Activating the Past
Activating the Past explores how memories of the slave trade in the Black Atlantic retreat into ritual. Though rarely acknowledged, these repressed histories are activated during public festivals and spirit possession in West Africa and the Americas.
Writing America into the Twenty-First Century
This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.
Transcultural Encounters amongst Women
This collection explores how women from the Hispanic and Lusophone world cross cultural boundaries in literature and film, examining their experiences through the powerful themes of identity, conflict, and values.
Byron and Hobby-O
This is a frank and intimate study of the relationship between Byron and his best friend, John Cam Hobhouse. Initially collaborators and rivals, Byron rapidly outstretched Hobhouse in poetry, while Hobhouse, in the longer term, outstretched Byron in politics.
This book assesses preaching in a postmodern culture that rejects absolute truth and authority. For disillusioned practitioners, it offers guidelines, distinguishing authoritative from authoritarian preaching to show the homiletic task is still feasible.
From Question to Quest
The quest for answers to life’s challenges is a human task. This book offers literary-philosophical enquiries into the search for meaning, wisdom, morality, community, suffering, and the longing for immortality.
This collection brings together seven papers by editors of historical dictionaries. The contributions offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological and practical issues such as funding and publication media.
Academic endeavors have long been separate from local communities. This book closes the gap by exploring ways academia and the communities it serves can collaborate to create authentic and applied learning environments.
Diaries of a Forgotten Parent
An intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Ten American fathers share intensely personal reflections of guilt, pain, and pride, deconstructing the societal myth that fathers are less valuable parents than mothers.
The Mission and Message of Music
This book probes the beauty and meaning of music, arguing it is a message in sound—a covenant between musician and listener. One sends the musical message, the other internalizes it. Intended for music connoisseurs and all interested in artistic thought.
A unique, ignored episode in Irish history: In the 1930s, two university academics hijacked Fine Gael. They sought to create a radical political order based on Catholic social teachings, causing deep division and accusations of fascism before their ultimate failure.
Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II
This volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of semantically-restricted domains. It addresses phenomena from a variety of perspectives, exploring politics, ideology, humour, power, media, and specialized communication in business, law, and science.
In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?
Many Voices
This collection of essays re-thinks music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, aiming to open up critical discourse on the many sounds of a diverse nation.
This book sheds new light on migration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It moves beyond structural discussions to examine actual migrant practices, their translocal networks, and a “culture of migration,” while also discussing the neglected issues of immobility and borders.
Vendetta
This volume provides a riveting account of revenge as a muse in modern literature. It analyzes Hispanic, Italian, and French texts, exploring chivalric avenges, codes of honor, and the patient craftiness of women in a unique collection of topics.
Constructing Interpersonality
This edited volume focuses on interpersonality in academic discourse. Its eighteen contributions explore this key issue across many genres and from various analytical approaches. A valuable tool for applied linguists, discourse analysts, students, and EAP instructors.
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque
This book of essays explores the tension between subjectivity and objectivity from the Enlightenment to the Postmodern world. It focuses on the aesthetic theories of Winkelmann, Hume, and Kant, examining the beautiful, the sublime, and the grotesque.
Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education
This book investigates language maintenance among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. It explores how ethnolinguistic vitality, family attitudes, and the Greek school system influence whether children remain bilingual.
“Imperialists in Broken Boots”
This book argues that in Southern Africa, ‘poor white’ was not a narrow economic category but a term for those who threatened to collapse racial, sexual, and class boundaries. It studies writers who either embraced this threat or argued for a solution.