Multiple Lenses
Spanning 400 years, this essential introduction explores the Black Canadian experience. Through diverse lenses from law to music, leading voices reveal the ongoing struggle and triumph in the quest for identity, justice, and self-definition.
This collection of essays on ‘Border Studies’ offers innovative approaches to intercultural encounters, with comparative explorations of American, Latin-American, European, and Post-Colonial literature, as well as Linguistics, History, and Education.
Participation and Media Production
This volume critically examines media participation. It provides analyses that reconcile the appreciation for digital empowerment with a critical analysis of its boundaries, revealing the restrictions, inequalities, and exclusions that often accompany it.
In the diverse Asia Pacific region, youth are using media to redefine their communities, articulate identities, and engage in social activism. This book draws on case studies to examine these media practices and the resulting process of social change.
Making Waves Anniversary Volume
Moving beyond the Anglo-American context, this volume explores how women in the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds counteract prejudice and tradition. It discusses women’s interaction with literature, art, and language, showcasing contemporary scholarship in the field.
Women in Dialogue
This collection of essays explores women as objects of cultural production and as creators themselves. It features literary analysis alongside personalized observations by women writers on their work, using dialogue as a platform for learning and mutual understanding.
Sex in Public
Sexist outdoor advertising is a form of public sexual harassment. Images that would be outlawed in a workplace are readily displayed in public space. This book offers a new framework to understand, critique and condemn these harmful portrayals of women.
Narrating the Storm
This volume of sixteen narratives from Hurricane Katrina shows how “personal” experiences with disaster are not so personal. These stories reveal how inequality and injustice related to race, class, and gender are unveiled and exacerbated by disaster.
This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.
Postmodernism and After
This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.
From One Shore to Another
Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.
Global Babel
Globalization is double-edged. It can enable the exploitation of the powerless by the powerful; in different contexts, it can also facilitate individual and collective agency. This collection of essays explores this complexity and its cultural consequences.
Heiner Müller, one of Europe’s most provocative playwrights, was a communist banned by his own government. Infuriating both East and West, his work defied theater itself. In this collection, leading scholars grapple with his artistic and political legacy.
Going Abroad
Explore what lies behind the travel, tourism and migration central to our globalized world. Embark on a journey of discovery through time and across continents to reflect on diverse visions of mobility, from emigration to theme parks.
Research Communication in the Social and Human Sciences
Social and human science research addresses society’s most pressing problems, yet it remains largely invisible to the public. This book brings together researchers developing solutions to communicate across boundaries, from media dissemination to stakeholder engagement.
This book expands academic knowledge of motherhood from a feminist perspective. When mothers are responsible for theorising their own realities, dominant representations are challenged. It is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as objects of research; they are the subjects.
Sexing Code
Sexing Code proposes that the representation of technical ability perpetuates the association of the male with intellect and the female with the body. Challenging this, it highlights women’s contributions and demonstrates how gendering is a salient factor in culture.
Beyond Money, Cars, and Women
How does hip hop shape black masculinity? Going beyond outsider criticism, this book gives a voice to the men affected. Through interviews, it explores hip hop’s damaging and positive effects, and its potential as a powerful tool for social change.
In Southern Africa, how we belong is tied to the land. These essays probe the tensions between settler modernity and indigenous world-views, exploring the limits and potential of human compassion for the natural world in a post-colonial era.
The Worlds of Elias Canetti
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.