Language and Linguistics – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora

Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah

By: Amy Tak-yee Lai

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Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora is a pioneering study of four writers whose popular and controversial works have received little scholarly attention: Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, and Adeline Yen Mah.

Transformations of Trauma in Women’s Writing

Edited By: Laura Alexander

From £29.99

This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.

Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts

Edited By: Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong

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This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.

Masquerade and Femininity

Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips, Marja Rytkönen

£34.99

These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.

Studies in Philology

Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages

Edited By: Maria del Mar Jiménez-Cervantes Arnao, Gema Alcaraz Mármol

£52.99

This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.

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Studies in English

Edited By: Evrim Doğan Adanur

£54.99

This collection of essays by prominent academicians explores current trends in English Studies. Dealing with issues from Shakespeare to translation and postcolonial studies, it presents a diversity of theoretical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives.

Multicultural Narratives

Traces and Perspectives

Edited By: Hywel Dix, Mustafa Kirca

£58.99

Unpacking multiculturalism in literature, this interdisciplinary collection reveals how narratives subvert fixed notions of race, nation, and identity. A vital resource of theoretical and analytical essays for scholars, students, and researchers.

Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm

By: Roberto Masone

£58.99

This work moves among sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and translation issues, exploring some of the most representative works by Philip and Johnson, noting their efforts to give to the Caribbean legacy and language the prestige they deserve.

Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms

Common and/or Alien

Edited By: Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

£61.99

This publication considers the great divides between identity and otherness in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.

Culture and Society in Crete

From Kornaros to Kazantzakis

Edited By: Liana Giannakopoulou, E. Kostas Skordyles

£64.99

The papers here explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, offering unique insights into already established fields. As a result, they will appeal to scholars of modern Greek studies, Renaissance Studies and comparative literature, among others.

Challenges of Anglophone Language(s), Literatures and Cultures

Edited By: Alena Kačmárová

£68.99

This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.