For the first time, AUSIT releases its conference proceedings in book format. Presentations from an international gathering of speakers address theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural communication, training, and the day-to-day work of translators.
The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.
The American Culture of Despair
Is the United States a democratic society, or does it show signs of the cultural despair that preceded fascism? This book examines critical moments, from the Civil War to JFK’s assassination, revealing a long history of authoritarian tendencies and a regressive cycle of crisis.
Coalition Warfare
Associations of nations fighting for common causes are no novelty. This anthology includes scholarly research on coalition warfare, past and present, exploring commonalities and differences. This complex reality is of importance to historians, politicians, and commanders.
Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir
The 2011 revolution complicated questions about Egyptian identity. This volume focuses on written and oral expression, viewed through the lenses of rhetoric and communication, to understand how the demand for change altered Egyptians’ perceptions of themselves.
This volume explores the dynamic process of interaction. Authors examine how participants understand each other through various semiotic codes in translation, education, arts, and literature, offering inspiring topics for researchers and students.
Mapping Appetite
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
A Study in Legal History Volume III; Freedom under the Law
Hailed as the 20th century’s most important judge, this book explores Lord Denning’s career against the backdrop of the 1960s and 70s, examining his role in the Profumo affair and the controversies that shaped modern Britain.
Both Swords and Ploughshares
This collection of essays explores the mythos of America as a place of religious freedom, yet one imbued with a socially-imposed civil religion and underpinned by a presumption of Protestant dominance.
Cryptohistories is a collection of essays analysing cryptic discourses in history. The focus is on history as a subjective narrative, a conscious construct, and manipulation, exploring the mechanics of the rise and popularity of such narrative strategies.
Peripheral Flows
This volume re-assesses the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern socio-technical systems. Challenging the traditional concept of a one-way transfer, it reveals a process not of simple adoption, but of complex adaptation in meaning, use, and perception.
This book explores politico-diplomatic relations between Italy and the US during Italy’s turbulent 1960s-70s. It offers an innovative comparison between PM Mariano Rumor, the ‘dove’, and the ‘eagle’ of the Nixon and Ford administrations.
Transforming From Christianity to Islam
Why would a Western woman convert to Islam and embrace the hijab? These personal accounts explore the complex reality where devotion collides with the immense influence of peer, social, and male pressure on one of life’s biggest decisions.
This collection of essays analyzes the past, present, and future of Chicano Literature. Covering well-known authors like Sandra Cisneros and lesser-known 19th-century Hispanic writers, it seeks the keys to interpret the challenges of the new millennium.
Born in the Jungles of Burma
In WWII’s unforgiving China-Burma-India Theater, a unique US-British air unit, Air Commando 1, was forged. It pioneered large-scale air supply and support deep behind enemy lines, establishing a vital method of warfare for all subsequent wars.
This book presents the intertwined relationships between culture, literature, language, and history. More specifically, it investigates the joy of a birth, a funeral ritual, the merriness of a melody, and the taste of a meal as reflected in the texts of Asia.
Designed for EFL students, this textbook builds a solid foundation in English literature. It covers literary terms, a brief history, and selected fiction, poetry, and drama. With comprehension questions for EFL learners, this is an excellent resource for students and teachers.
Transcending Eurocentric models of understanding the female body, this volume addresses historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily practices, iconography and representation.
Autobiographical Poetry in England and Spain, 1950-1980
Lerro traces the founding critical theories of the influential autobiographical genre, from the Enlightenment period to the most recent developments. He offers an increased effectiveness of the poem to express the narrative purposes of autobiography.
Japanese bioethics has developed a distinct identity separate from its American origins. This anthology, featuring original chapters by leading scholars, reveals how traditional Japanese values shape the nation’s approach to complex ethical issues in medicine.