This interdisciplinary collection of writings by and about Arab women is the first that focuses explicitly on Arab women's often-fraught engagement with the boundaries that shape their lives in the twenty-first century.
Beautifully redesigned as a gift edition, this bilingual Spanish-English volume, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies, presents the joyfully erotic love poetry of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda.
An interdisciplinary team examines the mainstreaming of the New Dixie movement, whose calls range from full secession to the racist exaltation of "Celtic" Americans and whose advocates can be found far north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
An unprecedented examination of the relationships of art, gender, and identity among the Amazigh (Berber) people of Morocco.
The story of a battle in AD 986 -- a strong ruler and his men versus a famed warrior community that feared no one and dared all.
A landmark feminist critique with a new foreword by Jessa Crispin, author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, this provocative book surveys the forces that work against women who dare to write.
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.
Tarkovsky sets down his thoughts and his memories, revealing for the first time the original inspirations for his extraordinary films.
Using a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, the contributors to this volume offer the first extensive study of the private and public roles of mothers in the Classical wor
A collection of over 400 poems by eighty-five Latin American poets.
This collection of poems, parables, and stories explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.
Masterfully bringing the sights and sounds of Iraq to life, this wise, wry tale by a prominent and prolific Iraqi novelist chronicles an affluent Iraqi family's attempt to maintain a sense of normality during the Iran-Iraq war.