Images and accounts of the Mexican - US migration process and the border region abound.
This politically astute cosmopolitan appreciation will generate an intriguing "cross-over" audience: from ethnic studies to American studies and from literary studies to romantic studies, this book will interest a range of readers.
There is a growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty. How the for-profit model can be harnessed... Læs mere
For Hayek, spontaneous order - the emergence of complex order as the unintended consequence of individual actions that have no such end in... Læs mere
This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship.
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living... Læs mere
Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America.
Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market... Læs mere
This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings.
The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is... Læs mere
Saunders analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary, philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries through... Læs mere
Drawing on the insights offered by contemporary chaos theory, Narrative Form and Chaos Theory explores how models of turbulent dynamical systems in the physical world parallel structures in certain kinds of narratives.