This study examines how postcolonial literature depicts the body as a site of resistance. Focusing on diasporic authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in London, it reveals bodies performing queer space and time to redefine the postcolonial.
This study explains the stunning vitality and success of postcolonial Indian novels. It analyses themes of empire, nation, gender, and language to show how writers from Rushdie to Roy have created a truly world literature, liberated from the nation.
The Posthuman Imagination
What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? This volume explores posthumanism’s response to this crisis through accessible essays. Featuring an interview with philosopher Francesca Ferrando, it explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts.
In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.
This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
The Power Elite and Disparity in America
What caused America’s great disparity and unrest? This book reveals how a power elite systematically redirected the nation’s wealth to the top. Discover their methods and the bold new direction we must take to reverse the damage and restore prosperity for all.
The Power of Compassion
How do we make sense of our world, a world of increasing angst and despair? The essays in this book provide insight from health professionals as they discuss their ideas on compassion, offering you an opportunity to reflect and go forward with a sense of shared humanity.
The Power of Culture
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
The Power of Form
Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.
This book is a study of the political rhetoric of major British and American politicians, from Obama to Farage and Churchill to Thatcher. It offers a sophisticated analysis of their rhetorical devices, demonstrating how rhetoric has always shaped the destiny of the world.
The Power of the Line
The development of material culture was a contribution to the mathematization of the human mind. This book distinguishes between two dichotomous development paths in Europe and the Near East: the measuring stick metaphor and the object collection metaphor.
The Power of the Word
From jokes and propaganda to poetry and silence, twelve authors explore the power of the word. This volume provides insights that will allow readers to see the word as a powerful instrument for changing the world in which they live.
In 1854, Franz von Suppé wrote music for a play that accompanies the action like a film score. While the music works today, the 19th-century German script does not. This book details the challenge of adapting the text for a modern audience while keeping Suppé’s score intact.
The Practice of Altruism
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
The Practice of Foreign Language Teaching
For teachers of modern languages, this volume analyzes foreign language education, multicultural competence, and new teaching approaches. It provides the theoretical background and practical solutions needed to choose the best resources for the L2 classroom.
This book explores the philosophy of care, arguing for its primacy in human life. It analyzes care of the self through “spiritual practices”—techniques like achieving inner silence and writing—that shape our way of being and form an ethics of the self.
This book explores proper names: what they are, why we need them, and how they work. It focuses on the use of names in our thoughts and in communication, as tools we use to single out objects of discourse and convey information about them.
Cogent argumentation is a pragmatic communicative interactional process. Employing a model of analysis which combines rhetoric, logic and dialectics, this text investigates the presence of pragmatic criteria and strategies in the context of political debates.
This pioneering book introduces the “feminine,” a dimension of film not reducible to women’s experience. Exploring this Jungian concept through movies spanning seven decades, it enhances the appreciation of film as a depth psychological medium.
This book offers 180 actionable principles to empower new school leaders and inspire experienced ones. Drawing from the author’s extensive career, this guide is grounded in real-world challenges and equips you with practical strategies to drive meaningful, sustainable change.
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