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This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.
This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.
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This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.
This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.
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Contested Identities
Literary Negotiations in Time and Place
These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.
These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.
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Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels
Reading for Space
Tabur discusses the ways in which the work of Toni Morrison, Dionne Brand, Jhumpa Lahiri and Carolyn See engage with the physical, ideological, and socially constructed “real-and-imagined” spaces of colonialism, justice, diaspora, and risk.
Tabur discusses the ways in which the work of Toni Morrison, Dionne Brand, Jhumpa Lahiri and Carolyn See engage with the physical, ideological, and socially constructed “real-and-imagined” spaces of colonialism, justice, diaspora, and risk.
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Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries
Literary Interventions by Tamil Dalits
This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.
This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.
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Contextual Confluence
Media, Text and Traditions
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
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Contextual Identities
A Comparative and Communicational Approach
This interdisciplinary, intercultural book brings the concepts of “identity,” “comparativism,” and “communication” together to reinterpret postmodernism. It investigates multiple identities in discursive contexts and will interest those in image and literary studies.
This interdisciplinary, intercultural book brings the concepts of “identity,” “comparativism,” and “communication” together to reinterpret postmodernism. It investigates multiple identities in discursive contexts and will interest those in image and literary studies.
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This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent's chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.
This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent’s chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.
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This volume details the uneasy and uncomfortable relationship between English identity and the discipline of English Studies. It draws together literary and cross-cultural studies material to shed light on internal visions and external projections of Englishness.
This volume details the uneasy and uncomfortable relationship between English identity and the discipline of English Studies. It draws together literary and cross-cultural studies material to shed light on internal visions and external projections of Englishness.
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Contingencies and Masterly Fictions
Countertextuality in Dickens, Contemporary Fiction and Theory
This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens's novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.
This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens’s novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.
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An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.
An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.
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These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
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Coordination and Subordination
Form and Meaning—Selected Papers from CSI Lisbon 2014
Recent studies challenge the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. This collection of papers delves into these challenges, using data from different languages to develop innovative perspectives and advance thought-provoking ideas.
Recent studies challenge the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. This collection of papers delves into these challenges, using data from different languages to develop innovative perspectives and advance thought-provoking ideas.
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Counterpoints
Edward Said’s Legacy
Revolving around Edward Said's theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.
Revolving around Edward Said’s theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.
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Creative Interventions
The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
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This book explores the dark labyrinths of the criminals from Dickens’s greatest novels, including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. It supplants his image as the Santa Claus of Victorian society with another Dickens: one who understood the dark souls of his age.
This book explores the dark labyrinths of the criminals from Dickens’s greatest novels, including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. It supplants his image as the Santa Claus of Victorian society with another Dickens: one who understood the dark souls of his age.
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This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.
This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.
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This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.
This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.
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Rediscover a forgotten classic. Maxwell Gray’s bestselling 1886 novel, The Silence of Dean Maitland, combines evocative English landscape, in the mould of Thomas Hardy, with a gripping plot of crime and moral choice. This edition includes scholarly articles on its adaptations.
Rediscover a forgotten classic. Maxwell Gray’s bestselling 1886 novel, The Silence of Dean Maitland, combines evocative English landscape, in the mould of Thomas Hardy, with a gripping plot of crime and moral choice. This edition includes scholarly articles on its adaptations.
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Critical Engagements on African Literature
An Offering to Professor Isidore Diala
This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.
This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.
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