Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies, “Complicity in Post-1945 Literature: Theory, Aesthetics, Politics"
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 20970
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Penn State University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Complicity in Post-1945 Literature: Theory, Politics, Aesthetics is a 173-page special issue of Comparative Literature Studies, published in 2019, edited by Adam Kelly and Will Norman. It comprises an introduction and eight articles. The editors shared all editorial responsibilities at 50%/50%. Will Norman is also the individual contributor of one of the eight articles, entitled “Complicit Atmospheres: Anti-Semitism in Midcentury US Fiction”. The editorial work included: organizing and chairing a foundational seminar on the same topic at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in 2017; proposing a special issue to the general editor of the journal; soliciting and selecting contributions; organizing double peer-review for each article; working with individual authors on editing and revising articles; writing the substantial (8,000 word) introduction. The introduction, “Complicity Then and Now”, includes new research and thinking about the topic, gives a rationale for the design of the issue and makes the case for the importance of literature to the interdisciplinary study of complicity.
While complicity is an established topic of research in law, politics, and philosophy, this is the first collection of original research to be focused primarily on complicity and literature. The issue was carefully designed by the editors to offer a new, global, and transnational perspective on the interrelation of complicity and literature. Sub-topics addressed by contributors include literatures of Germany, the United States, Israel, Japan, Chile, and France. The issue addresses all scholars of complicity, including those based in other disciplines. It is also intended to be a point of reference for researchers in post-1945 world and comparative literatures, and to scholars of the different national literatures discussed. Overall, the issue represents a multifaceted intervention in complicity studies, offering new frameworks for understanding the topic, new interpretations of literary works, and the first account of complicity and the world system.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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