Bridges, Borders and Bodies
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists’ identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
The Borders of Integration
This book addresses radical challenges facing Southern European societies, from migration to social cohesion. Refuting the idea that culture alone drives behavior, it focuses on the body as a vector for social policy, suggesting the empowered body can manage conflict and change.
To prepare learners for global citizenship, language teaching must be intercultural. This book offers a collection of successful, bottom-up experiences rooted in praxis, sharing activities and methods that can be informative to the realities of all readers.
Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.
Academic endeavors have long been separate from local communities. This book closes the gap by exploring ways academia and the communities it serves can collaborate to create authentic and applied learning environments.
Victorian Cultures of Liminality
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism
Explore Czech culture’s evolution after socialism. This volume reveals the diverse trajectories of popular culture and subcultures, showing what truly changed and what surprisingly endured from the late socialist era.
Beyond Superlatives
A new generation of scholars applies Whitehead’s philosophy to “superlatives”—valued concepts like truth, novelty, care, and love. By deconstructing these ideas, the essays release an invitation of possibility, extending Whitehead’s thought in novel directions.
Reflection, Change, and Reconstruction in the Context of Educational Reform and Innovation in China
This book explores how reflective teaching transforms the thinking and classroom practice of Chinese university EFL teachers. It offers a new perspective on professional development and is a unique resource for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.
This anthology defines the dynamics and policies of prejudice in the historical passage between the modern and contemporary age, and includes interesting chapters on anti-Semitism, the ethnic conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkans, and gender bias, among other subjects.
This book challenges the idea that medical ethics in armed conflict is identical to peacetime. It explores the dual loyalty conflict for Military Health Care Professionals torn between military orders and professional codes when caring for the wounded under fire.
The Principle of Relations
This volume presents a new paradigm for the entirety of reality. The Principle of Relations is applied to all fields, from the universe and elementary particles to human relations, offering a platform to understand gravity, energy, cancer, poverty, and prosperity.
This interdisciplinary study explores the 800-year-old sonnet and its relationship to the self. It asks why the form persists across diverse cultures by looking at the self from the limit points of the body, mind, world and language.
Emerson Goes to the Movies
This book traces Emersonian individualism in Disney’s post-1989 animated films, proving self-reliance is still alive in popular culture. It explores what influences Disney and how individualism intersects with race, gender, class, and imperialism.
Celebrating the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth, this volume reveals the true relation that the British author had with France. It explores, among other topics, the sizeable French literary and musical heritage that inspired Burgess in his creations and adaptations.
This study of postwar MLB (1945-51) reveals how new, investment-minded owners slowed integration, until pioneers like Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck defied the status quo, finding success both on the field and at the gate.
The Shattered Mirror
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism
This book uses Victor Frankl’s logotherapy to analyze the search for meaning in modern literature. It explores our age’s “existential vacuum”—a sense of meaninglessness—and discovers a “tragic optimism” and a longing for God in poetry, novels, and fantasy.