The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

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Jean-François Vernay is the author of five monographs among which The Seduction of Fiction: A Plea for Putting Emotions Back into Literary Interpretation (2016) translated into Mandarin by Dr Jun Feng La séduction de la fiction (2019) and Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature: Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness (Routledge 2021). He has also edited a Routledge volume: The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature published in 2021. His monographs have been taken up for translation into English Arabic Korean and Mandarin.Donald R. Wehrs Hargis Professor of English Literature at Auburn University Auburn AL USA is editor or coeditor of five collections most recently Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities (Routledge 2023) and The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism (2017). He is author of four monographs most recently Ethical Sense and Literary Significance: Deep Sociality and the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse (Routledge forthcoming) as well as essays on literary theory Shakespeare postcolonial studies 18th-century British fiction and comparative literature.Isabelle Wentworth is a teacher in literary studies at the University of New South Wales. Her research is in cognitive literary studies particularly within the contemporary literature of Australia and South America. Her work has been recently published in Poetics Today Textual Practice Cognitive Systems Research and Hispanic Studies Review among other international journals. Her first monograph Catching Time: Interaction Cognition and Temporality in the Novel (Routledge) was published in 2024.