Crafting Infinity
This collection of essays investigates how traditional Irish culture has been revised and repackaged. Contributors reveal how artists, writers, and emigrants re-interpreted and reshaped Irish myths, music, and history, crafting an infinite legacy.
Echoes of Chiaroscuro
A journey through light and shadow, memory and reality, belonging and exile. This mosaic of interconnected stories blends poetic reflection with vivid storytelling to explore the dynamic interplay of identity and history—a lyrical meditation on the forces that shape us.
Indigenous Perspectives of North America
Exploring contemporary Native reality, this volume unites researchers from diverse disciplines under the theme ‘Indigenous perspectives.’ Articles on human rights, law, and culture offer a platform for critical investigation and classroom discussion.
Laughter in the Trenches
This study explores humour in German WWI narratives like *All Quiet on the Western Front*. It shows how these works, regardless of ideology, shared narrative strategies using soldier laughter to justify violence and oppressive power structures.
Text and Image in the City
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
The African American Journey to the Power Dome
Sharma explores the African American journey from the plantation to the power dome through multiple socio-artistic perspectives of Black American authorship. She throws light on the transforming status of America’s Native Son and the marked visibility of its Invisible Man.
This book explores how Taiwanese scholars adapted French feminist theories, applying the concept of écriture féminine (“feminine writing”) to Taiwanese cinema. It analyzes how women’s voices emerge when the camera becomes a cinematic pen in films like The Butcher’s Wife.
Women Rewriting Boundaries
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.