[Commlist] New open access book: Passages: Moving beyond liminality in the study of literature and culture (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Passages: Moving 
beyond liminality in the study of literature and culture, edited by 
Elizabeth Kovach, Jens Kugele, and Ansgar Nünning.
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Passages: Moving beyond liminality in the study of literature and culture
Comparative Literature and Culture series
Edited by Elizabeth Kovach, Jens Kugele, and Ansgar Nünning

Free download: https://bit.ly/3TeP5AY
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The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct 
understandings of passages – both as phenomena and critical concepts. 
These include the anthropological notion of rites of passage, the 
shopping arcades (Passagen) theorized by Walter Benjamin, the Middle 
Passage of the Atlantic slave trade, present-day forms of migration and 
resettlement, and understandings of translation and adaptation. Whether 
structural, semiotic, spatial/geographic, temporal, existential, 
societal or institutional, passages refer to processes of (status) 
change. They enable entrances and exits, arrivals and departures, while 
they also foster moments of liminality and suspension. They connect and 
thereby engender difference.

Passages is an exploration of passages as contexts and processes within 
which liminal experiences and encounters are situated. It aims to foster 
a concept-based, interdisciplinary dialogue on how to approach and 
theorize such a term. Based on the premise that concepts travel through 
times, contexts and discursive settings, a conceptual approach to 
passages provides the authors of this volume with the analytical tools 
to (re-)focus their research questions and create a meaningful exchange 
across disciplinary, national and linguistic boundaries.

Contributions from senior scholars and early-career researchers whose 
work focuses on areas such as cultural memory, performativity, space, 
media, (cultural) translation, ecocriticism, gender and race utilize 
specific understandings of passages and liminality, reflecting on their 
value and limits for their research.

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