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Book SynopsisIn The Rhythm of Modernization, Raül Tormos analyses the pace at which belief systems change across the developed world during the modernization process. It is often assumed that value change follows the slow rhythm of generational replacement. This book, however, reports trends that contradict this assumption in the field of values. Challenging Inglehart’s modernization theory, the transition from traditional to modern values happens much quicker than predicted. Many “baby-boomers” who were church-going, morally conservative materialists when they were young, become unchurched and morally tolerant postmaterialists in their later years. Using surveys from multiple countries over many years, and applying cutting-edge statistical techniques, this book shows how citizens quickly adapt their belief systems to new circumstances throughout their lives.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 The Research Problem  2 Outline of the Book 1 Theoretical Framework  1 Theories of Values   1.1 Values and Attitudes   1.2 Schools of Values   1.3 Rokeach   1.4 Schwartz   1.5 Inglehart   1.6 The Measurement of Values   1.7 Values Assumptions  2 Value Change  3 Adult Socialization   3.1 The Persistence Model   3.2 The Impressionable Years Model   3.3 The Aging-Stability Hypothesis   3.4 Lifelong Openness   3.5 Inconclusive Conclusions  4 Political Culture and Models of Learning  5 The Individual Modernity Syndrome   5.1 Modernization and Postmodernization   5.2 Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy   5.3 Gender Equality and Secularization   5.4 Cultural Evolution   5.5 Welzel’s Emancipative Values  6 Hypotheses 2 Data and Method  1 Scope of the Analysis and Data   1.1 The Eurobarometer Trend File   1.2 The wvs/evs Integrated Values Surveys  2 Disentangling Time-Related Phenomena  3 The Age, Period, and Cohort Dilemma  4 The Logic of Time-Series Analysis  5 Space and Time as Contexts in Multilevel Models   5.1 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Models   5.2 Summary 3 Postmaterialist Values and Lifetime Learning  1 Inglehart’s Theory of Postmaterialism  2 Evidence from Repeated Cross- Section Data  3 The Counterfactual Procedure  4 A Descriptive Time-Series Analysis  5 A Multivariate Dynamic Model  6 Conclusion 4 The Pace of Secularization  1 Theories of Religious Change  2 The Age, Period and Cohort Effects Debate  3 Declining Church Attendance  4 The Belgian Case   4.1 Data and Method   4.2 Results   4.3 Concluding Remarks  5 The Importance of Religion   5.1 Main Hypotheses   5.2 Individual-Level Covariates   5.3 Time-Invariant Country-Level Covariates   5.4 Time-Varying Country-Level Covariates   5.5 Across-Country over Time Data Analysis   5.6 Country-by-Country Regressions   5.7 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Analysis   5.8 Concluding Remarks  6 The Importance of God   6.1 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Models   6.2 Concluding Remarks  7 Conclusion 5 A Fast Turn in Moral Norms  1 The Decline of Traditional Morality  2 Tolerance of Homosexuality: from Rejection to Acceptance  3 Modernization and Attitudes to Homosexuality  4 Alternative Conceptualizations   4.1 Tolerance, Trust, and Inequality   4.2 Sexual Prejudice   4.3 Conservative Attitudes   4.4 Determinants of Attitudes to Homosexuality   4.5 Dependent Variable   4.6 Research Questions  5 Descriptive over Time Cross-Country Analysis  6 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Models  7 Conclusion Conclusions Bibliography Author Index Thematic Index

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Book SynopsisGathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective. Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.Trade ReviewAesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture offers a timely and compelling reminder that cosmopolitanism is not merely a remote geopolitical ideal but rather an embodied and everyday strategy for navigating our cultural differences alongside our common humanity. With impressive historical depth and geographical breadth, this collection illustrates in rich detail how the dynamics of globalization enter our domestic worlds through cultural forms ranging from architecture, artwork, food, and film to parenting styles, pop music, television, and dance. It should be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the crucial role culture plays in a world that is both more connected and more conflicted than ever before. —Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross Cosmopolitanism is usually valorized as a worthy ideal but also dismissed an being incompatible with reality. This sparkling collection of essays tell a different story. By starting from the ground of everyday cultural encounters, or by tracing the new networks of artistic practices, this book provides a new approach for understanding the existence of aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Along this journey, the authors of this collection provide both an empirical justification and open up new methodological forays into a vital concept for our contemporary world. This book will be an invaluable resource in appreciating the plurality in cultural experience. —Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit of Public Cultures, University of Melbourne This is a great book which makes a very much welcome contribution to understand the opportunities that our contemporary World offers for a truly global culture. Working out a very accurate and smooth transition from theoretical debates to broad empirical evidence, the gathering of studies worldwide achieves by itself what the title promises, an excellent portrait of cosmopolitan aesthetics of our societies around the Globe. Anyone working and thinking about our World today should read it. —Dr. Modesto Guillermo Gayo, Universidad Diego PortalesTable of ContentsForeword to Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism  Mike Featherstone List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World?  Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel Part 1 Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies 1 The Condition of Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Motti Regev 2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre 3 The ‘frame’, the ‘rhythm’, and the ‘imaginary’: Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience  Dario Verderame Part 2 Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World 4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier  Leslie Sklair 5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City  Viviane Riegel 6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic  Sukhmani Khorana 7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in Argentina  Paula Iadevito Part 3 Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics 8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See Me  Clara Rodriguez 9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles  Rosario Radakovich 10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of Playing  Antoinette Kuijlaars 11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?  Felicia Chan Part 4 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy 12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in Taiwan  Yi-Ping Eva Shih 13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms?  Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier 14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization  Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira 15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork  Claire Thoumelin Afterword: A New Road toward Global Culture  Shujiro Yazawa Index

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Book SynopsisGenerations of West Indian migrants have long called Central America home. The descendants of these Creole English speakers live in communal enclaves along the Caribbean coast of Central America, where their Creole heritage and language are in contact zones with Spanish language and culture. When Creoles and Spanish Collide: Language and Culture in the Caribbean presents contemporary insight into these intra-Caribbean diasporic communities on how they grapple with evolving Creole identity and representation, language contact, language endangerment, and linguistic discrimination. Communal resilience oftentimes manifests itself via linguistic innovation and creativity. Editors Glenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky showcase the scholarship of emerging and established regional and transatlantic scholars in When Creoles and Spanish Collide, which serves as a decolonizing research space.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Acronyms Notes on Contributors Preface: When Creole and Spanish Collide  Glenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky part 1: Semiotics and Literary Imaginings in Creole Contexts 1 Colombian Caribbean: Theory, Criticism and Writing  Marcelo José Cabarcas Ortega 2 If Signs Could Talk: The Linguistic Landscape of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia  Falcon Restrepo-Ramos part 2: Linguistic Clash and Consequence 3 Language Variation, Language Ideologies, and Challenges to Language Development in the Creole-Speaking Communities of San Andrés, Providence, and the Nicaraguan Coast  Angela Bartens 4 Lexical Transfer from Spanish into Limonese Creole  Marva Spence Sharpe 5 Limonese Syllable Structure: Language Innovation in Creoles  Marisol Joseph-Haynes, Camille A. Wagner Rodríguez and Yolanda Rivera Castillo 6 “Lo que hacen mix es el Kriol y el English”: How Spanish Speakers Reconcile Linguistic Encounters with English and Kriol in Belize  Nicté Fuller Medina part 3: Creole Counter-Clash 7 Perceptions on Language, Identity and Culture by Dominicans on St. Thomas, u.s. Virgin Islands  Daniel S. D’Arpa 8 Language Attrition in Papiamentu-Jamaican Creole Contact: Revelations of the Determiner Phrase  Trecel Messam part 4: Evolving Ethnicities in the Diaspora 9 When a Paña Speaks Creole: Crossing Ethnolinguistic Boundaries  Monique Schoch Angel 10 Afro-Panamanian Creolization  Francis Njubi Nesbitt part 5: Living Linguistic Identities and Ideologies 11 The Multiplex Symbolic Functions of Spanish in Multilingual Belize  Britta Schneider 12 Samples of Linguistic Repertoires, Language Shift Patterns and Perceptions of Spanish in Bluefields, Nicaragua  Karen López Alonzo 13 Generalmente el Criol es empezamos en inglés y terminamos en español: Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica  Ashley LaBoda Epilogue: Sisters of the Shell  Glenda-Alicia Leung, Felisha Maria and Rhea Ramjohn

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Book SynopsisIn Assessing the Landscape of Taiwan and Korean Studies in Comparison, the chapters offer a reflection on the state of the field of Taiwan and Korea Studies. For the editors, the volume’s purpose was to identify not just their similarities, but also a reflection on their differences. Both have national identities formed in a colonial period. The surrender of Japan in 1945 ignited the light of independence for Korea, but this would be ideologically split within five years. For Taiwan, that end forced it into a born-again form of nationalism with the arrival of the Chinese Nationalists. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development illustrate a progressive transition and key to understanding this is the relationship between ‘modernization’ and ‘democracy’. By looking at Korea and Taiwan, the chapters in the volume broaden an understanding of the interconnectivity of the region.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Comparing Taiwan and Korea   J. Bruce Jacobs 2 Korean Colonial Cosmopolitanism   Michael J. Seth 3 Taiwan in Transformation  The Japanese Colonial Era   Evan Dawley 4 ROC-ROK International Fate  Decolonization, Democratization, and Pragmatism   Moises de Souza and Fabricio A. Fonseca 5 Tzu-Chi and the ‘Moonies’  New Religious Movements in Taiwan and South Korea   Niki J.P. Alsford and Nataša Visočnik 6 Park Geun-hye and Tsai Ing-wen  The First Female Presidents of South Korea and Taiwan   Young-Im Lee 7 East Asian Area Studies Teaching Programmes in the United Kingdom  A Comparative Case Study of Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London   Dafydd Fell and Sojin Lim Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest political structures. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed violent imagery, and assesses its role in memory practices, political mobilization, and the negotiation of cruelty and justice. Critically evaluating the traditional focus on Western European imagery, the case studies in this book draw on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America, and other regions. The contributors highlight the distinctions among visual cultures of violence, as well as their entanglements in networks of intensive transregional communication, early globalization, and European colonization. Contributors: Monika Barget, David de Boer, Nóra G. Etényi, Fabian Fechner, Joana Fraga, Malte Griesse, Alain Hugon, Gleb Kazakov, Nancy Kollmann, Ya-Chen Ma, Galina Tirnanić, and Ramon Voges.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery  Malte Griesse, Monika Barget and David de Boer Part 1: Visual Markers of Legitimacy 1 To Visualize or Not to Visualize: Commemorating the Suppression of Revolt in Early Qing China  Ya-chen Ma 2 Visualizing Punishment in Byzantium: Disseminating Memories of Quelled Revolts before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction  Galina Tirnanić 3 Revolutionary Ceremonies and Visual Culture during the Neapolitan Revolt (1647–1648)  Alain Hugon Part 2: Confessional Conflict 4 From Power Brokers to Rebels: How Frans Hogenberg Depicted the Beginning of the Dutch Revolt  Ramon Voges 5 Strategies of Transnational Identification: Images of the 1655 Massacre of the Waldensians in the Dutch Press  David de Boer 6 Image and Text as Propaganda during the Upper Austrian Peasant War, 1626  Malte Griesse Part 3: Foreign Observation 7 The International Reputation and Self-Representation of Hungarian Noblemen in the Seventeenth Century  Nóra G. Etényi and Monika Barget 8 Representing the King: The Images of João IV of Portugal (1640–1652)  Joana Fraga 9 Marking Political Legitimacy in Early Modern Images of Russia  Nancy Kollmann 10 Through Glory and Death: Stepan Razin and the 1670–1671 Cossack Rebellion in Western Early Modern Visual Culture  Gleb Kazakov Part 4: Revolutionary Images 11 Concepts of Leadership in Early Portraits of American Revolutionaries  Monika Barget 12 Satirical Rebels? Irritating Anticipations in European Visualizations of Black American Insurgents around 1800  Fabian Fechner Index

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Book SynopsisEstablished in 1638 in a vast Amazonian territory that today encompasses border areas of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, the missions of Maynas were one of the Society of Jesus’s main enterprises in Spanish America. Jesuit writings provide a unique insight into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples. In effect, they shed light on how native Amazonians appropriated elements of Christian religiosity and Iberian urban culture. This book is not only about how indigenous populations experienced life in missions. It is above all a study of how natives actively engaged with the practices and ideas of settlement and religiosity that the Jesuits transmitted.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Images of Natives  1 “Friendly” and “Barbaric” Indians  2 Settlers, Missionaries, and Imagined Indians  3 Encomenderos and Images of Natives 2 Images of the Devil  1 The Devil in Amazonia  2 The Devil’s Physical Presence  3 Shamans and the Devil 3 Missionary Entradas and Ethnic Processes  1 Missionary Entradas and Punitive Expeditions  2 Modus Operandi  3 Parcialidades and Ethnicities 4 Territorial Disputes and the Financing of the Missionary Enterprise  1 On the Frontiers of the Real Patronato  2 Origins of the Resources  3 Procurators, Martyrs, and Territorial Possession  4 The Missionaries’ Annual Synod  5 The Trade in Mission Products  6 The Missionary Shortage 5 Between Captivity and Conversion: Spanish Jesuits, Portuguese Carmelites, and Indigenous Peoples  1 Carmelites  2 War Troops and Ransoming Troops  3 Ransoming Troops and the Carmelites  4 The Rhetoric of Conquest and Indigenous Agency 6 Mediators of the Sacred: Missionaries’ Indigenous Auxiliaries  1 Cabildantes and fiscales de doctrina  2 Competitive Sociability  3 Fault and Correction  4 Reversibility and Reframing 7 “A Veritable Jungle of Languages”: Jesuits, Language Policy, and Cultural Translation  1 Challenges Involved in Learning  2 The Interpreters  3 Aspects of Language Policy  4 Vocabularies and Catechisms  5 The Translation of Christian Doctrine 8 Conversions  1 Jesuits and Shamans  2 Catechesis and Mass in the Daily Life of Missions  3 Forms of Appropriating Catholic Festivals and Devotions  4 Ambiguities Surrounding the Sacraments  5 Civil Customs and Religious Rites Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInternational specialists explore magazines and newspapers from a sociocultural perspective allowing us to understand the relation between its audience and these much beloved friends from the late seventeenth to the twenty first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyse periodicals.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Note on Contributors Introduction: Periodical Studies as a Transepistemic Field  Jutta Ernst and Oliver Scheiding i: Seriality and Order Seriality and Order  Oliver Scheiding 1 The Object of Periodical Studies  Gustav Frank and Madleen Podewski 2 Reading Illustrated Magazines with Wittgenstein: Methodological Approaches to the Visual Seriality of Illustrated Magazines (1880–1910)  Vincent Fröhlich ii: Materiality Materiality  Oliver Scheiding 3 Signifikanz des Typographischen oder Was Kleists »Marionettentheater« mit Extrablättern vom April 1814 anläßlich der Einnahme von Paris verbindet: Konzeptuelle Überlegungen zum materialphilologischen Umgang mit »Journalliteratur«  Nicola Kaminski 4 Die Illustration als parole condensée für geistig Arme? Explizite und implizite Selbstreflexion im Magasin Pittoresque (1833)  Andreas Beck 5 Millions of Old Newspapers: Back Number Budd and the Materiality of the Periodical  Ellen Gruber Garvey iii: Multimodality Multimodality  Oliver Scheiding 6 The Semiotic Work Design Can Do: A Multimodal Approach to Visual Storytelling  Hans-Martin Rall and Wibke Weber 7 Magazines, Affects, and Atmosphere  Sabina Fazli 8 Indie Magazines and the Metafunction of Visual Identity  Abby Hohenstatt iv: Translation Translation  Jutta Ernst 9 Translation and Periodical Studies: The Pionier’s Rewriting of Frank Norris’s The Octopus  Florian Freitag 10 Transnationale Avantgarde-Zeitschriften als Verhandlungsforen europäischer Kunst, Gesellschaft und Politik: Contimporanul und Integral  Iulia-Karin Patrut v: Infrastructure and Agency Infrastructure and Agency  Oliver Scheiding 11 Die Zeitung als Akteur: Theoretische, heuristische und methodische Zugänge in der modernen Mediengeschichte  Maximilian Kutzner 12 Under the Cover of Religious Periodicals: Magazine Agency and Newsroom Practice  Oliver Scheiding and Anja-Maria Bassimir vi: Community Community  Jutta Ernst 13 Metropolitan Communities: Periodicity and Participation in Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing and Penny Fiction Weeklies  Anne-Julia Zwierlein 14 Romanticism’s Little Magazines: The Nineteenth-Century Avant-Garde and Collective Position-Taking in The Dial  Clemens Spahr vii: Location and Transfer Location and Transfer  Jutta Ernst 15 Reenvisioning the Canon: Three Early American Printers and Their Transnational Routes  Mark J. Noonan 16 The Periodical Press in the Upper Rhine (1780–1810): Cultural Transfers and Cross-Border Figures  Anaïs Nagel 17 Transcultural Careers in the Periodical Press: Fleury Mesplet and Paul-Marc Sauvalle as Transatlantic Mediators  Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Index

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Book SynopsisThe Spatial Practices series is premised on the observation that places are inscribed with cultural meaning, not least of all in terms of collective constructions of identity. Such space-based constructions can manifest in material and immaterial, explicit and implicit forms of heritage, and they are crucial factors in the promotion of a group’s wellbeing. It is this intersection of spaces, heritage and wellbeing that the present volume takes at its object. It considers ways in which institutional spaces in their materiality as well as in their cultural inscriptions impact on the wellbeing of the subjects inhabiting them and explores how heritage comes to bear on these interrelations within specific institutions, such as prisons, hospitals or graveyards.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Institutions, Wellbeing and Performative Heritage   Elisabeth Punzi, Christoph Singer and Cornelia Wächter part 1 Wellbeing and Collective Memory 2 “It is, After All, a Churchyard” Orthodox and Heterodox Embodiments at Three Cemeteries in Gothenburg, Sweden   Jessica Moberg and Wilhelm Kardemark 3 The Dead, the Living and Collective Wellbeing The Burial Grounds of Racialized Communities in Canada   William Leonard Felepchuk 4 Historic Synagogues, Jewish Heritage and Wellbeing Connection Spanning Time and Place   Julie I. TelRav 5 Recovery Projects Haitian Memory, Humanitarian Response and the Affordances of the Digital Disaster Archive   Lindsay Graham part 2 Medical Institutions 6 The Holloway Sanatorium 1885–1980   Kate Miriam Loewenthal 7 The Art Studio in Inpatient Psychiatric Care A Material and Immaterial Heritage That Could Contribute to Current Practice   Elisabeth Punzi 8 Addiction – Same for Everybody All the Time? Perceptions and Value Judgements of Alcohol Abuse in Different Historical and Spatial Contexts   Malin Hildebrand Karlén 9 Institutionalized Waiting Fragmented Temporalities and Wellbeing in the Medical Waiting Room   Christoph Singer part 3 Carceral Spaces 10 ‘Fit and Re-Orientation’ Carceral Heritage in Contemporary Design of Special Residential Homes for Youth and Its Impact on Wellbeing   Franz James and Sepideh Olausson 11 Wellbeing as a Political Issue Bad Girls and the (Representational) Heritage of Female Incarceration   Cornelia Wächter Index

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Book SynopsisEuropean Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative is a collection of fourteen essays on the way China is perceived in Europe today. These perceptions – and they are multiple – are particularly important to the People’s Republic of China as the country grapples with its increasingly prominent role on the international stage, and equally important to Europe as it attempts to come to terms with the technological, social and economic advances of the Belt and Road Initiative. The authors are, on the whole, senior academics specializing in such topics as International Relations and Security, Public Diplomacy, Media and Cultural Studies, and Philosophy and Religion from more than a dozen different European countries and are involved in various international projects focussed on Europe-China relations.Table of ContentsList of Graphs, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction   Stephen Rowley 1 ‘Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place’  Europe, the EU and the New Chinese Century   David J Galbreath, Neville Chi Hang Li and Max Roger Taylor 2 Spain’s Views of China  The Economy Is The Key   Mario Esteban 3 Kyiv – Beijing Relations in the Context of the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict  Interests, Concerns and Images   Olexiy Haran 4 Sino-Polish Relations  From Socialist Brothers to the Post-Cold War Period’s Reconfigurations   Dominik Mierzejewski 5 German and Hungarian Views on The Belt and Road Initiative – A Power Game Balance in Central Europe?   Csaba Moldicz 6 Transnational Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment in Spain  What Could the Government-Supported Chinese FDI Learn from the Russian Precedent?   Rubén Ruiz Ramas 7 Know Better, Like Better  An Appraisal of the Effect of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese Brand Image in France   Youssef El Haoussine 8 China’s Image in the Czech Republic  Media Reflection of Elite Policies   Ivana Karásková 9 China’s Image in Belgian Media  Between Fascination and Fear   Erik Vlaeminck 10 Exploring Public Perceptions of, and Interactions with, the Chinese in Hungary   Irina Golubeva 11 China – A View from Romania Beyond Perceptions and Stereotypes   Mariana Nicolae 12 China’s Public Diplomacy Versus Mainstream Media’s Narrative  A Challenge in Image and Reputation Management   Greg Simons 13 The Spiritual Roots of Typical European (and Western) Evaluations of China   Kaspars Klavins 14 The Historical Foundation for a Speculative BRI as the Best Route to a Renewed Self   Jean-Paul Rosaye Index

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Book SynopsisProposant des perspectives innovantes et interdisciplinaires, treize études analysent ici les transformations artistiques et historiques dont ont bénéficié quelques figures mythiques, d’origine grecque, biblique ou africaine, dont le corps devient visible grâce à la subversion de l’imaginaire patriarcal. Innovative and interdisciplinary in their scope, thirteen essays deal with artistic and historical transformations that affected a number of mythical characters – Greek, Biblical and African, whose bodies are made visible thanks to the subversion of the patriarchal imaginary.Trade Review"The book succeeds at making visible the feminine presence in myths and its importance in the collective conscious. The authors of these essays analyze and compare works and theories from female and male authors from multiple disciplines with the aim of explaining the feminine myth. […] It is a book that unveils traditional myths providing updated studies from a feminist perspective that every scholar should read, not only those interested in myth criticism and comparative literature, but also those who are eager to learn about myths projected in philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature , art and cinema." - Maya Zalbidea Paniagua, Amaltea 14, 2022. “This ambitious and entirely women-authored volume pulls together critical readings of classical mythology and contemporary rewritings of myth and combines them with readings of other texts connected to mythology and gender studies. Though the thirteen chapters and the introduction are written in French, the volume takes an overall transnational and comparative approach. […] The volume intends to participate in the long tradition of studying mythology and to innovate and develop the discipline through the question of feminine visibility and the female body. Overall, the volume is successful, and it will interest scholars working on mythology, gender studies, contemporary literature, and cultural studies. Though challenging for a reader not already familiar with mythology, it is accessible and instructive. The methodology set forth in the volume may particularly interest scholars hoping to address lesser known myths or those hoping to connect mythology to texts without an overt connection.” - Mallory Nischan, Women in French Studies, vol. 30, 2022.Table of ContentsNotes sur les contributrices Introduction: La résurgence des mythes au féminin  Brigitte Le Juez et Metka Zupančič partie 1: Reflets de la stupéfiante Méduse (La) Méduse : comment le corps d’un mythe est-il appréhendé ?  Metka Zupančič Duras, Méduse et l’inquiétante féminité  Christa Stevens Le voile de Diane : corps dévoilé, érotisme voilé  Irène Kristeva Sous le prisme de Méduse : la part du mythe dans la construction d’un personnage syncrétique jouvien  Dorothée Catoen-Cooche partie 2: Métamorphoses d’Orphée et retour d’Eurydice Reconstituer le corps d’Eurydice : le mythe d’Orphée chez Monique Wittig  Gina Stamm Le récit apocalyptique à l’aune de la Shoah : du paradigme au mythe  Nathalie Ségeral Afrique-Eurydice : « Orphée noir » ou le mythe senghorien  Kamila Ouhibi Aitsiselmi partie 3: (Re)construction du corps, de mère en fille Le corps maternel et les contes mythiques chez Scholastique Mukasonga  Cheryl Toman Donner corps à la condition féminine. Récrire la sexualité dans le mythe de Phèdre  Salomé Paul Faim d’individualité : une poétique anorexique du mythe de Perséphone  Sophie Emilia Seidler partie 4: Présentation du féminin dans le mythe Mains ouvertes et yeux fermés : le mythe de l’amour préhistorique face à la cécité moderne dans Les Mains négatives de Marguerite Duras  Brigitte Le Juez Mythes de cohésion et mythes de liberté dans l’œuvre de Gioconda Belli et Montserrat Roig  Yaosca Bautista Présence / absence du féminin chez Lévinas  Anne-Laure Bucher Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields. This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Martínez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Canteñs, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, Lía Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches.Trade Review“The book is described on the cover as a “go-to resource for non-specialists.” The description is just. Specialists will turn to it also, for the scholarly summaries it contains suggest multiple topics for further research. And it is beautifully produced, with a large number of illustrations, many of them in color.” Terence O’Reilly, University College Cork. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2019), pp. 357–360. “This Companion to the Spanish Renaissance brings to the public a well-balanced compendium of views on the Renaissance in the multiple sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Iberian worlds. […] The book is an assortment of historical and literary essays that touch on many issues relevant for university-level courses. The book is very pedagogical, clearly explaining basic concepts related to the period. […] Any course related to the Habsburg early modern conglomerates of power would benefit from the use of this volume as a textbook or as a reference book.” Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arizona State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 287–288. “A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance will become an invaluable addition to the library of any scholar or institution that is interested in early modern Spain, the Spanish Golden Age, or the Spanish Renaissance. […]. This volume is an incredibly important contribution to discipline and to the field of Spanish Renaissance Studies. It is well suited to advanced undergraduates who become interested in any aspect of the period. Likewise, it would serve as valuable reference tool in producing advanced undergraduate-level lectures or similar discussions. Graduate students and scholars who are new to the field will find it invaluable as they ground themselves in the historical contexts, primary sources, and historiography of the period. And even established scholars will find it useful, if not for the content, then certainly for the reference value.” Samuel A. Claussen, California Lutheran University. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 155–157. “A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance presents both micro- and macro-historical approaches to the appearance, uses, and meanings of humanist culture in Spain and Latin America between 1500–1700. The volume’s treatment of such fascinating Latin material as the translation of a Nahuatl herbal in 1522 (p. 502), alongside better-known texts such as Nebrija’s Introductiones latinae (p. 321) or Alfonso de Palencia’s Universale Compendium Vocabulorum (p. 323), means that the companion offers much to Neo-Latin Studies as well as its principal audience in Hispanic Studies.” In: The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol. 80, No. 1 (2020), p. 19.

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Book SynopsisThe Cultural Political Economy of the Construction Industry in Turkey analyses the growth of the popularity of the ‘Justice and Development Party’ (official acronym: AK Parti or AKP) of Turkey’s president Erdogan, through the lens of the construction sector. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the question of hegemony and the electoral success of the AKP – despite frequent economic downturns and ferocious political conflicts including a coup d’état attempt and rekindled armed struggles. In this book, Ismail Doga Karatepe critically examines the AKP’s ability to satisfy the needs and wishes of different social classes and groups. By taking the construction sector as an example, the book analyses these in the context of the changes in the urban landscape of modern Turkey.

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Book SynopsisIn 2016 and 2020, the Bernie Sanders campaign gave American leftists a path towards social change through electoral politics. In order to combat neoliberal and reactionary uses of identity, the 2020 Sanders campaign combined a working-class agenda of universalist policies with various forms of social movement activism. In doing so it compromised on universalist principles and socialist radicalism in order to appeal to distinct demographic groups and win the election. Bernie Bros Gone Woke reveals how intersectional politics contributed to the failure of the Sanders campaign – a lesson that the organized left must learn if it is to challenge progressive neoliberalism and move beyond postmodern post-politics.Table of Contentsb>Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  1 Democratic Brocialism  2 Identity Politics Is Class Politics  3 Progressive Neoliberalism  4 Post-politics  5 Outline of the Book 1 What Does the Professional-Managerial Class Want?  1 From the New Deal to the New Democrats  2 A Stratum without an Ideology  3 The Fall of the Liberal Class and the Rise of the Far Right  4 Left Populism as Compromise Formation  5 The Wages of Wokeness 2 Bernie Beats Trump, Clinton and Obama Beat Bernie  1 Millennials Feel the Bern  2 Whose Revolution? Whose Party?  3 Malarkey 3 Elective Affinities  1 Your Candidate Here  2 I’m Bernie Sanders and I Approve This Message  3 The Difference That Universalism Makes 4 Less than Bernie  1 I Know There Is No Democracy, but I Choose to Ignore  2 I Can’t Breathe  3 Sectarians, Splitters and Fellow Travelers  4 When I Hear the Word Culture, I Reach for the Political Economy  5 Role Model Ideology Conclusion  1 The Bipartisan Endgame  2 Meanwhile, Back in Wokeville  3 Political Revolution Inside Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHistorically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TV’s Mrs. Maisel is ostensibly a Jew, the actor playing her is not, and Mrs. Maisel’s actions are not always Jewish. In The Fractured Jew Joel West separates Judaism into phenomenological and performative, starting with popular portrayals of Jews and Judaism, in today’s media, as a jumping-off point to understand Judaism and Jewishness, not from the outside, but from the emic, internal, Jewish point of view.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements  What This Book Is Not Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Who or What Is a Jew?  2 A Fractured Framework: Trauma, Identity, Ethnicity  3 Diachronic Denominationally Jewish  4 North American Semiotics: Jew, Jewish or Judaism as a Sign  5 North American Jews: Alienations  6 North American Jews: Denominations as History  7 Preforming Jew, Jewish, Judaism  8 The Jew Is a Joke—Internalized Antisemitism  Conclusion  References  Index

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Book SynopsisUp in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community building. Beyond gun rights, restrictions, or the actual functions of firearms, the book demonstrates how the gun question itself becomes loaded with symbolic firepower, making or breaking assumptions about identities, behavior, and belief systems. Contributors include: Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Lotta Kähkönen, Mila Seppälä, and Juha A. Vuori.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Loaded with the Past, Coloring the Present: The Power of Gun Imaginaries  Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, and Pekka M. Kolehmainen 2 We are Texas Because of Guns: Firearms in Texan and “American” Imaginaries  Laura Hernández-Ehrisman 3 The Founding Fathers in the Temporal Imaginaries of Texas Gun Politics  Pekka M. Kolehmainen 4 “I Forgive Him, Yes”: Gendered Trauma Narratives of the Texas Tower Shooting  Lotta Kähkönen 5 Triggered: The Imaginary Realities of Campus Carry in Texas  Benita Heiskanen 6 Radical Political Imagination and Generational Utopias: Gun Control as a Site of Youth Activism  Mila Seppälä 7 Pro-Campus Carry Video Imaginaries at The University of Texas Austin  Juha A. Vuori 8 Firearms Fetishism in Texas: Entanglements of Gun Imaginaries and Belief  Albion M. Butters 9 Imaging Texas Gun Culture: A Photo Essay  Albion M. Butters, Benita Heiskanen, and Lotta Kähkönen 10 The Explanatory, Social, and Performative Power of Gun Imaginaries  Benita Heiskanen and Pekka M. Kolehmainen Index

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Book SynopsisCities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant window-shoppers and homeless beggars, protesting crowds and patrolling police. As bodies shape city life, so the city’s spaces, structures, economies, politics, rhythms, and atmospheres reciprocally shape the urban soma. This collection of original essays explores the somaesthetic qualities and challenges of city life (in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas) from a variety of perspectives ranging from philosophy, urban theory, political theory, and gender studies to visual art, criminology, and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Together these essays illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles and trials of bodies in the city streets.Trade Review"Shusterman and his colleagues launched a significant volume of essays about a new dimension of somaesthetics: bodies in the street. It shows somaesthetics' usefulness and ability to interpret every dimension of human life." - Alexander Kremer, University of Szeged, in: Pragmatism Today Vol. 11 (1/2020) "[D]oes somaesthetics provide a basis for critical assessment? Shusterman makes a strong case for the importance of the body and its role in all aspects of human experience. [...] The audience for this book may include aestheticians, but it offers potentially a much broader scope of interest, including the place of the body in urban studies, feminist theory, revolutionary politics, as well as literature and art." - Curtis L. Carter, Marquette University, in: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 78 (issue 2/2020) "Si tratta, pertanto, di un volume importante e decisivo nello sviluppo della somaestetica proposta da Shusterman, una tappa che prelude a passi ulteriori ma che già fin da adesso rimodula ulteriormente e in modo efficace il cammino della somaestetica." - Leonardo Distaso, University of Naples, in: Aisthema, International Journal Vol. VI (2019) “[A] significant contribution in imposing somaesthetics as one of the most open and pluralist fields in contemporary philosophy.” - Stefano Marino, University of Bologna, in: The Journal of Somaesthetics 6:2 (2020).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Bodies in the Streets and the Somaesthetics of City Life  Richard Shusterman Part I: The Soma, the City, and the Weather 1. Bodies in the Streets: The Soma, the City, and the Art of Living  Richard Shusterman 2. The Weather-Worlds of Urban Bodies  Mădălina Diaconu 3. White on Black: Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen  Henrik Reeh Part II: Festival, Revolution, and Death 4. Body Politics: Revolt and City Celebration  Matthew Crippen 5. Bodies in the Streets of Eastern Europe: Rhetorical Space and the Somaesthetics of Revolution  Noemi Marin 6. From Dancing to Dying in the Streets: Somaesthetics of the Cuban Revolution in Memories of Underdevelopment and Juan of the Dead  Marilyn Miller Part III: Performances of Resistance, Gender, and Crime 7. “Street” is Feminine in Italian: Feminine Bodies and Street Spaces  Ilaria Serra 8. Bodies in Alliance and New Sites of Resistance: Performing the Political in Neoliberal Public Space  Federica Castelli 9. East End Prostitution and the Fear of Contagion: On Bodily Consciousness of the Ripper Case  Chung-jen Chen 10. Towards a Somaesthetic Conception of Culture in Iran: Somaesthetic Performances as Cultural Praxis in Tehran  Alireza Fakhrkonandeh Part IV: Bodies in the Streets of Literature and Art 11. “Terrae Incognitae”: The Somaesthetics of Thomas De Quincey’s Psychogeography  Evy Varsamopoulou 12. The Empty Spaces You Run Into: The City as Character and Background in William S. Burroughs’s Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch  Robert Jones 13. Somaesthetics and the Sublime: Varanasi in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art  Pradeep Dhillon Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Need for Religion: Insecurity and Religiosity in the Contemporary World Francesco Molteni tries to answer one of the broadest questions for scholars of religion: why is religiosity declining in developed countries? He does so by inspecting all the different nuances of the insecurity theory, which links the feeling of security typical of modern societies with the diminished need for religion as source of reassurance, support and predictability. In this respect, he notes that much of the evidence is far less clear than expected and that secularization processes are at an advanced stage only in a rather small group of worldwide countries.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Maps 1 Introduction  1 Why the Need to Study Insecurity and Religiosity?  2 A Guide for This Book  3 Methodology and Appendices 2 The Broad Frame of Secularization Theory  1 The Sociological Roots of Secularization Theory  2 Alternative Approaches  3 The Post-secularism  4 Modernity and Modernizations: How to Simplify the Complex  5 One Secularization, More Secularizations  6 Different Levels of Interpretation  7 Which Secularization? 3 Insecurity Theory in Sociological Literature  1 The Sociological Roots of Insecurity Theory  2 Insecurity Theory as a Macro-theory to Explain Religious Decline  3 Insecurity Theory as a Micro-theory to Explain Religious Change   3.1 Religiosity as a Social Buffer   3.2 Religiosity as an Economic Buffer   3.3 Religiosity as a Psychological or Cognitive Buffer  4 Religious Coping and Religious Resources 4 A Look at the World: The Empirical Bases of Insecurity Theory  1 Towards a More Robust Exploration  2 Steps in Modernization 5 Exploring Relations: Does Insecurity Matter?  1 Are Religious People Happier?  2 Does Religiosity Mitigate Losses in Life-satisfaction?  3 Are Insecure People More Likely to Be Religious?  4 Disentangling the Mechanisms: One Insecurity, More Insecurities 6 Bringing Back Individuals: Do Negative Events Foster Religiosity?  1 A Longitudinal Panel Study for Germany and the United Kingdom  2 Testing the Mechanisms of Individual Change  3 The (Non) Effect of Life-threatening Events 7 Moving into the Longitudinal: Changes in Insecurity and Secularization  1 Towards a Model for Explaining Religious Change  2 Conceptualizing Insecurity and Its Effect on Religiosity  3 Longitudinal Argumentations and Cross-sectional Data  4 Insecurity Theory: More Static Than Dynamic 8 Insecurity and Religious Change: Facts, Facets and Notes of Caution  1 Europe as Exception or Example?  2 Religious Evolution in Asia, Africa and South America   2.1 Asia   2.2 Africa   2.3 South America  3 Same Path, Different Positions 9 Conclusions: The Triggering Role of Insecurity  1 Insecurity and Religious Decline: What Do We Know and What Should We Know?  2 From Observation to Understanding  3 Final Remarks Appendix 1: Studying Religion with Quantitative Methods: A Toolbox  1 Globalization of Surveys  2 Individual and Aggregate Relations – Reasoning Multilevel  3 Causality and Associations  4 Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Relations  5 Multidimensionality Appendix 2: Data, Methods and Tables  1 The Surveys  2 The Techniques  3 The Tables Bibliography Author Index Thematic Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a young Muslim American woman in the US educational system? This book answers this question by presenting the counter-narratives of 15 young women. These accounts debunk prevalent stereotypes and biases, and reveal an educational climate marked by Islamophobia. Through these overall educational experiences, readers are able to explore the role of family, faith-based education, the mosque, and community in these women’s lives. The social and academic learning opportunities showcase instances of both inclusion and marginalization which lead students to experience a double consciousness. What this study ultimately shows is that these students experience the dichotomous pull of religious and cultural values as they navigate their intersectional identities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction  1 Critical Race Theory and Racialization  2 Tenets & Application of Critical Race Theory  3 Offf-shoots of Critical Race Theory  4 Racialization of Religious Identity  5 From CRT to MusCrit  6 Tenets of MusCrit  7 From Theoretical Framework to Methodology  8 The Use of Narrative Research  9 The Stories Ahead 1 Rahmah’s Story  1 Framing Identity  2 Finding Friends in Diverse Spaces  3 Experience of Demonization 2 Deena’s Story  1 Navigating Identity  2 Treading Carefully 3 Hafsa’s Story  1 Informal & Formal Educational Experiences  2 Difffijiculty in Transition to High School  3 The Strengthening Role of the Community  4 The Role of Parents and Acculturation  5 Defijining American and Intersectionality  6 Connection to Curriculum  7 Interactions with Teachers and Microaggressions 4 Rania’s Story  1 Hijab & Identity  2 Influences on Identity  3 Uncomfortable Interactions 5 Mehar’s Story  1 Relationship with Her Hijab  2 Sense of Community  3 Questions of Identity  4 Early Experiences in America  5 Uncomfortable Interactions 6 Amber’s Story  1 Defijining Self, Race, and Ethnicity  2 Finding Strength in Diversity  3 Parents and Acculturation  4 Values 7 Selma’s Story  1 School  2 Transitioning to College  3 Choosing to Wear the Hijab 8 Rida’s Story  1 The Role of School  2 Defijining Self, Race, and Popular Culture  3 Anxiety about Transitioning to College  4 Impact of Religious Values  5 The Strengthening Role of Family 9 Layla’s Story  1 Navigating Identity  2 Educational Journeys  3 Classroom Conversations  4 Relationship with Hijab  5 Religion as Lifestyle 10 Samreen’s Story  1 Being Impacted: School and Family  2 Being American  3 Uncomfortable Conversations 11 Yasmine’s Story  1 Acculturation  2 Values  3 Curriculum  4 Experience of Demonization 12 Ayesha’s Story  1 Influence of School  2 Values Shaped in the Home  3 College Experience  4 Defending the Faith 13 Fatima’s Story  1 Culture & Identity  2 Identity & Educational Experience  3 Diminishing Experiences 14 Sana’s Story  1 Critical Conversations & Representing Islam  2 Extra-curriculars and Identity  3 Being Enough 15 Farah’s Story  1 Impact of Culture and Faith  2 Learning from School  3 Discussing 9/11  4 Contemplating Identity MusCrit in Action Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a young Muslim American woman in the US educational system? This book answers this question by presenting the counter-narratives of 15 young women. These accounts debunk prevalent stereotypes and biases, and reveal an educational climate marked by Islamophobia. Through these overall educational experiences, readers are able to explore the role of family, faith-based education, the mosque, and community in these women’s lives. The social and academic learning opportunities showcase instances of both inclusion and marginalization which lead students to experience a double consciousness. What this study ultimately shows is that these students experience the dichotomous pull of religious and cultural values as they navigate their intersectional identities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction  1 Critical Race Theory and Racialization  2 Tenets & Application of Critical Race Theory  3 Offf-shoots of Critical Race Theory  4 Racialization of Religious Identity  5 From CRT to MusCrit  6 Tenets of MusCrit  7 From Theoretical Framework to Methodology  8 The Use of Narrative Research  9 The Stories Ahead 1 Rahmah’s Story  1 Framing Identity  2 Finding Friends in Diverse Spaces  3 Experience of Demonization 2 Deena’s Story  1 Navigating Identity  2 Treading Carefully 3 Hafsa’s Story  1 Informal & Formal Educational Experiences  2 Difffijiculty in Transition to High School  3 The Strengthening Role of the Community  4 The Role of Parents and Acculturation  5 Defijining American and Intersectionality  6 Connection to Curriculum  7 Interactions with Teachers and Microaggressions 4 Rania’s Story  1 Hijab & Identity  2 Influences on Identity  3 Uncomfortable Interactions 5 Mehar’s Story  1 Relationship with Her Hijab  2 Sense of Community  3 Questions of Identity  4 Early Experiences in America  5 Uncomfortable Interactions 6 Amber’s Story  1 Defijining Self, Race, and Ethnicity  2 Finding Strength in Diversity  3 Parents and Acculturation  4 Values 7 Selma’s Story  1 School  2 Transitioning to College  3 Choosing to Wear the Hijab 8 Rida’s Story  1 The Role of School  2 Defijining Self, Race, and Popular Culture  3 Anxiety about Transitioning to College  4 Impact of Religious Values  5 The Strengthening Role of Family 9 Layla’s Story  1 Navigating Identity  2 Educational Journeys  3 Classroom Conversations  4 Relationship with Hijab  5 Religion as Lifestyle 10 Samreen’s Story  1 Being Impacted: School and Family  2 Being American  3 Uncomfortable Conversations 11 Yasmine’s Story  1 Acculturation  2 Values  3 Curriculum  4 Experience of Demonization 12 Ayesha’s Story  1 Influence of School  2 Values Shaped in the Home  3 College Experience  4 Defending the Faith 13 Fatima’s Story  1 Culture & Identity  2 Identity & Educational Experience  3 Diminishing Experiences 14 Sana’s Story  1 Critical Conversations & Representing Islam  2 Extra-curriculars and Identity  3 Being Enough 15 Farah’s Story  1 Impact of Culture and Faith  2 Learning from School  3 Discussing 9/11  4 Contemplating Identity MusCrit in Action Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisCulture and personality are deeply related. Gerard Saucier articulates their interface, and new insights regarding the psychology of religion and spirituality. Rather than making assumptions of cultural homogeneity that promote stereotyping, Gerard Saucier applies a distributive model of culture which assumes heterogeneity, linking the otherwise separate compartments of culture and personality. Personality variation maps cultural non-uniformity, but variation in mindset (attitudes, beliefs, values) does so more directly. Studies of isms concepts embedded in natural language demonstrate that matters of religion and spirituality make up a substantial fraction of culture-relevant mindset, and empirical evidence shows these have a large effect-size contribution to cultural differences between nations around the globe. This book will be of much interest to specialists and (post-graduate) graduate students interested in culture, personality, and religion or spirituality.Table of Contents Abstract  Keywords  1 Preamble  2 Definitions  3 Culture and Personality Structure  4 Mindset and Culture  5 Variants of the DMC (Distributive Model of Culture)  6 The Utility of a Distributive Model of Culture  7 Distributive Models of Ideology and Religion  8 Culture and Personality Recap  9 Ideology and Worldview from Standpoint of Culture, Personality, and a DMC  10 The First Isms Study Method  11 The Second Isms Study  12 Evidence on Spirituality without Religiousness  13 Cross-cultural Differences in a Global Survey of World Views  14 Enduring- and Evolving-order Societies, and Their Meaning and Material Regimes  15 Further Domains of Culture  16 Religion (and Spirituality) as Culture and Personality: Further Synthesis  17 The Matter of Mysticism and Morality  18 Culture, Personality, and Religion – Summarily Integrated  19 Epilogue on Future Directions  References  Index

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Book SynopsisVolume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms continues the broad themes of radicalisms and conservatisms that were examined in volume I. Like volume I, the essays examine why the two “isms” of radicalisms and conservatisms should not be viewed as mere irreconcilable conceptual tools with which to categorize or structure knowledge. The volume demonstrates that these concepts are intertwined, have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence, the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The twenty-two essays in the volume show what happens when one juxtaposes the two concepts and when different peoples’ lived experiences of politics, pop culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism, migration, identities, and knowledge, etc. across the length and breadth of Africa are brought to bear on our understandings of these two particularisms. Contributors are: Adesoji Oni, Admire M. Nyamwanza, Akin Tella, Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle, Bamidele Omotunde Alabi, Charles Nkem Okolie, Craig Calhoun, Diana Ekor Ofana, Edwin Etieyibo, Folusho Ayodeji, Gabriel Akinbode, Godwin Oboh, Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Julius Niringiyimana, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Maxwell Mudhara, Muchaparara Musemwa, Nathan Osareme Odiase, Obvious Katsaura, Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere, Olaniran Olakunle Lateef, Omolara V. Akinyemi, Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya, Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule, Rutanga Murindwa, Sandra Bhatasara, Takesure Taringana, Tunde A. Abioro, Victor Clement Nweke, William Muhumuza, and Zainab M. Olaitan.Table of ContentsPreface List of Boxes, Maps and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Edwin Etieyibo, Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa PART 1: Pop-Culture, Identities, Knowledge, and Politics 1 Knowledge and Social Transformations in Africa  Craig Calhoun 2 Belongingness and Obligation to the Community: Rethinking the Foundation for Human Flourishing in the 21st Century  Victor Clement Nweke and Charles Nkem Okolie 3 Democracy, Politics, and the Media in Nigeria  Edwin Etieyibo and Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh 4 Implications of Ubuntu for Ordinary Encounters in South Africa: A Philosophical Enquiry  Diana Ekor Ofana 5 Axiological Proximisation and Discourse Strategies in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Anti-establishment Songs  Akin Tella 6 Multiple Social Identities: A Theoretical Review of the Complexities of Conflicting Social Identities  Ayodeji Folusho, Akinbode A. Gabriel and Nathan Osareme Odiase 7 Discourse on Restructuring in Nigeria  Edwin Etieyibo PART 2: Environment, Climate Change and Justice 8 Ezi n’ulo as an African Paradigm for Eco-conservation  Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya 9 ‘De-Epistemiciding’ Knowledge in the Quest for Environmental Justice in Post-colonial Africa  Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle 10 Climate Injustice and the Role of Climate Justice Movements in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe  Sandra Bhatasara and Admire M. Nyamwanza 11 The Role of Local Institutions in Building Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptive Capacity against Climate Change Impacts in Bikita, Zimbabwe  Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya and Maxwell Mudhara PART 3: Colonialism and Globalization 12 The Anti-colonial Revolution Converse: Limitations of Nationalism and the Demands of Positive Freedom and Positive Justice  Joseph C. A. Agbakoba 13 Developing Nations and the Imperatives of Globalization  Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule 14 Racism, Colonialism and African Philosophy  Edwin Etieyibo 15 Global Oil Capital and the Alienation of Women Land Rights in Uganda’s Oil Village Communities (OVC s)  Julius Niringiyimana, William Muhumuza and Rutanga Murindwa 16 Enclavism and Dependency: Coffee Production and Illusive Development in Zimbabwe  Takesure Taringana 17 Enlightenment Ideas and Colonialism  Zainab Monisola Olaitan 18 Mental Decolonization: Towards a Self-reliant Africa  Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere PART 4: Migration and Economy 19 A Liberal World With or Without Borders  Edwin Etieyibo 20 Trafficking and Migration Crises in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria and Benin Republic Border  Tunde A. Abioro and Omolara Victoria Akinyemi 21 Dialectics of Migration as a Vital Household Investment Strategy in Nigeria and a Major Source for Libya’s ‘Slave’ Market  Bamidele Omotunde Alabi 22 Unemployment, Youth Restiveness and Skills Development in Nigeria  Adesoji A. Oni and Olakunle Lateef Olaniran Index

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Book SynopsisFilm festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these non-profit organizations work as they do: by attracting people who work for free, while appealing to businesses and policymakers as a cheap means to illuminate the creative city and draw attention to film art. Ann Vogel’s unprecedented systematic sociological analysis thus provides firm evidence for the ‘festival effect’, which situates the festival as a key intermediary in cinema value chains, yet also demonstrates the impact of such event culture on cultural workers’ lives. By probing the various resources and institutional pillars ensuring that the festivalization of capitalism is here to stay, Vogel urges us to think critically about publicly displayed benevolence in the context of cinema—and beyond.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction Film Festivals, Introducing a Global Population Part 1 Affordances 1 Film Festivals and Festivalization 2 The Experience-Maker 3 Alternative Exhibition Part 2 Devices 4 Mimetic Adoption and Social Capital 5 Festival Devices 6 Examining the Festival Effect Part 3 Justifications 7 Film Festival as Charismatic Organization 8 Spreading the Risk: Film Festival Work and Creative Labor Strategies 9 Institutional Supports for Festival Volunteering 10 The Calling of Unpaid Labor Part 4 Adjustments 11 Affect, Event, and Social Order 12 A Postmodern Grants Economics: Elites, Excess, and Cultural Diversity 13 Activation, or the Eclipse of the Civic Polis  Toward Social Activism, a Conclusion  Appendix: Methodological Supplement for Chapter 6  Bibliography  index

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Book SynopsisThe presidency of Donald J. Trump, has had a considerable impacts on American politics and society. One of these was his altering of the comedic mood in America, taking comedy away from many of its traditions. His presidency turned comedy into political weaponry, as comedians on the liberal side of politics turned their efforts to ridiculing Trump’s buffoonish persona, while on the conservative side, a Trump-supportive group of comedians mocked those very comedians who opposed Trump. Trump himself emerged as a comedian, performing his dark, caustic, comical routines with consummate skill at his rallies. If comedy is a pulse for a country, then it is legitimate to ask if that pulse still beating, even after Trump lost reelection in 2020. This book will address this question, examining how Trump’s presidency interrupted the historical flow of American comedic traditions, and how it spread a dark mood throughout American society.Table of ContentsPreface Abstract Keywords  1 American Comedy  2 Buffoonery  3 Dark Comedy  4 The Circus Came and Went  5 A Comedic Nightmare References Index

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Book SynopsisThe return of Jews to their ancestral land can be seen as an act of imagination. A new country, citizenship, language, and institutions needed to be imagined in order to be created. The arts, too, have contributed to this act of envisioning and shaping the Jewish state. By examining artistic representations of Israel, Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts explores the ways in which the Israel imagined abroad and the one conjured within the country intersect, offering a space for the co-existence of sociopolitical, cultural, and ideological differences and tensions.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction  Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg Part 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture 1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli Identity  Guy Eldar 2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz Yisrael  Noa Avron Barak 3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International Comics  Ofer Berenstein Part 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America 4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American Stage  Ellen W. Kaplan 5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American Literature  Samantha Pickette 6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-Charting  Chelsea Haines 7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction  Reeva Spector Simon 8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish State  Rocco Giansante Part 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal 9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in Venice  Luna Goldberg 10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance Theater  Idit Suslik 11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the Holocaust  Samuel Thrope 12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British Theater  Glenda Abramson Part 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined 13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian Art  Keren Goldberg 14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe Stage  Jacob Hellman 15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona Yefman  Yarden Stern Index

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Book SynopsisThe world experiences rampant ideological/political lying and absence of genuine love. Capitalism utilizes lies to hide its contradictions causing people’s suffering which undermines genuine love. The right-wing capitalist politics is a politics of hatred, justified by lies. The analysis of love and lying, as aspects of capitalist culture, has important practical implications for the struggle for socialism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1 Love  2 Lying  3 Outline 2 Love and Politics: Some Existing Views  1 Introduction  2 What Is Love?  3 Why do People Fall in Love?  4 Consequences and Politics of Love  5 A Critique of Existing Views on Love   Appendix: Neuroscience and Love 3 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Trans-historical Aspects  1 Introduction  2 Love as a Social-emergent Effect of a Mental and Physical Connection  3 Love Is More Than a Relation between Two Individuals  4 Love Is a Conscious ‘Labour Process’, an Activity  5 Conclusion 4 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Love in Class Society and in Socialism  1 Introduction  2 Love in Pre-capitalist Class Society  3 Love and Capitalist Economy 3.1 Capitalist Property Relation, and Commodity Fetishism 3.2 Alienation  4 Love and Class Consciousness in Capitalism  5 Love, and Gender and Other Forms of Oppression in Capitalism  6 Love in a Socialist Society (and in the Anti-capitalist Movement)  7 Conclusion 5 The Post-truth Condition in Capitalist Society: Its Major Characteristics  1 Introduction  2 The Truth About Post-truth 2.1 Post-truth on a Spectrum 2.2 Lying in Post-truth Condition 2.3 Facts vs Feelings in Post-truth 2.4 Post-truth Relativism and Attitude to Truth 2.5 Post-truth Attitude towards Experts 2.6 Immorality and Demagogy of Post-truth  3 Philosophy of Post-truth: Postmodernism as an Ideological Precursor  4 Politics of Post-truth: Post-truth and Fascistic Tendencies  5 Conclusion 6 Towards a Marxist Theory of the Post-truth Condition  1 Introduction  2 Historical Materialism and Political Lying  3 Contradictions of Capitalism 3.1 Fundamental Contradictions 3.2 ‘Conjunctural’ Contradictions  4 Contradictions of Capitalist Imperialism  5 Opposition to Regulation, and Capitalist Politics  6 Capitalist Production of Lies as a Commodity  7 Media of Lies as Capitalist Commodity  8 Lying by the ‘Victims’ of Capitalism  9 Conclusion 7 Post-truth Phenomenon: a Concrete Study with a Reference to India  1 Introduction  2 Traits of India’s Post-truth Politics 2.1 Ideological and Political Lies/Half-Truths 2.2 Accumulation of Lies by Means of Suppression of Dissent 2.3 Class-Blindness of Right-Wing Post-truthers  3 Explaining India’s Post-truth Phenomenon 3.1 Economic Misery 3.2 Countering Political Action by the Masses 3.3 Crisis of Bourgeois Politics 3.4 Capitalism’s Fascistic Agencies  4 A Critique of the Right-Wing Post-truth Politics and Thinking in India 4.1 The Right-Wing’s Denigration of Dissent 4.2 Culturalism and Communalism in Right-Wing Post-truth Politics  5 Conclusion 8 Conclusion  1 Brief Summary  2 Further Discussions 2.1 Explanations 2.2 Political Implications Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies, as well as sections on football and the sacred, the Super Bowl, and the semiotics of televised baseball.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Abstract Keywords  1 A Primer on Semiotics  2 Roland Barthes on Professional Wrestling  3 Baseball: Threes, Fours, and Exclusions  4 Fenway Park  5 Football and the Sacred  6 The Semiotics of Televised Baseball  7 The Super Bowl  8 Football: Semiotics, Psyche and Society  9 Coda  Acknowledgments  Reference

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to explore how the Zimbabwean society and its institutions have survived if not succumbed to continuous economic crises in the country. From the 1990s Zimbabwe experienced a sustained economic decline challenged by both internal and external strains. Coupled with internal mis-governance and corruption, the nation plunged into a political and economic crisis which culminated in the second highest world inflation rate for an economy that is not at war. In the face of the harsh and continuously deteriorating economic environments, Zimbabweans as individuals as well as part of institutions adopted various strategies to negotiate and survive the economic scourge. Contributors include Wellington Bamu, Nathaniel Chimhete, Anusa Daimon, Innocent Dande, Sylvester Dombo, Tinotenda Dube, Rudo Gaidzanwa, Tafara Evelyn Kombora, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Bernard Kusena, Eric Kushinga Makombe, Albert Makochekanwa, Blessed Masawi, Ivo Mhike, Joseph P. Mtisi, Joseph Mujere, Wesley Mwatwara, Pius S. Nyambara, Tinashe Nyamunda, Mark Nyandoro, Takesure Taringana and Nicola Yon (Mutimurefu).Trade ReviewThe seemingly unending ‘Zimbabwean crisis’ has been a subject of conjecture, scholarly analysis and debate since the early twenty-first century. However, to date, no study has unpacked with such clarity and depth of analysis some of the multifaceted issues covered by this magnificent book. It is a tremendous contribution to the growing historiography on a subject that continues to exercise the minds of scholars, politicians, economists and citizens alike. A must-read for scholars, students and everyone with the welfare of Zimbabwe at heart. M. Nyakudya (lecturer, History Department, University of Zimbabwe)

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Book SynopsisHow does the spectre appear in Icelandic literature and visual art created in the aftermath of the economic crash in Iceland in 2008? Why does it emerge at that specific point in time and what can it tell us about repressed collective memories in Iceland? The book explores how the crash becomes an implicit background setting in novels that address the silences and gaps of the family archive, and how crime fiction employs generic features of horror to explicitly tackle the ghosts residing in the lost homes of the financial crash. Spectral space is an apparent theme of cultural memories produced in times of crisis, and the book explores how this is made apparent in visual art of the period.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Introduction  1 Spectral Memory: What and Why?  2 What is Cultural Memory?  3 Spectral Memory as a Dynamic and Transformative Encounter Between Past and Present  4 Outline of Chapters Part 1:Spectral Memories of the Financial Crisis 1 The Spectral Spaces of the Economic Crisis: Visual Art  1 The Crash: A Collective Shock  2 The Crash: Crisis of Memory and Identity  3 Aesthetic Response to the Crash: The Spectral-Uncanny  4 Roles: Photorealist Drawings of the Unhomely Space  5 Roles: The House and the Human Subject  6 Waiting: Crash-Photographs of Emptiness and Melancholia in the Urban Space  7 Waiting: Contemporary Urban Space and Memory  8 Waiting: Capitalist Ruins  9 Spectral Mourning in the Urban Space: Conclusion 2 Ghosts and Specters of Crash Fiction: Literature  1 I Remember You: A Crash-Horror in the Time of Economic Crisis  2 I Remember You: Two Stories of Hauntings in the Wake of the Crash  3 I Remember You: The Haunted House  4 Reactions and Agency: Why Does the Ghost Return?  5 Hauntings in Ísafjörður: Three Different Types of Spectral Presence  6 Hauntings in Ísafjörður: Spectral Mourning as Haunting  7 Significance of the Haunting for the Narrative and Broader Context  8 Hvítfeld: Uncanny Family Novel  9 Hvítfeld and the Crash: The Falseness and Collapse of the Ideal  10 Hvítfeld: Unhomely Family Life and Melancholic Characters  11 Hvítfeld: Melancholic Mourning  12 Hvítfeld and the Spectral Space: The Unhomely Home  13 Literary Ghosts and Spectral Memories of the Financial Crisis:Conclusion Part 2: Spectral Memories From the Post-Crash Archive 3 Spectral Memories From the Institutional Archive: Visual Art  1 The Archive as Storage for Spectral Memories  2 Modernisation of the Archive: Colonialism and Photography  3 Musée Islandique and Das Experiment Island by Ólöf Nordal  4 Musée Islandique  5 The Colonial Archive and Historical Context  6 Das Experiment Island  7 The Uncanny Associations of the Archive  8 What Kind of Memories?  9 Traces by Unnar Örn Auðarson  10 Fragments From the Deeds of Unrest: Part II  11 The Photograph as an Archival Record  12 Photograph as Spectre  13 Fragments From the Deeds of Unrest: The Photograph and National Imagery  14 Fragments: Murmur of a Nation  15 Spectral Memories of the Institutional Archive: Conclusion 4 Spectral Memories From the Family Archive: Literature  1 The Family Archive in Fórnarleikar: The Spectral State of Postmemories  2 Postmemory and the Family Trauma  3 Postmemory and the Family Archive  4 Family Pictures: Archived Photographs  5 Fórnarleikar: The Impossibility of Writing a Life Story  6 Spectral Memories of the Childhood Archive in Elín, Ýmislegt  7 “Enigmatic Time-Capsules” and Archive Fiction  8 Archived Material: Spectral Memories  9 Elín, Ýmislegt: A Novel on Forgetting?  10 Spectral Memories From the Family Archive: Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDie ironisch-spielerische Neuverwendung von populären Gattungen und tradierten Darstellungsweisen stellt ein bemerkenswertes Phänomen heutiger Literatur dar. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert diese Form von Intertextualität in Prosawerken von Peter Handke und Botho Strauß und führt damit differente Spielarten solcher Gattungs-Transformation vor. Beide Autoren — die hier erstmals unter diesem erzähltechnischen Aspekt zusammengebracht werden — verwenden zur Konstruktion ihrer Texte 'vorgefertigte' Erzählmodelle: den Kriminalroman und den romantischen Roman. Die Untersuchung zeigt, wie Handke und Strauß deren Bauelemente neuartig einsetzen und so innovative Erzählformen schaffen. Wie in Handkes Krimi-Transformationen die Rätsel unaufgeklärt bleiben und sich das 'looking for clues' mit der Thematik von Zeichendeutung verbindet, wird in den Analysen dargelegt. In Der Hausierer, Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter und Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied zeigt sich dabei eine Entwicklungslinie. Darüber hinaus stellt sich Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung durch den Befund einer Transgression des Krimi-Modells als Scharnierwerk im Oeuvre dar. Die Erarbeitung der vielfältigen Romantik-Bezüge in Strauß' Der junge Mann enthüllt, wie die prätextuellen Themen und Motive mit ironischer Distanz verwendet werden. Romantische Reflexionsstrukturen werden radikalisiert und in andere Funktionszusammenhänge gestellt. Abschließend werden die nachgewiesenen intertextuellen Konstruktionsprinzipien im Kontext postmoderner Literatur betrachtet.Table of ContentsVorwort. Einleitung. ERSTER TEIL: TRANSFORMATIONEN DES KRIMINALROMANS - PETER HANDKE. 1. Der Hausierer. 2. Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter. 3. Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied. 4. Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung. ZWEITER TEIL: TRANSFORMATION DES ROMANTISCHEN ROMANS — BOTHO STRAUSS: DER JUNGE MANN. 1. Fragestellung. 2. Zur 'Einleitung' von Der junge Mann. 3. Umrißhafte Beschreibung der Struktur: Pluralität der Teile. 4. Die Rahmenkapitel: Bezug zum Bildungsroman. Reflexionsstrukturen. 5. Die Binnenkapitel: Transformationen von Themen und Motiven aus der romantischen Tradition. 6. Fazit. Epilog. Bibliographie. Namenregister.

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Book SynopsisDans Le parent insaisissable et l'urgence d'écrire , Martine Delfos étudie la relation entre la perte prématurée d'un parent pendant la jeunesse des écrivains français et leur écriture. La perte prématurée d'un parent au cours de l'enfance ou de l'adolescence peut mener à la dépression, tout comme elle peut faire naître un grand fanatisme. Elle peut également faire éclore de grands talents littéraires. Dans sa recherche des écrivains français de 1550 à 1950, Martine Delfos à découvert que les trois quarts de ces écrivains ont subi la perte d'un père ou d'une mère pendant leur jeunesse. Pour presque les deux tiers, c'est une perte due à la mort d'un ou même des deux parents. La perte semble amener un grand fanatisme littéraire, une urgence d'écrire. Ce sujet n'a jamais été étudié chez les écrivains, ni chez les écrivains français ni non plus chez d'autres écrivains. Etant donnée l'ampleur des résultats, Martine Delfos suppose avoir à faire à un phénomène universel. C'est-à-dire qu'on peut s'attendre à un même résultat chez les écrivains néerlandais ou anglais par exemple. Ce qui frappe, c'est que cette perte survient souvent quand l'écrivain a sept ans. Cette donnée peut s'expliquer par le fait que le grand chagrin qui cherche à s'exprimer coïncide avec le moment où l'enfant fait connaissance avec un nouveau moyen d'expression: l'écriture. Pour étudier les traces d'une perte prématurée d'un parent dans l'oeuvre d'un écrivain, Martine Delfos a étudié l'oeuvre de quatre écrivains: Racine, Voltaire, Rimbaud en Zola. Il s'avère qu'il existe en effet des traces de la perte dans le sens que la représentation du parent décédé est sous-développée dans l'écriture. La perspective de la perte prématurée crée, en plus, la possibilité de jeter une toute nouvelle lumière sur deux énigmes importantes de la littérature française, c'est-à-dire le silence soudain de Racine et de Rimbaud.Table of ContentsPréface Première partie La mort tracée I Introduction II Les recherches préliminaires III Le choix et le refus IV Le langage des statistiques V Quand la vie s'éteint, la plume s'avive VI La mort au dix-neuvième siècle VII La perte prématurée d'un des parents: diagnostic psychologique VIII Épilogue de la première partie Deuxieme partie La trace de la mort IX Introduction T la deuxième partie X Racine, le coeur rongé XI Voltaire, l'amour perdu XII Rimbaud, a la recherche du père XIII Zola, l'écrivain à la recherche du rôle de l'hérédité Conclusion Résumé Appendices Bibliogrpahie Notes Index Table des matières Sur l'auteur

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Book SynopsisIn this volume collaborators from different universities all over the world explore a wide variety of methods for the study of literature as cultural memory. In literature, the past may be (re)constructed in various ways and in very diverse forms. This immediately raises the question as to how one can describe and inventory the various discourses and metadiscourses of historical representation. In what sense can the rhetoric of literary historiography itself contribute to literature's function as cultural memory? Which methods of analysis are most appropriate for describing specific text types or genres as cultural memory? What have been the pragmatic uses and the ethical merits of the stability and continuity that literature has often provided for European, American, Asian and African cultures? What are the dilemmas they create for our teaching at the end of the twentieth century? To all these questions, a wide range of scholars here tries to find answers. In thorough and highly original contributions, they not only address theoretical problems, but also engage themselves in practical analyses of specific works.Table of ContentsMETHODS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURAL MEMORY AND LITERATURE. K. DE WET: Dialogues Generated by Pivotal Figures in Literary Systems: A Systemic Approach to the Study of Literature. B. KEUNEN: Cultural Thematics and Cultural Memory: Towards a Socio-cultural Approach to Literary Themes. C. LEITERITZ: Histoire des concepts. Méthode d’investigation de la littérature comme mémoire culturelle. J. PIETERS: Literature and the Anamnesis of History. M. GRABAR: The Hermeneutics of Propaganda: The Violent Silencing of Reason in Literary and Scientific Hermeneutics. N.A. ANDERSON: The Identification of Generically Distinctive Strategies in Dramatic Communication: An Interdisciplinary Approach. M. SEXL: Literature as a Medium by which Human Experience can be Transmitted. M. SPIRIDON: Entre l’herméneutique et la théorie de la lecture: la part du lecteur dans le fonctionnement de la mémoire littéraire. PERIODIZATION AND CANON FORMATION. P. CORNEA: Canon et bataille canonique. G.C. KALMAN: Ways of Representing Discontinuous Memories: Re-arranging the Canonical Order by Breaking with Classical Literary Historiography. F. SINOPOLI: Antithesis and Comparison: Two Rhetorical Figures in the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory. D. SARINJEIVE: The More Things Change... —A Review of Post-apartheid English Studies. M. HIRAI: Tanizaki and Lawrence (or East and West): The Paradox of Love between Mother and Son. C. TANG: Writing World History: The Formation of Colonial Thinking at the Threshold of Modernity. NARRATION AND MEMORY. L. HUTCHEON: Irony, Nostalgia and the Postmodern. M. SCHMITZ-EMANS: Literature as Metahistory—Narratology as Reflection upon History. B. VAN DEN BOSSCHE: Myth as Literature, Literature as Myth: Some Remarks on Myth and Interpretation of Literary Texts. R. GÖRLING: Remembering the Forgetting: Trauma, Cultural Memory and Performance Art. C. DE LAILHACAR: Fragments of Fictional Memory as Building Blocks of Identity. M. STEELE: The Problematics and Politics of Cultural Memory: The Theoretical Dilemmas of Said’s Culture and Imperialism. G. WEISZ: Shamanism and Its Discontents. CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE TEXT. R.W. MÜLLER-FARGUELL: Awakening Memory: Freud and Benjamin. C. UHLIG: Memory and Appropriation: Shakespeare in Aesthetic Thought. W.D. MELANEY: Joyce and Metaphoric Excess: Ulysses as a Work of Plenitude. S. MONTES: La mémoire dans Dubliners de Joyce. Sémiotique et processus culturels. O. HEYNDERS: Literature as Cultural Memory: Paul Celan’s Reading of Emily Dickinson. J.T. DORSEY: African History in American Plays: August Wilson. G. TVERDOTA: Il faut être absolument grec! E. MACPHAIL: In the Wake of Solon. Memory and Modernity in the Essays of Montaigne. M. MEKE: Ecriture romanesque et dramaturgique comme mémoire culturelle: l’exemple de Bernard B. Dadié. INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES. J. ŠKULJ: Literature as a Repository of Historical Consciousness: Reinterpreted Tales of Mnemosyne. M.-B. FANTIN-EPSTEIN: Miklos Hubay—Hector Berlioz: la mémoire transfigurée. S. RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA: Musical Comedy and Cultural Memory in Brasil: Chico Buarque’s Transcultural Reading of John Gay’s The Beggar Opera and Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. M. BERTHOMIER: Debussy/Berg: deux petits morts de l’opéra au début de XXe siècle. D. MEROLLA: Beyond Oral and Written Literatures: Oral, Written, Audio-Visual Media, and Literary Space.

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Book SynopsisLe dernier roman de Chrétien de Troyes, le Conte du Graal, laissé inachevé, s'ouvre depuis huit siècles à des interprétations multiples. Dans la présente étude l'accent est surtout mis sur la partie Perceval, sans pour autant négliger totalement la partie Gauvain. Sont passés en revue certains problèmes qui ont particulièrement intrigué la critique pendant les trois dernières décennies, et aussi certain façons de lire ce roman séminal qui selon l'auteur de cette monographie sont plus ou moins fructueuses. Le point de départ est la conviction qu'on serait bien avisé d'accepter l'invitation lancée par le poète dès le Prologue. Il importe de lire le récit suivant comme une mise en oeuvre du contraste entre la main destre et la main senestre, la droite et a gauche, en l'occurrence la charité et la vaine gloire. Dans la narration cette opposition se développe non pas de manière dogmatique mais avec toute la finesse, la subtilité, la pénétration psychologique dont Chrétien avait fait preuve dans ses autres romans, avec en plus un sérieux qu'on ne lui connaissait pas auparavant. En vieillissant, le romancier expérimenté se sera renouvelé, au plaisir et profits des amateurs de la fiction médiévale.Table of ContentsPréface. I. Le Prologue. II. Le Sauvageon. III. L'Apprenti et ses maîtres. IV. L'Éducation sentimentale. V. Le Château du Roi Pêcheur. VI. Le Nom, le surnom, les appellations de Perceval. VII. Le Péché de Perceval. VIII. Les Défauts des autres. IX. L'Aveugle éclairé. Bibliographie.

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Book SynopsisThe present volume is the product of a joint effort made by scholars from across China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Europe. The book gathers sixteen papers devoted to literary and cultural criticism from a comparative point of view. A perspective prominent in this volume is imagology, an approach first developed by Daniel-Henry Pageaux, and which focuses on specific images in literary and other texts. The study of the image of the “foreign” in national literary traditions, for instance, belongs to the traditional purview of comparative literature. Pageaux did more than uphold this tradition. He practically reinvented it using new theoretical concepts and perspectives (in particular, semiotics and reception aesthetics). On this basis, he was able to develop a theory and a methodology that are both usable and in tune with contemporary concerns. The present book covers a wide range of topics in the study of images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature. Individual contributions deal with issues such as the genesis of the Chinese term Foreign Devil, the occurrence of Westerners in modern Chinese and Japanese literature, and the Chinese and Japanese reception of indiviual western authors and artists such as, amongst others, Oscar Wilde, Vincent Van Gogh, and Madame Roland. Some papers examine individual authors such as Lu Xun and Takeyama Michio. Others examine historical periods or literary movements. The approaches followed range from historical investigations of linguistic practices to detailed literary analyses.

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Book SynopsisViolette Leduc (1907-1972) a inventé une écriture de soi puissante et tragique. Cette étude critique de son oeuvre démontre en premier lieu comment la théâtralité d'une écriture autobiographique est issue du dédoublement spectaculaire entre l'individu et le sujet de l'énonciation. L'ouvrage approfondit la notion de théâtralité, non tant au sens rimbaldien du "je est un autre", que dans une perspective qui allie sémiologie du texte et sémiologie de la représentation dramatique. On y étudie la façon dont l'espace et le temps textuels dessinent des "jeux de scène" avec, au centre, la figure de l'écrivain en train d'écrire. Chez Leduc la théâtralité prend appui sur un usage caractéristique des discours perçus comme voix. Le "pari" de l'autobiographe se mue, de fait, en tentation de représenter l'inénarrable, la démence ou encore la possession amoureuse. Mais c'est bien au lecteur, figure tutélaire, que revient le plaisir d'effectuer la dernière représentation, celle qui unit l'auteur et le spectateur dans le plaisir de mettre en scène le "je".

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Book SynopsisEtudes camusiennes est le premier livre qui traite de l'oeuvre de Renaud Camus (1945), dont l'oeuvre proétiforme est à l'intersection des courants majeurs de la prose française contemporaine: journal, roman expérimental, critique d'art, gay fiction, théorie de l'art, entre autres. Le volume se divise en trois parties, qui offrent chacune un point de vue très différent sur l'oeuvre. Le premier volet, qui traite des problèmes de la réception de Camus, suit une approche plutôt sociologique. La partie centrale propose une série de microlectures des Eglogues, le grand roman expérimental “in progress” de l'auteur. Le troisième ensemble regroupe une série d'études qui soulignent essentiellement l'incroyable diversité de l'oeuvre de Renaud Camus et discutent les sujets suivants: rapports entre textes et illustrations, enjeux esthétiques et idéologiques de l'écriture, convergences et divergences de la vie et de l'oeuvre, statut de l'art et du beau dans une société postmoderne.Table of ContentsIntroduction Première partie: La gloire de Renaud Camus 1.1. Renaud Camus tel qu'en lui﷓même (je ne l'ai jamais connu) 1.2. Camus, comme l'écrivain? Deuxième partie: Les mesures de l'excès 2.1. Autour d'un projet 2.2. L'écriture des marges 2.3. Passages images 2.4. Miroirs 2.5. Page avec vue 2.6. Remise en pages Troisième partie: Le monde du texte 3.1. Un romancier barthésien? 3.2. Sexe, morale et goût 3.3. Photo Renaud Camus 3.4. Kounellis à Plieux 3.5. Du réseau au Réseau 3.6. Orphée aveugl

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Book SynopsisOn the occasion of Volker Braun's 65th and GDR/German Monitor's 25th birthday an attempt is made to re-evaluate Braun's contribution to 20th and 21st century German literature. The seventeen essays of the collection, written by a truly international set of scholars, demonstrate the unique quality and breadth of Braun's writing, spanning all literary genres. But not only that, they also reveal the diversity of interpretative perspectives which Braun's oeuvre productively stimulates. They showcase an author who refuses to indulge complacently in past achievements and an opus that defies all attempts at labelling. Braun's texts, so the verdict of the contributors, are driven by an insatiable thirst for the whole story, the depth beneath the superficial, the complex truth of our human predicament; for the precise expression which is not caught up in the limitations of the dominant ideology, whatever it might be.Trade Review”…tremendous…” in: The German Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 3, Summer 2005Table of ContentsIan WALLACE: Foreword Rolf JUCKER: Einleitung Überblicksartikel Katrin BOTHE: Der Text als geologische Formation. ‘Archäologisches Schreiben’ als poetologisches Programm im Werk Volker Brauns Dieter SCHLENSTEDT: Empfang der Barbaren. Ein Motivfeld bei Volker Braun. Gilbert BADIA: Zur Rezeption von Volker Brauns Werken in Frankreich Alain LANCE: ‘Ein Freund, ein guter Freund, Das ist das schönste, was es gibt auf der Welt’ Dennis TATE: ‘[...] vielleicht nur für Franz geschrieben’: Volker Braun’s intertextual tributes to his special relationship with Franz Fühmann Paul PETERS: Mysteriöse Übergänge. Anmerkungen zu einem Motiv bei Volker Braun Yasuko ASAOKA: Begriffe für Grenzlinien in Volker Brauns Werken der Zeit 1990-2001 Rolf JUCKER: Aspekte gesellschaftskritischer Literatur seit 1989: Einige Bemerkungen mit Bezug auf zwei Gedichte von Volker Braun Prosa Wilfried GRAUERT: Nach der Natur leben. Zivilisationskritik in Volker Brauns Der Wendehals Anna CHIARLONI: Das Wirklichgewollte. Eine Interpretation Lyrik Klaus SCHUHMANN: Warum soll ich Mode werden – Volker Brauns Gedicht ‘Lagerfeld’ Peter GEIST: ‘Worte und Knochen’ – ‘Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Gedicht ‘Andres Wachtlied’ Ruth J. OWEN: Time in Volker Braun’s Poetry Theater Moray McGOWAN: ‘Machen wir uns auf in das Land hinein.’ Volker Braun’s Übergangsgesellschaft: ‘Übergangstheater’, ‘übergangenes Theater’, ‘Metatheater’? Götz WIENOLD: Volker Braun, Böhmen am Meer: Gedruckte Fassungen und einige Lesarten Schriften Gerd LABROISSE: Interpretative Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Rede zur Verleihung des Georg-Büchner-Preises 2000: Die Verhältnisse zerbrechen Carol Anne COSTABILE-HEMING: ‘Zur Sache Deutschland.’ Volker Braun Takes Stock Verzeichnis der BeiträgerInnen

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Book SynopsisAuf Wolfgang Hilbig, veritablen Büchnerpreisträger und gleichzeitig „Kind, das mit Meeren spielt“ (Fühmann), auf den Prosaisten und Lyriker zielt diese Monographie, die drei ebenfalls aus Dissertationen entstandenen Beiträgen nachfolgt. Der „Seelenzunge des Lesens“, so der Laudator Georg Klein bei der Preisverleihung, verdankte sich das Forschungsinteresse des vorliegenden Projektes, bei weitem bevor es sich im Sinne der Disziplin, also der Germanistik, und im Sinne der Hermeneutik, also abseitig jedweder Disziplin und Denkreglementierung, die Texte aneignete. Die Werke dieses Autors sind eben nicht nur Selbstbehauptungsversuche eines Heizers in der DDR; ihre berückende, weil geerdete Formschönheit verlangt geradezu das analytische Interesse des Germanisten: deshalb die Instrumente der Textinterpretation, die Theorie und der Griff in den Fundus der Literaturgeschichte. Aber doch verhehlt dieser Ansatz nicht, dass die prekäre, ambivalente, ausgehöhlte Position des Subjekts in Hilbigs Subversions- und Widerstandsgeschichten, in der verdrehten, phantastischen Erzählwirklichkeit auch Anlass war, einen distanzierten Ton ex cathedra zu vermeiden. Das Verstörende, Versehrt-Verzehrende, gleichzeitig Aufbegehrend-Kraftvolle sollte nicht von der Patina und der Haltung der Disziplin in Beschlag genommen werden, die man unwillkürlich manch ausladendem, staubigem Buchrücken zuordnet.Trade Review”Trotz der Einwände gegen das überbordende Konzept des Autors liegt hier ein fulminantes Werk voller kluger Beobachtungen und Analysen vor, das man leicht für eine Habilitationsschrift halten könnte. (…) Das gelehrte Buch wirkt auch deshalb so anregend, weil es ungeschützt durch Invektiven provoziert (…)”. – Manfred Jäger: “Hilbig und andere. Ein Großvergleich”, in: Deutschland Archiv. Zeitschrift für das vereinigte Deutschland, 38. Jahrgang, Band 4, 2005, S. 745-746Table of ContentsDanksagung Einleitung 1 MATERIALISMUS UND ‘KELLERSPRACHE’: HILBIGS SPRACHVERTRAUEN 2 DAS “ÖFFENTLICHSTE(..) (…) VON ALLEN GEFÄNGNISSEN”: UNRECHTSSTAAT DDR 3 LOS, C., SEI LINKISCH IM LEBEN! WIDERSTAND DURCH SPRACHMANIPULATION, REALITÄTSENTZUG, ICHAUFLÖSUNG 4 IST UTOPIE EO IPSO ORTLOS? KARTIERUNG DER KOMPLEXEN SEMANTIK DES WORTES BEI HILBIG 5 REALE PHANTASTIK: DER HOLOCAUST 6 “(W)O DIE MINOTAUREN WEIDEN”: MYTHOS BEI HILBIG Schluss Literaturliste

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Book SynopsisIn the humanities, the term ‘diaspora’ recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, frontiers and boundaries, about cultural transmission, communication and translation. The present collection of essays by renowned writers and scholars addresses these issues and helps to ground the ongoing debate about the African diaspora in a more solid theoretical framework. Part I is dedicated to a general discussion of the concept of African diaspora, its origins and historical development. Part II examines the complex cultural dimensions of African diasporas in relation to significant sites and figures, including the modes and modalities of creative expression from the perspective of both artists/writers and their audiences; finally, Part III focusses on the resources (collections and archives) and iconographies that are available today. As most authors argue, the African diaspora should not be seen merely as a historical phenomenon, but also as an idea or ideology and an object of representation. By exploring this new ground, the essays assembled here provide important new insights for scholars in American and African-American Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, and African Studies. The collection is rounded off by an annotated listing of black autobiographies.Trade Review"Highly recommended" - in: Choice (December 2005), p. 460 "One can only hope for more critical work along the same lines." - in: ZAA, LIII. Jahrgang, Heft 4 (4. Vierteljahr, 2005)Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Geneviève FABRE/Klaus BENESCH: The Concept of African Diaspora(s): A Critical Reassessment THINKING DIASPORAS Brent HAYES EDWARDS: The Uses of ‘Diaspora’ David PALUMBO-LIU: Against Race: Yes, But At What Cost? Michel FEITH: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Signifying Monkey: A Diasporic Critical Myth DIASPORIC HISTORICAL SITES Sylvia FREY: Cultural Migrations: A Time-&-Space Outline of Black Atlantic Protestantism Sujaya DHANVANTARI: French Revolutionary Song in the Haitian Revolution 1789-1804 Winston JAMES: From John Brown Russwurm to George Padmore: The Anglophone Caribbean Diaspora and Pan-African Projects LITERARY WRITINGS OF DIASPORA Carla L. PETERSON: Modernity and Historical Consciousness in the “New Negro” Novel at the Nadir (1892-1903) Klaus BENESCH: Notes from Underground: William Demby’s The Catacombs and the Diasporic Roots of African-American Modernism Kathie BIRAT: The Conundrum of Home: The Diasporic Imagination in The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips Seth MOGLEN: Modernism in the Black Diaspora: Langston Hughes and the “broken cubes of Picasso” VISUAL ART AND PERFORMANCE Amy KIRSCHKE: Du Bois, The Crisis and Images of Africa and the Diaspora Iris SCHMEISSER: “Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands”: Ethiopianism, Egyptomania, and the Arts of the Harlem Renaissance Judith BETTELHEIM: Carnaval of Los Congos in Portobelo, Panama: Feathered Men and Queens POSTSCRIPT Tom FEELINGS: The Middle Passage: A Visual Narrative APPENDIX Phyllis B. BISCHOF : The Power and Place of Black Diasporan Autobiography : An Annotated Bibliography of Autobiographies

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Table of ContentsVorwort. Willy J.J. PIJNENBURG: Das altniederländische Wörterbuch. Thomas KLEIN: Althochdeutsch und Altniederländisch. Heinrich TIEFENBACH: Altsächsisch und Altniederländisch. Luc de GRAUWE: Westfrankisch: bestaat dat? Over Westfrankisch en Oudnederlands in het oud-theodiske variëteitencontinuüm. Tanneke SCHOONHEIM: Von alvit bis wurm. Die Rolle der Namenforschung bei der Rekonstruktion des altniederländischen Wortschatzes. Josef van LOON: De chronologie van de r-metathesis in het Nederlands en aangrenzende Germaanse talen. Dirk P. BLOK: Altniederländisches in lateinischen Dokumenten 800 – ca. 1250. Anthony BUCCINI: “Ab errore liberato”. The Northern Expansion of Frankish Power in the Merovingian Period and the Genesis of the Dutch Language. Frédéric COTMAN & J. TAELDEMAN: hebban olla uogala revisited. Marianne ELSAKKERS: Abortion, Poisoning, Magic, and Contraception in Eckhardt’s Pactus Legis Salicae. Joop M. van der HORST: De plaats van de persoonsvorm in de ‘Wachtendonckse Psalmen’. Arend QUAK: Altfriesisches in altniederländischen Ortsnamen. Norbert VOORWINDEN: Ist er ze sahsen oder ze brâbant gewahsen? Beobachtungen zum “Flämeln” des jungen Helmbrecht. BESPRECHUNGEN.

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Book SynopsisThe terms ‘creole’ and ‘creolization’ have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently ‘creole’ has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the processes of globalization initiated by the colonial migrations of past centuries. The present volume is intended to illustrate these various stages either by historical and/or theoretical discussion of the concept or through selected case studies. The authors are established scholars from the areas of literature, linguistics and cultural studies; they all share a lively and committed interest in the Caribbean area – certainly not the only or even oldest realm in which processes of creolization have shaped human societies, but one that offers, by virtue of its history of colonialization and cross-cultural contact, its most pertinent example. The collection, beyond its theoretical interest, thus also constitutes an important survey of Caribbean studies in Europe and the Americas. As well as searching overview essays, there are – sociolinguistic contributions on the linguistic geography of ‘criollo’ in Spanish America, the Limonese creole speakers of Costa Rica, ‘creole’ language and identity in the Netherlands Antilles and the affinities between Papiamentu and Chinese in Curaçao – ethnohistorical examinations of such topics as creole transgression in the Dominican/Haitian borderland, the Haitian Mandingo and African fundamentalism, creolization and identity in West-Central Jamaica, Afro-Nicaraguans and national identity, and the Creole heritage of Haiti – studies of religion and folk culture, including voodoo and creolization in New York City, the creolization of the “Mami Wata” water spirit, and signifyin(g) processes in New World Anancy tales – a group of essays focusing on the thought of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, and the Créolité writers and case-studies of artistic expression, including creole identities in Caribbean women’s writing, Port-au-Prince in the Haitian novel, Cynthia McLeod and Astrid Roemer and Surinamese fiction, Afro-Cuban artistic expression, and metacreolization in the fiction of Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson.Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction Ulrich FLEISCHMANN : The Sociocultural and Linguistic Profile of a Concept Articles CREOLITY, GENERAL REFLECTIONS Leon-François HOFFMANN: Creolization in Haiti and National Identity Antonio BENÍTEZ-ROJO: Creolization and Nation-Building in the Hispanic Caribbean Mervyn C. ALLEYNE: The Role of Africa in the Construction of Identities in the Caribbean CREOLlTY, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY Armin SCHWEGLER: The Linguistic Geography of ‘criollo’ in Spanish America: A Case of Enigmatic Extension and Restriction Anita HERZFELD: Language and Identity in a Contact Situation: The Limonese Creole Speakers in Costa Rica Eva Martha ECKKRAMMER: On the Perception of ‘Creole’ Language and Identity in the Netherlands Antilles Emilio Jorge RODRÍGUEZ: Creole Transgression in the Written / Oral Discourse of the Dominican / Haitian Borderland Ulrich FLEISCHMANN & Alex-Louise TESSONNEAU: African Fundamentalism in the New World: The Case of the Haitian Mandingo Frank MARTINUS: Creole Identity through Chinese Wall: Affinities between Papiamentu and Chinese SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL PROCESS Jean BESSON: Euro-Creole, Afro-Creole, Meso-Creole: Creolization and Identity in West-Central Jamaica, c. 1660-1999 Marián BELTRÁN NÚŇEZ: The Afro-Nicaraguans (Creoles): An Historico-Anthropological Approach to their National Identity Jeannot HILAIRE: Haiti: The Creole Heritage Today Bettina E. SCHMIDT: The Presence of Vodou in New Vork City: The Impact of a Caribbean Religion on the Creolization of a Metropolis VALORIZATIONS AROUND EDOUARD GLISSANT Andrea SCHWIEGER HIEPKO: Creolization as a Poetics of Culture: Edouard Glissant’s ‘Archipelic’ Thinking Helmtrud RUMPF: Technological Orality as Promoter of Social Change in the Caribbean Realm Sabine HOFMANN: Against Monolinguism: Roots, Rhizomes and the Conceptualization of Creole Language J. Michael DASH: Anxious Insularity: Identity Politics and Creolization in the Caribbean Kathleen GYSSELS : Maryse Condé on créolité CASE STUDIES: FOLK CULTURE Alex van STIPRIAAN: Watramama / Mami Wata: Three Centuries of Creolization of a Water Spirit in West Africa, Suriname and Europe Pascale DE SOUZA : Creolizing Anancy: Signifyin(g) Processes in New World Spider Tales CASE STUDIES: LITERATURE AND ART Sylvia M. SCHOMBURG-SCHERFF : Women Versions of Creole ldentity in Caribbean Fiction: A Cultural-Anthropological Perspective Marie-Jose N'Zengou-Tayo: lmaginary City, Literary Spaces: Port-au-Prince in Some Recent Haitian Fiction Ineke PHAF-RHEINBERGER: Creole tori, the Waterkant, and the Ethics of a Nation: Cynthia McLeod and Astrid Roemer on Suriname Christoph SINGLER: Guido Llinás’ ‘Black Paintings’; Afro-Cuban Aesthetics and Abstraction CASE STUDIES: NARRATIVE METACREOLIZATION Bénédicte LEDENT: Creolization in Robert Antoni’s Blessed is the Fruit: A Linguistic Analysis Gordon COLLIER: Spaceship Creole: Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian-Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, and Linguistic/Cultural Syncretism CLOSING DISCUSSION Marketplace Wayde COMPTON: Culture at the Crossroads: Voodoo Aesthetics and the Axis of Blackness in Literature ofthe Black Diaspora Augustine H. ASAAH: Gender Concerns in Calixthe Beyala’s The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me List of Contributors Notes for Contributors Books Received

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Table of ContentsVittorio FRIGERIO: Dans le palais des glaces de la littérature romande: introduction. Vittorio FRIGERIO : La littérature romande – un tour d’horizon. Jérôme MEIZOZ : Une langue perdue. Monique LAEDERACH : Traductions du pays, traductions de France : quelles qualités ? David J. BOND : Jacques Chessex : la Nature vue par un calviniste. Habiba SEBKHI : L’après-origines ou l’identité rhizomatique. Bernard WILHELM : Dualité jurassienne dans l’œuvre d’Yvette Wagner-Berlincourt. Claire-Lise TONDEUR : Marginalité artistique, malaise identitaire et l’écriture romande. Jean-Michel OLIVIER : La littérature romande – et après ? Claude DARBELLAY : Blanche-neige et les cinq nains. Claude DARBELLAY : Écrire en Suisse : le cinquième point cardinal. Hélène BEZENÇON : Le jeu d’écrire. Hélène BEZENÇON : La parole ou la bourse. Bernadette RICHARD : La petite fille aux mots. Jean ROMAIN : C’est parce que je suis d’ici que je suis d’ailleurs. Henri-Dominique PARATTE : Allô, l’agneau : prolégomènes à une nouvelle vision de l’écriture. Michel GOEDLIN : Pour tutoyer les anges. Corine RENEVEY : La Suisse romande : essai de bibliographie raisonnée. Resumés / Abstracts. Bibliographies des auteurs.

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Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett & Compagnie est l’histoire d’une quête infinie à la recherche de l’autre. L’autre tel qu’il échoit dans les textes, surgit dans les figures théâtrales, se faufile parmi les ombres. Cette Compagnie sera mal vue et mal dite avant de s’évader « Cap au Pire ». La Compagnie, c’est aussi Marcel Proust, Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, Christian Oster, Gilles Deleuze.Trade Review”…a joy unto itself.” in: The European Legacy, Vol. 10.1, 2005Table of ContentsEntrée Compagnie & Cie Chutes sans fin dans Pour finir encore De la rampe à la tombe : le roman familial A cheval De lecture en lecture : ou comment faire pour voir la queue de l’hermine Travail de deuil, travail d’œil dans Mal vu mal dit Continuité du deuil : de Proust à Beckett Pinget et Beckett : chutes mortelles Claude Simon et Samuel Beckett : pour la mémoire du siècle Le désir à l’épreuve : de Samuel Beckett à Christian Oster Pui(t)s : Deleuze et Beckett

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Book SynopsisAs witnessed by a tremendous upsurge in medieval research, academic meetings, innovative interpretive approaches, enrolment numbers, and public interest, Medieval Studies are proving once again to be a vibrant field of investigations both inside and outside of academia. Nevertheless, there is a tendency among colleagues and administrators in the field of Germanistik/German Studies to exclude the earlier period as an exotic and irrelevant subject matter. The contributors to this volume, all of whom teach at North American universities, make a strong case for the paradigmatic function of medieval German literature for the general field of Germanistik, and argue that many of the most recent changes in our discipline related to the German Studies paradigm have been foreshadowed by Medieval Studies where interdisciplinarity, comparative approaches, the consideration of Mentalitätsgeschichte, theology, history, art history, even gender studies, and the history of everyday life have often constituted the conditio sine qua non. Some of the authors in this volume argue for the relevance of medieval German literature by investigating concrete cases taken from the Middle Ages, others show how modern German literature has been deeply influenced by medieval texts. The purpose of this volume is not to privilege medieval literature over modern literature, but instead to reclaim the premodern period as an important and relevant field of investigation within contemporary German Studies.Trade Review"…this is an admirable, timely and stimulating book." - in: New Comparison 30 (2002) "…appealing to a large readership … Medievalists will benefit from the encouragement Classen’s erudition offers and the bridges he envisions." - in: Colloquia Germanica, Band 34, 3/4 (2001)Table of Contents1 Konzeption der Studie. 2 Methodologische Überlegungen zur Untersuchung der Sprachentwicklung. 3 Von der Theorie zu den Instrumenten. 4 Entwicklung der Lernersyntax. 5 Entwicklung der Lernermorphologie. 6 Validität der schriftlichen Operationalisierungen. 7 Lernersyntax und Subjekt-Verb-Kongruenz bei den mündlichen Daten. 8 Schlußfolgerungen. Literaturverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisLe volume donne une transcription de soixante-deux d'entre les trois mille six cent pages approximativement que comptent les brouillons de Madame Bovary, et de dix pages du manuscrit autographe du roman. Toutes ces pages constituent des avant-textes du chapitre quinze de la deuxième partie du roman. Publiées ici pour la première fois, ces pages transcrites sont groupées en trois séries discrètes dans la succession de la composition de chaque page. Des données textuelles internes aux pages sont alléguées pour justifier cet arrangement des pages. Dans le cas de chaque page individuelle, sont analysées en détail sa relation textuelle aux pages composées précédemment, l'expansion ou la réduction de son stock de syntagmes et de propositions, et la formation de ses phrases graphiques et de ses paragraphes. Sont analysées aussi l'émergence et l'exploitation stylistique de récurrences de groupes de mots impressifs. La conclusion explore les implications communicatives des particularités de la textualisation flaubertienne et les met en relation avec les conventions mimétiques de la narration réaliste française au dix-neuvième siècle.Table of ContentsChapitre 1. Etapes textuelles Chapitre 2. Paragraphe, page, enchaînements, reprises Chapitre 3. Assemblage Chapitre 4. Copie Chapitre 5. Expansion, contraction Chapitre 6. Syntagme, proposition, phrase Conclusion : Travail et sémiotisation Transcription Notes Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisAnhand einer Reihe von Fallstudien setzt der Band ein erweitertes Konzept von Rezeptionsgeschichte in die Praxis um. Nach diesem Konzept umfaßt die Erforschung der Rezeptionsgeschichte die buchhandelsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen, die Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen, die Aufnahme auf der Bühne und die literarische Kritik ebenso wie die verschiedenen Formen der produktiven Rezeption. Die Beiträge behandeln Leipzig als Vermittlungszentrum englischsprachiger Literatur, wichtige Rezensionsorgane wie das Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes und das vielfältige kritische Echo auf (Autor(inn)en wie Maria Edgeworth, Lady Sidney Morgan, Byron, Thomas Moore, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot und William Morris; Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen einzelner Werke von Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne und Oscar Wilde; die Rezeption von Arthur Wing Pinero, Shaw, Wilde und Galsworthy im Wiener Theater der Jahrhundertwende; und schließlich die produktive Auseinandersetzung Heines, Charles Sealsfields sowie der Verfasser von historischen und Staatsromanen mit britischen Vorgängern und Modellen.Trade Review"Neu und innovativ…" - in: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Band 242-2 (2005) "…diesem gewichtigen Band…" - in: Arbitrium, 3/2001 "…nobody engaged in the study of Anglo-German literary relations can afford to ignore it." - in: New Comparison 30 (2002) "The book is very well produced, … and is full of inspiration for further research." - in: MLR, 98.3 (2003)Table of ContentsVorwort. Grundlagen der Rezeptionsgeschichte. Thomas KEIDERLING: Leipzig als Vermittlungs- und Produktionszentrum englischsprachiger Literatur zwischen 1815 und 1914. Literarische Kritik. Eda SAGARRA und Ulrike TANZER: Die Rezeption irischer Autorinnen in Deutschland 1815-1848. Maria Edgeworth und Lady Sidney Morgan im Spiegel der Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung und der Allgemeinen Literaturzeitung. Eoin BOURKE: Vom Berliner Schloß zu St. Kevins Höhle. Begegnungsstätten deutscher Dichter mit dem Werk Thomas Moores. Susanne SCHMID: Bewunderung, Kritik und Vielstimmigkeit. England und englische Literatur im Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes von 1832 bis 1849. Margarete RUBIK: Die Furcht der Kritiker vor der Revolution. Der englische Sensationsroman im Spiegel deutscher Rezensionen in den Blättern für literarische Unterhaltung und im Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes. Karl WAGNER: George Eliot in Deutschland und Österreich. Transkulturelle Affären des 19. Jahrhunderts. Günther BLAICHER: Vorstellungen des Modernen in der deutschen Byronkritik des 19. Jahrhunderts. Annette SIMONIS: Politische Utopie und Ästhetik. Die deutsche William Morris-Rezeption. Übersetzung, Bearbeitung und Aufführungsgeschichte. David BLAMIRES: Deutsche Kinderbuchbearbeitungen von Defoes Robinson Crusoe. Helen CHAMBERS: Nineteenth-century German translations of Jane Austen. Norbert BACHLEITNER: Sam Weller in Wien. Eduard von Bauernfelds Übersetzung der Pickwick Papers. Inga-Stina EWBANK: Adapting Jane Eyre. Jakob Spitzer's Die Waise aus Lowood. Russell WEST: English Nineteenth-Century Novels on the German Stage. Birch-Pfeiffer's Adaptations of Dickens, Brontë, Eliot and Collins. Rainer EMIG: Übertragene Dekadenz. Überlegungen zur Rezeption britischer fin-de-siècle-Literatur bei Stefan George und Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Rudolf WEISS: Terra Incognita, Populärkultur, intellektuelle Akrobatik. Das englische Drama im Wiener Theater der Jahrhundertwende. Produktive Rezeption. Stefan NEUHAUS: “Sechsunddreißig Könige für einen Regenschirm”, Heinrich Heines produktive Rezeption britischer Literatur. Alexander RITTER: Die Bekannten und die beiden ‘großen Unbekannten'. Scott, der historische Roman und sein Einfluß auf Charles Sealsfield. Hans VILMAR GEPPERT: Ein Feld von Differenzierungen. Zur kritisch-produktiven Scott-Rezeption von Arnim bis Fontane. Sandra POTT: Staatslehre und Staatsroman zwischen 1845 und 1900. Zur Rezeption britischer Literatur in den Auseinandersetzungen über die narrativen Darstellungsformen für soziale Entwicklungen. Personenregister. Die Beiträger dieses Bandes.

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Book SynopsisFür die meisten Niederländer und Flamen ist Österreich in erster Linie ein beliebtes Urlaubsland, dessen Bild von den Bergen Tirols, den Wiener Lipizzanern und den vielen, vielen Heurigen geprägt ist. Dass sich hinter den Bergen eine andere Welt findet, eine überaus vielfältige und in so manchem eigenständige Literatur, ist den wenigsten bewusst. Während sich die österreichische Herkunft Thomas Bernhards und Peter Handkes schon herumgesprochen haben dürfte, verbinden – abgesehen von einem Kreise der Eingeweihten – nur die wenigsten Niederländer und Flamen Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig, Theodor Kramer, Christoph Ransmayr und viele andere mit der 1918 aus der Donaumonarchie hervorgegangenen, 1945 ein zweites Mal gegründeten Republik. Dass die Frage nach dem spezifischen Charakter der deutschsprachigen Literatur aus Österreich im Land ihres Entstehens sehr wohl ein Thema war und ist, ist nur eines der vielen Leitmotive im vorliegenden Band über die österreichische Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts.Table of ContentsZum Geleit Peter DELVAUX: A.E.I.O.U. Jattie ENKLAAR: Felix Austria, finis Austriae, vivat Austria Clemens RUTHNER: Bacchanalien, Symposien, Orgien ... Alfred Kubins Roman Die andere Seite als literarische Versuchsstation des k.u.k. Weltuntergangs Hans ESTER: Franz Werfel und das Verlangen nach dem Verlorenen Österreich Anastasia HACOPIAN: Kafkas Bett: Von der Metonymie zum Diskurs. Ein Einblick in die Bedeutung der Raeumlichkeit. Henk J. KONING: Ödön von Horváth - ein Stückeschreiber Nestroyscher Provenienz? Daniela STRIGL: Theodor Kramer (1897-1958) - Heimatdichter, Jude, Sozialist Arno RUßEGGER: Christine Lavant - ein Porträt Jerker SPITS: Der hellsichtigste aller Narren. Stationen der Bernhard-Rezeption in Österreich und in den Niederlanden Martin A. HAINZ: Hinter den Bäumen ist eine andere Welt. Bernhards lyrische Verstöße wider die klassische Form Dieter HENSING: Peter Handke. Auf der Suche nach der gültigen Form Yvonne DELHEY: Lisa Liebich in exotischer Umgebung – zum Heimatbegriff im Werk von Marlene Streeruwitz Henk HARBERS: Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit. Eine Einführung in die Romanwelt von Christoph Ransmayr Guillaume van GEMERT: Die Kehrtwendung des Engels der Geschichte. Zu Robert Menasses Österreich-Bild Leopold DECLOEDT: Ein Gespräch mit Alois Hotschnig Abstracts Kurzporträts von österreichischen Literatur- und Kulturinstitutionen Die Autoren und Herausgeber

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