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Between Distant Modernities: Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional “other” within US and European nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy compares these two apparently similar cultures to reveal how we construct difference around the self/other dichotomy.
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Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The... Læs mere
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Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the... Læs mere
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Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
To generate African American support for World War II, the government turned to mass media. Kathleen German delves into the... Læs mere
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Conversations with Steve Martin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a carefully selected collection of interviews and profiles that focus on Steve Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the course of more than four... Læs mere
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Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Getting in touch with a spiritual side is a craving many are unable voice, but readers and viewers seek out this connection through animation, cinema,... Læs mere
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The Artistry of Neil Gaiman: Finding Light in the Shadows (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Neil Gaiman is one of the most critically decorated and popular authors of the last fifty years, but his work is under represented in sustained... Læs mere
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Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In her latest book, award-winning author Lisa Corrigan suggests that Black Power provided a significant repository for negative feelings, largely black... Læs mere
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Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a tradition of creative, collaborative partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England.
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Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under... Læs mere
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Comics As Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Why do comics both amuse and arouse controversy? This book is an attempt at an answer in a sharp-eyed comic-book lover's probing look at this step-child genre. He finds comics both loved and hated, relished and sneered at.
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The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides a close reading of Rutu Modan's work and examines her role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing on archival research, Kevin Haworth... Læs mere
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