This volume explores space, place, and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies. It considers how art, film, and literature can reinvigorate representations of modern nations and celebrate their dynamic communities without relegating minorities to the margin.
This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.
Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
A Cartographic Journey of Race, Gender and Power
This book explores how spatial borders are social constructs used to define hierarchies of race, gender, and power. Through literary narratives from East and West, it follows voices crossing these boundaries to envision a new model for a diverse global identity.
This book explores the figure of the female performer in 19th-century fiction, analyzing the clashing attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emile Zola. It examines women’s public roles as either a commitment to the feminist project or a mere exhibitionist demeanour.
Prospects and Impediments of Feminist Monolithism
This book reads poetry by British, American, and Sub-Saharan women to argue for feminist monolithism. It finds remarkable consistency in themes of resisting oppression across geographical divides, proposing this as a stable ground for unity without ignoring their differences.
Mobile Identities
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000
These 10 essays explore the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. Revising cultural dichotomies, they consider animals not as objects, but as active agents that have left forgotten traces in texts.
Nat Turner in Black and White
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
Journalism Standards of Work Today
In an age of new technology, are journalism ethics still relevant? This book examines the first national code of ethics from 1923, finding timeless values that can be applied to media today to equip citizens for representative governance without abandoning essential principles.
When geopolitical changes occur, they alter our identity. This book looks at contemporary history with new eyes, from a scholarly perspective that cancels borders. It explores migration, geopolitics, and human rights, making the old self-other dichotomy obsolete.
Personal essays illuminate the effects of whiteness in the workplace. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this collection makes a compelling case for changing the individuals and systems that perpetuate disparities in opportunity, advancement, and well-being.
Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
Understanding Institutionalized Education
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.
An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 2)
From sexuality and religion to quantum physics, this volume traces existentialism’s vast influence. It explores global mysticism, the minds of outcasts like van Gogh and Artaud, and the profound link between the absurd and the cosmos.
Reception Studies and Adaptation
This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.
Food in American Culture and Literature
Carving a unique space in food studies, these multifaceted essays blend cultural analysis with history and sociology. These cultural critiques force the reader to consider what food means, and will mean, in the United States.
The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
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