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Charles de Gaulle of France, Juan Peron of Argentina, and Pierre
Elliott Trudeau of Canada all achieved the pinnacle of political
power, fell from or relinquished power, and then, after a period in
the political wilderness, regained their power. By placing greater
emphasis than that customarily accorded by biographers on the
interment that followed their fall and preceded their resurrection,
Derfler describes what they did, the lessons they learned, and the
mistakes made by their successors that facilitated their reentry.
Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe,
Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first
anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all
of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the
Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical
approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a
science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the
intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most
important cultural and literary debates of recent year.
This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary
backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to
musicology, to make a timely intervention-from the historical
demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary
Taiwan-to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies.
Study abroad is now both an international industry and an
experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and
approaches to second language learning. Narratives of Second
Language Identity in Study Abroad brings together three important
research areas by exploring the impact of study abroad on second
language identities through narrative research. It outlines a new
model of second language identity that incorporates a range of
language and personal competencies. The three main dimensions of
this model are explored in chapters that begin with students' study
abroad narratives, followed by the authors' in-depth analysis.
Further chapters use narratives to assess the impact of programme
type and individual difference. Arguing that second language
identity development is one of the more important outcomes of study
abroad, the book concludes with recommendations on how study abroad
programmes can best achieve this outcome.
This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights
represents the first major, extended discussion of Edward Bond's
work in over twenty years. The book combines rigorous and
stimulating analysis and discussion of Bond's plays and ideas about
drama and society. For the first time, there is also discussion of
selected plays from his later, post-2000 period, including
Innocence and Have I None, alongside explorations of widely studied
plays such as Saved.
Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted
features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young
readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child
characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book
is to rediscover the children in their work.
This book brings a variety of voices into conversation about the
issues of identity, community, tension and violence, and peace in
the West: from Sophocles to Alice Walker, from Lincoln to Martin
Luther King, Jr. and from Euripides to Edward Said.
This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in
Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of
medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either
speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights
into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society.
This book explores the memory of the Romanian Holocaust in
Romanian, German, Israeli, and French cultural representations. The
essays in this volume discuss first-hand testimonial accounts,
letters, journals, drawings, literary texts and films by Elie
Wiesel, Paul Celan, Aharon Appelfeld Norman Manea, Radu Mihaileanu,
among others.
Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui's writing has had a profound
impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and
resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time,
are ten of Chaui's most important essays, with an introduction by
Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.
A close description of Amal El'Sana-Alh'jooj's experiences as a
Palestinian Bedouin female activist, this book explores Amal's
activism and demonstrates that activists' biographies provide a
means of understanding the complexities of political situations
they are involved in.
This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women
in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when
and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the
margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems
from gendered otherness.
In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential
modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between
rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental
achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also
universal in their epistemological quest to understand the world
through a rational and/or empirical model. Bennett contends that
these plays directly engage in their contemporary epistemological
debates rather than through the lens of a specific philosophy.
Besides producing new, insightful readings of heavily-studied
plays, the interdisciplinary (historical, philosophical, dramatic,
theatrical, and literary) frame Bennett constructs allows him to
investigate one of the most fundamental questions of the theatre -
how does meaning get made? Bennett suggests that the key to
unlocking theatrical meaning is exploring the tension between
empirical and rational modes of understanding. The book concludes
with an interview with performance artist Coco Fusco.
Many refer to Pope Benedict XVI as "the Mozart of Theology." Who
are the thinkers who have informed his theology? What events, and
which religious devotions, have shaped his personality? This study
attempts to shed light on the unifying melody of the policies and
positions of a pontificate charged with spiritual and theological
depth.
Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination
explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli
independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and
its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul
addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as
nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and
geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated
method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse
literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers
an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in
the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which
aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian
culture.
This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the
exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard
assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic
Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political
boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce
arose.
William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel'
John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in
Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time.
Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the
first biography of a controversial but compelling figure.
Speaking of Gods analyzes the figurative-narrative creation of
gods, their heavenly abodes, and behaviors, reaching back to the
beginning of history in Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Persia and Greece,
and continuing through the figures and narratives of a biblical
tradition that includes the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and
the Qur'an.
Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance
emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional
narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different
linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on
women characters.
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