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Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the
field, this volume brings together essays on a wide array of
literary, filmic and journalistic responses to the decade-long wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shifting the focus from so-called 9/11
literature to narratives of the war on terror, and from the
transatlantic world to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Afghan-Pak
border region, South Waziristan, Al-Andalus and Kenya, the book
captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the
discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency. These
include, but are not restricted to, the realignment of geopolitical
power relations; the formation of new terrorist networks (ISIS) and
regional alliances (Iraq/Syria); the growing number of terrorist
incidents in the West; the changing discourses on security and
technologies of warfare; and the leveraging of fundamental
constitutional principles. The essays featured in this volume draw
upon, and critically engage with, the conceptual trajectories
within American literary debates, postcolonial discourse and
transatlantic literary criticism. Collectively, they move away from
the trauma-centrism and residual US-centrism of early literary
responses to 9/11 and the criticism thereon, while responding to
postcolonial theory's call for a historical foregrounding of
terrorism, insurgency and armed violence in the colonial-imperial
power nexus. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the European Journal of English Studies.
Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the
field, this volume brings together essays on a wide array of
literary, filmic and journalistic responses to the decade-long wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shifting the focus from so-called 9/11
literature to narratives of the war on terror, and from the
transatlantic world to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Afghan-Pak
border region, South Waziristan, Al-Andalus and Kenya, the book
captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the
discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency. These
include, but are not restricted to, the realignment of geopolitical
power relations; the formation of new terrorist networks (ISIS) and
regional alliances (Iraq/Syria); the growing number of terrorist
incidents in the West; the changing discourses on security and
technologies of warfare; and the leveraging of fundamental
constitutional principles. The essays featured in this volume draw
upon, and critically engage with, the conceptual trajectories
within American literary debates, postcolonial discourse and
transatlantic literary criticism. Collectively, they move away from
the trauma-centrism and residual US-centrism of early literary
responses to 9/11 and the criticism thereon, while responding to
postcolonial theory's call for a historical foregrounding of
terrorism, insurgency and armed violence in the colonial-imperial
power nexus. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the European Journal of English Studies.
A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning
varies across different languages, providing both a theoretical
framework and reference. The Wordbank Project examines variability
and consistency in children's language learning across different
languages and cultures, drawing on Wordbank, an open database with
data from more than 75,000 children and twenty-nine languages or
dialects. This big data approach makes the book the most
comprehensive cross-linguistic analysis to date of early language
learning. Moreover, its data-driven picture of which aspects of
language learning are consistent across languages suggests
constraints on the nature of children's language learning
mechanisms. The book provides both a theoretical framework for
scholars of language learning, language, and human cognition, and a
resource for future research.
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