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This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
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This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It's a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.
This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It’s a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.
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This “Self” Which Is Not One
Women’s Life Writing in French
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
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Three Long Poems in Athens
Erēmē Gē-Perama-Kleftiko
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
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Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry
Questions of Inheritance in American Women's Literature
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
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Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms
Common and/or Alien
This publication considers the great divides between identity and otherness in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.
This publication considers the great divides between identity and otherness in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.
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Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
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Trans-Pacific Encounters
Asia and the Hispanic World
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
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This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
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This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
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Transmedia Storytelling
Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley
This book charts Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of classic literature, interrogating their relationship with consumer culture. While appearing feminist, their narratives expose anxieties about unstable gender roles and financial vulnerability in the digital age.
This book charts Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of classic literature, interrogating their relationship with consumer culture. While appearing feminist, their narratives expose anxieties about unstable gender roles and financial vulnerability in the digital age.
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This insightful work traces the genealogy of Triple Consciousness through the lens of black feminist thought. Highlighting the resistance and resilience of black women, it is an essential companion for students and scholars in women's, ethnic, and African American studies.
This insightful work traces the genealogy of Triple Consciousness through the lens of black feminist thought. Highlighting the resistance and resilience of black women, it is an essential companion for students and scholars in women’s, ethnic, and African American studies.
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Triumphant Bodies
Sexual Political Conquest in Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
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Uncertain Justice
Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
Il giallo, Italy's crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
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Uncovering Caledonia
An Introduction to Scottish Studies
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
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Understanding Institutionalized Education
Towards a Different Philosophy of the School
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
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Ungrateful Daughters
Third Wave Feminist Writings
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
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This book redefines “homes,” real and imagined, in Asian diasporic literature. It explores the emotional journey of migration, exile, and uprootedness, mourning the loss of “homes” while celebrating the resilience and adaptability that lead to the creation of new ones.
This book redefines “homes,” real and imagined, in Asian diasporic literature. It explores the emotional journey of migration, exile, and uprootedness, mourning the loss of “homes” while celebrating the resilience and adaptability that lead to the creation of new ones.
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Urban Monstrosities
Perversity and Upheaval in the Unreal City
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
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Victorian Murderesses
The Politics of Female Violence
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
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