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This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning andself- and social transformation in various geopolitical settings.The contributorsadd to the debateon the forging of feminist praxis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-03-12
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'Expresses an infectious sense of wonder at the uniqueness of our species; it is hard not to be affected by his enthusiasm' Sunday TimesWhat explains the staggering diversity of cultures in the world? Why are there so many languages, even within small areas? Why do we...
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Penguin
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2012-03-01
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Through narrative analysis, Ordinary Theologies highlights the intersectionality of gender, race, and religio-spirituality. It examines the relationship of past and current religio-spiritual leadership understandings that contest the status quo in U.S. schools. The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-03-01
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Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-27
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Italian children’s literature has a diverse and unusual tradition of fantasy. With the exception of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, however, it has remained almost entirely unknown outside of Italy. Why is it thatItalian children’s fantasy has remained such a well-kept...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-24
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Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature is a study of prominent issues and themes such as education, identity, and racism in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written primarily for African...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora presents a variety of perspectives on the Portuguese diaspora, from literature to identity discourse to biography and autobiography. The book is divided into three parts: reading literary identities within and without borders;...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-08
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From Terra Nullius to Land of Opportunities and Last Frontier, the European dream has constructed and deconstructed Australia to feed its imagination of new societies. At the same time Australia has over the last two centuries forged and re-invented its own liaisons...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-13
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Art mirrors life; life returns the favor. How could nineteenth and twentieth century technologies foster both the change in the world view generally called «postmodernism» and the development of new art forms? Scholar and curator Faye Ran shows how interactions of art...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-01-04
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In this richly contextualized study, Liana Chua explores how a largely Christian Bidayuh community has been reconfiguring its relationship to its old animist rituals through the trope and politics of "culture." Placing her ethnography in dialogue with developments in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-02
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The Story of the Mexican Screenplay: A Study of the Invisible Art Form and Interviews with Women Screenwriters contributes to the international development of screenplay studies. While the debate on the ontology of the screenplay continues, a fact remains clear for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-12-30
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This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-19
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Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range of canonical literary works in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-19
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This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit . Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-14
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This book aims to study the intellectual lives of three Hong Kong intellectuals by narrating their lives as self-reflections on theories related to social margins. Drawing on insights from Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt and Zygmunt Bauman, the author analyses their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-05
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In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-29
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Phillip McIntyre presents the latest scholarly research into creativity and creative practice. The book provides insights to media practitioners and policy professionals, looking at television, radio, film, journalism, photography, popular music and new media in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-22
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Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-21
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Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-21
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