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The African American Journey to the Power Dome
Wright, Ellison, Baldwin
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.
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.
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Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature
A Student's Guide to Texts and Films
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
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Trilogies as Cultural Analysis
Literary Re-imaginings of Sea Crossings, Animals, and Fathering
This book views three universal themes—sea-crossing, human-animal relations, and father-son relationships—to show how passing between worlds has become the human condition. It invites readers to re-imagine writing styles that can travel beyond our “bubbles” and gain a hearing.
This book views three universal themes—sea-crossing, human-animal relations, and father-son relationships—to show how passing between worlds has become the human condition. It invites readers to re-imagine writing styles that can travel beyond our “bubbles” and gain a hearing.
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The Seventh Age of Man
Issues, Challenges, and Paradoxes
The contributors to this text focused on old age are drawn from a wide range of fields of expertise, and utilise various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, to address questions centred around what it means to be old.
The contributors to this text focused on old age are drawn from a wide range of fields of expertise, and utilise various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, to address questions centred around what it means to be old.
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This book explores important developments in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part reflects on the traumatic 1965 coup and its place in collective memory. The second part explores how globalisation impacts local religion, urban development, and traditions.
This book explores important developments in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part reflects on the traumatic 1965 coup and its place in collective memory. The second part explores how globalisation impacts local religion, urban development, and traditions.
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New Women’s Writing
Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy
The uptake of women’s writing as a distinct literary genre since the 1960s has been multifarious, and has fuelled a generation of literary and cultural studies. This anthology addresses this legacy and reflects on how a critical history of women’s writing may be created.
The uptake of women’s writing as a distinct literary genre since the 1960s has been multifarious, and has fuelled a generation of literary and cultural studies. This anthology addresses this legacy and reflects on how a critical history of women’s writing may be created.
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This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
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Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel
Tumults of the Imagination
De Riso presents a critical reading of various Indian English novels to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India’s history: namely, the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
De Riso presents a critical reading of various Indian English novels to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India’s history: namely, the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
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Straddling various genres, this collection offers an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.
Straddling various genres, this collection offers an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.
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Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
From Noir to Gris
This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.
This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.
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This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning, and greed ensured Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread destruction. Using a multifaceted approach, it includes first-hand accounts, expert analyses, and data to suggest future responses to disasters.
This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning, and greed ensured Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread destruction. Using a multifaceted approach, it includes first-hand accounts, expert analyses, and data to suggest future responses to disasters.
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A step-by-step guide for professionals on designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating developmental interventions. This volume introduces key concepts and procedures, using real project examples to help readers understand and adopt these practices in their own work.
A step-by-step guide for professionals on designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating developmental interventions. This volume introduces key concepts and procedures, using real project examples to help readers understand and adopt these practices in their own work.
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Representations of Female Identity in Italy
From Neoclassism to the 21st Century
This volume examines iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. It characterizes the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities.
This volume examines iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. It characterizes the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities.
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Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse
Focus on Fathers
This text offers various perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature and popular culture to issues tackled by psychology and social sciences. It provides detailed insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.
This text offers various perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature and popular culture to issues tackled by psychology and social sciences. It provides detailed insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.
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Text and Image in the City
Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space
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 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.
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Advertising Culture and Translation
From Colonial to Global
A cross-cultural approach to translational issues and translatability of advertising cohesively is adopted here, exploring ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ conflict. The book introduces advertising English as lingua franca, marking new trends in varieties of English around the world.
A cross-cultural approach to translational issues and translatability of advertising cohesively is adopted here, exploring ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ conflict. The book introduces advertising English as lingua franca, marking new trends in varieties of English around the world.
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Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.
Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.
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This collection presents studies of communication in its many forms around the world. It covers a wide range of topics, including new media, technology, cultural practices, interpersonal communication, politics, law, rhetoric, and journalism.
This collection presents studies of communication in its many forms around the world. It covers a wide range of topics, including new media, technology, cultural practices, interpersonal communication, politics, law, rhetoric, and journalism.
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This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. It provides much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature.
This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. It provides much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature.
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This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
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