Navigating Multiculturalism
This provocative volume explores multiculturalism from various perspectives, addressing divisive questions about race, ethnicity, and identity. This collection challenges readers to examine their own perceptions and consider how to navigate change.
This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil
This powerful collection of critical essays explores the histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. It challenges the myth of a racially benevolent Canada, dissecting institutional racism and defining a black Canadian identity distinct from American ideals.
This second volume introduces several elements into the University of Alabama’s narrative, like its hassle with the state government through 1877 and its strict admission of women students. Other topics explored include the history of unofficial student sports from the 1870s.
Doubt, Time and Violence in Philosophical and Cultural Thought
These essays confront the traumas of our postmodern world: loss of identity, media uniformity, violence, and climate change. Distinguished scholars explore these and other fascinating topics from Western and Chinese history to address our shared global concerns.
Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
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.
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges
This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.
Idioms of Ontology
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
This collection of essays highlights the growing interest in the relationship between the arts and human consciousness. Reflecting a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the book features contributions from scholars across the world.
Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
The Atlantic World in the Antipodes
This collection of essays investigates the transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The chapters underscore how both oceanic worlds were co-produced through intellectual and practical interactions.
Civilisation and Fear
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
Global society, cosmopolitanism, and human rights constitute the basis of our future. This volume analyzes the dominant traits of a world beyond the nation-state: the dynamics of unification, cosmopolitan lifestyles, and human rights as regulation.
This book celebrates the diversity of universities but recognises the challenges faced by new students. It offers research, case studies, and practical advice from international experts on student transition, retention, and the first-year experience.
This updated text on Nigerian legal methods is written by scholars in simple, easy-to-understand language. Primarily for first-year law students, its unique chapters on advocacy and examination skills offer more detailed analysis than existing texts.
Less than Nations
After WWI redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. This book analyses the conditions of national minorities, from the massacres of Armenians and Jews to the role of Kin States that conditioned the stability of Europe.
Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire
This historicized view of Augustan satire shows how works by Pope, Swift, and Gay can be “documented” to reveal richer meanings. Drawing on unpublished sources, it uncovers a literary hoax, new links, and interprets a virtually unknown poem.
This volume expands on orthodox distinctions in language study to explore a wider concept of linguistic interfaces. It examines clashes between languages and politics, contact between languages, and language as influenced by cognitive and other factors.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
By one of the 19th century’s most successful opera composers, Le Domino noir is a masterpiece of wit and melodic grace. A noblewoman, destined for the convent, falls for a stranger at a masked ball in a tale of love, duty, and feminine independence.
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