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China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades,
but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical
detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic
study of Zhuang, the language of China's largest minority group.
The analysis traces language policy from the Constitution to local
government practices, investigating how Zhuang language rights are
experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity.
The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant
marketised and mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe
low value to Zhuang. However, people still value a Zhuang identity
validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a
Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this
is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in
linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a
study of China's language policy. The book refines Grey's
award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the Joshua A.
Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study "decenter[s] all
types of sociolinguistic assumptions." It is a thought-provoking
work on minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond
China.
Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and
proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931)
was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her
remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the
'broad church' priest and well-known Victorian author Charles
Kingsley; her sister Rose, uncle, Henry Kingsley and her cousin
Mary Henrietta Kingsley were also published authors. Malet was part
of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against
which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published
work. This collection brings together for the first time a
selection of scholarly essays on Malet's life and writing,
foregrounding her contributions to nineteenth- and
twentieth-century discourses surrounding disability, psychology,
religion, sexuality, the New Woman, and decadent, aesthetic and
modernist cultural movements. The essays contained in this volume
explore Malet's authorial experience-from both within the
mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from
outside it-supplementing and nuancing current debates about
fin-de-siecle women's writing. The collection asks the question
'who was Lucas Malet?' and 'how-despite its popularity-did her
courageous, unique and fascinating writing disappear from view for
so long?'
Popular novelist, female aesthete, Victorian radical and
proto-modernist, Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison, 1852-1931)
was one of the most successful writers of her day, yet few of her
remarkable novels remain in print. Malet was a daughter of the
'broad church' priest and well-known Victorian author Charles
Kingsley; her sister Rose, uncle, Henry Kingsley and her cousin
Mary Henrietta Kingsley were also published authors. Malet was part
of a creative dynasty from which she drew inspiration but against
which she rebelled both in her personal life and her published
work. This collection brings together for the first time a
selection of scholarly essays on Malet's life and writing,
foregrounding her contributions to nineteenth- and
twentieth-century discourses surrounding disability, psychology,
religion, sexuality, the New Woman, and decadent, aesthetic and
modernist cultural movements. The essays contained in this volume
explore Malet's authorial experience-from both within the
mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from
outside it-supplementing and nuancing current debates about
fin-de-siecle women's writing. The collection asks the question
'who was Lucas Malet?' and 'how-despite its popularity-did her
courageous, unique and fascinating writing disappear from view for
so long?'
A relatively new yet flourishing field, Language and Globalization
can be confusing and difficult to navigate for students and
scholars. To help make sense of the diverse and voluminous
scholarship, this new four volume collection will include key
research from a broad spectrum of disciplines, but also from a wide
range of geographical, regional and historical contexts.
China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades,
but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical
detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic
study of Zhuang, the language of China's largest minority group.
The analysis traces language policy from the Constitution to local
government practices, investigating how Zhuang language rights are
experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity.
The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant
marketised and mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe
low value to Zhuang. However, people still value a Zhuang identity
validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a
Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this
is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in
linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a
study of China's language policy. The book refines Grey's
award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the Joshua A.
Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study "decenter[s] all
types of sociolinguistic assumptions." It is a thought-provoking
work on minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond
China.
Self-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of
Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with
the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the
British New Woman. Focusing on self-starvation, excessive drinking
and self-mutilation, this study explores narratives of female
resistance to Victorian patriarchy embedded in the work of both
canonical and largely unknown women writers of the 1880s and 1890s,
including Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross. The book argues
that the conditions of modernity now associated with self-harm in
twentieth-century psychiatry (but beginning at the Fin de Siecle)
provided the socio-cultural backdrop for a surge of interest in
self-harm as a site of imaginative exploration at a time when
women's role in society was rapidly changing.
Traces Victorian self-harm through an engagement with literary
fiction Self-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary
study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through
engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and
about the British New Woman. Focusing on self-starvation, excessive
drinking and self-mutilation, this study explores narratives of
female resistance to Victorian patriarchy embedded in the work of
both canonical and largely unknown women writers of the 1880s and
1890s, including Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross. The book
argues that the conditions of modernity now associated with
self-harm in twentieth-century psychiatry (but beginning at the Fin
de Siecle) provided the socio-cultural backdrop for a surge of
interest in self-harm as a site of imaginative exploration at a
time when women's role in society was rapidly changing. Key
Features Highly interdisciplinary, combining medical history,
archival and periodical research, art history, gender studies and
literary studies Re-assessment of well-known New Woman authors as
well as original research into newly discovered New Woman authors
First book-length examination of self-harm in Victorian literary
fiction First study to suggest that Victorian self-harm (broadly
speaking) can be traced through an engagement with literary fiction
long before its emergence as a clinical category of behavior in the
twentieth century Reappraisal of New Woman studies suggesting some
of the ways very different types of New Woman writing converged
around a single thematic concern, and attempts to account for this
in socio-historic (and formal) terms Detailed discussion of the
work of Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross, two comparatively
unknown authors (almost no scholarly work currently exists on
Dickens's writing)
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