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Joan Judge
The Politics of Common Reading

Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954.What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated China's lon…

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Nafeesa T Nichols
Popular Spaces in Post-Apartheid Literature

Nafeesa T. Nichols analyzes how racialized and gendered spaces are presented in post-apartheid South African literature.Through the examination of four novels, Kopano Matlwa's Coconut (2007), Zukiswa Wann…

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Design and Disability

This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity -- acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making the point that, simply put, inclusive design…

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Vasileios Balaskas
Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s)

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres i…

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Gerry Smyth
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth

An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancesto…

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Victoria Sturtevant
It's All in the Delivery

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women's reproductive roles and rights.

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Lisa B Y Calvente
Moving Blackness

Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through whic…

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Lisa B Y Calvente
Moving Blackness

Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through whic…

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Amy Fish
Writing Themselves Into the Movement

"Between 1967 and 1972 at least thirty anthologies by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American children came out of adult-led writing workshops and classrooms. These anthologies …

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Natalie Lauren Belisle
Caribbean Inhospitality

Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean's reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinemat…

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Cannabis in Arabic Verse and Prose

Cannabis in Arabic Verse and Prose includes histories, stories, legal remarks, and poems penned from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries by writers such as al-Maqr¿z¿ and al-Badr¿. They discuss cannabis…

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Binbin Yang
Women Writers of Huizhou

Redefining space, power, and identity in China's largest internal diaspora In the late imperial period of China, two major historical forces reshaped cultural and social landscapes in ways that have not b…

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Jessica Martin,
Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis

How can we understand intensifying gender inequalities against the backdrop of the rising visibility of popular mediated feminism? Can domestic cultures provide a space for a feminist response and resista…

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Cristina Salcedo González
The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a rewo…

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Philosophizing Contestation

This collection elaborates contemporary possibilities for, and evaluates the concept of, contestation, highlighting tensions that emerge with thinking about the concept itself, various modes of contestati…

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Alison Peirse
Rewriting Television

Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. It offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies through the synthesis of production studi…

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Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature

An exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of violence represented in the literature of South Asia.

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Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society

In essays on film, literature, capitalism, and the university, this book illuminates and deepens the understanding of the parasite as a concept metaphor for cultural and social critique.

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Framing Ageing

"Bringing together established and emerging scholars of old age from the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as gerontologists and medical practitioners, this open access book both showcases new s…

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Kate Mcloughlin
Silence: A Literary History

A majestic literary history, revealing the power and possibilities of silence found in literary works.Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the soli…

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