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This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial "writing back" to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative strategies in the texts of early Black Atlantic authors, like Equiano, Sancho, Wedderburn, and Seacole, and British canonical novelists, such as Defoe, Sterne, Austen, and Dickens, are framed as entangled tonalities. Via their engagement with discourses on slavery, abolition, and imperialism, these texts shaped an understanding of national belonging as a form of familial feeling. This study thus complicates the "rise of the novel" framework and British middle-class identity formation from a transnational perspective combining approaches in narrative studies with postcolonial and queer theory.

Die Geschlechterordnung ist nach wie vor von einer idealisierten Vorstellung von Männlichkeit bestimmt. Dennoch skandalisieren die Medien regelmäßig einen »Verfall« von Männlichkeit. Elahe Haschemi Yekani unterzieht diese »angebliche Krise der Männlichkeit« einer kritischen Überprüfung. Sie entlarvt die Krisenrhetorik als Instrument, das privilegierte Positionen absichern soll. Die Studie bietet eingehende Analysen kolonialer und postkolonialer Krisennarrative in Literatur und Film. Biographische Informationen Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Dr. phil., ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Anglisti

Die Geschlechterordnung ist nach wie vor von einer idealisierten Vorstellung von Männlichkeit bestimmt. Dennoch skandalisieren die Medien regelmäßig einen »Verfall« von Männlichkeit. Elahe Haschemi Yekani unterzieht diese »angebliche Krise der Männlichkeit« einer kritischen Überprüfung. Sie entlarvt die Krisenrhetorik als Instrument, das privilegierte Positionen absichern soll. Die Studie bietet eingehende Analysen kolonialer und postkolonialer Krisennarrative in Literatur und Film.

Intro -- Funding Acknowledgement -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Revisualising Intersectionality -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Where Difference Begins -- Surfaces -- A Third Race -- The Power of Seeing -- Intersectional Perspectives -- Do We See What Is There? -- How Do We See What We See? -- Seeing Through Culture -- Towards Intersectional Stereotyping -- Attention: Exposure, Salience, Foregrounding -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Revisualising Intersectionality: Conversations -- Trans* -- Sameness -- Perception -- Intimacy -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films: -- Lectures: -- Performances: -- Texts: -- Chapter 4: The Ends of Visibility -- Visual Culture and Intersectionality -- Seeing Too Little, Seeing Too Much -- Other Modes of Seeing, Other Modes of Being -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- Films -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Revising Intersectionality -- Works Cited -- Index.

Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is looking in a specific context. Revisualising Intersectionality also puts into conversation visual culture studies and artistic research with approaches such as gender, queer, and trans studies as well as postcolonial and decolonial theory to complicate simplified notions of identity politics and cultural representation. The book proposes a revision of intersectionality research to challenge the predominance of categories of visible difference such as race and gender as analytical lenses.

Presenting some of the latest research in queer theory, this book draws together diverse perspectives to shed light on possible 'queer futures' when different affective, temporal, and local contexts are brought into play. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural, political, literary, and social theory, as well as those with interests in gender and sexuality, activism, and queer theory.

Modernization and digital globalization have proven to mark major thresholds where paradigmatic shifts and realignments take place. This volume aims to capture the reconfiguration of humanistic study between the forces of global integration and cultural diversification from a full range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The key issue is discussed in three major parts. The first chapter examines transnational interpolations of the humanities as potential indicator for a globalizing humanistic research. The second chapter deals with humanistic revisions of modernity with and against globality. The third chapter discusses the ambiguous constitution of cultural diversity as a complement and counter-movement to global integration, ideologically moving between social cohesion and exclusion. The final chapter outlines what the threshold-crossing from modern to global humanities will mean for the future of humanistic research.The multidisciplinary study of culture within the history of the humanities documents and reflects the mobility and migration of its concepts and methods, moving and translating between disciplines, research traditions, historical periods, academic institutions, and the public sphere.