Travelling around Cultures
This volume investigates how literary and artistic practices expose the invisible structures of Anglo-American culture. Chapters revisit authors like Dickens and Dickinson as social commentary, and explore the politics of practices like censorship, fan fiction, and travelogues.
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.
The first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region, the essays here deal with representations of queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years, with a specific interest in belletristics.
D. H. Lawrence
Offering a selection of papers delivered at the 13th International D.H. Lawrence Conference, the essays here provide new readings of Lawrence’s work and ideology through various theoretical and philosophical approaches, while others focus on translation.
Labour Law in Russia
Russia’s transition to a market economy required new employment laws, but many issues remain unaddressed. The papers in this volume consider recent developments from a historical and comparative perspective to provide insights and examine current challenges.
Growing Up a Woman
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.
Seeing Whole
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
Waiting Territories in the Americas
Given the prominence of population displacement today, this title assesses the forms that waiting territories take, in order to better understand their juridical statuses, their relationships with the spatial environment, and the economic and social relationships they foster.
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.
Artists and Migration 1400-1850
This collection thematically analyses the migrant artist’s experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution. It studies the influence of the transient artist, both on their adoptive country and their own oeuvre and native culture.
This volume deliberates over the relationship between monarchy and tourism development in Southeast Asia. It explains the importance of the need to shift the tourism and monarchy focus from European to Asian royalty.
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.
2014 was the centenary of the start of the First World War and saw violent conflict in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq. This monograph discusses these and a number of other events alongside a variety of general issues.
Framed by postcolonial theory, post-tourism and resistance theories, this work is a semantic and semiotic analysis of tourism texts that represent groups of San (or Bushmen) in Botswana. It demonstrates the power that written and visual language can have upon consumers of texts.
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Downscaling Culture
As globalisation makes fixed ideas of culture obsolete, this volume updates intercultural communication theory and practice. It utilises a theory of scales to ‘downscale culture’, showing how it might—or might not—be relevant in any given interaction.
Mothers at the Margins
This collection speaks with the voices of mothers who feel alienated, stigmatised, or silenced for not fitting the expected norms of motherhood. It challenges narrow ideas of maternal identity, revealing structures of oppression and strategies of resistance and love.
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.
The contributions to this book assume diversity to be a fundamental feature of Nordic modernity, and offer case studies that provide important counter-narratives to prevailing local and global discourses of Nordic-ness.
We Need to Talk about Family
As the dream of upward mobility dissipates, the family ‘haven’ is unravelling. This collection explores the hypercompetitive neoliberal family, which seeks to maximize its children’s futures amid the anxiety of being left behind.