A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises. Essays on Contemporary Literature in Honour of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente

Most of these analyses are applied to contemporary Anglophone literatures, although some of the chapters divert from the scope of the literary -delving on film, television, music or the visual arts- or even expand the focus outside the boundary of English Studies, in which most of the contributors develop their professional activity. In conjunction with the gender transgressions outlined in the aforementioned chapters, two authors consider genre issues, by focusing on popular romantic novels and crime fiction and recovering their importance as tools of intervention into gender and ethnic debates.\n Although the sequence chosen to present the chapters may be said to implicitly point out those parallelisms, more explicit divisions would have set some of the chapters into a more distinct frame, revealing what appears to be the evident focus of the volume on contemporary gender and postcolonial debates.