Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8130-4939-7. The first objective in this book was to offer a tracing of the rise of Kabyle-Berber identity in the twentieth century, a communal imagining, as Benedict Anderson might put it, which I have argued hinges on cultural examples, especially literary texts. Books, poems, songs, and manifestoes here...
Springer, 2017. — 148 p. This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies. The last several decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural heritage studies worldwide. This increase in the number of studies and in interest by the public as...
Springer, 2017. — 148 p. This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies. The last several decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural heritage studies worldwide. This increase in the number of studies and in interest by the public as...
Wayne State University Press, 2019. — 352 p. Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony - only, this isn’t fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, alcoholism, and old resentments, Shonda Buchanan’s memoir is an inspiring story that explores...
Edition ID-Archiv Berlin, 1993. ISBN: 3-89408-030-2, 235 p. In der Musikrezeption, der antirassistischen Diskussion und von Teilen der Frauenbewegung wurde in jüngster Zeit insbesondere auch schwarze US-amerikanische und britische TheoretikerInnen wahrgenommen. "Yo! Hermeneutics! Schwarze Kulturkritik. Pop, Medien, Feminismus" umfast Beiträge von Intellektuellen, die eine...
Springer Singapore, 2019. — 215 p. Grounded in history and guided by theory, this book proposes a new inclusive cultural label, Hualish, to remedy the limitations of the word "Chinese" and replace it as the culture label for the people of "greater China" origin. The book first introduces the Culture Design Paradigm, a general culture design paradigm with three core components:...
Springer Singapore, 2019. — 215 p. Grounded in history and guided by theory, this book proposes a new inclusive cultural label, Hualish, to remedy the limitations of the word "Chinese" and replace it as the culture label for the people of "greater China" origin. The book first introduces the Culture Design Paradigm, a general culture design paradigm with three core components:...
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2018. — 158 p. The emu is an iconic Australian bird of significance to all Australians, but especially so to Indigenous Australians who have had a special relationship with this curious animal for thousands of years. In this bilingual, highly illustrated, full-colour publication Something about emus reveals valuable ecological knowledge in a collection...
New York: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. — xv, 165 p. — (Routledge revivals). — ISBN: 9781315171876 (ebk). This title was first published in 1990: This book is a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West. It examines the impact of...
University of California Press, 2014, 223 p. ISBN: 978-0-520-95779-4 At the turn of the twelfth century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Lakṣmaṇasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular components confronted...
London: Routledge, 2007. — 228 p. Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies and comedians in the twentieth century, ranging from the Carry On films to the work of Mike Leigh and contemporary sitcoms such as The Royle Family, and from George Formby to Alan Bennett and Roy...
Routledge, 2016. — 252 p. This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates the multi-layered, polyvocal ways in which artistic expressions render ecological connections,...
University Press of Mississippi, 2000. — 471 p. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a "transnational" moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 334 p. In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage...
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