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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781666907230
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 261 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Female friendship
    DDC: 302.34082
    Keywords: Female friendship ; Interpersonal relations ; Literatur ; Freundin
    Abstract: "The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781793648778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (247 pages)
    Series Statement: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational dialogues on identity, culture, and migration
    DDC: 860.9/355
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration in literature ; Electronic books ; USA ; Mexiko ; Hispanophone Karibik ; Iberische Halbinsel ; Literatur ; Postkolonialismus ; Migration ; Identität
    Abstract: This book analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects in the U.S., the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. Contributors explore intertextual transatlantic dialogues, migratory experiences, cultural exchanges, identity construction, and the artificial boundaries of nation states.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Transatlanticism, Transculturalism, and Transnationalism -- Globalization, Transculturation, and Hybridity -- Religious Conversion, Citizenship, and Migration in Reyes Monforte's Un Burka por amor (2007) [ A Burka for Love] -- "It Is but One World" -- Transatlantic and Transtemporal Dialogues vis-à-vis Parody and Sampling in Raining Backwards by Roberto G. Fernández -- From Hero to Queero -- Diaspora, Citizenship, and Migration -- Immigration, Identity, and the Other in Pasajeros (2001) by Elio Palencia -- Diaspora, Citizenship, and Belonging -- Bidirectional Shifts and Transformations in and through US Latina Diasporic Narratives -- Transatlantic Readings of Race, Gender, and Identity through Cultural Production -- Messianic Narcissism and Melancholia -- Evoking Africa -- Teaching (Afro-Latin) American Hip-Hop Across the Americas -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781793647603
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (301 pages)
    Series Statement: Environment and Society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Embodied memories, embedded healing
    DDC: 809/.9336
    Keywords: Ecocriticism-East Asian ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ostasien ; Literatur ; Umweltethik ; Embodiment
    Abstract: Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing foregrounds the East Asian cultural beliefs and practices that shape the environmental consciousness of the twenty-first century. In highlighting such influences, this anthology also foregrounds the closely related new and exciting directions in ecocriticism.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- References -- Introduction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I: Living Wisdom &amp -- Lived Heritages -- Chapter 1: Humility by Proportion: What Zhu Xi and St. Paul Have to Say about the Baconian Attack on "Nature" -- Francis Bacon -- Humility by Proportion (1): Zhu Xi and the Investigation of Things -- Proportion and Humility (2): St. Paul and Recycling -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Old Dreams Retold : Lu Xun as Mytho-Ecological Writer -- The Hypocrite Gentry -- Critiques of the Hypocrite Gentry in Lu Xun's Short Stories -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Planetary Healing through the Ecological Equilibrium of Ziran: A Daoist Therapy for the Anthropocene -- The Historical Context of Daoism in the Anthropocene -- The Traditional and Modern Interpretations of Ziran -- The Ziran Therapy for the Anthropocene -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Toward an Ecocriticism of Cultural Diversity: Animism in the Novels of Guo Xuebo and Chi Zijian -- Narrating the Search for the Shaman and Shamanic Culture -- The Animistic Worldview of Shaman Culture -- Communicative -- Transformative -- Holistic -- Note -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Population, Food, and Terraforming: Ethics in He Xi's Alien Zone and Six: Realms of Existence -- Solutions to Food and Housing Problems -- The Ethics of Terraforming -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Junkspace and Nonplace in Taiwan's New Eco-Literature -- Taiwanese Urban Ecocriticism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: The Embodied Imaginary -- Chapter 7: The Loss of Genetic Diversity and Embodied Memories in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: The BBC Drama Series ShakespeaRe-Told and Eric Yoshiaki Dando's Oink, Oink, Oink -- Notes -- Works Cited.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781498587563
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 185 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als African cultural production and the rhetoric of humanism
    DDC: 144.096
    Keywords: Humanism ; Humanism in literature ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Humanismus ; Literatur
    Abstract: Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa /Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou --Part I: Foundational Visions --Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature /Adrien Mbar Pouille --Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness /Thomas Spreelin MacDonald --"Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel /Lifongo Vetinde --Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence --"Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction /Marie-Thérèse Toyi, André Brink and the Politics of Humanism /Hervé Tchumkam --Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon /Jean-Blaise Samou --Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights --Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism /Uchenna David Uwakwe --Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present /Koni Benson --Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones /Mohamed Kamara --An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes /Janice Spleth.
    Abstract: "This edited collection explores how African artists use their art to articulate the need for a return to the traditional African vision of communal solidarity, hospitality, and respect of humanity. The collection highlights the artists' exposure of the catastrophic effects of the abandonment of African humanism on African culture and life"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781793617002 , 9781793617026
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 301 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Migration, diaspora, exile
    DDC: 809/.933552
    Keywords: Ethnicity in literature Congresses ; Emigration and immigration in literature Congresses ; Exile in literature Congresses ; Ethnicity Congresses ; Emigration and immigration Congresses ; Exile Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 2018 ; Konferenzschrift 2018 ; Migration ; Ethnizität ; Literatur ; Film ; Migration ; Kulturelle Identität
    Abstract: "Migration, Diaspora, Exile examines narratives of affiliation and escape that imagine migration to and in Europe and the Americas in terms of kinship, community, and refuge. They investigate a broad range of literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities"--
    Note: Literaturangaben , Selected papers presented at the 11th biennial conference sponsored by MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), held May 30-June 2, 2018, at the University of Graz, on the theme, "Ethnicity and Kinship: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Family, Community, and Difference."
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