Review

This paper analyzes the filiations and affiliations of biography, architecture, writing, power, and history between William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez. The author argues that the structures of Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch are highly symbolic and charged with a rich palimpsest of personal, historical, and national meanings. The structures are seen as troubled as they evoke both a critique of patriarchal power and violence in history even while they simultaneously reflect both author’s anxieties about newfound fame and the power that comes with it.

This study presents a new posthumanist reading of Susan Straight’s A Million Nightingales (2007), proposing a novel vision of familial relationships. The primary focus of my analysis is on the posthumanist representations of the African American family in A Million Nightingales, which suggest the blurring of existing boundaries and hierarchies through the underscoring of the importance of memory, body marks, and animated things. I draw inspiration from both Jane Bennett’s and Donna Haraway’s theories, assuming that a new reading of the novel should focus on the importance of embracing all the differences to create a more interconnected and harmonious existence for all beings.

The paper discusses the changing role of ethnicity in immigrant narratives with the example of Francine Prose's novel My New American Life (2011). It is a multidimensional work of fiction which presents ethnicity as a cultural and social asset. The novel brings into play and revisits a tradition of the novel of manners. It uses American cultural and social stereotypes to tailor the main character’s new identity of existential inbetweenness. and to represent the American realities of the Bush-Cheney era through the filter of the protagonist’s perspective as a semi-legal alien of a suspicious ethnic background. The paper problematizes the geopolitical challenges of immigration that the novel’s characters deal with in post-9/11 America. The article argues that in the novel, immigration is presented as a process with a distinct social dimension, prioritizing safety and welfare over the values of democracy and personal freedom.

The present article analyzes Rudyard Kipling's "McAndrew's Hymn" and "The Mary Gloster," two poems which, since their book publication in The Seven Seas (1896), have been traditionally paired but more seldom jointly discussed at great length. Building upon previous scholarship on Kipling's companion pieces, this article revisits them through the lenses of mobility and progress, focusing on the monologists' anxieties about different forms of mobility-related progress and bringing their imperial subtext to the fore. The article argues that, taken together, the two halves of Kipling's verse diptych illustrate a work ethos which appears to be subtly connected to empire-building and maintenance.

The 2017 BBC television series Howards End not only constitutes another 'retelling' of E. M. Forster's well-known story, but also illustrates how the perception of 'reality' portrayed in the narrative changes in the new version.As the article will argue, the representation of the British Empire becomes altered on the move from the novel to the series, largely as a result of the modifications in the point of view.Referring to the concept of 'the point of view as attitude' described by Edward Branigan and Seymour Chatman, the paper will examine the changes observable in the adaptation that result from the embracing of a more contemporary outlook on English society.Through highlighting the problems of imperialism as well as reflecting the post-colonial, multicultural character of England, the television series can be claimed to convey the critical attitude towards the British colonialism more explicitly than its source text.