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Women Rewriting Boundaries

Victorian Women Travel Writers

Edited By: Precious McKenzie

£45.99

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.

Connecting Past and Present

Exploring the Influence of the Spanish Golden Age in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Edited By: Aaron M. Kahn

£47.99

Experts offer analyses of contemporary works influenced by the Spanish Golden Age. A frequent source of inspiration, this book explores how contemporary Spaniards reach into the past, an epoch of political and religious upheaval, to connect with their present world.

Archival Dissonance in the U.S. Cuban Post-Exile Novel

By: Gregory Helmick

£47.99

Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.

Hurricane Katrina and the Lessons of Disaster Relief

Edited By: Michael Powelson

From £48.99

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.

De-Centring Cultural Studies

Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture

Edited By: Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez, José Igor Prieto-Arranz

£49.99

This volume proves that cultural studies is blooming, even in Southern and Eastern Europe. These interdisciplinary essays explore the borders between popular and canonical culture, studying film, pop music, and literature from the perspectives of gender and age.

Border, Globalization and Identity

Edited By: Sanatan Bhowal, Sukanta Das, Sisodhara Syangbo

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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.

Queering Women’s and Gender Studies

Edited By: Begoña Crespo, Isabel Moskowich

£52.99

This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.

Growing Up a Woman

The Private/Public Divide in the Narratives of Female Development

Edited By: Milena Kaličanin, Soňa Šnircová

£52.99

The contributions to this volume explore contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, highlighting the continuing relevance of the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism.

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

By: Sadia Zulfiqar

£52.99

Zulfiqar examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. In so doing, she demonstrates how African women’s literature engages with political issues and revisits Fredric Jameson’s controversial assumptions on third-world texts.

Communicating through the Universe

Edited By: Nadejda Greidina

£52.99

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.

The Demeter-Persephone Myth as Writing Ritual in the Lives of Literary Women

By: Jana Rivers Norton

£52.99

Norton explores the life stories of several female authors, who mirrored Demeter/Persephone’s mythic journey from abduction and rage to reconciliation. She contextualizes trauma as lived experience, to show how writing as ritual may help transform mental and emotional debility.

Rajam Krishnan and Indian Feminist Hermeneutics

Edited By: Sarada Thallam

£52.99

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.

Advertising Culture and Translation

From Colonial to Global

Edited By: Rosanna Masiola

£57.99

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.

Patrick White Centenary

The Legacy of a Prodigal Son

Edited By: Bill Ashcroft, Cynthia vanden Driesen

£57.99

Marking the centenary of Nobel laureate Patrick White, this volume offers invaluable insight into his work. An international galaxy of eminent critics and new talents provide fresh perspectives, highlighting his legacy and stature as a public intellectual.

Images of Montenegro in Anglo-American Creative Writing and Film

By: Neil Diamond, Marija Knežević

£57.99

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.

Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel

Tumults of the Imagination

By: Giuseppe De Riso

£58.99

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.

Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium

From Noir to Gris

Edited By: Nancy Vosburg

£58.99

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.

African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue

Edited By: Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, Komla F. Aggor

£58.99

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.

Indigenous Perspectives of North America

A Collection of Studies

Edited By: Judit Nagy, Enikő Sepsi, Miklós Vassányi

£59.99

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.

New Women’s Writing

Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy

Edited By: Subashish Bhattacharjee, Girindra Narayan Ray

£61.99

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.