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This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
This volume of essays dissects critical issues in postcolonial African theatre. It moves beyond conventional theory to focus on the concrete realities practitioners face, exploring diverse topics from censorship and cultural policy to text, performance, and production.
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Voyages of Body and Soul
Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond
This collection explores India’s “mad” female saint-poets and multifaceted epic women from across history. These icons resisted patriarchal norms, following their chosen paths with monumental courage, creativity, and deep devotion. Their lives are models for the 21st century.
This collection explores India’s “mad” female saint-poets and multifaceted epic women from across history. These icons resisted patriarchal norms, following their chosen paths with monumental courage, creativity, and deep devotion. Their lives are models for the 21st century.
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War, Human Dignity and Nation Building
Theological Perspectives on Canada’s Role in Afghanistan
Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.
Canada’s longest conflict, the Afghan Mission, is a watershed moment with immense costs, yet it remains little scrutinized by faith communities. This volume is the first to bring together theologians, politicians, and academics to dialogue on its impact.
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We Are What We Remember
The American Past Through Commemoration
Commemoration doesn't just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?
Commemoration doesn’t just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?
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We Speak a Different Tongue
Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890–1939
This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era's tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.
This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.
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Weird fiction arose as an antithesis to the adverse conditions of modern life, expressing society's disappointment with unrealized promises. This guide analyzes how these irrational visions in literature, film, and art trace the impact of the collective subconscious.
Weird fiction arose as an antithesis to the adverse conditions of modern life, expressing society’s disappointment with unrealized promises. This guide analyzes how these irrational visions in literature, film, and art trace the impact of the collective subconscious.
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Westerns
Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood
Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.
Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.
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For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.
For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.
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Winckelmann’s “Philosophy of Art”
A Prelude to German Classicism
This work examines Johann Joachim Winckelmann's pivotal role as a judge of classical sculpture and founder of German art criticism. It explores his philosophy of beauty while revealing how his judgements were often propagandist rather than analytical.
This work examines Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s pivotal role as a judge of classical sculpture and founder of German art criticism. It explores his philosophy of beauty while revealing how his judgements were often propagandist rather than analytical.
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Wit’s End
Making Sense of the Great Movies
This book studies the “Great Movies,” the enduring works of cinematic history. It attempts to “make sense” of these films to understand what they express about the universality of human life and the worlds they recreate on screen.
This book studies the “Great Movies,” the enduring works of cinematic history. It attempts to “make sense” of these films to understand what they express about the universality of human life and the worlds they recreate on screen.
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This collection of essays explores women’s complex relationship with the gothic. From novels to hypertext fiction, it reveals the scope, intensity, and risks of this evolution, challenging our understanding of why women engage with the gothic.
This collection of essays explores women’s complex relationship with the gothic. From novels to hypertext fiction, it reveals the scope, intensity, and risks of this evolution, challenging our understanding of why women engage with the gothic.
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Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema
Russia's Eternal Quest for Messianism
This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.
This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.
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This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.
This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.
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Women Framing Hair
Serial Strategies in Contemporary Art
This book explores the complex motif of hair in the work of five contemporary women artists. It investigates why hair is such a resonant site of meaning, exploring its history as a marker of identity, beauty, and power, and its darker side representing trauma.
This book explores the complex motif of hair in the work of five contemporary women artists. It investigates why hair is such a resonant site of meaning, exploring its history as a marker of identity, beauty, and power, and its darker side representing trauma.
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Women in the Arts
Eccentric Essays II
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women's accomplishments to enrich our culture.
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women’s accomplishments to enrich our culture.
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Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
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Women Willing to Fight
The Fighting Woman in Film
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
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Words and Images on the Screen
Language, Literature and Moving Pictures
Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.
Word has been a primordial companion to cinema from its beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in moving pictures, covering their interconnectedness through in-depth case studies and general surveys.
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Worlds in Words
Storytelling in Contemporary Theatre and Playwriting
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
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Writing from the Margins
The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story
There is another dimension to the Irish short story tradition that has been overlooked. Led by Samuel Beckett, Aidan Higgins, and Tom Mac Intyre, this marginalized tradition marks an alternative avant-garde movement. This is the first book to highlight it.
There is another dimension to the Irish short story tradition that has been overlooked. Led by Samuel Beckett, Aidan Higgins, and Tom Mac Intyre, this marginalized tradition marks an alternative avant-garde movement. This is the first book to highlight it.
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