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According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah. This volume examines the varied sources and... Læs mere
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A history of Brazilian racial inequality from the abolition of slavery in 1888 up to the late 1980s, showing how economic, social and political changes in... Læs mere
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Confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people,... Læs mere
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The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana. The large body of scholarship on Hausa society has assumed... Læs mere
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Questions the assumption that ""clans"" are static structures that hamper political centralization. By reconstructing the history of kings... Læs mere
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An exploration of the relationship between US political and social thought and literary consciousness in the early post-war years in which the author analyzes the... Læs mere
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An assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. Eleven original essays survey what has been done and point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention.
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A collection of influential and generative studies of the work of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), complemented with photobiographical, chronological and bibliographical portraits. The essays span H.D.'s career from its origins in Imagism to late modernism.
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History of a Nicaraguan family based on conversations with its members over a four-year period. The author traces their story from the years of repression and guerilla activity under Somoza, through to an era of personal and political revolution in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The author connects pedagogical and literary institutions to issues of writing, political position and power. She suggests that the leftist... Læs mere
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Based on ethnographic research conducted from 1966, this book includes interviews with people from all levels of Tanzanian society. The author provides a history of the struggles to define the basic issues of public political discourse in the Shambaa-speaking region.