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British and American Studies is indexed in the following data bases: ISSN 1224-3086 e-ISSN 2457-7715 Publisher MARILENA TUDOR Cover Design DAN URSACHI Cover llustration IOSIF STROIA Layout DORIN DAVIDEANU Editura UniversităĠii de Vest Calea Bogdăneútilor, nr. 32A, 300389, Timiúoara E-mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +40 - 256 592 681 3 NEW MODES OF SELF-FASHIONING CONTENTS NEW MODES OF SELF-FASHIONING Alberto Lazaro The Culture of Migration in British Modernist Fiction / 9 Alexandru Budac The Zen Master’s Comics: Self-Aware- ness and Popular Culture in Glen David Gold’s I Will Be Complete / 19 Abbas Goudarzi Shakespeare and the Bakhtinian Dia- logism: The Case Of Othello / 27 Cristina Chevereşan “A Stranger in Mitteleuropa”: Central- European Insights in Philip Roth’s The Prague Orgy / 39 Xiaorui Du Salvation through Individuation: A Jungian Interpretation of Larry Darrel’s Spiritual Journey in The Razor’s Edge / 49 Oleksandr Kapranov Self-Mention in Research Sections of University Websites in Estonia and the United Kingdom / 57 Kevin Wolke Racist Expatriate? Henry Miller’s Na- tional Stereotypes in Tropic of Capri- corn and The Air-Conditioned Night- mare / 71 Maulana Mualim A City upon a Hill: Spirituality and Exceptionalism in the Founding of America / 85 Paulina Napierała Black Churches and African-American Social Activism. The ‘Opiate View’ and the ‘Inspiration View’ of Black Religion in the Selected Literature / 95 Mihaela Georgiana Manasia Pseudonymity: Victorian Women Au- thors’ Recognition Strategy / 113 B.A.S. vol. XXVII, 2021 4 THE BEAUTY OF MEDUSA – PARADOXES OF CULTURE Andrea Velich Ken Loach’s Fair Share of Home and Family Issues from Cathy Come Home and The Angels’ Share to Sorry, We Missed You / 125 Estella Ciobanu Silent Medusa? En-Gendering Knowl- edge in The West: A Case Study / 135 Jovanka Kalaba Aestheticism and Art Nouveau in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé / 147 Adriana Răducanu Laws of Attraction: Language and/as Magic in Othello and The Enchantress of Florence / 157 Christopher E. Koy Folklore and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God / 167 Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero “I Cannot Want a Muse, Who Write to You”: The Multiplicity of Rhetorical Styles in Behn’s The Unfortunate Bride: Or, The Blind Lady A Beauty. A Novel / 177 Gabriela Glăvan Years of the Plague. A Rereading of Philip Roth’s Nemesis / 191 Kiyotaka Sueyoshi Jeffersonian Whitman: The Impact Of Jefferson On Whitman / 201 SOWING THE WIND, REAPING THE WHIRLWIND Shreya Bera Fear, Sexuality, and Liberation: Pursuit of the Sublime in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices / 213 Hogar Najm Abdullah ‘Brutalized’ Black Masculinity: The Performance of Intersectionality in Ann Petry’s The Narrows / 221 Kulamangalam Thiagarajan Narratives of Survival: Invisible Op- Tamilmani pression and Retaliation in Joyce Carol Rathinasamy Nagalakshmi Oates’ Marya: A Life / 231 5 NEW MODES OF SELF-FASHIONING Mustafa Wshyar Structural Violence Representation in And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini / 241 Sajad Ghanbari The Study of Dissidence as Presented Sajad Gheytasi in The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter / 251 Mihaela Popuţa The Disunited States of America and the Liminality of Memory in Paul Auster’s 4321 / 263 Ileana Şora Dimitriu Literary Representations of Home, Be- longing and Unbelonging in Amamanda Adichie’s ‘Migrant Bildungsroman’, Americanah / 271 BOOK REVIEWS Sorin Cazacu Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau (eds). Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to The Transmodern Paradigm / 285 Andreea Şerban Cătălina Iliescu. Traducerea textului dramatic / 289 Mihaela Cozma Najwa Hamaoui, Daniel Dejica (Guest eds.). Interpersonal and Inter-Linguis- tic Communication in the Digital Age. Digital Inclusion and Accessibility / 293 Valentina Mureşan Nicoletta Vasta, Anthony Baldry (eds). Multiliteracy Advances and Multimodal Challenges in ELT Environments / 297 NOTES ON THE AUTHORS / 303 B.A.S. vol. XXVII, 2021 6 7 NEW MODES OF SELF-FASHIONING NEW MODES OF SELF-FASHIONING B.A.S. vol. XXVII, 2021 8 9 NEW MODES OF SELF-FASHIONING THE CULTURE OF MIGRATION IN BRITISH MODERNIST FICTION ALBERTO LÁZARO University of Alcalá Abstract: Issues of migration and exile have been explored by a wide range of well- known postcolonial writers such as V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Monica Ali and many others, whose work has gained interest since the end of the Second World War. However, in the first half of the twentieth century, before the boom of the Caribbean and Asian migration novels, leading figures of the modernist movement had also dealt with experiences of exile, alienation and displacement, whether forced or self-imposed. This essay will examine a selection of texts by four representative modernist novelists – Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence – to show how, long before the postcolonial period, they addressed the essence of migration. Keywords: British, exile, fiction, migration, modernism 1. Introduction The phenomenon of migration has existed from the beginning of civilisation and has touched every corner of the world, fluctuating through various historical contexts. Today, it seems that we are flooded with news reports dealing with asylum seekers and refugee crises, as a result of armed conflicts or economic hardship. Similarly, issues of migration, exile and diaspora are being discussed by a large number of contemporary postcolonial authors. The anxieties of displaced life concern a wide corpus of writings by recent successful novelists, such as Caryl Phillips, V. S. Naipaul, Timothy Mo, Monica Ali, Hanif Kureishi, and many others from the Indian and other diasporas. Nevertheless, in the first half of the twentieth century, before the boom of Caribbean and Asian migration novels, leading figures of the modernist movement had also tackled experiences of exile, isolation, language barriers, cultural shock, segregation, and displacement, whether forced or self-imposed. Some of these authors were themselves migrants as well. Although modernist novelists have usually been linked to formal experimentalism and a rejection of realistic representation, the line of argument followed here is that modernist fiction is also concerned with social issues, such as migration. This approach goes along with research that encourages a reassessment of the social and political dimensions of literary modernism (Booth, Rigby 2000, Caneda 2002, Berman 2011). This essay will examine a selection of texts by four representative modernist authors – Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence – to show how they addressed the nature of migration long before the postcolonial era. In recent years, the interest in postcolonial literature and theory has brought about many studies on the experience of migration. Some authors, among very many that could be considered here, are Homi Bhabha (1994), Bruce Bennett (1998) or Gillian Bottornley (1992). Very often,