Cultural Identity Studies – serie
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30 produkter
Polities and Poetics
Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature
Häftad, 2021
838 kr
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A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing …
Humanities Still Matter
Identity, Gender and Space in Twenty-First-Century Europe
Av Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez, José Igor Prieto-Arranz
Häftad, 2020
699 kr
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Why are the arts and humanities under attack? And how can they fight back?Historically these fields have suffered from a lack of prestige due to the utilitarian perspective of the «developed» world. While such utilitarian views have not been entirely fair on this branch of knowledge, the humanities …
Memory and Identity in Contemporary Chinese-Australian Novels
Av Beibei Chen
Häftad, 2023
739 kr
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«This sophisticated and empathetic study explores a suite of important Australian literary works from the Chinese diaspora. Using memory studies to trace connections and contiguities, Dr Chen maps an emotionally charged literary network that is compelled by the past to confront the future. The …
Bearing Liminality, Laboring White Ink
Pregnancy and Childbirth in Women's Literature
Av Francisco José Cortés Vieco
Häftad, 2021
838 kr
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Literature has been a bastion of male creativity, not of female procreativity, which has traditionally inhibited the voices of women and disempowered their self-expression. This book explores the underestimated legacy of women’s fiction and (semi-)autobiographical works about pregnancy and …
Transcultural and the Anglophone World
Insights from Contemporary Cultural and Literary Studies
Häftad, 2026
722 kr
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'In a world where the complexity of our cultural and everyday encounters far exceeds the narrow confines of accepted political identity and debate, the concept of transculturality is an absolute necessity. The editor has convened an exciting range of authors to explore and interrogate its …
Locals
Identity, Place and Belonging in Australia and Beyond
Av Rob Garbutt
Häftad, 2011
709 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of being a local, in particular in Australia. As in much of the colonised, English-speaking world, in Australia the paradox is that the locals are not indigenous peoples but migrants with a specific ethnic heritage who became localised in time to …
Popular History and Fiction
The Myth of August the Strong in German Literature, Art and Media
Häftad, 2013
891 kr
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This book addresses the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses of myth over time. The subject of the case study is the popular image of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, a figure who has frequently been portrayed as possessing …
To Veil or not to Veil
Europe’s Shape-Shifting ‘Other’
Häftad, 2012
920 kr
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Immigration has become a contentious issue in Europe in recent decades, with immigrants being accused of resisting integration and threatening the secular fabric of nationhood. The most extreme form of this unease has invented and demonized an Islamic ‘other’ within Europe. This book poses central …
British and Catholic?
National and Religious Identity in the Work of David Jones, Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2013
920 kr
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Since the Reformation, Catholics in Britain have been faced with an outsider status that has often given rise to conflict between their British national and Catholic religious identities. This study examines the ways in which this problematic history is addressed by three twentieth-century British …
Rethinking ‘Identities’
Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium
Av Lucille Cairns, Santiago Fouz-Hernandez
Häftad, 2014
721 kr
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This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a surprising dearth of work on multiple, …
At the Margin of One/Many Languages
Essays on South African Literature
Häftad, 2014
713 kr
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The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The volume comprises a variety of texts written during the crucial mid-1980s – the time of …
Subjected Subcontinent
Sectarian and Sexual Lines in Indian Writing in English
Av Eiko Ohira
Häftad, 2016
1024 kr
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This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novels written by women. The author gives a comprehensive outline of Partition novels in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh written in English as well as an …
Violent Histories
Violence, Culture and Identity in France from Surrealism to the Néo-polar
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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This volume presents selected papers from the conference ‘Violence, Culture and Identity’ held at St Andrews University in 2003. It seeks to explore the ways in which French writing since 1920 has registered and reflected on the violent national traumas of the World Wars, the Occupation and …
Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles
Av Lorna Milne
Häftad, 2007
674 kr
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This book is the first to examine postcolonial cultures and identities by investigating the way in which violence is represented by Francophone creative artists. Focusing chiefly on literature, but including discussion of both film and photography, the volume includes chapters on the representation …
Postcolonial Brittany
Literature between Languages
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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This book investigates the space between the two languages of modern-day Brittany through a series of close readings of literary texts that represent Brittany or Bretonness in the French language. This is the space that is negotiated by translation, be it a smooth translation of Breton scenes and …
Exclusion and Inclusion
Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914
Häftad, 2007
878 kr
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This book sets out to examine the internal workings of a colonial settler society drawing on aspects of post-colonial theory and whiteness studies. It focuses on the construction of a hierarchical social order in German Southwest Africa in the period 1884-1914. In doing so it explores the …
Mighty Europe 1400-1700
Writing an Early Modern Continent
Häftad, 2007
860 kr
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In a series of ten historical and literary studies, this volume analyses the complex narrative of changing political identities in early modern Europe and maps out some of the dominant ways in which ‘European-ness’ was articulated in documents of the period. As the collection unfolds, its …
Culture and Identity in Study Abroad Contexts
After Australia, French without France
Häftad, 2007
704 kr
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This book examines the effects of a study abroad experience on students’ culture and identity and the impact of these effects on their readjustment to their home culture. It explores issues of culture and identity from the perspective of French students studying in Australia. Issues of perceived …
Homeless Entertainment
On Hafid Bouazza’s Literary Writing
Häftad, 2007
841 kr
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Hafid Bouazza is a highly influential and celebrated author in the Netherlands today. In the context of contemporary Dutch literature, Bouazza’s Moroccan background still marks a divergence from the born-and-bred Dutch norm. Authors with a bi- or multicultural background are still often cast in the …
South Tyrol Question, 1866–2010
From National Rage to Regional State
Av Georg Grote
Häftad, 2012
826 kr
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South Tyrol is a small, mountainous area located in the central Alps. Despite its modest geographical size, it has come to represent a success story in the protection of ethnic minorities in Europe. When Austrian South Tyrol was given to Italy in 1919, about 200,000 German and Ladin speakers became …
René Schickele and Alsace
Cultural Identity between the Borders
Häftad, 2010
786 kr
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Born into a German-French bilingual environment, the once renowned German-language author René Schickele (1883-1940) grew up in the Alsace region − today located in eastern France − during its annexation to the German Empire when links to French culture were frowned upon. In the aftermath of the …
Redefinitions of Irish Identity
A Postnationalist Approach
Av Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Carmen Zamorano Llena
Häftad, 2010
802 kr
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Recently, the issue of postnationalism has encouraged intense debate, which has been reflected in the publication of numerous books and articles in various fields of study, including politics, history, philosophy and anthropology. However, the work produced in Irish literary criticism has been much …
Sense and Sensitivity
Difference and Diversity in Higher Education Classrooms
Häftad, 2013
816 kr
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This edited volume examines aspects of teaching and learning in situations where community or ethnic division may impact negatively on classroom experience and behaviour in tertiary education. The book considers cases from four locations where marked divisions in the wider society exert a …
Sport and Identity in France
Practices, Locations, Representations
Av Philip Dine
Häftad, 2011
718 kr
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How does sport shape society? This book seeks to answer this question by examining the meaning of sport in French society and the construction of local, national and, increasingly, global identities through sport. It begins by reassessing modern sport’s emergence and consolidation in France in the …
Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe
Av George McKay, Christopher Williams m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
1413 kr
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The collapse of communism has opened up Russia and East-Central Europe to outside influences and enabled new lifestyle choices and forms of religious expression. Based on extensive ethnographic research, this collection uses a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodologies to examine some of …
Cultural Identities of European Cities
Av Katia Pizzi, Godela Weiss-Sussex
Häftad, 2010
642 kr
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Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, …
Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe
Häftad, 2010
834 kr
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Sport annually mobilizes millions of people across Europe: as practitioners in a wide variety of competitive, educational, or recreational contexts, and as spectators, who are physically present or following events through the mass media. This book presents original research into modern sport …
Tyrol or Not Tyrol
Theatre as History in Suedtirol/Alto Adige
Av Nóra de Buiteléir, Helen Chambers
Häftad, 2012
674 kr
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On 19 June 1992 Austria and Italy declared the official resolution of the South Tyrol question – the dispute that had dominated relations between the two countries since the end of the First World War. While this bilingual province is today held up as a triumph of minority rights protection and a …
From Farms to Foundries
An Arab Community in Industrial Britain
Av Kevin Searle, Helen Chambers
Häftad, 2009
600 kr
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Yemenis constitute the oldest group of Muslim settlers in Britain. They laboured in Britain’s seafaring towns in the early twentieth century, and played an essential, yet little-known, role in her industrial heartlands after World War II. This book explores the intersections of the themes of …
Europe and its Others
Essays on Interperception and Identity
Av Paul Gifford, Tessa Hauswedell
Häftad, 2010
690 kr
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This volume presents selected proceedings of a conference on ‘Europe and its Others’ held at St Andrews University in 2007. It seeks to explore the collective and cultural persona implied by Europe’s richly diverse gaze upon, and dealings with, non-Europeans, encountered or represented in the …
