wyszukanych pozycji: 8
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
ISBN: 9780812254051 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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214,17 zł |
Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity
ISBN: 9780807856376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works advocate a politics of language diversity--a literary and social agenda that validates the multiplicity of ethnic cultures and tongues in the United States.
Cutter studies works by Asian American, Native American, African American, and Mexican American authors. She argues that... Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter exami...
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231,66 zł |
Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930
ISBN: 9781604731989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -Women should be seen and not heard.- That was a well-known maxim in nineteenth-century America. American women writers--such as Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather--devised a brilliant method for crashing that barrier to creativity. In her new book, UNRULY TONGUE: IDENTITY AND VOICE IN AMERICAN WOMEN'S WRITING, 1850-1930 (University Press of Mississippi, $40, cloth) Martha Cutter says the ten African American and Anglo American women she studied wrote as inside agitators. Over time they created a new theory of language. Cutter says, -From 1780 to 1860 American... -Women should be seen and not heard.- That was a well-known maxim in nineteenth-century America. American women writers--such as Louisa May Alcot... |
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218,27 zł |
The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852
ISBN: 9780820358758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Analyses some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha Cutter argues that some illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and interrelationship.
Analyses some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual material...
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201,40 zł |
The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852
ISBN: 9780820351162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012) and Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave (2013), slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of the transatlantic world. Scholars have examined various aspects of the visual culture that was slavery, including its painting, sculpture, pamphlet campaigns, and artwork. Yet an important piece of this visual culture has gone unexamined: the popular and frequently reprinted antislavery... From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained... |
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255,92 zł |
Passing and the Fictions of Identity
ISBN: 9780822317647 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has served as a way for women and people of color to access male or white privilege. In their examination of this practice of crossing boundaries, the contributors to this volume offer a unique perspective for studying the construction and meaning of personal and cultural identities.
These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from... Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this...
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119,94 zł |
Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780820352015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past.
Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusive...
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599,53 zł |
Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780820352008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise US history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The collection represents an original body of criticism about recently published works that have received scant scholarly attention.
Examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise US history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history a...
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212,31 zł |