Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

Introduction; Naomi Segal PART I: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING 1. Section Introduction; Daniela Koleva 2. Visual Recall in the Present: Critical Nostalgia and the Memory of Empire in Portuguese Culture; Isabel Capeloa Gil 3. Textualized Memories of Politics: Turkish Coup d'état Novels; Sibel Irz?k 4. Can Developers Learn from Art? Janet Cardiff's 'The Missing Voice' in Spitalfields; Ricarda Vidal PART II: MIGRATION AND TRANSLATION 5. Section Introduction; Loredana Polezzi 6. Migrant Poet(h)ics; Borbála Faragó 7. Translating the In-Between: Literatures of Performance and the Relationship between Language, Literature and Society; Robert Crawshaw 8. Lost (and Gained) in Migration: the writing of migrancy; Mary Gallagher PART III: ELECTRONIC TEXTUALITY 9. Section Introduction; Leopoldina Fortunati 10. Non-Consumptive Reading; Susan Schreibman 11. Reading (and Writing) Online, Rather than on the Decline; Kathleen Fitzpatrick 12. I Fought the Law: Transgressive Play and the Implied Player; Espen Aarseth PART IV: BIOSOCIALITY, BIOPOLITICS AND THE BODY 13. Section Introduction; Ulrike Landfester 14. Human Enhancement: is it 'Mere' Science Fiction? The Rise and Rise of Disembodied Ethics; Heather Bradshaw-Martin 15. History in the Gene? How Biohistories are Implicated in Biopolitics and Biosocialities; Marianne Sommer 16. Between Hybrid and Graft; Uwe Wirth Index