods, multicultural and Global South perspectives, legal and historical accounts, and more. Making an invaluable contribution to motherhood studies and gender criticism, this book offers a rich insight into current and cutting-edge research into this most troubling area of maternal representation.

"Don't women with children travel?" Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael enquire, in their book A Mother's World: Journeys of the Heart (1998), when discovering the absence of portrayals of travelling mothers. Addressing this absence, our book Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel explores the multiple dimensions of motherhood and travel. Through a variety of compelling creative pieces and critical essays with a global outlook and wide-ranging historical, cultural, and national perspectives, Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel examines the vital contributions made to travel writing and representations of travel by mothers. Autoethnographical approaches inform many of the pieces in this book, illustrating the significance of the personal and writing the self in re-imagining our cultural narratives and representations of travel, and the mothers who undertake it. This book is about mothers who travel, for mothers who travel with their children, and all those readers who have travelled in any capacity, with or without family.

More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies. This book offers lively original essays on teaching crime fiction written by experienced British and international scholar teachers, providing vital insight into this diverse genre through a series of compelling subjects. Taking its starting-point in pedagogical reflections and classroom experiences, the book explores methods for teaching students to develop their own critical perspectives as crime fiction critics, the impact of feminism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism on crime fiction, crime fiction and film, the crime short story, postgraduate perspectives, and more.

Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, examining experiences, representations, creative manifestations, and embodiments of mothers without their children. In her 1997 book, entitled Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood, the critic Elaine Tuttle Hansen urged for critical and feminist engagement with what she described as 'the borders of motherhood and the women who really live there, neither fully inside nor fully outside some recognizable "family unit", and often exiles from their children'. This book extends and expands this important enquiry, looking at maternal experience and mothering on the borders of motherhood in different historical and cultural contexts, thereby opening up the way in which we imagine and represent mothers without their children to reassessment and revision, and encouraging further dialogue about what it might mean to mother on the borders of motherhood.

This book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media, sustained examinations of pedagogies involved in decolonising the literature at university level are still lacking in English and related subjects. This book makes a crucial contribution to these evolving discussions, presenting current and critically engaged pedagogical scholarship on decolonising the literature curriculum. Offering a broad spectrum of accessible chapters authored by experienced national and international academics, the book is structured into two parts, Texts and Contexts, presenting case studies on decolonising the literature curriculum which range from the undergraduate classroom, university writing centres, through to the literary doctorate.

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universitat zu Koln (Englisches Seminar), 84 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Diese Staatsarbeit stellt zwei moderne australische Texte, einen Roman und ein Buch, im Rahmen moderner Literaturtherie vor. Diese Texte sind Beispiele postkolonialer Literatur, weil in diesen das Thema der "stolen generations" verarbeitet wird. Nachdem die Texte und moderne Literaturtheorien vorgestellt wurden, werden auf dieser Basis konkrete, im Lehrplan Englisch fur NRW verankerte Unterrichtsinhalte fur einen Englischunterricht der Oberstufe dargelegt., Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll dargelegt werden, dass das Unterrichtsthema Australien im Rahmen des Englischunterrichts anhand des Romans Rabbit-Proof Fence von Doris PILKINGTON und seiner Verfilmung Long Walk Home von Regisseur Philip NOYCE den genannten Anforderungen durch Curriculum und Lehrplan gerecht werden kann, aber auch Orientierung in der Lebenswelt der Schuler vermitteln und so dem definierten Bildungsbegriff entsprechen kann. Das Thema Australien kann sich, besonders im Fremdsprachenunterricht, Problemfeldern wie Postkolonialismus und Postmodernismus, aber auch spezifisch australischen Themen von globaler Bedeutung offnen ...]. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, dass die Behandlung von Long Walk Home und Rabbit-Proof Fence einen sinnvollen Gegenstand modernen Literaturunterrichts darstellt. Es werden wesentliche Lernziele und Inhalte vorgestellt, die sich aus dieser Behandlung ergeben konnen. Die Arbeit ist in drei Teile gegliedert: In einem ersten, theoretischen Teil sollen wichtige theoretische und didaktische Konzepte vorgestellt werden, die im Hinblick auf einen zeitgemassen Literaturunterricht in der Sekundarstufe II sowie die gewahlten literarischen Werke, also Film und Roman, relevant sind (2). Dies sind die Literaturtheorie mit ihrer Bedeutung fur eine Beschaftigung mit Literatur, die Kulturtheorie