Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.
Fictional Portrayals of Spain’s Transition to Democracy
Walsh looks at a selection of narratives published in Spain during the transition to democracy and compares them with more recent publications. She notes how fiction brings an extra dimension to the recreation of the past, by adding imagination to historical fact.
To Write as a Boxer
In 1907, Andrew Jeptha became the first black boxer to win a British title—a victory that cost him his sight. He responded by writing a book. This is the story of how a fighter learned to see and fight back in a world that refused to see him.
Tale, Performance, and Culture in EFL Storytelling with Young Learners
This book explores the link between storytelling, language learning, culture, and emotions in the young EFL classroom. Discover how oral retellings of picture books can foster intercultural understanding and enhance foreign language teaching for all young children.
Psychic River
Using a variety of psychoanalytic and philosophical lenses, and using the Psychic River as a metaphor, Mathew asks the question of what it means “to learn” and “to teach”. He considers the joys and frustrations of lifelong learning, and what drives us to learn as we age.
Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel
De Riso presents a critical reading of various Indian English novels to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India’s history: namely, the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
This book explores adults reclaiming their ancestral language and what it means to be indigenous. It covers identity, belonging, and new methods for recording indigenous voices and experiences, using the Sámi people in Finland as an example of political identity and status.
The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. It shows that traditional features (person, number, gender, case) are categories made of more elemental components which define the content, shape, and syntactic consequences of a pronoun.
Use your favorite Rock-‘n’-Roll song titles to see how English grammar and style work—and it’s fun! Using songs from the 1950s to today, this book makes the patterns of English strikingly visible through the music you love.
Katman provides a theoretical background of the ongoing transformation of the Eurasian region, discussing recent opportunities and challenges, such as the new Silk Road. She analyses the desecuritization and integration of the region, as well as NATO involvement in the area.
Dao Entrepreneurship
Thornquist presents an artistic and aesthetic perspective on auteur-driven entrepreneurial management that is overlooked in traditional organizational analysis. He builds on this through an exploration of Bergsonian ontology and Daoism methodology.
Bruce Springsteen’s America
Moving from jargon-free critical analysis to a fan’s passionate participatory research, this book places work and class at the centre of Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre. It presents him as the bard of the downtrodden and is testament to the life-giving power of rock and roll.
This volume confronts discourse theory in colonial studies, arguing societies are split vertically by class, not by geography. It claims the radical-sounding rhetoric of ‘post’ movements, far from resisting imperialism, actually greases the mechanisms of finance capital.
Kassis discusses British women travellers’ perceptions of Greece and the Orient from the late-eighteenth century until the late-Victorian era, exploring them in relation to the context that fuelled the conceptualisation of Greece as perilous to the British imperialist agenda.
This academic study analyzes suspense in Stephen King’s novels The Shining and Carrie and their film adaptations. It compares techniques for achieving suspense in literature versus cinema and provides a model that can be used for analyzing other literary or cinematic works.
This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.
21st Century Philippines Piracy
In the second decade of the 21st century, the Philippine terrorist organisation the Abu Sayyaf added a new dimension to their kidnap-for ransom enterprise – piracy. East focuses on the explosion of Abu Sayyaf piracy in the greater Sulu and Celebes Seas region in 2016 and 2017.
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