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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.
Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of
Zadie Smith's illustrious career as a dynamic, experimental
novelist of contemporary Black British writing. The five new essays
in Decoded, written by innovative scholars in the fields of British
literature and African Diasporic studies, bring together the most
original and current analysis of Smith's novels and literary
criticism since the release of Smith's NW (2012). Decoded includes
discussions of NW, Swing Time, The Embassy of Cambodia, Grand
Union, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations. The essays
delve into Smith's philosophy about the role and responsibility of
the artist, her ardent defense of the function of the novel in the
digital age, and the connection between writers and readers. Also
illuminated is Smith's growth as a writer, her reconceptualization
of racial identity, and shifting literary techniques from
hysterical realism to social realism. Finally, the book discusses
Smith's role as a public intellectua, and her evolution from an
optimistic champion of multiculturalism to a subdued, austere
realist who has broadened her social critique from the local to the
global arena.
Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of
Zadie Smith's illustrious career as a dynamic, experimental
novelist of contemporary Black British writing. The five new essays
in Decoded, written by innovative scholars in the fields of British
literature and African Diasporic studies, bring together the most
original and current analysis of Smith's novels and literary
criticism since the release of Smith's NW (2012). Decoded includes
discussions of NW, Swing Time, The Embassy of Cambodia, Grand
Union, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations. The essays
delve into Smith's philosophy about the role and responsibility of
the artist, her ardent defense of the function of the novel in the
digital age, and the connection between writers and readers. Also
illuminated is Smith's growth as a writer, her reconceptualization
of racial identity, and shifting literary techniques from
hysterical realism to social realism. Finally, the book discusses
Smith's role as a public intellectua, and her evolution from an
optimistic champion of multiculturalism to a subdued, austere
realist who has broadened her social critique from the local to the
global arena.
A practical guide to becoming solution-focused and construction
solutions in brief therapy. At the core of the book is a sequence
of skill-building chapters that cover all aspects of construction
solutions. Each chapter explains and demonstrates a particular
skill with discussion and exercises.
People in many African communities live within a series of
concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a
speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that
is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language - written,
widespread, sometimes used in school - surrounds it. An
international language like French or English, a vestige of
colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and
promises mobility - and yet it will not be well known by its users.
The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African
multilingualism as they affect language policy and education.
Through case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors
consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains
ranging from music and film to politics and figurative language.
The contributors report on the widespread devaluing and even death
of indigenous languages. They also investigate how poor teacher
training leads to language-related failures in education. At the
same time, they demonstrate that education in a mother tongue can
work, linguists can use their expertise to provoke changes in
language policies, and linguistic creativity thrives in these
multilingual communities.
This is a true story of two siblings, Sophie and David, who are
separated by the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I. Sophie and
her family immigrated to America in 1913, but David stayed in
Russia, and was drafted into the tsar's army. Their families stayed
in touch until the mid 30s, when one could be arrested for
receiving mail or packages from America or Germany. Then silence.
For a long time, the relatives in America thought their cousins
were dead. The silence was broken sixty years later, when Donna and
Lilli, granddaughters of Sophie and David, providentially met in
Germany.
Born only one day apart, the two cousins have each exchanged
information about what happened during those years of separation
and silence. They write, visit back and forth, and even took a
frightening trip to Russia, where Donna began to understand what
the family had to endure under Communism.
In these pages, you will meet Russian rulers from Catherine the
Great to Mikhail Gorbachev, and see how their decisions impacted
our cousins who still lived in Russia. The Iron Curtain lifts for
us to get a glimpse of what life was like in Russia after Sophie
immigrated before WWI and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Donna
and Lilli have joined together to tell the many dramatic stories in
the family's fight for survival.
'Prosthesis' denotes a rhetorical 'addition' to a pre-existing
'beginning', a 'replacement' for that which is 'defective or
absent', a technological mode of 'correction' that reveals a
history of corporeal and psychic discontent. Recent scholarship has
given weight to these multiple meanings of 'prosthesis' as tools of
analysis for literary and cultural criticism. The study of
pre-modern prosthesis, however, often registers as an absence in
contemporary critical discourse. This collection seeks to redress
this omission, reconsidering the history of prosthesis and its
implications for contemporary critical responses to, and uses of,
it. The book demonstrates the significance of notions of prosthesis
in medieval and early modern theological debate, Reformation
controversy, and medical discourse and practice. It also tracks its
importance for imaginings of community and of the relationship of
self and other, as performed on the stage, expressed in poetry,
charms, exemplary and devotional literature, and as fought over in
the documents of religious and cultural change. Interdisciplinary
in nature, the book engages with contemporary critical and cultural
theory and philosophy, genre theory, literary history, disability
studies, and medical humanities, establishing prosthesis as a
richly productive analytical tool in the pre-modern, as well as the
modern, context. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Textual Practice journal.
The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions -
eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of
immediate importance to medieval thinking about the nature of the
human being. Where scholars have traditionally focused on the
mouth's grotesque excesses, Katie L. Walter argues for the
recuperation of its material 'everyday' aspect. Walter's original
study draws on two rich archives: one comprising Middle English
theology (Langland, Julian of Norwich, Lydgate, Chaucer) and
pastoral writings; the other broadly medical and surgical,
including learned encyclopaedias and vernacular translations and
treatises. Challenging several critical orthodoxies about the
centrality of sight, the hierarchy of the senses and the separation
of religious from medical discourses, the book reveals the
centrality of the mouth, taste and touch to human modes of knowing
and to Christian identity.
This volume takes a look at the history of science and its place in
cultural crises.
Not Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists of the African
diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black
female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and
performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images
of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove
domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of
selected media by Alice Childress, Nandi Keyi, Victoria Brown, Kara
Walker, Mikalene Thomas, Rene Cox, Lynn Nottage, and others
provides examples of generations of domestics who challenged their
performative roles of subservience by engaging in subversive
actions contradicting the image of the deferential black maid.
Through verbal confrontation, mobilization, passive resistance, and
performance, black domestics find their voices, exercise their
power, and maintain their dignity in the face of humiliation. Not
Your Mother’s Mammy brings to life stories of domestics often
neglected in academic studies, such as the complexity of
interracial homoerotic relationships between workers and employers,
or the mental health challenges of domestics that lead to
depression and suicide. In line with international movements like
#MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard.
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Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles
played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval
and early modern England has typically been the subject of
historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on
heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader
role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions
like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in the
fields of exemplarity, rhetoric and poetry. Beyond its specific
legal and pastoral applications, inquisitio was a dialogic mode of
inquiry, a means of discerning, producing or rewriting truth, and
an often adversarial form of invention and literary authority. The
essays in this volume cover such topics as the theory and practice
ofcanon law, heresy and its prosecution, Middle English pastoralia,
political writing and romance. As a result, the collection
redefines the nature of inquisition's role within both medieval law
and culture, and demonstrates the extent to which it penetrated the
late-medieval consciousness, shaping public fame and private
selves, sexuality and gender, rhetoric, and literature. Mary C.
Flannery is a lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne;
Katie L. Walter is a lecturer in English at the University of
Sussex. Contributors: Mary C. Flannery, Katie L. Walter, Henry
Ansgar Kelly, Edwin Craun, Ian Forrest, Diane Vincent, Jenny Lee,
James Wade, Genelle Gertz, Ruth Ahnert, Emily Steiner
'Prosthesis' denotes a rhetorical 'addition' to a pre-existing
'beginning', a 'replacement' for that which is 'defective or
absent', a technological mode of 'correction' that reveals a
history of corporeal and psychic discontent. Recent scholarship has
given weight to these multiple meanings of 'prosthesis' as tools of
analysis for literary and cultural criticism. The study of
pre-modern prosthesis, however, often registers as an absence in
contemporary critical discourse. This collection seeks to redress
this omission, reconsidering the history of prosthesis and its
implications for contemporary critical responses to, and uses of,
it. The book demonstrates the significance of notions of prosthesis
in medieval and early modern theological debate, Reformation
controversy, and medical discourse and practice. It also tracks its
importance for imaginings of community and of the relationship of
self and other, as performed on the stage, expressed in poetry,
charms, exemplary and devotional literature, and as fought over in
the documents of religious and cultural change. Interdisciplinary
in nature, the book engages with contemporary critical and cultural
theory and philosophy, genre theory, literary history, disability
studies, and medical humanities, establishing prosthesis as a
richly productive analytical tool in the pre-modern, as well as the
modern, context. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Textual Practice journal.
Not Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists of the African
diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black
female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and
performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images
of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove
domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of
selected media by Alice Childress, Nandi Keyi, Victoria Brown, Kara
Walker, Mikalene Thomas, Rene Cox, Lynn Nottage, and others
provides examples of generations of domestics who challenged their
performative roles of subservience by engaging in subversive
actions contradicting the image of the deferential black maid.
Through verbal confrontation, mobilization, passive resistance, and
performance, black domestics find their voices, exercise their
power, and maintain their dignity in the face of humiliation. Not
Your Mother’s Mammy brings to life stories of domestics often
neglected in academic studies, such as the complexity of
interracial homoerotic relationships between workers and employers,
or the mental health challenges of domestics that lead to
depression and suicide. In line with international movements like
#MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard.
Â
A practical guide to becoming solution-focused and construction solutions in brief therapy. At the core of the book is a sequence of skill-building chapters that cover all aspects of contruction solutions. Each chapter explains and demonstrates a particular skill with discussion and exercises.
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The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions -
eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of
immediate importance to medieval thinking about the nature of the
human being. Where scholars have traditionally focused on the
mouth's grotesque excesses, Katie L. Walter argues for the
recuperation of its material 'everyday' aspect. Walter's original
study draws on two rich archives: one comprising Middle English
theology (Langland, Julian of Norwich, Lydgate, Chaucer) and
pastoral writings; the other broadly medical and surgical,
including learned encyclopaedias and vernacular translations and
treatises. Challenging several critical orthodoxies about the
centrality of sight, the hierarchy of the senses and the separation
of religious from medical discourses, the book reveals the
centrality of the mouth, taste and touch to human modes of knowing
and to Christian identity.
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