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  • Magical Realism in Africa

    Literary and Dramatic Explorations

    Edición de Sarali Gintsburg, Kenneth Usongo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Literature
    Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres across the continent.The chapters in this book constitute a sustained and insightful reflection on the salient components of this literary genre as well as evaluating its connections ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe

    de Kenneth Usongo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
    Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters. Even though these features indicate the preponderance of the belief in the supernatural by some people of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and traditional Igbo societies, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake

    de Kenneth Usongo, Emmanuel Ngwang ...
    The book Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake, through a pluralist critical approach, interrogates Butake’s major creative works—Lake God, And Palm Wine Will Flow, The Survivors, Shoes and Four Men in Arms, Dance of the Vampires and The Rape of Michelle —mainly in terms of their political underpinnings and cultural signification. The intention is to place his drama within the socio-political ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • Violent Phenomena

    Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation

    de Kavita Bhanot, Jeremy Tiang ...
    “These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”—Jhumpa LahiriA manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena breaks stale rules about who can and should translate, envisioning a future more reflective of the beautiful polyphony of literature in all languages.?What would it take to unlearn centuries of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    de T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Death of a Discipline

    de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Multilingualism

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John C. Maher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can't we all speak one language, like English or Esperanto? And what makes a person bilingual? Multilingualism, language diversity in society, is a perfect ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

    Edición de Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Vinh Nguyen ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, ... Leer más

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  • Unfinished

    The Anthropology of Becoming

    Edición de João Biehl, Peter Locke ...
    This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology, and writing. The contributors creatively bridge ethnography and critical theory in a range of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion

    Edición de Janice Boddy, Michael Lambek ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.Presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays exploring the wide variety of beliefs, ... Leer más

    $51.00 USD

  • Mapping World Anglophone Studies

    English in a World of Strangers

    Edición de Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Frank Schulze-Engler ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Souths
    This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and imperial legacies of English need to be revised and extended to understand the complex adaptations, iterations, and incarnations of English in the contemporary world.The chapters in this volume make three significant interventions in the field:First, they ... Leer más

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  • Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

    de Ursula Kluwick ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial.In a departure from conventional descriptions of magic realism—based primarily on the Latin-American ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD