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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.
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.
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International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
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This anthology focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. It gathers together research papers from different universities around the world, including India, Italy, Tunisia and the USA.
This anthology focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. It gathers together research papers from different universities around the world, including India, Italy, Tunisia and the USA.
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Thomas brings together the oral histories of those who have lived in the Mexican State of Sonora and the corresponding territory in the US, using these voices to paint the revolution in economics, culture, and drug trade that the area has witnessed in gripping, personal terms.
Thomas brings together the oral histories of those who have lived in the Mexican State of Sonora and the corresponding territory in the US, using these voices to paint the revolution in economics, culture, and drug trade that the area has witnessed in gripping, personal terms.
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Other Voices
Three Centuries of Cultural Dialogue between Russia and Western Europe
This volume highlights the diverse cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the eighteenth century, exploring mutual perceptions, literary comparisons, artistic influences, and pivotal physical encounters.
This volume highlights the diverse cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the eighteenth century, exploring mutual perceptions, literary comparisons, artistic influences, and pivotal physical encounters.
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Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
Daemonic Angels
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
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This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
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Patriarchy in Eclipse
The Femme Fatale and the New Woman in American Literature and Culture 1870-1920
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
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Perspectives
Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature
Essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature, from Blake and Keats to Yeats. Marked by originality and simplicity, the discussion is as lucid and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making it accessible to non-specialist and academic readers.
Essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature, from Blake and Keats to Yeats. Marked by originality and simplicity, the discussion is as lucid and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making it accessible to non-specialist and academic readers.
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Novelist Winifred Holtby (South Riding) was a strong feminist who died aged only 37. This collection presents her mostly unpublished poems, which chart her life, her loves, the war, and her profound friendship with fellow writer Vera Brittain.
Novelist Winifred Holtby (South Riding) was a strong feminist who died aged only 37. This collection presents her mostly unpublished poems, which chart her life, her loves, the war, and her profound friendship with fellow writer Vera Brittain.
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Popular Appeal
Books and Films in Contemporary Youth Culture
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today's key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
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This collection of essays places women writers in the center of the 19th-century literary marketplace. It showcases how authors like Stowe, Alcott, and Southworth met consumer desires and mastered a burgeoning and anything but genteel industry.
This collection of essays places women writers in the center of the 19th-century literary marketplace. It showcases how authors like Stowe, Alcott, and Southworth met consumer desires and mastered a burgeoning and anything but genteel industry.
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Post Celtic Tiger Ireland
Exploring New Cultural Spaces
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
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Post-Millennial Cultures of Fear in Literature
Fear, Risk and Safety
This volume investigates our contemporary “cultures of fear.” Original articles explore post-millennial works ranging from political fictions and trauma narratives to literary disaster discourses and apocalyptic scenarios, using insights from multiple disciplines.
This volume investigates our contemporary “cultures of fear.” Original articles explore post-millennial works ranging from political fictions and trauma narratives to literary disaster discourses and apocalyptic scenarios, using insights from multiple disciplines.
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Post-National Enquiries
Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings
These studies address cultural narratives of border crossings in Europe and the United States. The essays show how the migrant challenges the view that people belong to one nation-state, exploring race, whiteness, and ethnic identity in fiction and cinema.
These studies address cultural narratives of border crossings in Europe and the United States. The essays show how the migrant challenges the view that people belong to one nation-state, exploring race, whiteness, and ethnic identity in fiction and cinema.
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Postcolonial Borderlands
Orality and Irish Traveller Writing
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
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Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.
Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.
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Postcolonialism and African Women’s Identity
Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen
This book explores African women’s identity in Buchi Emecheta's novel Second-Class Citizen from a feminist viewpoint. It critically analyzes how hybridity, race, and gender roles shape narratives of resistance, internalized oppression, and the struggle for selfhood.
This book explores African women’s identity in Buchi Emecheta’s novel Second-Class Citizen from a feminist viewpoint. It critically analyzes how hybridity, race, and gender roles shape narratives of resistance, internalized oppression, and the struggle for selfhood.
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This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an 'oral narrative style', and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an ‘oral narrative style’, and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
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Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
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