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  • Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels

    Connected by Invisible Fibers

    by Marinella Rodi-Risberg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women’s Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women’s literature, which the author calls spiritual trauma narratives, that testify to traumas caused by epistemological violence, wreaked by ongoing colonialism, systematic racism, and marginalization grounded in a binary, hierarchical, and supremacist post-Enlightenment epistemology that negates the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s

    by Marinella Rodi-Risberg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s. It examines how incest can be connected to wider past and present structural oppression and institutional abuse, and what fiction looks like that testifies against and references a historical background of slavery, poverty, settler colonialism, ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Deviant Women

    Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity

    by Tiina Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg, Anna Foka ...
    This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate meaning-making spaces and possibilities for resistance in different socio-cultural and literary ... Read more

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  • Transnational Crime Fiction

    Mobility, Borders and Detection

    Edited by Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders. The essays argue that such border crossings reflect on recent sociocultural transformations and geopolitical anxieties to create an image of networked and interconnected societies where ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

    Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson, Gilbert Herdt ...
    "Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture & Truth

    The Remaking of Social Analysis

    by Renato Rosaldo ...
    Exposing the inadequacies of old conceptions of static cultures and detached observers, the book argues instead for social science to acknowledge and celebrate diversity, narrative, emotion, and subjectivity. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Nos/Otras

    Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance

    by Andrea J. Pitts ...
    Series series SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
    Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work.In a refreshingly novel approach to the writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), Andrea J. Pitts addresses issues relevant to contemporary debates within feminist theory and critical race ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Queer Kinship

    Race, Sex, Belonging, Form

    Edited by Elizabeth Freeman, Teagan Bradway ...
    Series series Theory Q
    The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility. The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Raising the Dead

    Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

    by Sharon Patricia Holland, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Lost and Found in Translation

    Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity

    by Martha J. Cutter ...
    Starting with Salman Rushdie’s assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works advocate a politics of language diversity — a literary and social agenda that validates the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Speaking Face to Face

    The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones

    Edited by Pedro J. DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, Shireen Roshanravan ...
    Series series SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action
    The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.Speaking Face to Face provides an unprecedented, in-depth look at the feminist philosophy and practice of the renowned Argentinian-born scholar-activist María Lugones. Informed by her identification as "nondiasporic Latina" and US Woman of Color, as well as her long-term commitment ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Craft of Ritual Studies

    by Ronald L. Grimes ...
    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD