Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Karen-Margrethe Simonsen is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0238-0668
Titles
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature
Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard
The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVII] 2025. vii, 420 pp.
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions
Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVI] 2024. xxiv, 334 pp.
2025 Chapter 1. Introduction A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Chapter
2024 General introduction A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. xi–xxiv | To be specified
2024 Chapter 7. Melodramatic tableaux vivants: Slavery and passionate melancholy in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 136–155 | Chapter
The novel Sab (1841) by the Cuban-Spanish writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda has been called both a radical anti-slavery novel (Sommer 1991, Davies 2013) and an anti-abolitionist novel that only pays lip service to the abolitionist cause (Williams 2008, Gomariz, 2009). In this article I… read more
2022 The real magic in Miguel Ángel Asturias’s magical realism: Legends of Guatemala and The President Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 721–736 | Chapter
In this case study it is argued that the Latin American magical realism is a ‘laboratory’ for exploring the relation between realism and the real. Furthermore, it is argued that magical realism should not be seen as an enchantment, but rather as an investigation of the real, especially of… read more
2016 Presidential Preface to Vol. 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume II, Domínguez, César, Anxo Abuín González and Ellen Sapega (eds.), pp. xi–xiii | Miscellaneous