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African American Humor, Irony and Satire
Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking
Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.
Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.
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This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
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This collection explores language in the “New World Order,” raising consciousness about how discourse constructs identities and empowers users. A significant contribution to the critical discussion, it highlights the socially transformative role of language.
This collection explores language in the “New World Order,” raising consciousness about how discourse constructs identities and empowers users. A significant contribution to the critical discussion, it highlights the socially transformative role of language.
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This book investigates postcolonial identity through two Arab novels. It explores the shifting personas and homesickness of individuals in a changing world, highlighting the themes of romance and feminism to illuminate the characters' experiences.
This book investigates postcolonial identity through two Arab novels. It explores the shifting personas and homesickness of individuals in a changing world, highlighting the themes of romance and feminism to illuminate the characters’ experiences.
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Fairytales—A World between the Imaginary
Metaphor at Play in “Lo cunto de li cunti” by Giambattista Basile
This book investigates Basile’s masterpiece, Lo cunto de li Cunti. It examines his use of metaphor to critique baroque society and conveys his utopia of a more just world, while also proposing a new interpretation of the tales' female characters.
This book investigates Basile’s masterpiece, Lo cunto de li Cunti. It examines his use of metaphor to critique baroque society and conveys his utopia of a more just world, while also proposing a new interpretation of the tales’ female characters.
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From Multiculturalism to Hybridity
New Approaches to Teaching Modern Switzerland
This book examines how migration is transforming multilingual Switzerland, a nation shaped by political will rather than linguistic unity. It analyzes these challenges and successes, offering resources for teaching cultural hybridity in the classroom.
This book examines how migration is transforming multilingual Switzerland, a nation shaped by political will rather than linguistic unity. It analyzes these challenges and successes, offering resources for teaching cultural hybridity in the classroom.
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From One Shore to Another
Reflections on the Symbolism of the Bridge
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.
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.
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Global Babel
Questions of Discourse and Communication in a time of Globalization
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.
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.
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Humorous Garden-Paths
A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
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Jamaican Speech Forms in Ethiopia
The Emergence of a New Linguistic Scenario in Shashamane
This first systematic survey of Jamaican English in Ethiopia explores its spread through Rastafarianism and Reggae. It shows how a Creole born from the slavery route has hybridized and is now making its way back to Africa with new, creative speech-forms.
This first systematic survey of Jamaican English in Ethiopia explores its spread through Rastafarianism and Reggae. It shows how a Creole born from the slavery route has hybridized and is now making its way back to Africa with new, creative speech-forms.
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Language – Nation – Identity
The "Questione della Lingua" in an Italian and Non-Italian Context
How does language define one’s national identity? This volume explores the relationship between language, nation, and identity from a 21st-century perspective, analyzing its changing role across different historical, social, and linguistic contexts.
How does language define one’s national identity? This volume explores the relationship between language, nation, and identity from a 21st-century perspective, analyzing its changing role across different historical, social, and linguistic contexts.
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Male Bodies and Sexual Difference
A Proposal for a Feminist Corporeo-ethics
Anemtoaicei addresses themes concerning male bodies, men and masculinities from an explicitly feminist philosophical position, drawing from various fields, including phenomenology, gender theory, sociology of the body and continental philosophy, among others.
Anemtoaicei addresses themes concerning male bodies, men and masculinities from an explicitly feminist philosophical position, drawing from various fields, including phenomenology, gender theory, sociology of the body and continental philosophy, among others.
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This book explores views of marriage, husbands, and wives in Anglo-American anti-proverbs. It analyzes their nature, qualities, and behaviours as revealed through these proverb transformations, appealing to both general readers and specialists alike.
This book explores views of marriage, husbands, and wives in Anglo-American anti-proverbs. It analyzes their nature, qualities, and behaviours as revealed through these proverb transformations, appealing to both general readers and specialists alike.
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This book on media translation covers its history and major theories, offering practical applications in Arabic and English. It seeks to help students and professionals acquire the skills needed for this profession.
This book on media translation covers its history and major theories, offering practical applications in Arabic and English. It seeks to help students and professionals acquire the skills needed for this profession.
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Multiple Lenses
Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada
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.
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.
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Practices of Proximity
The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature
This study investigates the appropriation of English in the literary contact zone between ‘white’ and Indigenous Australia. It insists on the multilateral ownership of the language, seeing Indigenous literature as a space to rethink co-habitation and sovereignty.
This study investigates the appropriation of English in the literary contact zone between ‘white’ and Indigenous Australia. It insists on the multilateral ownership of the language, seeing Indigenous literature as a space to rethink co-habitation and sovereignty.
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Seeking Identity
Language in Society
Language defines who we are. Our choices reflect not only how we see ourselves, but how we are viewed by society. This book explores how identity is constructed through language, from ethnicity and gender to the influence of advertising and the media.
Language defines who we are. Our choices reflect not only how we see ourselves, but how we are viewed by society. This book explores how identity is constructed through language, from ethnicity and gender to the influence of advertising and the media.
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Space and Place as Human Coordinates
Rethinking Dimensions across Disciplines
Crossing the humanities and social sciences, this book explores how the core concepts of ‘space’ and ‘place’ shape our reality. Essays examine 20th and 21st-century cultural phenomena, offering new perspectives for scholars in cultural studies, media, communication, and beyond.
Crossing the humanities and social sciences, this book explores how the core concepts of ‘space’ and ‘place’ shape our reality. Essays examine 20th and 21st-century cultural phenomena, offering new perspectives for scholars in cultural studies, media, communication, and beyond.
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Scholars offer perspectives on fostering an inclusive campus. Essays explore lessons from the COVID crisis, promoting diversity through literature and language, and advocating for underrepresented students to prepare them for global leadership with cultural intelligence.
Scholars offer perspectives on fostering an inclusive campus. Essays explore lessons from the COVID crisis, promoting diversity through literature and language, and advocating for underrepresented students to prepare them for global leadership with cultural intelligence.
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The Disaster of European Refugee Policy
Perspectives from the “Balkan Route”
This volume addresses the 2015-2016 arrival of migrants and refugees in Europe and the resulting crisis of response. It explores why people fled and critiques state reactions, linking the crisis to the rise of hate speech, racism, and authoritarianism.
This volume addresses the 2015-2016 arrival of migrants and refugees in Europe and the resulting crisis of response. It explores why people fled and critiques state reactions, linking the crisis to the rise of hate speech, racism, and authoritarianism.
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