Volume 7: Rebirth (2021)

You can access a digital version of the volume here.

Alternatively, a downloadable PDF is available here.

Volume 7 of Litterae Mentis explores the theme of Rebirth in literature. The contributors contemplate the variety of ways in which people reinvent themselves in the face of adversity through engaging academic articles and thought-provoking creative pieces.

Foreword:

On Rebirth — Dr Stella Bolaki

Dr Stella Bolaki is Reader in American Literature and Medical Humanities and has worked in the School of English at the University of Kent since 2011. She is author of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction (2011) and of Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture (2016). She has co-edited Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies (2015) and Prescriptions: Artists’ Books on Wellbeing and Medicine (2017). Her current project explores how ideas of self-care are interrogated and articulated in contemporary literature and culture, across a wide range of genres, and draws on philosophical, medical, activist, and other interdisciplinary material.

Contributors:

Rebirth in Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles — Kieran Blewitt

Being Written in Canterbury — Salamis Aysegul Sentug

Identity Transformations as a ‘Superman’ Rebirth in Joyce Carol Oates’ Wonderland — Dorota Horvath

A Prolonged Labour: Transition, Liminality and Work in Harry Josephine Giles’ Wages for Transition and ‘Some Definitions’ — Lilith Cooper

‘A Woman’s Lot Is to Suffer’: Regenerations of Immigrant Women in Modern Contemporary Literature — Tiffany Messer-Bass