Social Sciences

Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World

Issues in Language and Literature

Edited By: Sibonile Edith Ellece, Kemmonye Collete Monaka, Owen S Seda

£44.99

This book grapples with the relationship between Africa and the English speaking world. It addresses misrepresentations of the continent in literature and film, the marginalization of its people and cultures, and ongoing debates on language and identity.

Mapping Appetite

Essays on Food, Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Pere Gallardo-Torrano, Jopi Nyman

£29.99

This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.

Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein

German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations

Edited By: Jörg Esleben, Jörg-U. Keßler, Sukanya Kulkarni

£34.99

Explore the centuries-long fascination between India and Germany. This book charts their complex, entangled exchange in literature, philosophy, and politics, providing a vital overview of current research on their shared history.

Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections

Imagological Readings

Edited By: Mustafa Kirca

From £30.99

This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.

Mapping Degas

Real Spaces, Symbolic Spaces and Invented Spaces in the Life and Work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

By: Roberta Crisci-Richardson

£52.99

Edgar Degas has been claimed as a misogynist, nationalist and misanthrope. This book questions that characterisation and will change the way in which Degas is thought about today.

Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec

£39.99

This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.

Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives

Edited By: Dana Mihăilescu, Roxana Oltean, Mihaela Precup

£54.99

This collection examines the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the US. Departing from early trauma theory, contributors analyze fiction, memoirs, and films to explore multidirectional memory, autobiography, national commemoration, and 9/11.

Mapping Leisure across Borders

Edited By: Gianna Cappello, Ishwar Modi, Fabio Massimo Lo Verde

£59.99

The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure's effects on social cohesion.

Mapping Leopardi

Poetic and Philosophical Intersections

Edited By: Emanuela Cervato, Mark Epstein, Giulia Santi

From £35.99

Explore the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s great poet and materialist thinker. This collection of essays investigates his Zibaldone, revealing early reflections against anthropocentrism and questioning humanity’s purpose in the world.

Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner’s Fiction

By: Souhir Zekri

From £29.99

This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women's oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.

This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women’s oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.

Mapping Migration

Culture and Identity in the Indian Diasporas of Southeast Asia and the UK

Edited By: Jerri Daboo, Jirayudh Sinthuphan

£61.99

This anthology considers culture and identity in Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and the UK. It shows how cultural practices, including the use of performance, food, and religion, demonstrate how traditions are preserved, as well as adapted, in new contexts.

Mapping out the Rushdie Republic

Some Recent Surveys

Edited By: Prasanta Bhattacharyya, Tapan Kumar Ghosh

£63.99

This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.

Mapping Parameters of Meaning

Edited By: Martine Sekali, Anne Trévise

£34.99

This book addresses meaning construction, showing how syntax, semantics, and pragmatics converge during interpretation. It explores the link between contextual parameters and stable linguistic systems, valuable to researchers and students of linguistics.

Mapping Primary School Leadership in a Post-Conflict Context

The Case of Timor-Leste

By: Shayla Maria Babo Ribeiro, Simon Clarke, Tom O’Donoghue

From £29.99

This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict country of Timor-Leste. It conveys the ‘lived experience’ of school leaders, describing the realities of their work and the strategies they adopt to overcome daily challenges.

Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide

Towards the Development of a New Citizen

Edited By: Gunther Dietz, Nektaria Palaiologou

£59.99

This volume addresses core matters in diverse societies, from the needs of migrant populations to enriching school curricula with new intercultural dimensions. It highlights the importance of Intercultural Education in developing a new, dynamic citizen.

Mapping the History of Folklore Studies

Centres, Borderlands and Shared Spaces

Edited By: Dace Bula, Sandis Laime

£64.99

The articles here provide rich insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration, they reveal the limitations inherent in current scholarship.

Mapping the Postcolonial Domestic in the Works of Vargas Llosa and Mukundan

Tales of the Threshold

By: Minu Susan Koshy

From £30.99

A pioneering analysis of postcolonialism through the lens of the domestic. This study challenges the limits of Western theory, forging new methods to understand the ‘inner’ realm of colonial experience and its overlooked histories.

Mapping the Self

Place, Identity, Nationality

Edited By: Alex Goody, Anna Hewitt, Nissa Parmar

£41.99

This collection of essays explores place, identity, and nationality in our globalised world. With a global perspective, these critical works assert the power of film, poetry, and novels to define and contest identity, from the national to the individual.

Mapping the Tribal Economy

A Case Study from a South-Indian State

By: Bandlamudi Nageswara Rao

£54.99

India's tribes have been marginalised, their way of life transformed. This book examines the critical issues of land alienation and labour exploitation, focusing on tribal mobilisation and the fight for justice and restoration in Andhra Pradesh.

India’s tribes have been marginalised, their way of life transformed. This book examines the critical issues of land alienation and labour exploitation, focusing on tribal mobilisation and the fight for justice and restoration in Andhra Pradesh.

Mapping the World of Anglo-American Studies at the Turn of the Century

Edited By: Marija Knežević

£52.99

This book revisits key issues in Anglo-American studies. From a multidisciplinary perspective, it approaches mainstream cultural and literary achievements alongside marginalized fields. It covers culture, literature, linguistics, and teaching methodology.

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