In “The Death of Genre: Why the Best YA fiction Often Defies Classification” (The ALAN Review, 35.1: 43-50), Scot Smith speaks of having to constantly reclassify and reshuffle texts as he and his students consider the books on the genre lists used in his classes. Knowing that “Young adult literature has a long tradition of authors whose works defy genre classification” (43), he mulls over the i...

Emerging within Systemic Linguistics, Appraisal/Evaluation is a framework for analyzing the language of evaluation, providing techniques for the systematic analysis of evaluation and stance as they operate in whole texts and in groupings of texts. There are three systems in the Appraisal framework: Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation. This study sets out to analyze the use of the system of Eng...

Abstract This article looks at Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai (2012) which focuses on Sakina, a member of the Satpanth Ismaili community living in mid-twentieth century Kenya. Based nine years research and interviews with Khoja women who now reside Western Europe North America, is generally described as “historical novel” or an “ethnographic fiction,” yet it also can be thought pertaining to genre wh...

Considering the transnational prominence of European cinema, crime films present an interesting case. As a genre, “is clearly most popular genre across Europe for novels, television series and films”, fiction productions are abundant on national level in countries (Bondebjerg et al. 223). Crime fiction, therefore, appears as able to facilitate transborder cultural exchange communicate “Eu...