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“marco prandoni”

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  • Essays on Contemporary Dutch Literature

    Migration – Identity Negotiation – Cultural memory

    by Marco Prandoni ...
    Dutch culture continues to attract curiosity and interest worldwide, even more so nowthat many are puzzled by the shifting image of the Netherlands in the 21st century: froma country with a long-established progressive tradition and of diffuse cosmopolitanismto a polarized country where a part of the public opinion reverts to nationalism andisolationism.The book examines contemporary Dutch ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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  • White Innocence

    Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

    by Gloria Wekker ...
    In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as a ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Beyond Pippi Longstocking

    Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren's Work

    Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Astrid Surmatz ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally. Touching on everything from the Astrid Lindgren theme park at Vimmerby, Sweden to the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Stories of Art

    by James Elkins ...
    Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Black Man in the Netherlands

    An Afro-Antillean Anthropology

    by Francio Guadeloupe ...
    Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist by vocation, he is a keen observer by honed habit. In his new book, he wields both personal and anthropological observations. Simultaneously memoir and astute exploration, Black Man in the Netherlands charts Guadeloupe’s coming of age and adulthood in a Dutch world and movingly makes a global ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Children's Literature in Translation

    Challenges and Strategies

    by Jan Van Coillie, Walter P. Verschueren ...
    Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recognized as literary achievements that from a translator's point of view are no less demanding than 'serious' (adult) literature. This volume attempts to explore the various challenges posed by the translation of children's literature and at the same time ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Cultural Mobility

    A Manifesto

    by Stephen Greenblatt, Ines Županov, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Heike Paul, Pál Nyíri, Frederike Pannewick ...
    Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Translation Zone

    A New Comparative Literature

    by Emily Apter ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Re-Figuring Hayden White

    Edited by Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domańska, Hans Kellner ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • World Literature in Theory

    Edited by David Damrosch ...
    World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literatureContains more than 30 important ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990

    by Eva Kernbauer ...
    This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van ... Read more

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  • Race-ing Art History

    Critical Readings in Race and Art History

    Edited by Kymberly N. Pinder ...
    Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing both. Each essay in this collection is a response to this vision, to the distant mirror of looking at the other. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD