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For three generations, Afghans have migrated across the world. This book defines the concept of diaspora, considering key ideas like “belonging” and “return.” It focuses on the Afghan diaspora, particularly in Iran, and offers short accounts of their lives.
For three generations, Afghans have migrated across the world. This book defines the concept of diaspora, considering key ideas like “belonging” and “return.” It focuses on the Afghan diaspora, particularly in Iran, and offers short accounts of their lives.
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Diasporic Identities and Empire
Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes
This volume explores diasporic identities and empire on a global scale. By moving beyond the search for an imperial ‘centre,’ contributions from scholars across four continents show how writing from the peripheries develops a new worldview.
This volume explores diasporic identities and empire on a global scale. By moving beyond the search for an imperial ‘centre,’ contributions from scholars across four continents show how writing from the peripheries develops a new worldview.
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This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.
This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.
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The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand 'culture' beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.
The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand ‘culture’ beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.
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Dicite, Pierides
Classical Studies in Honour of Stratis Kyriakidis
From Homeric epic to Virgil's Aeneid and the epigrams of Geminus, these sixteen essays offer fresh, thoughtful readings of classical literature.
From Homeric epic to Virgil’s Aeneid and the epigrams of Geminus, these sixteen essays offer fresh, thoughtful readings of classical literature.
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Dickens and Italy
Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy
Dickens's relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.
Dickens’s relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.
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Dining Room Detectives
Analysing Food in the Novels of Agatha Christie
This book analyzes the twofold role food plays in Agatha Christie’s novels: its function as a literary device and as a cultural sign. Christie used food to portray characters, construct plots, and fundamentally alter the rigid genre conventions.
This book analyzes the twofold role food plays in Agatha Christie’s novels: its function as a literary device and as a cultural sign. Christie used food to portray characters, construct plots, and fundamentally alter the rigid genre conventions.
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Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture
The Re-use of Visual and Narrative Texts in his Fantastic Fiction
This book investigates Dino Buzzati’s relationship with Anglo-American culture, showing that he was an original reworker of literary motifs. It offers new insights into his fiction’s playful side and reassesses him as a master of fantastic literature.
This book investigates Dino Buzzati’s relationship with Anglo-American culture, showing that he was an original reworker of literary motifs. It offers new insights into his fiction’s playful side and reassesses him as a master of fantastic literature.
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Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts
Critical and Artistic Perspectives
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
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This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
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This collection explores Western representations of Egypt from 1750-1956, a fascination sparked by Napoleon’s expedition. Essays analyse works by writers like Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, alongside perspectives from explorers, painters, and colonial administrators.
This collection explores Western representations of Egypt from 1750-1956, a fascination sparked by Napoleon’s expedition. Essays analyse works by writers like Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, alongside perspectives from explorers, painters, and colonial administrators.
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This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
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Displaced Women
Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
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Why did successful women playwrights of the Romantic period silence their female characters? This book argues they incorporated the suppressions they faced into their works, turning gaps in representation into powerful, non-traditional strategies of resistance.
Why did successful women playwrights of the Romantic period silence their female characters? This book argues they incorporated the suppressions they faced into their works, turning gaps in representation into powerful, non-traditional strategies of resistance.
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Displacing the Anxieties of Our World
Spaces of the Imagination
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
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Disquiet on the Western Front
World War II and Postmodern Fiction
Using close readings of iconic literary texts, this groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.
Using close readings of iconic literary texts, this groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.
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This book discusses intellectual militancy and activism in Festus Iyayi’s literary works. It shows how this activism impacts marginalized individuals who struggle for social justice, and will appeal to those interested in human rights, power dynamics, and state violence.
This book discusses intellectual militancy and activism in Festus Iyayi’s literary works. It shows how this activism impacts marginalized individuals who struggle for social justice, and will appeal to those interested in human rights, power dynamics, and state violence.
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Diversity and Homogeneity
The Politics of Nation, Ethnicity and Gender
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
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Diversity in Narration and Writing
The Novel
These essays take an international perspective on the novel, deepening understanding of classic authors like Flaubert and Joyce. It also offers a profound contribution to scholarship, covering Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before.
These essays take an international perspective on the novel, deepening understanding of classic authors like Flaubert and Joyce. It also offers a profound contribution to scholarship, covering Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before.
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Lila is the play of the gods, a free spirit of creation beyond the chains of reason and the clocks of time. Come, enter a realm of divine madness, where the trickster, the artist, and the savior weave the great tapestry of life. Join the play.
Lila is the play of the gods, a free spirit of creation beyond the chains of reason and the clocks of time. Come, enter a realm of divine madness, where the trickster, the artist, and the savior weave the great tapestry of life. Join the play.
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