This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers.
Empowered by new wealth and by their faith, early modern Londoners began to use philanthropy to assert their... Læs mere
Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race and... Læs mere
Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis.
Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas, and reveals how... Læs mere
With its mixture of American evangelicalism, popular psychology and show business, Moral Re-Armament attracted men and women on six... Læs mere
The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.
Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy. Through nuanced and... Læs mere
This book examines three examples of late nineteenth-century Japanese adaptations of Western literature: a biography of U.S. Grant recasting him as a... Læs mere
In treating the medieval tombstones as sites of collective memory, Dizdar's poetry evokes new possibilities for Bosnians to cast aside national differences based primarily on religion and embrace a pluralistic identity rooted in the sacred landscape of medieval Bosnia.
All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that woman's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multi-cultural Canada.
Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function progressively as a vehicle for imaginatively 'fixing' the past in two senses: securing and mending or repairing.