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“dr dana e lawrence”

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  • Subversive Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl

    Critiquing and Reimagining Western and Nigerian Metanarratives

    by Dr. Dana E. Lawrence ...
    Dana E. Lawrence unveils the ways Helen Oyeyemi employs adaptation and allusion to locate herself and her work within the intersections of British literature, women's literature, Nigerian literature, and Yoruba folk traditions.Lawrence argues that in addition to its place within diasporic literature, The Icarus Girl (2005) belongs in larger conversations about adaptation and intertextuality, women ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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  • Adaptation in Young Adult Novels

    Critically Engaging Past and Present

    Edited by Dr. Dana E. Lawrence, Dr. Amy L. Montz ...
    Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change?The contributors to ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Black Trans Feminism

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    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Cyborg

    Adventures with Donna Haraway

    by Margret Grebowicz, Helen Merrick, Donna Haraway ...
    Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than her "Manifesto for Cyborgs."Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick argue that ... Read more

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  • Repairing Play

    A Black Phenomenology

    by Aaron Trammell ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    A provocative study that reconsiders our notion of play—and how its deceptively wholesome image has harmed and erased people of color.Contemporary theorists present play as something wholly constructive and positive. But this broken definition is drawn from a White European philosophical tradition that ignores the fact that play can, and often does, hurt. In fact, this narrow understanding of play ... Read more

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  • Enduring Time

    by Lisa Baraitser ...
    The ways in which we imagine and experience time are changing dramatically. Climate change, unending violent conflict, fraying material infrastructures, permanent debt and widening social inequalities mean that we no longer live with an expectation of a progressive future, a generative past, or a flourishing now that characterized the temporal imaginaries of the post-war period. Time, it appears, ... Read more

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  • Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity

    Silence=Death

    by Stephen Amico ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishization of ... Read more

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  • The Poetics of Difference

    Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

    by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s William Sanders Scarborough PrizeFrom Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative ... Read more

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  • Monstrous Textualities

    Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance

    by Anya Heise-von der Lippe ...
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  • Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature

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    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism

    Edited by Sarah Gamble ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries. The background chapters are written by major figures in the field of feminist studies, and include thorough coverage of the history of ... Read more

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