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Hybridity in Spanish Culture
ISBN: 9781443830065 / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hybridity in Spanish Culture is an anthology that explores hybridity in select works from the dawn of Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The phenomenon of hybridity has been pervasive throughout Spanish history. The hybrid literary and visual texts studied in this volume—ranging from aljamiado writings and the legacy from the convivencia to contemporary immigration narratives—blur or erase purportedly fixed boundaries: between history and fiction, story and History, nationality and transnationalism, subjectivity and objectivity, as well as between genres, cultures, languages and...
Hybridity in Spanish Culture is an anthology that explores hybridity in select works from the dawn of Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The ...
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180,39 |
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Culture as Text, Text as Culture
ISBN: 9781443818483 / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Culture as Text, Text as Culture represents a novel, interdisciplinary analysis of textuality as it pertains to Cultural Studies. More specifically, the work examines how the analysis of texts has shaped the most vital contemporary debate of Cultural Studies: the recognition that all texts and their contexts are constructs. Building upon a Post-structural/Post-modern understanding of truth as a construct, Cultural Studies has long since acknowledged the ability of texts to express the time and culture of their origin. This work, however, expands this idea, demonstrating not only how a culture...
Culture as Text, Text as Culture represents a novel, interdisciplinary analysis of textuality as it pertains to Cultural Studies. More specifically, t...
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206,17 |
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Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World
ISBN: 9781443816427 / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a context where cultural transformations have become a basic feature of modern life as people and nations are brought closer together, this book tackles transformations occurring within and across cultures of the English-speaking world in the fields of literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It helps readers decipher these dynamic phenomena and situate them in a historical perspective. The articles move within and across cultures and mirror the broad range of approaches to cultural practices that have appeared in the past few decades. They provide readers with tools to...
In a context where cultural transformations have become a basic feature of modern life as people and nations are brought closer together, this book ta...
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206,17 |
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Fiction Unbound: Bernardine Evaristo
ISBN: 9781443831536 / Twarda / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers all Bernardine Evaristo’s major works: Lara (1997) and Lara (2009), The Emperor’s Babe, Soul Tourists, Blonde Roots and Hello Mum. Each chapter focuses on a particular novel, combining a close analysis of the author’s technique with a penetrating understanding of the basic themes which underlie all of Evaristo’s work. This monograph exposes that Evaristo is not simply interested in “multicultural” issues; to label them as such is to overlook her achievement as a novelist. It shows instead how Evaristo combines apparently disparate elements—for example,...
This book covers all Bernardine Evaristo’s major works: Lara (1997) and Lara (2009), The Emperor’s Babe, Soul Tourists, Blonde Roots and Hello Mum...
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154,61 |
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St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix: A Study of Language Choice and Attitudes
ISBN: 9781443821476 / Twarda / 501 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new work brings together both reviews and critiques of current theories of creolization and provides new data from a sociolinguistic case study of speakers of St. Lucian French-lexifier Creole (Kwéyòl) on the island of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
St. Lucian Kwéyòl has its origins in the 17th century after the French settled there in 1651 from Martinique with their slaves. In the following years, thousands more African slaves were imported. A rugged volcanic island with a roadless interior, St. Lucia provided a haven for runaway slaves (nègres marrons or maroons) from other... This new work brings together both reviews and critiques of current theories of creolization and provides new data from a sociolinguistic case study o...
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283,50 |
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Care or Control of the Self? Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and the Subject in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781443821353 / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by fundamental societal changes: in addition to changing demographics and the globalization of economic flows, the transformation of an industrial-Fordistic society to a non-industrial service society is significant. For more than twenty years, these large-scale trends and their inherent chances and risks have been the topic of vivid discussions in all the social sciences. Keywords are ‘risk-society’, ‘post-industrial society’, ‘knowledge-society’ and ‘information-society’.
The implications of these developments are also... The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by fundamental societal changes: in addition to changing demographics and the globalization of econ...
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206,17 |
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The Astronaut: Cultural Mythology and Idealised Masculinity
ISBN: 9781443830027 / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Astronaut: Cultural Mythology and Idealised Masculinity interrogates the historical and cultural dynamics of one of the most revered icons of the 20th century. Analysing a diverse range of cultural representations the book postulates the construction of an intertextual mythology through which the astronaut becomes an embodiment of American ideological values and heroic manhood. The discursive processes at work in the range of media texts examined serve to embed the astronaut into the cultural imaginary as a largely coherent and uncontested exemplar of idealised masculinity. Using a range...
The Astronaut: Cultural Mythology and Idealised Masculinity interrogates the historical and cultural dynamics of one of the most revered icons of the ...
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What About the Children! Masculinities, Sexualities and Hegemony
ISBN: 9781443818742 / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What About the Children! takes up the important task of examining the role of hegemonic masculinities in propping up a normative social order in which children are constructed as the property of adults. By examining adult-child relations in the context of a wide range of family forms and social contexts, the book provides some hard answers to questions relating to what exactly are the best interests of children, and how they should be determined. The book responds by suggesting that there is a pressing need to recognise the capacity of children to voice their own desires and needs, and that...
What About the Children! takes up the important task of examining the role of hegemonic masculinities in propping up a normative social order in which...
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180,39 |
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Health and Cultural Values: Female Circumcision within the Context of HIV/AIDS in Cameroon
ISBN: 9781443826426 / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a nuanced analysis of the transformations that the ritual cutting of Female Circumcision (FC) recently underwent within the changing medical and institutional context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic among Ejagham tribes in Southwest Cameroon.
Based on local level ethnography, it captures the multivocal perspectives and agency of participants thereby putting to question the uncritical feminist stance that “Third World Women” lack agency and are chattel. As the highest rite of patriarchy, the quintessential icon of gendered personhood and femininity, FC remains salient even... This book provides a nuanced analysis of the transformations that the ritual cutting of Female Circumcision (FC) recently underwent within the changin...
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206,17 |
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Living with Digital Surveillance in China
ISBN: 9781032517742 / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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759,15 |
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Gardens of Madeira—Gardens of the World: Contemporary Approaches
ISBN: 9781443822756 / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume Gardens of Madeira – Gardens of the World. Contemporary Approaches displays present tendencies in calling upon the idea of gardens, being a wide-range approach to their literary, sociological and cultural representations. The book`s four parts: “Madeira: A Garden in the Sea?”, “Gardens as Temporal and Spatial Category. Cultural and Literary Approaches”, “Gardens as an Expression. Socio-cultural Perspectives” and “Re-Creating the Archetypal Garden – Discourses and Practices” refer to vast geographical and cultural areas, starting with the very complex sample of...
The volume Gardens of Madeira – Gardens of the World. Contemporary Approaches displays present tendencies in calling upon the idea of gardens, being...
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231,95 |
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Gender and Sexual Identity: Presentations of the 31st Annual SW/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture Association
ISBN: 9781443826631 / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender and sexuality are complex discursive forces that are in action and enacted on a daily basis in people lives through the United States. How we navigate these complex forces takes shape in a variety of ways, often unknowingly and with our complicit consent. Popular cultural studies is one vehicle by which scholars, theorists and others assess both the extent and impact that these discursive forces have on us and the degree to which we interpret, adapt, internalize and accept or reject our participation and engagement. Thus this volume possesses a number of interesting essays which look...
Gender and sexuality are complex discursive forces that are in action and enacted on a daily basis in people lives through the United States. How we n...
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180,39 |
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We Are Playing Football: Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9781443825894 / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal villagers. Such grassroots sport, however, is rarely studied and has never previously been the subject of an ethnographic monograph. This book represents a pioneering study of the history and effects of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea.
We Are Playing Football explores Panapompom people’s attempts to recreate the international game, and the social and subjective effects of this effort. From a raw ethnographic starting-point, the book... Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal vill...
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206,17 |
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Learning from Memory: Body, Memory and Technology in a Globalizing World
ISBN: 9781443828840 / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This challenging book, with excellent contributions from international social scientists, focuses on the link between body and memory that specifically refers to the use of digital technologies. Neuroscientists know very well that human beings automatically and unconsciously organize their experience in their bodies into spatial units whose confines are established by changes in location, temporality and the interactive elements that determine it. Our memories might be less reliable than those of the average computer, but they are just as capacious, much more flexible, and even more...
This challenging book, with excellent contributions from international social scientists, focuses on the link between body and memory that specificall...
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231,95 |
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India in the World
ISBN: 9781443832892 / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume uniquely gathers scholarly articles dealing with very dissimilar and kaleidoscopic perspectives on India. It provides an informative overview of the country, which has wide-ranging influences reaching far from India itself, since it has criss-crossed connections with many countries around the world. If read as a collection, this volume is witness to an interlocking network of ideas, attitudes and ideologies that emerge from the contemporary social and political world. The book, thus, highlights a variety of issues and the chapters promise to treat them with adequate...
This volume uniquely gathers scholarly articles dealing with very dissimilar and kaleidoscopic perspectives on India. It provides an informative overv...
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231,95 |
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Peaceful Surrender: The Depopulation of Rural Spain in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781443828383 / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Migration to the cities had been a part of European rural life long before the start of modern industrialisation and urbanisation. In the era of modern development, however, rural-urban migration intensified in an unprecedented way and many rural communities depopulated. While during the pre-industrial period migration had contributed to the economic and social reproduction of rural communities, it now challenged the continuity of the rural lifestyle. This book analyses the topic for the case of Spain, which in the twentieth century experienced one of the most intense processes of rural...
Migration to the cities had been a part of European rural life long before the start of modern industrialisation and urbanisation. In the era of moder...
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206,17 |
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The Survival of Myth: Innovation, Singularity and Alterity
ISBN: 9781443821582 / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are myths and what are they for? Myths are stories that both tell us how to live and remind us of the inescapability and pull of the collective past. The Survival of Myth: Innovation, Singularity and Alterity explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. An international range of contributors examine a range of texts and figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy and from Thor to the Virgin Mary to focus on the way that ancient stories both give access to the unconscious and offer individuals and communities personae or masks. Myths translated and recreated...
What are myths and what are they for? Myths are stories that both tell us how to live and remind us of the inescapability and pull of the collective p...
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206,17 |
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Restless Travellers: Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space
ISBN: 9781443833066 / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first part of this book deals with Britain’s imperial age, its militants and its critics. The selection of works generates a large field of debate explored using traditional or innovative approaches. The 19th century is presented as a time for writers (J. E. Aylmer, E. Marryat Norris, G. A. Henty, Conan Doyle) who tell stories of Europeans venturing forth into “uncivilised” regions of the world where they meet other races. But writers of a different outlook are also considered. Before the twilight of Empire, women were born in England (Virginia Woolf) and in Ireland (Elizabeth...
The first part of this book deals with Britain’s imperial age, its militants and its critics. The selection of works generates a large field of deba...
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206,17 |
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Technology, Policy and Inclusion
ISBN: 9781032225456 / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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747,55 |
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Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance
ISBN: 9781032517704 / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,65 |
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