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The Brass Age (Hardcover)
Slobodan Ć najder; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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R779
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The first English translation of a modern epic, a great Middle
European novel spanning two hundred years, which explores a world
destroyed by fascism, communism and nationalism. Both a family saga
and a powerful historical novel, The Brass Age is the story of the
"Volksdeutscher", a German minority in North-Eastern Croatia
(Slavonia) who emigrated there in the 18th century. These Germans,
who were integrated into the local population, were in 1940
conscripted into the Waffen S.S. The novel's protagonist, the
narrator's father, is forced into this military service and
eventually deserts, despite the danger this involves. At the core
of the novel is the tragic love story of the narrator's parents;
two characters shackled by their divided history. Former fighters
in opposing camps â one a committed Partisan and the other a
deserter from the German army â if they had met earlier, each
would have killed the other. Captivating and poetic, The Brass Age
reflects on immigration, identity and the existential meanings of
art and life.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The first complete literary history in relation to women's writing
in south-east Europe. The author provides a broad chronological
account of this contribution, dividing the book into two main
parts; the earlier period up until the eighteenth century
concentrates on the projections of gender through the medium of
oral tradition and the lives of a handful of educated women in
medieval Serbia and the few works of literature they left.
Hawkesworth also looks at the written literature produced by women,
first in the mid-nineteenth century and then at the turn of the
century. The second part focuses on the trials and tribulations
that affected feminism and women's literature throughout the
twentieth century. The author finishes by highlighting the new
women's movement, 1975-1990, a great period for women in Yugoslavia
which created a stimulating atmosphere for outstanding pieces of
women's journalism, prose and verse, culminating in the creation of
new women's studies courses in many universities.
Originally compiled and published in 1988, this vole contains the
full text and translation of Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus,
alongside textual and critical notes, including essays on the
author, the staging and the style and language. This is the first
of two volumes.
Political Worlds of Women provides a comprehensive overview of
women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels
of power from official institutions of state to grassroots
mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of
identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders,
this book explores women's creation of new political spaces and
innovative political strategies to secure full citizenship and
equal access to political power. Incorporating case studies from
Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Mary Hawkesworth analyzes
critical issues such as immigration and citizenship, the politics
of representation, sexual regulation, and gender mainstreaming in
order to examine how women mobilize in this era of globalization.
Political Worlds of Women deepens understandings of national and
global citizenship and presents the formidable challenges facing
racial and gender justice in the contemporary world. It is an
essential resource for students and scholars of women's studies and
gender politics.
This thoroughly updated edition provides a comprehensive overview
of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a
more just global order. Mary Hawkesworth explores how social,
economic, and political inequalities between men and women of
different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been
transformed over two centuries of globalization. Drawing on
historical and contemporary examples, she demonstrates how women
have forged international networks and alliances to address
specific women's issues beyond the borders of the nation-state,
crafting policies to mitigate pressing abuses and devising
alternatives to liberal and neo-liberal agendas. The book considers
innovative feminist tactics to produce global change, carefully
tracing the structural forces that constrain transnational feminist
activism. Hawkesworth illuminates the complexity of feminist
strategies to influence international agencies and foundations,
national governments, and transnational NGOs. By providing critical
new insights into the gendered nature of the global system and the
gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states,
this work will be invaluable for all those engaged in the
interdisciplinary fields of globalization studies and feminist
studies.
Embodied Power explores dimensions of politics seldom addressed in
political science, illuminating state practices that produce
hierarchically-organized groups through racialized
gendering-despite guarantees of formal equality. Challenging
disembodied accounts of citizenship, the book traces how modern
science and law produce race, gender, and sexuality as purportedly
natural characteristics, masking their political genesis. Taking
the United States as a case study, Hawkesworth demonstrates how
diverse laws and policies concerning civil and political rights,
education, housing, and welfare, immigration and securitization,
policing and criminal justice create finely honed hierarchies of
difference that structure the life prospects of men and women of
particular races and ethnicities within and across borders. In
addition to documenting the continuing operation of embodied power
across diverse policy terrains, the book investigates complex ways
of seeing that render raced-gendered relations of domination and
subordination invisible. From common assumptions about
individualism and colorblind perception to disciplinary norms such
as methodological individualism, methodological nationalism, and
abstract universalism, problematic presuppositions sustain mistaken
notions concerning formal equality and legal neutrality that allow
state practices of racialized gendering to escape detection with
profound consequences for the life prospects of privileged and
marginalized groups. Through sustained critique of these flawed
suppositions, Embodied Power challenges central beliefs about the
nature of power, the scope of state action, and the practice of
liberal democracy and identifies alternative theoretical frameworks
that make racialized-gendering visible and actionable. Key
Features: Demonstrates how understandings of politics change when
the experiences of men and women of diverse classes, races, and
ethnicities are placed at the center of analysis. Explains why
race-neutral and gender-neutral policies fail to eliminate
entrenched inequalities. Shows how accredited methods in political
science (and the social sciences more generally) mask state
practices that create and sustain racial and gender inequality.
Traces how mistaken notions of biological determinism have diverted
attention from political processes of racialization, gendering, and
sexualization. Argues that the intersecting categories of race,
class, gender, and sexuality are essential to all subfields of
political science if contemporary power is to be studied
systematically.
Colloquial Serbian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been
carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a
step-by-step course to Serbian as it is written and spoken today.
Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical
and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the
essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively
in Serbian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of
the language is required. Colloquial Serbian is exceptional; each
unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced
with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer
key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English
translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as
useful vocabulary lists throughout. Key features include: A clear,
user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build
up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of
grammar An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive
exercises Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad
variety of narrative situations Helpful cultural points about life
in Serbia An overview of the sounds of Serbian Balanced,
comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Serbian is an indispensable
resource both for independent learners and students taking courses
in Serbian. Audio material to accompany the course is available to
download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials.
Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the
dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your
listening and pronunciation skills.
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Culture of Lies (Paperback)
Dubravka Ugre si c; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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R473
R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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"Political Worlds of Women" provides a comprehensive overview of
women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels
of power from official institutions of state to grassroots
mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of
identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders,
this book explores women's creation of new political spaces and
innovative political strategies to secure full citizenship and
equal access to political power. Incorporating case studies from
Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Mary Hawkesworth analyzes
critical issues such as immigration and citizenship, the politics
of representation, sexual regulation, and gender mainstreaming in
order to examine how women mobilize in this era of globalization.
"Political Worlds of Women" deepens understandings of national and
global citizenship and presents the formidable challenges facing
racial and gender justice in the contemporary world. It is an
essential resource for students and scholars of women's studies and
gender politics.
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Canzone di Guerra (Paperback)
Dasa Drndic; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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R397
R321
Discovery Miles 3 210
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Tea Radan, the narrator of the novel Canzone di Guerra, reflects on
her own past and in doing so, composes a forgotten mosaic of
historical events that she wants to first tear apart and then
reassemble with all the missing fragments. In front of the readers
eyes, a collage of different genres takes place - from (pseudo)
autobiography to documentary material and culinary recipes. With
them, the author Dasa Drndic skillfully explores different
perspectives on the issue of emigration, the unresolved history of
the Second World War, while emphasizing the absurdity of politics
of differences between neighboring nations. The narrator subtly
weaves the torturous story of searching for her own identity with a
relaxed, sometimes disguised ironic style, which takes the reader
surprisingly easily into the world of persecution and the sense of
alienation between herself and others.
Originally compiled and published in 1988, this vole contains the
full text and translation of Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus,
alongside textual and critical notes, including essays on the
author, the staging and the style and language. This is the first
of two volumes.
This book examines female engagement in both traditional and
unconventional political arenas, including female sociability,
salons, child-rearing and education, health, consumption, religious
reform and nationalism.
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Body Kintsugi (Paperback)
Senka Maric; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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R398
R323
Discovery Miles 3 230
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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with
liquid gold, to highlight and celebrate an object's past. In this
powerful and personal novella, Senka Maric uses the concept of
kintsugi to interrogate ideas of illness, survival and recovery.
Two months after her husband packs his bags and leaves the family
home, the narrator finds a lump in her armpit. It's a discovery
she's been dreading ever since her mother's breast cancer diagnosis
sixteen years earlier, and one that will change her body forever.
Through diagnosis, chemotherapy, and surgery, the narrator returns
to those moments of her girlhood when she learnt to be ashamed of
her sexuality and estranged from her body - the same body that now
threatens to fall apart during her illness. Laced with a drive for
life, sensuality and pleasure, Body Kintsugi is an intimate and
optimistic book about a woman's relationship with her body as it
breaks and is put back together.
L. J. Vicat's investigations into the nature and use of limes first
appeared in this English language edition in 1837 translated by
Captain J. T. Smith, with the inclusion of extensive notes on
developments in England at that time. Vicat's work is of immense
interest and importance as it critically reviews the practices of
time, sifting the good ones from the bad by careful experiment. In
addition he was able to take developments in lime a stage further,
describing very simple procedures which would make it possible to
assess the nature of lime from any deposit encountered. The
classification which he prepared is still valid today and enables
the best possible use to be made of any lime, particularly for
hydraulic works. Despite being first published over 100 years ago,
this is a very readable volume, and it will not just be of interest
to conservation professionals and construction historians but
everyone involved in the use of lime in buildings.
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