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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “barbara wendt”
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  • Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture

    Edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Nicole Falkenhayner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and ... Read more

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  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Reality Isn't What It Used to Be

    Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World

    by Walter Truet Anderson ...
    Anderson reveals the reality of postmodernism in politics, popular culture, religion, literary criticism, art, and philosophy -- making sense of everything from deconstructionism to punk. ... Read more

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  • A Life Beyond Boundaries

    A Memoir

    by Benedict Anderson ...
    An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined CommunitiesBorn in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Killer Images

    Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

    Edited by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • A History of Popular Culture in Japan

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    by Dr. E. Taylor Atkins ...
    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and ... Read more

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  • Cold War Reckonings

    Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

    by Jini Kim Watson ...
    Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationHow did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism ... Read more

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  • Media Worlds

    Anthropology on New Terrain

    Edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin ...
    This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature

    Edited by Crystal Parikh, Daniel Y. Kim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature

    Edited by Rajini Srikanth, Min Hyoung Song ...
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing

    Edited by Robert Clarke ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

    Edited by Ato Quayson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field, this Companion explores genres and theoretical movements such as magical realism, crime fiction, ecocriticism, and gender and sexuality. Written by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD