Approaching Postcolonial and Psychoanalytic Criticism in Literary Studies: An Illustration of an Analysis of a Malaysian Novel
ISBN: 9781482893700 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a contribution to the growing body of work on identity studies. It encompasses the analysis of common themes found in many Malaysian novels, i.e. identity and the self. These themes are examined through postcolonial and psychoanalytical lenses. The book provides an illustration of the intricacies that go into the analysis of identity and sense of self, as well as the manner in which textual studies and analysis is conceptualized and carried out. It is hoped that this book will provide Language Studies students with guidance on the manner in which textual analysis could be...
This book is a contribution to the growing body of work on identity studies. It encompasses the analysis of common themes found in many Malaysian nove...
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127,76 zł |
Approaching Postcolonial and Psychoanalytic Criticism in Literary Studies: An Illustration of an Analysis of a Malaysian Novel
ISBN: 9781482893717 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a contribution to the growing body of work on identity studies. It encompasses the analysis of common themes found in many Malaysian novels, i.e. identity and the self. These themes are examined through postcolonial and psychoanalytical lenses. The book provides an illustration of the intricacies that go into the analysis of identity and sense of self, as well as the manner in which textual studies and analysis is conceptualized and carried out. It is hoped that this book will provide Language Studies students with guidance on the manner in which textual analysis could be...
This book is a contribution to the growing body of work on identity studies. It encompasses the analysis of common themes found in many Malaysian nove...
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229,97 zł |
Kelabits' Story the Great Transition
ISBN: 9781482897425 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book tries to answer the questions: Who are the Kelabits? Why are they called Kelabits? Where do they live? When did they come to live there? What were their problems? What made them what they are today? What must they do inorder to advance forward?
The book tries to answer the questions: Who are the Kelabits? Why are they called Kelabits? Where do they live? When did they come to live there? What...
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128,53 zł |
Kelabits' Story the Great Transition
ISBN: 9781482897432 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book tries to answer the questions: Who are the Kelabits? Why are they called Kelabits? Where do they live? When did they come to live there? What were their problems? What made them what they are today? What must they do inorder to advance forward?
The book tries to answer the questions: Who are the Kelabits? Why are they called Kelabits? Where do they live? When did they come to live there? What...
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211,31 zł |
Doctoral Experiences in Finland
ISBN: 9783631651568 / Angielski / Miękka / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries and academic backgrounds and obtained their degrees at different Finnish universities from Helsinki in the south of the country up to Oulu in the north. Moreover, they studied and conducted research at different faculties. The individual processes, academic, social, and cultural experiences and challenges form the core of the...
This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background o...
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137,04 zł |
Reconfiguring Citizenship: Social Exclusion and Diversity within Inclusive Citizenship Practices
ISBN: 9781409448983 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet citizenship practices can be both inclusionary and exclusionary, with far-reaching ramifications for both nationals and non-nationals. This volume explores the concept of citizenship and its practices within particular contexts and nation-states to identify whether its claims to inclusivity are justified. This will show whether the exclusionary dimensions experienced by some citizens and non-citizens are linked to deficiencies in the concept,...
Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet c...
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709,42 zł |
The Open Door: Early Modern Wajorese Statecraft and Diaspora
ISBN: 9780875807126 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Wajorese people were one of many groups that spread across Indonesian during the early modern era. In the wake of the Makassar War (16661669), the Dutch took control of Makassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and used it to consolidate their power in the region. Because the Wajorese had sided with the war s losers, they were treated very harshly and many opted to emigrate. They scattered far and wide across the Southeast Asian archipelago, settling in eastern Kalimantan, western Sumatra, the Straits of Malacca, and the Sulawesian port city of Makassar.
Wellen reconstructs the... The Wajorese people were one of many groups that spread across Indonesian during the early modern era. In the wake of the Makassar War (16661669), the...
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177,36 zł |
Telling Deaf Lives
ISBN: 9781563686191 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In July 2012, the 8th Deaf History International (DHI) Conference featured 27 presentations from members of Deaf communities around the world who related their own autobiographies as well as the biographies of historical Deaf individuals. The presenters came from 12 different countries, but their stories traverse many other locales. Thus, they created a transnational phenomenon of widespread interest in the collection, documentation, and dissemination of Deaf history by and for members of the deaf community. "Telling Deaf Lives: Agents of Change" brings together the best of the DHI Conference...
In July 2012, the 8th Deaf History International (DHI) Conference featured 27 presentations from members of Deaf communities around the world who rela...
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141,35 zł |
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production. Edited by Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner
ISBN: 9781472418357 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends...
This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using...
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709,42 zł |
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production
ISBN: 9781472434319 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends...
This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using...
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238,11 zł |
Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780759121485 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The clothes we wear tell stories about us--and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural history of the United States and its peoples, from Native Americans, white Anglo colonists, and forcibly relocated...
The clothes we wear tell stories about us--and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encycloped...
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416,05 zł |
China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia
ISBN: 9781138060654 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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658,75 zł |
Education Dilemma in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future
ISBN: 9781482898859 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,69 zł |
Education Dilemma in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future
ISBN: 9781482898866 / Angielski / Twarda / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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146,93 zł |
The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality: Studies in Anthropological History
ISBN: 9789004277496 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, religions, cultures and languages, and, in terms of reciprocal representations, between the Far East, the Muslim East, and the Latin West. The first part is devoted to "The memoria of the Mongols in historical and literary sources" in which she examines how the Mongol rulers were perceived by the peoples with whom they were in contact. In "Shamanism and Islam" she studies the perception of shamanism by Muslim authors and their attempts to integrate...
In The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Denise Aigle presents the Mongol empire as a moment of contact between political ideologies, rel...
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536,16 zł |
Ethnoautobiography
ISBN: 9780981970660 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,15 zł |
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity
ISBN: 9780415742368 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter on the island. The book offers profiles of major figures in Sri Lankan culture and of homosexual visitors, both famous and infamous, to the island. It discusses the experiences of sojourners including the Victorian social reformer Edward Carpenter and the German naturalist Ernst... Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants the island once named S... |
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Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theories
ISBN: 9781442626706 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished. However, most of this work falls on one side or the other of a theoretical divide between theory inspired by Marxist approaches to race and racism and that inspired by postcolonial and critical race theory. Driven by the need to move beyond the divide, the contributors to Theorizing Anti-Racism present insightful essays that engage these two intellectual traditions with a focus on clarification and points of convergence. The essays in Theorizing Anti-Racism examine... Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished. However, most of this work falls on one side or... |
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177,36 zł |
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism
ISBN: 9781552387320 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture.
Joanna Page examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory in Argentina consistently employ theories and models from mathematics and science to probe the nature of innovation and evolution in literature. Theories of incompleteness, uncertainty, and... With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin Ameri...
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227,00 zł |
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity
ISBN: 9781611485790 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminality--identity situated at a threshold, neither one thing nor another, but simultaneously both and neither--caused by encounters with otherness while negotiating identity in contemporary Spain. Examining how identity and alterity are parleyed through the cultural concerns of historical memory, gender roles, sex, religion, nationalism, and immigration, this study demonstrates how fictional representations of reality converge in a common structure wherein the end is not...
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminality--identity situated a...
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496,06 zł |