Filter by
Women Writing Intimate Spaces = The Long Nineteenth Century at the Fringes of…
The messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through case studies from a wide range of countries situated on the European fringes. Within the field of feminist literary studies, the volume thus differs from other publications …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789004527454
- Collation
- 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
- Series Title
- Women Writers in History, Volume: 5
- Call Number
- -
Remaking Gender and the Family : Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese-languag…
In Remaking Gender and the Family, Sarah Woodland examines the complexities of Chinese-language cinematic remakes. With a particular focus on how changes in representations of gender and the family between two versions of the same film connect with...See More
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-36330-4
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also undersc…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-30455-2
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
- Call Number
- -
Reading Breath in Literature
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, America…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 2019758839
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 2019758839
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-78589-5
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
- Call Number
- -
Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to histo…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-97-3933-2
- Collation
- X, 234
- Series Title
- Asia in Transition
- Call Number
- -
Emotion, Race, and Space in Contemporary African American Literature
This open access book examines how selected African American authors—Colson Whitehead, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Brit Bennett, Percival Everett, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Sherri L. Smith, and N.K. Jemisin—narrate relationships between emotion, race, and space. On the one hand, they bear witness to the structural production of Black emotional pain at the confluence of racial and spatial d…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-85795-9
- Collation
- IX, 232
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Affe und Affekt = Die Poetik und Politik der Emotionalität in der Primatologie
Diese Open-Access-Publikation mit dem Titel "Affe und Affekt" untersucht anhand populärwissenschaftlicher Forschungsmemoiren die Form und Funktion von Emotionen, Affekten und Gefühlen in der Feldforschung mit Affen – und wie gerade Literatur und Film das Verhältnis von Mensch, Affe und Affekt für die Wissenschaft produktiv reflektieren und analysieren. Der Mensch ist evolutionär betracht…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783476051042
- Collation
- XII, 467 ill; hlm
- Series Title
- 6
- Call Number
- -
Beauvoir in Time
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in m…
- Edition
- Volume: 348
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-43121-8
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre wi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-52572-6
- Collation
- xx, 376 pp
- Series Title
- Islam in Africa, Volume: 25
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography