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Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era: Theory, Advocacy, Activism- With a Foreword by Marc Lamont Hill and an Afterword by Zeus Leonar
ISBN: 9781433111280 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to be Black in the Obama era? In Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era, young African American scholars and researchers and experienced community activists demonstrate how to encourage dialogue across curricula, disciplines, and communities with emphases on education, new media, and popular culture. Considering what this historic moment means for Black life, letters, and learning, this accessible yet scholarly volume encourages movement toward thoughtful analysis today.
What does it mean to be Black in the Obama era? In Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era, young African American scholars and r...
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802,96 |
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Authentic Blackness - «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781433115080 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of authentic blackness, while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between...
Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted mea...
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198,59 |
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Chaucer and Gender
ISBN: 9780820469461 / Angielski / Twarda / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender criticism has recently been applied to a wide range of ancient and modern literature; such an approach can reveal many previously unrecognized attitudes among earlier writers. Chaucer has long been recognized as a writer with psychological sensitivities. This book attempts to show that Chaucer has demonstrated his sensitivities on gender issues by recognizing and revising many of the gender stereotypes familiar from his time. It is likely that he was influenced in these ideas by an early feminist writer from France, Christine de Pizan, who complained about the Romance of the...
Gender criticism has recently been applied to a wide range of ancient and modern literature; such an approach can reveal many previously unrecognized ...
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324,38 |
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Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939: Gender and Violence on Stage
ISBN: 9781433103322 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, placing their work for theatre in co-relation to suggest a parallel tradition that reframes the development of Irish theatre into the present day.
How these playwrights dramatize violence and its impacts in political, social, and personal life is a central concern of this book. Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Dorothy Macardle, Mary Manning, and Teresa Deevy re-model theatrical form, re-structuring action and narrative, and exploring closure as a way of disrupting... Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, placing their work for theatre...
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528,54 |
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Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times
ISBN: 9781433103063 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces literary metissage as a way to research, teach, and live ethically with all our relations in our precarious times. The authors theorize and perform literary metissage through the praxis of life writing, braiding their autobiographical texts, in various (mixed) genres, into seven themes. Life Writing and Literary Metissage as an Ethos for Our Times explores this writing praxis, with its more inclusive and generative notions of knowledge and knowledge practices, as a tool for creating more just societies and schools.
This book introduces literary metissage as a way to research, teach, and live ethically with all our relations in our precarious times. The authors th...
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205,43 |
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Authentic Blackness - «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781433115097 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of authentic blackness, while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between...
Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted mea...
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696,70 |
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London - Berlin: Authenticity, Modernity, and the Metropolis in Urban Travel Writing from 1851 to 1939
ISBN: 9789052010397 / Angielski / Miękka / 407 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 19th century, the metropolis became the soothsayer of societies. Here, probabilities of progress could be perceived, felt and smelt; here was the showcase of each nation s prime productions and representations. Travellers took to the metropolis in order to unravel the foreign society, in order to understand and learn about social characteristics and future developments, about cultural distinctions and commonalities, about banalities and extraordinary events.
Travel writers mapped the development of Europe s metropolises and wrote for a large market using the form of a highly... In the 19th century, the metropolis became the soothsayer of societies. Here, probabilities of progress could be perceived, felt and smelt; here was t...
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378,40 |
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Hero-Ego in Search of Self: A Jungian Reading of Beowulf
ISBN: 9780820431154 / Angielski / Twarda / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Hero-Ego in Search of Self, Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. Building upon the earlier work of Jeffery Helterman and John Miles Foley, she argues that the sum of all confrontations between hero and monster in Beowulf equals the process of individual psychological development identified by Carl Jung as individuation. Dr. White s study proposes that the hero s struggle is the universal struggle towards self-knowledge and that Beowulf thus resonates for the contemporary reader as it did for the poet s...
In Hero-Ego in Search of Self, Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. B...
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288,88 |
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The Novels of Louise Erdrich; Stories of Her People
ISBN: 9780820440279 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe s struggle to survive (Tracks), to the Depression (The Beet Queen), to the mid-twentieth century (Love Medicine), to contemporary times (The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wise), Erdrich sympathetically, compassionately, and realistically renders a portrait of people striving to survive governmental bureaucracy, Catholic Church intrusion, and climatic severity."
Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ances...
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185,40 |
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On the Outside Looking In(dian: Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad
ISBN: 9780820458120 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the Outside Looking In(dian) analyzes works over the past century translated into or written in English by feminist Indian women writers such as Krupabai Satthianadhan, Rokeya Sakhewat Hossein, Maitreyi Devi, Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, and others. These writers condemn patriarchal customs and laws for depriving Indian women of all castes and classes, as well as women of other cultures of their basic human rights by sanctioning child marriage, sati, purdah, and the wearing of the burqa, while prohibiting widow remarriage, the expression of sexuality,...
On the Outside Looking In(dian) analyzes works over the past century translated into or written in English by feminist Indian women writers suc...
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185,40 |
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The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's «The Yellow Wall-Paper»
ISBN: 9780820463056 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charlotte Perkins Gilman s -The Yellow Wall-paper- is one of the most frequently taught short stories in secondary and college classrooms around the world. What is especially unusual about the text is the large variety of academic contexts in which the story is included. The Pedagogical Wallpaper provides educators, students, and researchers with accessible and practical approaches to the story, with an emphasis on the text as a tool for teaching. The classroom contexts address women s studies, freshman composition, literary theory, philosophy, and genre studies. In addition, the text...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman s -The Yellow Wall-paper- is one of the most frequently taught short stories in secondary and college classrooms around the w...
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165,62 |
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Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances
ISBN: 9780820467344 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Women s Activism is the first book-length study of African American women s historical romances. This book examines romances written from 1989 to the present, and discusses their black heroines resistance at particular moments in history from the colonization movement to the Texas oil boom. Socio-historical perspectives, a womanist agenda, and an African-centered outlook inform the readings of female characters in the narratives of Francine Craft, Gay G. Gunn, Shirley Hailstock, Beverly Jenkins, and Anita Richmond Bunkley. Broadening the scope of the historical romance genre, and...
Black Women s Activism is the first book-length study of African American women s historical romances. This book examines romances written from...
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185,40 |
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A Moongate in My Wall: Collected Poetry of Mary Custis Vezey
ISBN: 9780820478371 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Moongate in My Wall is a collection of poems and translations by a remarkable yet little-known bilingual Russian-American poet, Mary Custis Vezey (1904-1994). Born in New York to a Russian mother and an American father and related to the famous Custis family, she lived in St. Petersburg, Harbin, Beijing, Shanghai, and San Francisco, published three books of poetry, and left many unpublished works. Her fine poetic heritage is reproduced here in its entirety.
A Moongate in My Wall is a collection of poems and translations by a remarkable yet little-known bilingual Russian-American poet, Mary Custis V...
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550,10 |
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«We Three»: The Mythology of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters
ISBN: 9780820479330 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Weird Sisters, from William Shakespeare s play Macbeth, are arguably the most famous trio of witches in English literature. Shakespeare s Weird Sisters are a complex trinitarian mythological construction a unique amalgamation of classical, folkloric, and socio-political elements. This book is an archetypal exploration of the Weird Sisters; by examining this feminine trio through the lens of mythology, new insights about their significance may be understood. The ramifications extend from classical comprehension to twenty-first century pop culture observations related to female...
The Weird Sisters, from William Shakespeare s play Macbeth, are arguably the most famous trio of witches in English literature. Shakespeare s W...
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428,62 |
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History and Utopian Disillusion: The Dialectical Politics in the Novels of John DOS Passos
ISBN: 9780820486420 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canonical but controversial works of radical modernism, John Dos Passos novels continue to intrigue readers and challenge literary critics with their unique styles and provocative messages. This book offers an insightful and refreshing perspective on his fictional world, exploring the historical vision and utopian aspirations of his early novels in light of their dialectical politics in narrating modern American society. History and Utopian Disillusion convincingly shows that Dos Passos epic-scale project is a radical hymn of faith dialectically inspiring the utopian resolution of...
Canonical but controversial works of radical modernism, John Dos Passos novels continue to intrigue readers and challenge literary critics with their ...
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493,04 |
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The Frontier Roots of American Realism
ISBN: 9780820488110 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the antebellum South, the -plain folk- maintained social norms, ideals of honor, justice, gender, and liberty that were significantly distinct from town and planter gentility, and the humorists of the Old South captured this important distinction. Southwest humor flourished from the 1830s through the Civil War and this book provides a thorough investigation of the unique and innovative contributions of these humorists to the field of American literary realism, such as use of vernacular authenticity, complex character portraits, and the narrative technique of disclosure. Thus, when the...
In the antebellum South, the -plain folk- maintained social norms, ideals of honor, justice, gender, and liberty that were significantly distinct from...
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421,51 |
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American Postmodernity; Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon
ISBN: 9783039100170 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together nine original essays from Pynchon scholars around the world whose work furthers the debate concerning the nature of perceived shifts in the sensibility, style and subject-matter of Pynchon s fiction from The Crying of Lot 49 to Mason & Dixon. Of particular concern is the complex relationship between Pynchon s challenging and evolving uvre and notions of postmodernity which this volume s focus on Pynchon s most recent fiction helps bring up-to-date. Five of the collection s essays examine the writer s achievement in Mason & Dixon and were first...
This book brings together nine original essays from Pynchon scholars around the world whose work furthers the debate concerning the nature of perceive...
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309,16 |
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Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval English Literature
ISBN: 9783039107278 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If married in church, medieval women vowed before God and their husbands to be bonoure and buxum, that is, meek and obedient in bed and at table. This book is a study of wives in a variety of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romance, fabliaux, cycle drama, life-writing, lyrics and hagiography. The volume examines key moments that defined life as a married woman: her eligibility to become a wife, the wedding ceremony, her conjugal rights and duties, childbirth and her contribution to the family economy. The book explores the way in which the literary representation of wives is in dialogue...
If married in church, medieval women vowed before God and their husbands to be bonoure and buxum, that is, meek and obedient in bed and at table. This...
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293,95 |
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Loving Against the Odds: Women's Writing in English in a European Context
ISBN: 9783039107322 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, in 2002. They highlight the existence of a European network of women s writing which became a valuable source of consciousness-raising, not only for European women writers, but also for their readers. The main theme running through the essays is love: women loving against the odds and transcending all kinds of obstacles. Does love speak a common language or is it inevitably linked to social mores and individual experience? Does desire work in the...
The essays collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, in 2...
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283,80 |
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Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia
ISBN: 9783039108473 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its challenge to nearly every facet of Australian society and culture, the Australian women s movement has achieved much in a short period of time. And it has attracted controversy: fiery denunciation and equally passionate loyalty. This book explores how such a revolutionary social movement remembers its past. The women s movement has always recognised the political importance of history, narrative, and language to changing the way we think, and hence to changing the world. How then does feminism mark its own past times, and what stories does it tell of the campaigns, struggles,...
With its challenge to nearly every facet of Australian society and culture, the Australian women s movement has achieved much in a short period of tim...
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528,54 |
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