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Book SynopsisThe history of Italians and of modern Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and migration: between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, 27 million Italians migrated and 60 to 80 million people worldwide see their identity as connected with the Italian diaspora. Since the time of Italian unification, a series of narratives about mobility have been produced both inside and outside the boundaries of Italy, by agents such as the Italian state, international organizations or migrant communities themselves.The essays in Transcultural Italies follow the multiple trajectories of this complex history and of its representations. They do so by focusing on the key concepts and practices of mobility, memory and translation. Taken together, they represent a contrapuntal series of case studies that offers a fresh perspective on the study of modern and contemporary Italy. The essays in the volume explore the meanings that ‘transnational’ and ‘transcultural’ assume when applied to the notion of Italian culture.Contributors: Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Derek Duncan, Chiara Giuliani, Viviana Gravano, Giulia Grechi, Margaret Hills de Zárate, Eliana Maestri, Valerie McGuire, Loredana Polezzi, Barbara Spadaro, Ilaria Vanni, Naomi Wells, Rita WilsonTrade Review“Transcultural Italies brings together a series of essays that interrogate the inherently dynamic nature of Italian identity and culture to advance the transnational turn that is presently reshaping the field of Italian Studies."Stephanie Malia Hom, University of California, Santa Barbara“Transcultural Italies adds new dimensions to the study of human mobilities and suggests a path-breaking approach to the cultural study of Italian migrations, from the movement of people and objects through space and memory to Italian influences on global culture.”Maddalena Tirabassi, Centro Altreitalie sulle Migrazioni Italiane, TurinTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transcultural ItaliesCharles Burdett, Loredana Polezzi and Barbara SpadaroSection 1: TracesThe Transnational Biography of ‘British’ Place: Local and Global Stories in the Built EnvironmentJennifer BurnsPorteña Identity and Italianità: Language, Materiality and Transcultural Memory in Valparaíso’s Italian CommunityNaomi WellsItalian Identity, Global Mediterranean: Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Post-Colonial RhodesValerie McGuireItaly and Africa: Post-War Memories of Life in Eritrea and EthiopiaCharles BurdettSection 2: Art, Objects and Artefacts‘The Path that Leads Me Home’: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Arts of TransnationalizingDerek DuncanMoving Objects: Memory and Material CultureMargaret Hills de ZárateVisualizing Spatialization at a Crossroads between Translation and Mobility: Italian Australian Artist Jon Cattapan’s CityscapesEliana MaestriAn Exhibition about Italian Identities Beyond BordersViviana Gravano and Giulia GrechiSection 3: Mobilities of MemoryPitigliano, Maryland? Travelling Memories and Moments of TruthBarbara SpadaroMisplaced Plants: Migrant Gardens and TransculturationIlaria VanniThe Chinese Community in Italy, the Italian Community in China: Economic Exchanges and Cultural DifferenceChiara GiulianiWriting the Neighbourhood: Literary Representations of Language, Space and MobilityRita WilsonFrom Substitution to Co-presence: Translation, Memory, Trace and the Visual Practices of Diasporic Italian ArtistsLoredana Polezzi

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.Trade Review"A major strength of this new work is that it encompasses both the spatial and the historical dimensions of transnationalism in France.”Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity."Etienne Achille, Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONCharles Forsdick and Claire LaunchburyPART I: LANGUAGEIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 1: Transnational French before the nationSimon GauntChapter 2: Frenches on walls and onlineRobert BlackwoodChapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual FilmGemma KingChapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan CoeHelena ChaddertonChapter 5: Unbearableyasser elhariryPART II: SPACESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the NationDouglas SmithChapter 7: Transnational fraternitéClaire LaunchburyChapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational siteDebra KellyChapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ MarseilleChong BertillonChapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational PerspectiveHugh Dauncey and Jonathan ErvinePART III: TEMPORALITIESIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 11: Imagined Communities of PrehistoryBill MarshallChapter 12: Translating Revolutionary LanguageSanja PerovicChapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolitionCharles ForsdickChapter 14: French Museums, Where the World MeetsHerman LebovicsChapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in La Seine était rouge (Leila Sebbar, 1999) and Je Veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)Max SilvermanChapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s L’An 2440 (1771) to Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015)Jacqueline DuttonPART IV: SUBJECTIVITIESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century FranceRichard HibbittChapter 18: Laïcité and belonging: Transnational PerspectivesMelanie AdrianChapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable FeastKolleen M. GuyChapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexualityDenis M. ProvencherChapter 21: Bande Dessinée: The Ninth Art of France that is not really FrenchLaurence GroveNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.Trade Review"A major strength of this new work is that it encompasses both the spatial and the historical dimensions of transnationalism in France.”Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity."Etienne Achille, Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONCharles Forsdick and Claire LaunchburyPART I: LANGUAGEIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 1: Transnational French before the nationSimon GauntChapter 2: Frenches on walls and onlineRobert BlackwoodChapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual FilmGemma KingChapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan CoeHelena ChaddertonChapter 5: Unbearableyasser elhariryPART II: SPACESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the NationDouglas SmithChapter 7: Transnational fraternitéClaire LaunchburyChapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational siteDebra KellyChapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ MarseilleChong BertillonChapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational PerspectiveHugh Dauncey and Jonathan ErvinePART III: TEMPORALITIESIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 11: Imagined Communities of PrehistoryBill MarshallChapter 12: Translating Revolutionary LanguageSanja PerovicChapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolitionCharles ForsdickChapter 14: French Museums, Where the World MeetsHerman LebovicsChapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in La Seine était rouge (Leila Sebbar, 1999) and Je Veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)Max SilvermanChapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s L’An 2440 (1771) to Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015)Jacqueline DuttonPART IV: SUBJECTIVITIESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century FranceRichard HibbittChapter 18: Laïcité and belonging: Transnational PerspectivesMelanie AdrianChapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable FeastKolleen M. GuyChapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexualityDenis M. ProvencherChapter 21: Bande Dessinée: The Ninth Art of France that is not really FrenchLaurence GroveNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres offers an original examination of cultural production and the flows between urban capitals and “capital” in and of a selection of Mediterranean cities and sites. In three parts, the book covers both familiar and overlooked terrain, in chapters which examine writing the city, the transit between different poles, film and EU designated cultural capitals. The collection therefore brings together texts and their critical readings in new comparative ways. Following Jacques Derrida’s peregrinations in L’Autre Cap (1991), the volume interrogates the what of Europe; the when or where of Paris; the who of the Mediterranean. Or might the Mediterranean fall under the rubric of paleonomy, that is, as Michael Naas recalls Derrida’s words in Positions: “the ‘strategic’ necessity that requires the occasional maintenance of an old name in order to launch a new concept.”Taking this forward, we understand the Mediterranean as an old name to launch a new concept and the essays in the book each reflect on this in different ways. Issues concerning identity are challenged, since a Metropolitan, European, Arab or African identity may be preferred over a Mediterranean one. As borders become reinforced in the region, trans-Mediterranean bridging narratives may be thwarted, especially by those who write across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, in the face of the contemporary refugee crisis. Finally, chapters explore what it means to define a Mediterranean city—such as Marseille as European Capital of Culture—and interrogate how this feeds into the cultural production of a city whose multi-ethnic identities are as outward-looking towards North Africa as they are inward towards the French capital.Contributors: Silvia Baage, Marzia Caporale, Angela Giovanangeli, Mark Ingram, Christa Jones, Gemma King, Claire Launchbury, Megan C. MacDonald, Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Ipek Çelik Rappas, Alison Rice, Rania SaidTrade Review“This edited volume breathes new life into our understanding of cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean. The contributors' inventive attention to the 'Francosphère' revives debates around postcolonial cultural production in its myriad interdisciplinary expressions."Claudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts-BostonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s)Claire Launchbury and Megan C. MacDonaldPART I: WRITING CAPITAL(S), NARRATING THE CITY: MEDITERRANEAN ALLER/RETOURSChapter 1: The Flâneuses of Tunis: Reading the City in the Life Narratives of Kaouthar Khlifi and Dora LatiriRania SaidChapter 2: City Speak: Nice through the Eyes of Jean Vigo, Jacques Demy and Emmanuel RoblèsChrista JonesChapter 3: Moroccan Narratives of Dystopia: Representations of Tangier in Leïla Kilani’s film Sur la plancheMarzia CaporaleChapter 4: Cultural Capitals in Crisis: Meditating on the Mediterranean and Memory Between Paris and Athens in La clarinette by Vassilis AlexakisAlison RicePart II: MARSEILLE MULTIPLES : CAPITAL OF CULTURE Chapter 5: Screening Cosmopolitan and Mediterranean MarseilleIpek Çelik RappasChapter 6: Shaping Mediterranean geographies: The museum of European and Mediterranean civilisations in Marseille and the making of identityAngela GiovanangeliChapter 7: Marseille Provence 2013: a social face-lift for an old lady?Agnès Peysson-ZeissChapter 8: Bridges and fault lines in the Mediterranean City: Neighbourhood memory in an urban walk in MarseilleMark IngramPART III– MEDITERRANEAN BEYONDSChapter 9: Between the Comoros Islands and Marseille: Trans-Mediterranean bridging narratives in the works of Salim HatubouSilvia BaageChapter 10: Trans-Mediterranean BeyroutesClaire LaunchburyChapter 11: Multilingual Pilgrimages: Language and Trans-Mediterranean Cultural Identity in Ismaël Ferroukhi’s Le Grand Voyage (2004)Gemma KingChapter 12: Bare Life At Sea: Mediterranean Crossings, Istanbul LimboMegan C. MacDonaldAcknowledgementsContributor Biographies

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Book SynopsisUntil well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies of three expatriate women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney) illustrate some of the consequences for women who lived independent lives. To begin with, the books traces the way that ideas about national belonging shaped gay male identity in the nineteenth century, before showing that such a discourse was not available to women and lesbians, including the three women who form the core of the book. In addition to questions of sexually non-conforming identity, women's mediated claim to citizenship limited their autonomy in practical ways (for example, they could be unilaterally expatriated). Consequently, the situation of the denizen may have been preferable to that of the citizen for women who lived between the lines. Drawing on the discourse of jurisprudence, the history of the passport, and original archival research on all three women, the books tells the story of women's evolving claims to citizenship in their own right.Trade Review“This book explores the ways in which marginal sexual identities have been expressed through the trope of national identity. The study is as accessible as it is erudite, Melanie Hawthorne writes in a lively style that is all her own."Gretchen Schultz, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsWomen, Citizenship, and Sexuality: IntroductionChapter 1. "Comment Peut-on Etre Homosexuel?": Multinational (In)Corporations and the Frenchness of SaloméChapter 2. Renée Vivien: French Poet?!!Time Passes: An InterchapterChapter 3. "Partout Etrangère": Romaine BrooksChapter 4. Natalie Barney's Missed MarriagesAfterword: On Becoming a CitizenNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisCrossroads! Intersections physical and/or metaphorical demand processes of consideration, determination, decision and commitment. Stasis is no longer an option where convergence is poised before the unknown. Where categories such as gender, culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, philosophy and religion clash, the multivariate process can reach such complexity that literary, sociological and psychological tools can have differing interpretations. Real-life intersections range from the mundane (choosing among food items on a menu according to taste preferences) to survival-determinants (evaluating the efficacy of various medical procedures). But such intersections are at the two ends of a very long continuum that takes in issues of form/function, and traditional vs.modern. For example, Home may be defined both as a physical place and/or a mental construct. In more esoteric contexts, artists chiefly known for visual production, representing their ideas with color and form, not infrequently cross media to paint with words. Philosophy, religion, art and literature cross paths via symbols and other visual and linguistic constructs. Writers deal with how and where their own or their characters multiple identities intersect. The Hispanic world is an extraordinarily vivid place to explore these crossroads. This collection of essays addresses a multitude of crossroads in numerous Hispanic contexts across the intersections of time & space/tradition & modernity. The contexts are wide-ranging; e.g., the visual, architectural: how Spains age-old oenological tradition meets modern technology, how the vestiges of long-term dictatorship lurk in the spaces of Spains democracy; and how space/architecture, and art/poetry cross in Latin America. Painters Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlos productions cross the visual to the written; and magical realism products of the twentieth century Latin American artistic movement defy nature, science, time and space.

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Book SynopsisReclaiming al-Andalus focuses on the construction of the scholarly discipline of Orientalist studies in Spain. Special attention is paid to the impact that the elaboration of a series of historical interpretations of the legacy left by Muslim and Jewish culture in Spain had over the writing of national history in the period of the Bourbon Restoration. A historiographical account of Spains Orientalism tackles the problematized issues that both Arabist and Hebraist scholars sought to address. Orientalist scholarship thereby became inextricably linked to different interpretations of the historical shaping of Spanish national identity. Political circumstances of the day impacted on the approach these scholars took as they engaged with the Iberian Semitic past. And this at a critical moment in the crystallization of modern Spanish nationalism. A common thread running through the work of these Orientalist scholars was the tendency to nationalize or Hispanicize cultural activity of the Semitic populations that lived on the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times. This Hispanizication was instrumentalized in diverse ways in order to serve nation-building efforts. Hence Orientalist scholarship became integrated into the national debates that were shaping Spanish cultural and political life at the turn of the century. Reclaiming al-Andalus explains how regenerationist projects taking form after the national crisis of 1898, and different polemical discussions around religion-state affairs, deeply influenced the writings of academic Orientalism. The intertwined connection between Orientalist scholarship and nationalist debates in Spain has hitherto been understudied. This book not only contributes to the general debate on modern Orientalism, but most importantly presents a profound new viewpoint to the ongoing debate on the conflictive history of Spanish nationalism.

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Book SynopsisThe processes associated with globalisation have seen Catalonia become an increasingly ethnolinguistically diverse region. A vibrant civic and political movement for an independence has brought a renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan or Spanish in 21st century Catalonia. This book examines the attitudes of members of independence organisations toward the Catalan and Spanish languages against the backdrop of the independence movement. A multifaceted socio-political and socio-cultural situation is reflected in what speakers think about the languages, how they perceive them and how understanding this can reveal the complex configuration of language and identity politics. Research using focus groups and narrative interviews was conducted with members of independence organisations operating in the Catalan city of Girona. Analysis of the data reveals a diversity of attitudes toward both Catalan and Spanish, with both languages being mobilised in diverse combinations for a wide range of purposes. Qualitative methodology revealed the ways in which Catalan and Spanish are currently being practised, and the symbolic and functional role the languages play in articulating a sense of modern-day Catalan identity. Respondents indicate that, against the backdrop of the independence process in the region, globalisation and migration, bilingualism and multilingualism, have become highly valued in modern Catalonia for a myriad of different reasons. Research findings bring to the fore the complex matrix of political, ethnic and linguistic allegiance which has important implications for similar national independence situations in the rest of the world. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

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Book SynopsisJews, Muslims and Jerusalem: Disputes and Dialogues examines MuslimJewish relations during significant periods of history in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. A deep concern in the Muslim Arab world concerns the status of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. Israels continued occupation of the West Bank since 1967, and its control of East Jerusalem, has reinforced anti-Jewish (Judeophobia) and anti-Israel movements. The most prominent are the Hamas, the Liberation Party (tahrir), the Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah, the Islamic rulers in Iran, and recently Turkey. Conversely, amongst Jews in Israel and the Diaspora (and amongst many Christians) the last decades have witnessed a rise in extreme Islamophobia in reaction to Arab terrorist attacks, and out of a religious-cultural prejudice against Muslims. Spearheading these trends are members of the Jewish underground, Gush Emunim, Loyalists of the Temple Mount, Holy Temple organizations, and members of the religious Zionist and political movements, the Bayit Yehudi Party and Likud Party. It is noteworthy that there are numerous proactive movements for coexistence and peace amongst Jews and Muslims in Israel and throughout the world, and in that prevailing spirit dozens of ongoing religious and cultural dialogues are maintained. These interactions, and the political and economic engagement at state level, are distinguished by ambivalence given not only the historical record but through contemporary zealotary by hardliners. The US, the UN and the EU have tried to mediate, but to no avail. President Trumps Deal of the Century has abandoned Washingtons neutrality. PM Netanyahu promotes Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. This book is the most comprehensive, integrated and updated study on these formidable issues. Given the increasingly volatile language by hardline players the Middle East is at a point of critical historical change: Is it to be a political settlement via dialogue or a downward spiral to a dispute that in an age of offensive weaponry available to all parties can only have dire consequences.

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Book SynopsisPortugal is close to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. While this central moment in contemporary Portuguese history has long attracted international academic interest, there is a dearth of studies that explain the interrelationships between the main issues that singled out this revolutionary moment. The aims and actions of the three main protagonists the Armed Forces, the political parties and mass social organizations are linked in myriad ways: the political role of the Armed Forces; the crisis of state authority; the political justice formulas adopted; the affirmation of civilian political elites; the role of workers and neighbourhood movements, and other forms of popular mobilization; participation of the media in the political struggle; and post the momentous days, the transition from coup detat to revolution. The dominant moments and themes of the Portuguese revolution are relayed by close examination of original archival documentation; oral and written primary sources; and government records. Was military disquiet at the heart of the move toward democracy? Or was the instigator the growing dissatisfaction of the populace with the political class? A prime aim of the book is to view the revolution not only in terms of Portugals global position at the time, especially its historic colonialism, but what all players thought and expressed in the run-up to the 25th of April. Attention is paid to the immediate post-revolution period, and the national, political and military choices made as this unexpected path to democracy took hold.

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Book SynopsisRefiguring Identity in Corporate Times is aimed as a response to the narcissistic life-strategies promoted by the marketplace. It introduces an identity model that ensures a more inclusive, ethical, and authentic way of living ones own life-script. We live in a culture that requires us to create our own self-interpretation. Claiming to assist us in this mission are self-professed experts and the public media that offer life-strategies for adoption, to which it is all too easy to conform to in hyper-capitalized and consumerist societies. Among the most popular are fashion, entrepreneurship, travel, fitness, and self-spirituality, which are designed by corporate companies for instant appeal and feelgood results, expressing the consumerist religion of hedonistic narcissism and status. The possibility of an alternative identity for todays society that is based on the experience of conscience, sees our self-realization as intimately related to care for others and the advancement of political and civic institutions. To aspire for this identity model is to move from the distorted values of commercial life-strategies to five virtues. The virtues enable us to attune to what is singularly foreign in any experience, signalling ways how our worldview can become more inclusive, ethical, and insightful in its comprehension of existence. This key reading in Identity Studies provides insight into the psychology and behaviour endorsed by consumer culture; charts out a new understanding of virtue ethics; and promotes life-choices that steers consumers away from conformity in its capacity to stimulate the creation of a personal and authentic vision of life that involves others and societal institutions.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophers have contemplated the meaning of life, the who & the why, since nascent self-consciousness of the evolving hominid species. Yet practical efforts, i.e., control of life, have always transcended the philosophical: how to dominate what happens to the physical body itself, how to control the environment, and the interaction therefrom. Thus are born rites, rituals & religions. A rite can be a prescribed religious or other solemn ceremony or act it can be a social custom or practice, or even a mundane conventional act. A ritual can be the established form for a ceremony, the order of words used for example; a ritual observance can be either a system of ceremonial acts or actions, or an act or series of acts regularly repeated in a set precise manner. Religion generally encompasses a socio-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements. Religion is a set of beliefs, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances (rites and rituals). Control efforts highlighted in this volume range from prehistoric cave paintings, Amerindian ceremonies, Christian denominational (especially Roman Catholic), traditions & Afro-Caribbean syncretic rites, to crossovers, which deal with the more socio-cultural rites of passage like the quinceanera, and/or dance rites & rituals like the Southern Cone tango, African candombe, Cuban habanera and European waltzes and polkas and the corrida, from the public ritual known as tauromaquia. The premise behind this comparative volume is to discover how rites, rituals & religions are addressed in real life in these divergent societies by exploring the visual and literary representations of control. Rites, Rituals and Religions is eighth and final volume in the Hispanic Worlds series

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Book SynopsisBalik-Tanaw: The Road Taken is the memoir of the distinguished Filipino critic, Soledad S. Reyes. This book is a record of Reyess journey of more than seven decades where personal narrative intertwines with people and events, with social and political movements with which the country sought to negotiate the treacherous shoals in the postwar years. The account carries a fair amount of biographical data (as lodged in the critics memory in the absence of diaries), from her childhood into her college years. But as the context becomes wider and more complex, the narrative takes on a more analytical frame as she tries to make sense of disparate experiences whirling about her in the tumult of the 1970s and beyond, and in the startling changes in the political landscape, local and global, that now grip the Filipino nation. This account, according to the author, is a story of an individual constructing a narrative that seeks to impose order upon chaos by retrieving aspects of the past and weaving a series of recalcitrant experiences into a coherent whole. Published in association with De La Salle University Publishing House

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Book SynopsisCapturing the important place and power role that culture plays in the decision-making process of migration, this Handbook looks at human movement outside of a vacuum; taking into account the impact of family relationships, access to resources, and security and insecurity at both the points of origin and destination.Utilising case studies from around the world, chapters look at migration from the perspectives of a broad range of migrants, including refugees, labour migrants, students, highly educated migrants, and documented and undocumented movers. The Handbook moves beyond an understanding of the economics of migration, looking at the importance of love, skilled movers, food and identity in migrants’ lives. It analyses the assumption that migrants follow direct pathways to new destinations where they settle, recognising the dynamic ways in which movers travel, following circular routes and celebrating new opportunities. Highlighting the challenges migrants face, disputes around belonging and citizenship are explored in relation to rising nationalism and xenophobia.The insightful studies of the choices migrants make around both perceived and real needs and resources will make this Handbook a critical read for scholars and students of migration studies. It will also appeal to policy makers looking to understand the complexity of the impetus to migrant movement, and the important role that culture plays.Trade Review’This Handbook provides a wealth of state-of-the-art chapters exploring the foremost issues concerning contemporary global migration. Its integrative theme of culture - human meanings and patterns as they affect migration processes - offers a most welcome perspective and mode of understanding.’ -- - Steven Vertovec, Max Planck institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany’Based on the fundamental argument that ‘’culture matters’’ for understanding migration, this rich collection of essays makes new and original contributions to the study of migration as a key global process. These novel perspectives include wellbeing, lifestyle, sex, religion, sport, food, resilience, and many others.’ -- - Russell King, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface xix 1 Handbook of Culture and Migration : an introduction 1 Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci PART I THEORY AND MOBILITY 2 Ask an “open” question and you’ll get a surprising answer: counterintuitive findings on Mexican migration to the United States 6 Judith Adler Hellman 3 Conflict model of migration and perception of human insecurity 17 Deniz Eroğlu-Utku and Pınar Yazgan 4 A culture of mobility? Perspectives on the human rights-based migration government 25 Markus Kotzur and Leonard Amaru Feil 5 The sexual dimension of migration: from sexual migration to changing lovescapes 40 Martina Cvajner and Giuseppe Sciortino 6 Kaleidoscopic relations in emerging destinations 54 Ruth McAreavey 7 Mirrored selves: reflections on religious narrative(s) in the lives of migrants 68 Eric M. Trinka 8 Gender and culture of migration 82 Caroline B. Brettell 9 Return migration 95 Julia Pauli 10 International migration, environment, and climate change dynamics 110 Michelle J. Moran-Taylor and Matthew J. Taylor 11 Taste and displacement 124 Micah M. Trapp PART II NATIONAL PATTERNS 12 Migration policy making in the US 138 Philip Martin 13 Migration of humans versus migration of cultures in the Middle East 152 Ayman Zohry 14 A framework for understanding migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: transnational and global perspectives 162 Claude Sumata 15 International migration from India: an historical overview 168 Ruchi Singh 16 Situations and challenges: survey on internal ethnic migrants in northwest Hubei in China 175 Ying Hou and Shengyu Pei 17 Labour market integration of immigrants in Finland 186 Elli Heikkilä and Nafisa Yeasmin PART III TRACING MOBILITIES IN SPACE AND PLACE 18 Contextualizing religiosity and identity in the case of Turkish immigrants in Western Europe 204 Tolga Tezcan 19 Transnational migration, racial economies, and the limitations to membership 219 Bernardo Ramirez Rios and Anthony Russell Jerry 20 Transnational migration and the lived experience of class across borders 232 Jennifer A. Cook 21 Student and retiree mobilities 248 Liliana Azevedo, Silva Lässer and Katrin Sontag 22 Violence and resilience across borders 263 Nia C. Parson 23 Development, migration, and the prospects of ‘betterment’ 274 Gregory Gullette 24 The ‘mobility turn’: economic inequality in refugee livelihoods 287 Naohiko Omata 25 Remittances and belonging: reading the social meaning of Peruvian migrants’ money 301 Karsten Paerregaard 26 Highly skilled migrants and their networks 313 Amy Carattini 27 Precarity, migration and extractive labour in the Peruvian Amazon 328 Gordon Lewis Ulmer 28 Refugees on the move: resettlement and onward migration in ‘final’ destination countries 341 Marnie Shaffer and Emma Stewart 29 Where is home? Navigating the complexities of refugee repatriation 351 Carrie Perkins 30 “They took a piece of my flesh”: transnational motherhood and activism in Tlaxcala, Mexico 363 Ruth M. Hernández-Ríos 31 Virtual village: Zapotec migrants in the digital era 372 Roberto J. González 32 Interconnectivities: mobility, food and place 386 Paulette K. Schuster PART IV HEALTH AND MOBILITY 33 Doing good or doing harm? The interrelations between migration, well-being, and mental health 397 Natalia Zotova 34 Experiences of sociocultural reproduction among migrant women in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana 412 Jemima Nomunume Baada 35 Migration, stress, and physiological dysregulation 425 Alexandra C. Tuggle and Douglas E. Crews Index 442

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Book SynopsisAs the World Heritage Convention enters its 50th year, questions are being raised about its failures and successes. This topical book draws together perspectives across law and heritage research to examine the Convention and its implementation through the novel lens of compliance.The book challenges the widely held view that managing the 'world’s heritage' is a non-regulatory, incentive-based task with limited sanctioning options. Combining theoretical perspectives with deep technical analysis and historical investigation, the book tackles the compliance question through an examination of 12 diverse cases.Analysing past World Heritage properties like the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary (Oman) and Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany), as well as at-risk properties, like the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), Group of Monuments at Hampi (India) and Everglades National Park (United States), chapters trace the evolution and application of key non-compliance mechanisms like Reactive Monitoring, the In Danger List, and the Deletion procedure. In so doing, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the Convention's compliance architecture and the tools available to respond to instances of non-compliance.Illustrating how an improved compliance system is a critical component of a functioning and legitimate World Heritage regime, this book provides an invaluable resource to heritage and environmental policymakers and organisations looking to understand obligations under the Convention, as well as students and scholars coming to terms with the impact of the regime.Trade Review‘This work involves a high level of technicality in law and policy and scientific data analysis, highlighting the dynamic between scientific reports and decision-making in heritage policies.’ -- Anaïs Matiez, Asian Journal of International Law‘How we conserve our natural and cultural heritage, and with what effect on people and the natural environment, depends largely on how science-based regimes play out. Implementing the World Heritage Convention: Dimensions of Compliance is a major contribution to the critical debate on science-based governance of World Heritage. Hamman and Hølleland have systematically examined UNESCO’s digital archive to illuminate compliance and non-compliance across 12 high-profile cases, including the Everglades, the Great Barrier Reef, East Rennell, Old Town of Lijiang, Dresden and George Town. By synthesising perspectives from transnational environmental law and archaeology, the book breaks new ground in the vitally important project of global heritage conservation.’ -- Tiffany H. Morrison, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies‘A half-century after the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, much research and public comment focuses on the ways in which the World Heritage system is bent to political purposes and vested interests. But what if we take its ambitious regulatory apparatus seriously? Positing compliance as a key notion, heritage studies specialist Hølleland and law scholar Hamman deliver a meticulously researched analysis of how the rules and procedures around awarding, monitoring and removing World Heritage honours have been conceptualised and implemented over the years. For anyone interested in a realistic appraisal of the possibilities and limitations of the most prominent global framework for heritage conservation, this is an invaluable resource.’ -- Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Implementing the World Heritage Convention 2. The World Heritage regime: rules, obligations and actors 3. World Heritage listings and the challenge of legacy issues 4. Reporting and Reactive Monitoring: a first step towards substantive compliance 5. The List of World Heritage in Danger: from fire alarm to non-compliance mechanism 6. Deletion from the World Heritage List: from deterioration to irretrievable loss 7. Conclusion: a regime at a crossroads Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Here to There: An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Class in the United States is designed to introduce students to the experiences of marginalized communities in the U.S. It covers a range of topics that explore the intersections of various social, political, and cultural identities, including race, gender, sexuality, and class.The book is organized into 15 chapters, each written by different contributors, offering contemporary insights into a variety of contemporary issues, including Islamophobia, immigration, the constructions of race and gender, economic inequality, and the social constructs of sexuality.The chapters are organized to provide a comprehensive understanding of each topic, beginning with introductions, learning objectives, and key terms, followed by detailed discussions, and concluding with summaries, review questions, and references. The book aims to meet students at their level of understanding, providing accessible knowledge to help them grasp the complexities of systemic oppression and develop empathy and the skills necessary for creating change. It serves as a guide for classroom discussion and encourages students to engage with the material to better understand the diverse world around them.From Here to There is an exemplary resource for courses and programs in sociology, psychology, and cultural/ethnic studies.

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Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied imperial states, into the history of European colonialism. It takes a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa, Italy’s Sea describes another set of colonial identities that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean, ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and urban planning, the book brings to life a history of mediterraneità or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture, one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our understanding of how contemporary Italy—as well as Greece—may imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today.Trade Review'This book is a much needed and welcome addition to the growing body of work on Italian colonialism, as well as broader Mediterranean studies, that also sheds new light on Italian fascism. Valerie McGuire provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated analysis of one of Italy’s lesser studied “colonies”: the Dodecanese Islands.'Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan'In Valerie McGuire’s Italy’s Sea, we encounter two kinds of Italian Mediterranean imaginary. In unearthing the largely forgotten history of Italy’s colonial rule in the Aegean (1924–1943, but de facto since 1912) the author distinguishes between two phases of colonial administration that were characterized respectively by two different Mediterraneanist ideologies. [...] Through thorough research of largely unexplored material [...] the author offers a masterful account not only of how Italian colonial subjecthood was imagined in the Aegean but also of how it was practiced by both colonizers and colonized. [...This book] is a welcome and valuable addition to the field of Italian and Mediterranean studies. [It] deserves high praise for [its] interdisciplinarity and for providing useful tools for addressing the issues with which [it is] concerned.'Konstantina Zanou, Italian American Review '[Italy's Sea] provides a very compelling account of the remaking of the Italian identity through the Mediterraneanist discourse and fills a void in the literature about both Italian and Greek histories by shedding new light on the impact of the colonial domination of the Fascist regime in the Dodecanese islands.' Matteo Giordano, Journal of Contemporary History‘McGuire’s ambitious and comprehensive work contributes essentially to understanding the intersection of colonial expansion, citizenship, and the construction of race in the Eastern Mediterranean.’ Joanna Bürger, H-Italy‘Valerie McGuire's book is a fundamentally important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies… an excellent text, written in captivating prose, a supreme novelty in the field of Italian studies and also in the broader context of colonial and postcolonial studies. The chapter “Everyday Fascism in the Aegean” will become required reading for students in my fascism class.’ Sergio Ferrarese, Quaderni d’Italianistica‘Italy’s Sea is a fine book that achieves its aims admirably. It makes very important contributions to our understanding of both Italian imperialism and the history and culture of Dodecanese. Its great innovation is to link, convincingly, the Mediterranean heritage of connectivity and pluralism to Italy’s modern imperial project.’ Nicholas Doumanis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies‘The way in which McGuire’s book adds to and expands the recently proliferating literature on Italian rule on the Dodecanese is by offering to write not simply a history of the archipelago under Italian administration, but a history of Italy – and even of Europe – through the experience of the Dodecanese… this is an important study that speaks to several literatures across disciplines.’ Alexis Rappas, Mediterranean Historical Review‘McGuire’s book is thorough, creative, and groundbreaking, building upon her dissertation at New York University and perspective gained from years of archival research and oral history interviews in Italy and in Greece. This is an important work for historians of contemporary Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, and for the field of Italian studies, and will be appreciated by both undergraduate and graduate students… fascinating both as a historical and as a present-minded study.’ Mark I. Choate, Mediterranean Studies‘Unlike the many recent studies of empire that focus on Italy’s African colonies, the book’s focus on the eastern Mediterranean allows for unique and illuminating perspectives on the trajectory of Italian colonialism and nation-state building… McGuire masterfully recounts the Italian transformation of Rhodes into a cosmopolitan tourist destination that showcased the island’s Mediterranean and Levantine cultural heritage… an important addition to the growing scholarship on Fascism, Italian Empire, and the Mediterranean.’ Michael R. Ebner, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Nostalgia, the Aegean, and Mediterraneità in the Liberal Era2. Touring Italian Rhodes3. Belonging in the Archipelago: Nation, Race, and Citizenship4. Technologies of Empire: Everyday Fascism in the DodecaneseConclusion: Postcolonial ReturnsBibliography

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Book SynopsisAbsent the Archive is the first cultural history in English that is devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. Covered up by the state and hidden from history, the events of October 17 have nonetheless never been fully erased. Indeed, as early as 1962, stories about the massacre began to find their way their way into novels, poetry, songs, film, visual art, and performance. This book is about these stories, the way they have been told, and their function as both documentary and aesthetic objects. Identified here for the first time as a corpus—an anarchive—the works in question produce knowledge about October 17 by narrativizing and contextualizing the massacre, registering its existence, its scale, and its erasure, while also providing access to the subjective experiences of violence and trauma. Absent the Archive is invested in exploring how literature and culture represent history by complicating it, whether by functioning as first responders and persistent witnesses; reverberating against reality but also speculating on what might have been; activating networks of signs and meaning; or by showing us things that otherwise cannot be seen, while at the same time provoking important questions about the aesthetic, ethical, and political stakes of representation.Trade Review“This is a ground-breaking volume that makes visible to readers the entangled histories and legacies of 17 October 1961 in the French cultural imaginary. It is an outstanding work of ethical scholarship, offering a creative analysis of ‘rogue’ cultural texts that been produced in response to a massacre in central Paris that continues to live in the shadows of French history."Claire Gorrara, Cardiff University'Impressive in scope and meticulous in detail, Absent the Archive will no doubt set the bar for future critical studies of the cultural afterlives of October 17.'Patrick Lyons, L'Esprit Créateur‘This compelling book is a sustained, scholarly, and deeply nuanced engagement with the cultural representations of the massacre and its afterlife… [Absent the Archive] speaks to its object and reminds us of the excitement of research and its ethical possibilities. When Jim House and Neil MacMaster published Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory in 2009 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), it was immediately recognized as a landmark achievement. Brozgal’s book is its complement within cultural studies.’ Patrick Crowley, French Studies‘Absent the Archive constitutes a brilliant contribution to the historiography of French colonialism, Algerian struggle for independence, and the attendant French colonial crimes… This book brushes away the myth of the French mission civilisatrice [civilizing mission] and provides new perspectives on the Algerian liberation struggle and French colonial violence.’ Mohamed Chamekh, Contemporary Review of the Middle East‘Groundbreaking’ Alex Tan, AsymptoteTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Scene of the Crime, The Crime of the SeenChapter 1: Excavating the Anarchive. An Archeaology of the CorpusChapter 2: Archive Stories, From Politics to RomancesChapter 3: Non-lieux de mémoire: Maps and Graffiti in the Scriptable CityChapter 4: The Seine’s Exceptional BodiesChapter 5: “How Lucky Were the Blond Kabyles”: Reading Race in the AnarchiveChapter 6: The Entangled Stories of October 17, Vichy, the Jews, and the HolocaustEpilogue: The Ends of the AnarchiveBibliography:The Anarchive – Primary sourcesSelected Secondary Sources

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Book SynopsisIn 1804, Haiti declared its independence from France to become the world’s first ‘black’ nation state. Throughout the nineteenth century, Haiti maintained its independence, consolidating and expanding its national and, at times, imperial projects. In doing so, Haiti joined a host of other nation states and empires that were emerging and expanding across the Atlantic World. The largest and, in many ways, most powerful of these empires was that of Britain. Haiti in the British Imagination is the first book to focus on the diplomatic relations and cultural interactions between Haiti and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. As well as a story of British imperial aggression and Haitian ‘resistance’, it is also one of a more complicated set of relations: of rivalry, cultural exchange and intellectual dialogue. At particular moments in the Victorian period, ideas about Haiti had wide-reaching relevancies for British anxieties over the quality of British imperial administration, over what should be the relations between ‘the British’ and people of African descent, and defining the limits of black sovereignty. Haitians were key in formulating, disseminating and correcting ideas about Haiti. Through acts of dialogue, Britons and Haitians impacted on the worldviews of one another, and with that changed the political and cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World.Trade Review‘Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847–1915 is a significant contribution to this vibrant field… focusing on the influence of Haitians on the writings of Britons in this period, a fascinating and nuanced picture emerges of competing social and political agendas played out via several cultural mediums… this book is not just an important read for scholars of Haitian and British history; it also contributes significantly to studies of the way dialogues between imperial and (post)colonial powers were formed and manipulated to suit competing agendas.’ James Forde, New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Representations of The Haitian Empire in the British Press, 1847–59Chapter Two: Policing the Caribbean: The Bulldog Affair and the Morant Bay WarChapter Three: Hayti, or, the Black RepublicChapter Four: Vive Dessalines! Revolution, Class and the Centenary of IndependenceConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisPost-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century; prolonged spatial and temporal dispossession; and the continued deterioration of the peace process. Insofar as the articulation of memory in (post)colonial contexts can be viewed as an integral component of a continuing anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, in tracing the dynamics of conveying the memory of ongoing, chronic trauma, this collection negotiates the urgency for Palestinians to reclaim and retain their heritage in a continually unstable and fretful present. The collection offers a distinctive contribution to the field of existing scholarship on Palestine, charting new ways of thinking about the critical paradigms of memory and resistance as they are produced and represented in literary works published within the post-millennial period. Reflecting on the potential for the Palestinian narrative to recreate reality in ways that both document it and resist its brutality, the critical essays in this collection show how Palestinian writers in the twenty-first century critically and creatively consider the possible future(s) of their nation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsForeword: “Under Suffering’s Glow: Palestinian Writing after Oslo.”Bashir Abu-MannehIntroductionRachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad QabahaPart I: Palestinian Archives: Catastrophe, Exile, and Life WritingChapter 1: “Late Style as Resistance in the Works of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, and Mourid Barghouti.”Tahrir HamdiChapter 2: “A ‘rich fabric of some sort, which no one can fully comprehend [or] fully own’: Levantine Remains in Memoirs by Edward Said, Jean Said Makdisi, and Wadad Makdisi Cortas.”Lindsey MooreChapter 3: “The Exile’s Memory and the Chronotope in Ghada Karmi’s Return: A Palestinian Memoir.”Ahmad QabahaChapter 4: “Snapshots of Solidarity: Anthologizing Palestinian Life Writing.”Sophia BrownPart II: Palestinian Aesthetics: Icons, Haptics, and PalimpsestsChapter 5: “Confronting the Mythic? Najwan Darwish and Post-Millennium Palestinian Poetry.”Sarah IrvingChapter 6: “Enduring Palestine: Haptics, Violence, and Affect in Adania Shibli’s Fiction.”!!Michael PritchardChapter 7: “‘I can only get there now on the rafts of memories’: Palimpsestic and Genealogical Memories in Susan Abulhawa’s Novels.”Rachel Gregory FoxPart III: Palestinian Horizons: Endings and Beginnings, or Taking FlightChapter 8: “Killing God to Find Palestine ‘after the end of the world’ in Adania Shibli, Mahmoud Amer, and Maya Abu al-Hayyat.”Nora ParrChapter 9: “Unfinished Work: Anticolonial Pedagogy in Selma Dabbagh’s Out Of It.”Tom SperlingerChapter 10: “Wingwomen: Towards a Feminocentric Poetics of Flight in Twenty-First Century Palestinian Creative Consciousness.”Anna BallWorks Cited

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Book SynopsisThis book proposes to examine French and Francophone intellectual history in the period leading to the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa (1945-1960). The analysis favours the epistemological links between ethnology, museology, sociology, and (art) history. In this discussion, a specific focus is placed on temporality and the role ascribed by these different disciplines to African pasts, presents, and futures. It is argued here that the post-war context, characterized, inter alia, by the creation of UNESCO, the birth of Présence Africaine and the prevalence of existentialism, bore witness to the development of new regimes of historicity and to the partial refutation of a progress-based modernity. This investigation is predicated on case studies from West and Central Africa (AOF, AEF and Belgian Congo) and, whilst adopting a postcolonial methodology, it explores African and French authors such as Georges Balandier, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon, Chris Marker, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alain Resnais, Jean-Paul Sartre and Placide Tempels. This study explores the intellectual legacy of the ‘long nineteenth century’ and the difficulty encountered by these authors to articulate their anti-colonial agenda away from the modern methodologies of the ‘colonial library’. By focussing on issues of intellectual alienation, this book also demonstrates that the post-WW2 period foreshadowed twenty-first century debates on extroversion, racial inequalities, the decolonization of history, and cultural (mis)appropriation.Trade Review"This is a thoroughgoing and scholarly study of African culture, anthropology and history during the lead-up to decolonization, using the notion of temporality as a lens through which to assess this complex transitional period. It is a high quality piece of research, offering a wealth of new insight on a complex question."Jane Hiddleston, University of Oxford'Fraiture's intervention in the debate is monumental. He helps the English-speaking world see the part of the debate that, until now, lacked visibility, i.e. the de-colonialists who challenged the French colonial system. And he does it in superb English –a gift to be savoured. The reader gulps with curiosity as Fraiture opens the vaults of history for our benefit. He educates in a very dazzling way. [...] This book is a labour of love; the scholarship is a pure bravura. No one concerned about decolonization can be without this book. It is first-rate.'Paul Okojie, Africa International Network'Pierre-Philippe Fraiture’s opus is an astute book that breaks new ground in the study of decolonization in the twentieth century. An erudite tour de force that deconstructs complex and oftentimes demanding texts, Past Imperfect succeeds in bringing to the fore the intertextual dialogues among African, Antillean, and French intellectuals in their effort to unmake colonialism and the epistemologies that informed its implementation. This makes it a must-read for any scholar interested in the decolonial turn in African studies.' B. Bamba, African Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreludeIntroductionChapter I: ‘Pasts and Futures’Chapter II ‘Things’Chapter III: ‘Words’Chapter IV: ‘Customs’Conclusion: ‘Decolonization: a Work in Progress’Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of globalization, it has become difficult to study culture as primarily a national phenomenon. A Handbook offers students across Modern Languages an introduction to the kind of methodological questions they need to look at culture transnationally. Each of the short essays takes a key concept in cultural study and suggests how it might be used to explore and illuminate some aspect of identity, mobility, translation, and cultural exchange across borders. The authors range over different language areas and their wide chronological reach provides broad coverage, as well as a flexible and practical methodology for studying cultures in a transnational framework. The essays show that an inclusive, transnational vision and practice of Modern Languages is central to understanding human interaction in an inclusive, globalized society. A Handbook stands as an effective and necessary theoretical and thematically diverse glossary and companion to the ‘national’ volumes in the series.Trade Review“There are years of work, the hard work of rethinking and questioning, and above all, including that lend this volume its boundless energy and radiance. To see this set of topics, these key words, as the stuff of a scholarly volume, relaunches, better than anything else, the study of modern languages.”Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long BeachTable of ContentsAn IntroductionJennifer Burns and Derek DuncanAnimalFlorian MussgnugBilingualismClaudia PeraltaBordersElizabeth NijdamCitiesLorraine LeuColonizationDerek DuncanCommunitiesNaomi WellsConflictConnor DoakCosmopolitanismLuke SunderlandCreativityAlice Kettle and Tamsin KoumisDigitalThea Pitman and Claire TaylorEcologiesSophie FuggleEthicsRachel ScottEventMargaret Hills de ZárateFlowAlan O’Leary and Rachel JohnsonFuturesMonica SegerHumanJennifer BurnsKnowledgeCharles BurdettLanguageNicola McLellandLivenessBenedict SchofieldLocalityMarion DemossierMeAbigail BrundinMeAurélie Zannier-WahengoMimesisRicardo RoqueMiscegenationJeroen DewulfMultilingualismHilary FootittPerformanceJulia PrestPostcolonialCharles ForsdickPremodernitiesSharon KinoshitaRoutesPeter Campbell and Krešimir VukovićSexualitiesElliot EvansSoundCara LeveyStoriesEmma BondStoriesJulian PreeceTranslationLucas Nunes VieiraTranslationLoredana PolezziTranslationZrinka StahuljakVoiceyasser elhariry

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Book SynopsisThis important Research Handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the intersections between intellectual property (IP) and cultural heritage law. It explores and compares how both have evolved and sometimes converged over time, how they increased tremendously in significance, as well as in economic value, despite the fact that the former mainly pertains to the private sphere, whilst the latter is considered a ‘common good’.Featuring an excellent combination of contributions from leading experts, chapters offer insights into relevant cutting-edge issues that still remain unsettled. Divided into three main parts, it focuses on how IP can work as a tool for cultural heritage protection and, in particular, intangible cultural heritage, and discusses the politics and policies in this area, including whether such protection is fit for purpose. The final section explores special issues of intersection between the two, making it relevant to cultural heritage institutions such as museums, galleries, auction houses, libraries, and platforms, including issues of cultural heritage and IP management.Encompassing the latest developments and debates in the area, this Research Handbook will be key reading for academics, postgraduate students, and researchers in the fields of cultural heritage and art law, cultural heritage management, and intellectual property law. It will also be relevant for practitioners, policymakers, cultural heritage institutions, and content platforms.Trade Review‘This book provides interesting food for thought as to the extent regulation is required and whether education might be an equally powerful tool in some circumstances. While protection of cultural heritage is understandably steeped in history, the book contemplates many modern issues such as digitisation of works of cultural heritage and the implications of 3D printing. This is a well-thought-out and thought-provoking text that is likely to be of interest to a wide range of individuals, not just IP lawyers.’ -- Charlotte Duly, Marques‘In this Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage, Irini Stamatoudi puts together a tremendous group of high-level scholars to explore from various angles the complex but fascinating relationship between intellectual property and cultural heritage. The result is an extremely rich and inspiring set of contributions covering various aspects of the protection of cultural heritage by different IP rights, the politics and policies behind it, as well as the specific challenges and issues faced by cultural institutions in this process.’ -- Christophe Geiger, University of Strasbourg, France‘An invaluable collection of essays which explores the multiple ways the law may help build a bridge between our shared past and our futures, digital or otherwise.’ -- Marco Ricolfi, University of Turin and NEXA Center for Internet and Society, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage: Overview of the issues 1 Irini Stamatoudi PART I IP PROTECTION FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTION I.A GENERAL 1 The notions of intellectual property and cultural heritage: Overlaps and clashes 8 Irini Stamatoudi 2 The protection of cultural heritage by copyright and related rights 37 Paul Torremans 3 The protection of cultural heritage by trademarks 55 Mira Burri 4 Cultural heritage and patent law: Alternatives for the protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources 72 Pedro Henrique D. Batista 5 The protection of cultural heritage by designs 93 Bernd Justin Jütte and Alina Trapova 6 The protection of intangible cultural assets by trade secrets and unfair competition law 112 Neethu Rajam and Jens Schovsbo PART II IP PROTECTION FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTION I.B SPECIAL ISSUES 7 Traditional knowledge, databases and prior art: Options for an effective defensive use of TK against undue patent granting 132 Reto M. Hilty, Pedro Henrique D. Batista and Suelen Carls 8 Re-evaluating the art practice of ‘appropriation’ from a copyright law perspective 154 Marina Markellou 9 Preservation and heritagisation of street art and graffiti 170 Enrico Bonadio 10 Copyright issues on the use of images on the Internet 191 Marie-Christine Janssens, Arina Gorbatyuk and Sonsoles Pajares Rivas 11 Linking, framing, and browsing digital or digitised works of art 214 Irini Stamatoudi and Zoi Mavroskoti 12 The protection of traditional cultural expressions by geographical indications 236 Michael Blakeney 13 Copyright ownership challenge arising from AI-generated works of art: A time to stand and stare 250 Theodoros Chiou PART III POLITICS AND POLICIES ASSOCIATED WITH PROTECTING CULTURAL HERITAGE BY IPRS 14 States’ discretion to classify IP subject matter as national cultural treasures 274 Maria-Daphne Papadopoulou and Maria G. Sinanidou 15 Intellectual property, cultural heritage, and human rights 294 Peter K. Yu 16 ‘Best practices’ to protect indigenous knowledge? 311 Jessica C. Lai 17 Intangible cultural heritage, intellectual property and the public domain 326 Charlotte Waelde 18 Bridging intellectual property and cultural heritage law in the practice of international governmental organisations 339 Andrzej Jakubowski and Hanna Schreiber PART IV SPECIAL ISSUES FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 19 The artist’s resale right 358 Simon Stokes 20 Digitization of cultural heritage under EU copyright: Digitizing the past to enable access and innovation for the future 374 Stavroula Karapapa 21 Intellectual property and cultural heritage issues for museums of archaeological materials 391 Pınar Oruç and Uma Suthersanen 22 Management issues for cultural heritage institutions 412 Konstantinos Roussos and Irini Stamatoudi 23 IP management for cultural heritage institutions 438 Rina Elster Pantalony 24 Cultural heritage, galleries and auction houses 454 Leila A. Amineddoleh 25 IP issues relating to cultural heritage platforms and new business models 479 Julia Wildgans 26 Born digital: Law, policy, and the preservation of videogames as digital cultural heritage 501 Benjamin Farrand 27 Private international law and cultural property and art disputes 516 Marc Weber 28 ADR, cultural heritage and intellectual property: A continuum of dispute resolution processes 542 Debbie De Girolamo 29 Intellectual property implications of 3D printing of cultural heritage 563 Charles Cronin Conclusion to the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property of Cultural Heritage: Important highlights 577 Irini Stamatoudi Index

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Book SynopsisOver the past 25 years, Rwanda has undergone remarkable shifts and transitions: culturally, economically, and educationally the country has gone from strength to strength. While much scholarship has understandably been retrospective, seeking to understand, document and commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi, this volume gathers diverse perspectives on the changing social and cultural fabric of Rwanda since 1994. Rwanda Since 1994 considers the context of these changes, particularly in relation to the ongoing importance of remembering and in wider developments in the Great Lakes and East Africa regions. Equally it explores what stories of change are emerging from Rwanda: creative writing and testimonies, as well as national, regional, and international political narratives. The contributors interrogate which frameworks and narratives might be most useful for understanding different kinds of change, what new directions are emerging, and how Rwanda’s trajectory is shaped by other global factors.The international set of contributors includes creative writers, practitioners, activists, and scholars from African studies, history, anthropology, education, international relations, modern languages, law and politics. As well as delving into the shifting dynamics of religion and gender in Rwanda today, the book brings to light the experiences of lesser-discussed groups of people such as the Twa and the children of perpetrators.Trade Review‘Rwanda since 1994 supports the field of Rwanda Studies in reorienting itself from genocide history towards progress since the atrocities.’ Anna Katila, WasafiriTable of ContentsIntroductionHannah Grayson and Nicki HitchcottRwanda is Not Hotel RwandaMalaika UwamahoroPart One: A Changing Nation‘Memory-Traces’ in the Works of Felwine Sarr and Bruce Clarke: What Stories of Change Can Commemorate the Genocide Against the Tutsi?Eloïse BrezaultCompeting Narratives and Performances in Rwanda’s Gacaca CourtsAnanda Breed and Astrid JamarHuman Rights Reporting on Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: a Story of Stagnation and FailureBenjamin Thorne and Julia ViebachThe Incorporation of Women in Rwandan PoliticsLouise Umutoni-BowerRe-branding Rwanda’s Peacekeeping Identity during Postconflict TransitionGeorgina Holmes and Ilaria BuscagliaOne Rwanda for all Rwandans’: (Un)Covering the Batwa in Post-Genocide RwandaMeghan Laws, Richard Ntakirutimana and Bennett CollinsPart Two: Changing PeopleWriting as Reconciliation: Bearing Witness to Life After GenocideCatherine GilbertDecolonizing Trauma Therapy in RwandaCaroline Williamson SinaloPromising Generations: From Intergenerational Guilt to Ndi UmunyarwandaRichard M. BendaImbabazi, Kwicuza & Christian Testimonials of ForgivenessMadelaine HronStories as Change: Using Writing to Facilitate Healing Among Genocide Survivors in RwandaLaura Apol

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Book SynopsisGalician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viiIntroduction: Peripheries are not what they used to be 1Part 1 Roots and Routes: Remapping Galician Culture in the Global Age1 Peripheral Visions, Global Positions 192 Deterritorialization and Deperipheralization: Galician Studies atthe Global Crossroads 443 Sound and Vision: All Roads Lead to Santiago 74Part 2 Peripheral Visions4 Made in Galicia: Making the Invisible Visible 1035 Reimagining Galician Cinema: Utopian Visions? 1206 The Galician Magic Kingdom: Nation and Animation from theGlocal Forest 1427 A Peripheral Focus: The Rebirth of the Novo Cinema Galego 168Part 3 Global Sounds8 Peripheral Movidas: Cannibalizing Galicia 2099 Smells Like Wild Spirit: Galician Rock Bravú, Between theRurban and the Glocal 23910 Bagpipes, Bouzoukis, and Bodhráns: The Reinvention ofGalician Folk Music 266Coda: Leaving the Periphery Behind 294Works Cited 309Index 321

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Book SynopsisOverseas department of France in Amazonia and ‘ultraperipheral region’ of the EU, Guyane (French Guiana) is at the juncture of Europe, the Caribbean and South America. This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict between the local, the national and the global. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere: to France and its colonial history, for example, or to African and other diasporas, or as a ‘margin’ of Europe?This edited collection is the first volume to study Guyane from multiple perspectives. It subjects the enduring clichés and negative stereotypes regarding Guyane to critical examination, exploring how discourse on this DOM is, and has been, formed and how it may evolve. Chapters discuss geographical, literary and cultural ‘locations’ of Guyane, past and present, challenging its relegation to the ‘periphery’, whilst also historicizing the production of its marginal status. Finally, the collection aims to outline possible future challenges to the conceptual location of Guyane and possible directions for continued research.Trade Review'The book is a fascinating challenge to historiographies of Guyane as it peels off the layers of its changing relationships with France and other places in the world, detangles its history of contact, reveals the actors involved in its many transitions from place of forced exile to high-tech center, highlights the role its penal past has played in making it “periphery”, and explains what being Guyanais today entails in a globalized world of flows where local Kreyol traditions and Maroon narratives get reinvented and shaped in the context of cultural commercialism and global art markets.'Hélène B. Ducros, Europe Now Journal‘This valuable interdisciplinary volume offers wide-ranging essays that examine stereotypes about France’s Amazonian outpost that go beyond simple images of the country as a ‘green hell.' Robert Aldrich, French History ‘Overall, with Locating Guyana Wood and MacLeod have achieved a milestone in the study of French Guyana.’Fabio Santos, PERIPHERIE'English-language works on Guyane are comparatively few and far between, and Locating Guyane rectifies a lacuna in the wider scholarship by exploring what makes it distinct from its fellow “old colonies” of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Réunion. Given the volume’s interdisciplinarity and the essays’ breadth, the short volume speaks to a wide range of academic disciplines, and consequently it serves as an excellent scholarly primer on Guyane, its colonial legacy, and its place in an increasingly global, modern world.' Christopher M. Church, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionRichard Price, ‘The Oldest Daughter of Overseas France’Kari Evanson, ‘Grand Reporters in Guyane: Bringing the Exotic Back Home’Kathleen Gyssels, ‘Kor and Karnival, the carnal road of Léon-Gontran Damas: “Evidence of Things not Seen”’Silvia Espelt Bombín, ‘Frontier Politics: French, Portuguese and Amerindian Alliances between the Amazon and Cayenne, 1680–1697’Jonna Yarrington, ‘Producing the periphery’Edenz Maurice, ‘A school in Boniville Political skills and “Primitives’ in French Guiana (1930-1969)’Sarah Wood, ‘Reclaiming Félix Éboué: Departmentalisation and politics of commemoration in Guyane, 1944-2012’Antonia Cristinoi and François Nemo, ‘Palikur, a language between two worlds’Sally Price, ‘Maroon Art in Guyane: New Forms, New Discourses’Catriona MacLeod: ‘Performing and Parading Gender in Guyane’s Carnival’Bill Marshall, ‘Equality and Difference: Queering Guyane?’Conclusion: remaking Guyane?

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Book SynopsisFrom Bataille to Badiou: Lignes: the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987-2017 provides an exhaustive reading of the significant yet understudied intellectual review Lignes, from 1987 to 2017, to demonstrate how it has managed to preserve and develop the legacy of French radical thought often referred to as ‘French Theory’ or ‘la pensée 68’. Whilst many studies on intellectual reviews from the 1930s to the 1980s exist, this book crucially illuminates the shifting intellectual and political culture of France since the 1980s, filling a major gap in contemporary debates on the continued relevance of French intellectuals. This book provides a strong counter-narrative to the received account that, after the anti-totalitarian ‘liberal moment’ of the late 1970s, Marxism and structuralism were completely banished from the French intellectual sphere. It provides the historical context behind the rise of such internationally renowned thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière Jean-Luc Nancy, whilst placing them within an intellectual genealogy stretching back to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot in the 1930s. The book also introduces the reader to lesser known but nonetheless significant thinkers, including Lignes editor Michel Surya, Dionys Mascolo, Daniel Bensaïd, Fethi Benslama, Anselm Jappe and Robert Kurz. Through the review’s pages, a novel cultural history of France emerges as intellectuals respond to pressing contemporary issues, such as the fall of Communism, the European migrant crisis and rising nationalist tensions, the globalisation of financial capitalism and the 2008 economic crisis, scandals surrounding paedophilia and the return of religious thought to France, as well as debates on literature and the political value of art.Trade Review'This is an exciting, informative, well-written and engaging book. It will make a significant contribution to the field and will be useful for students and academics with an interest in French Studies and the contemporary moment, while also of interest for the general reader. [May] tells an exciting story, driven by a focused attention to the fortunes of radical critical debate and the different forms that resistance to political orthodoxy has taken in and around Lignes since the more explicit and well-known moment of the 1960 and 1970s.'Patrick ffrench, Kings College LondonReviews 'Up until this volume by May, no such monograph was available on this particular French intellectual review. However, Adrian May’s uncommon, very interesting, and even unique book gives a very good view of what they are missing.'Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte, Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on AbbreviationsA Note on TranslationsIntroduction: Lignes: An Intellectual Review after the Deaths of both Intellectuals and ReviewsChapter 1: French Thought between Liberalism and Fascism: Bataille and Blanchot in the 1930sChapter 2: The Communism of Thought: Reviews and Revolution in the 1960s with Blanchot and MascoloChapter 3: Immoral, Impure, Atheist Artists? Developing a neo-Nietzschean Critical Ethos for the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 4: Breaking the consensus: Immigration and la pensée uniqueChapter 5: Power without Politics: Domination Theory and the Crises of CapitalismChapter 6: Combatting the Crisis: Reconstructing Political Agency, from Rousset and Foucault to Rancière and BadiouChapter 7: Excluded from Thought? Lignes, Literary Conservatism and Identity PoliticsConclusion: Lignes: the Preservation of French Radical ThoughtAppendix 1: Lignes Editorial Board MembersAppendix 2: Lignes issue titlesLignes Articles CitedOther Works Cited

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces have engaged with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. Guided by a theoretically eclectic approach ranging from Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Studies, Empire is explored as a spectrum of contemporary global power inaugurated by European expansion and propagated in the postcolonial present through economic, cultural, and political forces. Through the texts analysed, Anti-Empire offers in-depth interrogations of contemporary power in terms of racial politics, gender performance, socio-economic divisions, political structures, and the intersections of these facets of domination and hegemony. By way of grappling with Empire’s discursive field and charting new modes of producing meaning in opposition to that of Empire, the texts read from Brazil, Cabo Verde, East Timor, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe open new inquiries for Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies while contributing theoretical debates to the study of Lusophone cultures.Trade ReviewReviews 'Prof. Silva’s manuscript will fill an important gap in Lusophone and postcolonial studies. It is an original study that groups together an important group of texts and discusses them in relation to their critical positionality regarding colonialism and coloniality.'Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta, The University of Kansas‘This study is extremely relevant and of interest for anyone who researches about Lusophone countries literature and their political and historical contexts, as well as decolonial forms of knowledge. The book is enlightening, easy to understand and presented in a logical manner. In addition, it certainly provides an important contribution to the field of Lusophone studies and their post-colonial historical, cultural and economic issues.' Débora Zamorano, HispaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Decolonizing Consumption and Postcoloniality: a Theory of Allegory in Oswald de Andrade’s Antropofagia2. Mário de Andrade’s Antropofagia and Macunaíma as Anti-Imperial Scene of Writing3. Toward a Multicultural Ethics and Decolonial Meta-Identity in the Work of Fernando Sylvan4. Untranslatable Subalternity and Historicizing Empire’s Enjoyment in Luís Cardoso’s Requiem para o Navegador Solitário5. Imperial Cryptonomy: Colonial Specters and Portuguese Exceptionalism in Isabela Figueiredo’s Caderno de Memórias Coloniais6. Spectrality as Decolonial Narrative Device for Colonial Experience in António Lobo Antunes’s O Esplendor de Portugal7. Decolonizing Hybridity through Intersectionality and Diaspora in the Poetry of Olinda Beja8. Transgendering Jesus: Mário Lúcio’s O Novíssimo Testamento and the Dismantling of Imperial CategoriesConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom Zinedine Zidane to Michael Jordan and from Marie-José Pérec to Lance Armstrong, over the last thirty years, numerous individuals have emerged through the global sports industry to capture the imagination of the French public and become touchstones for the discussion of a host of social issues. This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle through a study of star athletes, emblematic organisations, key locations, and celebrated moments in French sport from the mid-1980s to the present day. It draws on a wide range of sources, from film, television, advertising, newspapers, and popular music to cover key developments in sports including football, motorsport, basketball, and cycling. Sport here emerges as a privileged site for the discussion of the nature of contemporary nationhood, as well as for the performance of France’s postcolonial heritage. Simultaneously, sport provides a platform for the playing out of concerns over globalisation, and, in a time of post-industrial uncertainty, for nostalgic reminiscences of an apocryphal bygone era of social cohesion. The exploration of these themes leads to new understandings of the ways sport influences and is implicated in broader social and cultural concerns in France today.Trade Review"This study is a timely one, both in terms of the clear contemporary relevance of the issues that it discusses, but also, more pragmatically, in terms of the growing general interest worldwide in France as a sporting nation."Hugh Dauncey, Newcastle University“This book should become required reading for academics and students of French sports studies wishing to bring themselves up to date with current thinking about developments in French sport, culture and society in the last two decades.”Geoff Hare, Newcastle University‘Besides explaining sportsworlds, the book prompts a reflection on colonial legacies, migrations, neo-colonialism, multinational corporations, North-South inequalities and new forms of exploitation. Confirming sportscapes as pertinent sites of inquiry to understand numerous socio-cultural dynamics in Europe, the book is highly relevant beyond Francophone studies, reaching into post-colonial studies at large, as well as studies of mobility, youth, media and communication, and borders.’Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow Reviews'Due to its interdisciplinary nature, it is extremely valuable and relevant to not only sport and European historians, sociologists, and sport media and communication experts but also anyone who is enthusiastic about French and European sports, as well as better understanding the persistent economic and social stratifications and inequalities in modern society. In fact, the book may prompt profound and potentially uncomfortable yet necessary discussions about postcolonial heritage and legacies, migration, neocolonialism, multinational corporations, and commercialism, as well as hypermediatization, deterritorialization, and other new forms of exploitation.' Katja Sonkeng, International Journal of Sport Communication‘Cathal Kilcline’s Sport and Society in Global France is a major contribution to the field of French and francophone studies.’ Alain-Philippe Durand, Contemporary French Civilization‘L’approche est d’autant plus riche et originale pour les lecteurs français (qu’ils soient chercheurs ou étudiants, plutôt dans les domaines et les filières liés au management et à l’enseignement) qu’elle leur permet ainsi de prendre de la distance avec leurs propres représentations et routines de pensée.’ ‘The approach is all the richer and more original for French readers (be they researchers or students, especially in the fields of management and education) because it enables them to take a step back from their own forms of representation and ways of thinking’. Robin Recours, STAPS Journal Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 – Monuments Men: Among the Afterlives of France ’98Chapter 2 – Football’s FrançafriqueChapter 3 – Adventure capitalists: Paris-Dakar reduxChapter 4 – American Dreams: Be Like MikeChapter 5 - Made in France: Nostalgia and (re)cyclingChapter 6 – Plutocrats, Paranoia, Platoche : Qatar Sports Investment in ParisConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.At the turn of the 21st century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music scene joined forces with political militants to foster a new social movement that demanded the universal right to free public transportation. These groups collaborated in numerous venues and media: music shows, protests, festivals, conferences, radio stations, posters, albums, slogans, and digital and printed publications. Throughout this time, the single demand for free public transportation reconceptualized notions of urban space in Brazil and led masses of people across the country to protest. This book shows how the anti-capitalist, anti-bourgeoisie stance present in the discourse of a number of Brazilian bands that performed from the late 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century in the underground music scenes of Florianópolis and São Paulo encountered a reverberation in the rhetoric emanating from the Campaign for the Free Fare, subsequently known as the Free Fare Movement (Movimento Passe Livre, or MPL). This allowed the engaged bands and the movement for free public transportation to contribute to each other’s development. The book also includes reflections on the Bus Revolt that occurred in the northeastern city of Salvador, unveiling traces of the punk and anarcho-punk movements, and the Revolution Carnivals that occurred in the city of Belo Horizonte, an event that mixed lectures, vegetarianism, protests, soccer, and punk rock music.Trade Review‘Distortion and Subversion is a creative experiment. The author captivates the reader’s interest while providing an accurate and engaging analysis of recent events in Brazil’s urban history. Lopes de Barros’s powerful narrative is comparable to the potency of the punk music he analyses… I believe that Rodrigo Lopes de Barros's book, which aroused so many nostalgic feelings in me, can provoke in readers the desire for better public transport in Brazil and beyond, and hope for a world without turnstiles.’ Caio Fernandes Barbosa, NACLATable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Revolution Will Be Posted Online2. Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Youth: From Salvador to Florianópolis3. Island of Wars: Florianópolis Once Again4. The Happiness of Punks: Carnival and Soccer in Belo Horizonte and Beyond5. Punks’ Jungle: São PauloEpilogList of the Interviewed and the ConsultedWorks and Documents Cited

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Book SynopsisFrom Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also boasts some of the most exciting contemporary poetry in the Spanish language. What happens when its film and poetry meet on screen? Moving Verses studies the relationship between poetry and cinema in Argentina. Although both the “poetics of cinema” and literary adaptation have become established areas of film scholarship in recent years, the diverse modes of exchange between poetry and cinema have received little critical attention. The book analyses how film and poetry transform each another, and how these two expressive media behave when placed into dialogue. Going beyond theories of adaptation, and engaging critically with concepts around intermediality and interdisciplinarity, Moving Verses offers tools and methods for studying both experimental and mainstream film from Latin America and beyond. The corpus includes some of Argentina’s most exciting and radical contemporary directors (Raúl Perrone, Gustavo Fontán) as well as established modern masters (María Luisa Bemberg, Eliseo Subiela), and seldom studied experimental projects (Narcisa Hirsch, Claudio Caldini). The critical approach draws on recent works on intermediality and “impure” cinema to sketch and assess the many and varied ways in which directors “read” poetry on screen.Trade Review‘Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema breaks new ground in a relatively little-studied interdiscipline sitting at the nexus of poetry and film. It sheds significant light on the many pathways by which the two genres of practice intersect, with particular attention paid to what poetry affords to film.’ Rebecca Kosick, University of Bristol‘This is a thoroughly researched and original work, which presents detailed and persuasive studies of films that have not previously received sufficient attention from scholars. Through its rigorous focus on encounters between poetry and film, Bollig’s book makes a significant contribution to debates on intermediality and experimental cinema both in Latin America and elsewhere.’ Paul Merchant, University of Bristol‘Moving Verses is a thoughtful reflection on the interplay between film and poetry... an excellent read for anyone interested in Argentine cinema and poetry, experimental cinema, and more broadly, in the question of intermediality as it applies to film.’ Eduardo Ledesma, Bulletin of Spanish Studies‘Moving Verses is an excellent and original contribution to the study of cinema and the Argentine poetry of the last fifty years that also offers hermeneutic and methodological tools to those interested in exploring issues of intermediality in Latin America and beyond.’ Ignacio Aguiló, Hispanic Research Journal‘A highlight is Bollig’s discussion of Santiago Loza’s Rosa Patria on the heterodox life and work of Néstor Perlongher, who fiercely resisted identitary and gender/genre categorization… Bollig’s overarching argument, as well as his careful close readings of films, makes for a compelling and much-needed contribution to the field of intermedial studies.’ Erin Graff Zivin, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsThanks and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter OneExperimental Cinema as Poetic Cinema. The “Grupo Goethe” and the Films of Hirsch and CaldinChapter TwoEliseo Subiela’s Dark Sides of the Heart: Poetry and Performance in “Old Argentine Cinema.”Chapter ThreeRegarding the Lives of Poets. On Biopics and Poetic DocumentariesChapter FourPoetry-Value-Film in the Cinema of Raúl PerroneChapter FiveEyes Already Open: Gustavo Fontán’s El limonero real and La deudaChapter SixThe Poet as Screenwriter: Landscape and Protagonism in Papu Curotto’s EsterosConclusionIntermediality and the Screening of DifferenceFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book investigates the clash between a desire for unfettered mobility and the prevalence of inequality, exploring how this generates frictions in everyday life and how it challenges the ideal of just cosmopolitanism. Reading fictional and popular cultural texts against real global contexts, it develops an 'aesthetics of justice' that does not advocate cosmopolitan mobility at the expense of care and hospitality but rather interrogates their divorce in neoliberal contexts.In this timely analysis, Rodanthi Tzanelli discusses questions of social injustice in the context of multiple and intertwined mobilities - business, technology, travel, tourism, popular cultural pilgrimage and social movements - that are at the forefront of early twenty-first century socio-cultural concerns. The book thus creates an interdisciplinary intervention on the politics and poetics of mobility in rapidly globalised lifeworlds and places.Human geography and sociology scholars with a particular interest in mobilities studies, cosmopolitanism, social theory and tourism or pilgrimage studies will find this book an intriguing and insightful read.Trade Review'Following on from her previous work, Dr Tzanelli's book is a journey in complexities where she untangles before our eyes the many threads that constitute contemporary mobilities. Theoretically grounded, she uses the film The Joker as a guide to revisit our assumptions on society, politics and mobility, while shedding light on the irony of performing cosmopolitanism and calling for a pluriversal perspective on knowledge. This book is a challenge to monolithic and ready-made thinking but mostly a much-needed look, without complacency, at our time.' -- Dominic Lapointe, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada'Provocative, seductive, and challenging are all ways to describe this book, which elaborates a critical look at (im)mobility. Rodanthi Tzanelli analyses the laugh of the Joker as the trace of a devastating pilgrimage that breaks with the possibilities of hospitality. She allows us to share multiple images of a planet that sees itself as a mirror ''unfolded-in-movement'': this book is an unmissable portrait of a world that laughs when it must cry.' -- Adrian Scribano, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTable of ContentsContents: PART I 1. Cosmopolitan irony: pluriversality and perspective 2. The poetics of justice: the joker as a modern(ist) character 3. The politics of resurgence: the joker as a factual-cinematic hero PART II 4. Meta-realist plots: the road to selfdom 5. Killing pleasure: heautoscopic performativity facing the neoliberal youlfie 6. The terror of image-making: heteroscopies of damaged hospitality PART III 7. Conclusion: unlocking certitude Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEmerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics across the globe and new developments in this continually evolving field, the book reconsiders and expands upon Michel Foucault’s input to biopolitical studies. Featuring rigorously structured investigations into the genealogies, dimensions, and practices of biopolitics, this incisive book introduces novel voices and perspectives into the biopolitical corpus. Contributions from eminent scholars investigate core topics of governing populations, community, and sovereignty, as well as exploring areas that remain undertheorized in the field of biopolitics, including the political accounts of non-human entities, developments in sexual health policy, and the biopolitics of time. Broad in scope, the book draws from the foundations of the biopolitical canon to forge new horizons and create opportunities for novel theoretical and empirical analysis. Debating Biopolitics will be an invaluable tool for scholars and postgraduate students of political science and political philosophy. Its empirically driven research will also benefit practitioners and policymakers interested in the biopolitical dimension of decision-making and policy analysis.Trade Review‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of thought in the humanities and social sciences. From debates over COVID-19 responses to the governance of climate change, biopolitical framings are at the heart of social and political contestation.’ -- David Chandler, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword viii Mika Ojakangas and Sergei Prozorov Introduction 1 Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi PART I GENEALOGIES 1 Subjectivity in Foucault and Agamben: the enigma of sovereignty and biopolitics 12 Sara Dragišić 2 Fear, the sovereign, and authority: Roberto Esposito and the escape from the Hobbesian State 30 Vappu Helmisaari 3 Governing according to nature: Jean Bodin on climates, humours, and temperaments 49 Samuel Lindholm PART II DIMENSIONS 4 Glenn Gould’s mastery of not-playing: style and manner in the work of Giorgio Agamben 68 Katarina Sjöblom 5 Biopolitics of time in Foucault and Agamben 86 Jürgen Portschy 6 Identities on the border 109 Ott Puumeister PART III PRACTICES 7 Governing by prevention: neoliberal management of sexual health in France 129 Théo Sabadel 8 Biopolitics of authoritarianism. The case of Russia 151 Anastasya Manuilova 9 Biopolitics, New Materialism and Latin-American constitutionalism: A linguistic encounter? 171 Gonzalo Bustamante-Kuschel 10 The two faces of biopolitical theory: genealogies and current approaches 193 Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi Index

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Book SynopsisCosta Rica is a country known internationally for its eco-credentials, dazzling coastlines, and reputation as one of the happiest and most peaceful nations on earth. Beneath this façade, however, lies an exclusionary rhetoric of nationalism bound up in the concept of the tico, as many Costa Ricans refer to themselves. Beginning by considering the very idea of national identity and what this constitutes, this book explores the nature of the idealised tico identity, demonstrating the ways in which it has assumed a white supremacist, Central Valley-centric, patriarchal, heteronormative stance based on colonial ideals. Chapters two and three then go on to consider the literature and films produced that stand in opposition to this normative image of who or what is tico and their creation as vehicles of soft power which aim to question social norms. This book explores protest literature from the 1970s by Quince Duncan, Carmen Naranjo, and Alfonso Chase who narrate their experiences from the margins of society by virtue of their identity as Afro-Costa Rican, feminist, and homosexual authors. Cinema from the twenty-first century is then analysed to demonstrate the nuanced position chosen by national directors Esteban Ramírez, Paz Fábrega, Jurgen Ureña, and Patricia Velásquez to challenge the dominant nation-image as they reinscribe youth culture, a female consciousness, trans identity, and Afro-Costa Rica onto the fabric of the nation.Trade Review‘Throughout the book, Harvey-Kattou offers clear, concise readings on film and literature to articulate new models of Costa Rican belonging and national identity.’ Stephanie M. Pridgeon, Bulletin of Spanish StudiesTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionChapter One: The Creation of Tiquicidad and Theories of National IdentityChapter Two: Coded Messages: Costa Rican Protest Literature 1970–1985Chapter Three: Reflecting the Nation: Costa Rican Cinema in the Twenty–First CenturyConclusion

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Book SynopsisShould all mothers breast-feed their children? This question remains controversial in the twenty-first century. In an interview with the newspaper Liberation in 2010, feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter claimed that the pressure to breast-feed signified “a reduction of woman to the status of an animal species, as though we were all female chimpanzees.”The debate over maternal nursing held even more urgency before pasteurization provided a safe alternative in the early 1900s. While scholars of literary criticism and art history have described the abundance of breast-feeding imagery following the publication of Rousseau’s Emile in 1762, little has been written on its manifestations in the nineteenth century. Despite an ongoing propaganda campaign to encourage mothers to nurse, reflected in such diverse sources as medical theses, paintings, and fictional cautionary tales, French mothers continued to entrust their infants to wet nurses more often and for longer than was the norm in other European countries throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.This book examines representations of breast-feeding in French literature and culture from 1800 to 1900 and their apparent dissonance with the socio-historical realities of French mothers.Trade Review“This book guides us through a century of political propaganda, erotic fantasies, patriotism, and misogyny underpinning the depictions of the maternal breast and lactating mothers in French cultural productions from Chateaubriand to Zola.”Sayeeda H. Mamoon, Edgewood CollegeTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER I: Nursing Mothers in Eighteenth-Century France: The Personal is PoliticalCHAPTER II: The Absence of the Breast in the Tale of the Romantic HeroCHAPTER III: Realism, Naturalism, and the Eroticization of Breast-FeedingCHAPTER IV: Breast-Feeding, Literature and Politics in the Third RepublicCONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Since its invention, the automobile has been systematically ‘consumed’, to become part of the fabric of twentieth- and twenty-first-century society, its impact and perception making the car an accurate gauge of changing cultural norms and values. As it grew in popularity, the automobile conditioned the very texture of modern life, and the particularly car-centred society of contemporary France is an especially apt locus for examination. The ubiquity of the automobile across all social strata provides us with a defined lens through which to examine the evolution of French society in the modern and post-modern eras. Taking the Second World War as a pivotal moment in recent French history, this book demonstrates how the automobile was both consumed and fetishized in distinct ways before and after this conflict. The ways in which society evolved from the pre- to the post-war period allow us to view French culture through the prism of the automobile as it embodied technological and social progress in twentieth-century France. The present volume seeks to explore and interrogate the processes of representation and mediation inherent in the evolving patterns of automobile consumption, and their subsequent impacts on local and national identity, framed by a detailed case study centred on France from the late-nineteenth century to the oil crisis of the early 1970s.Trade Review“The definitive statement in English on the post-war history of automobiles in France. This book will greatly appeal to historians and cultural studies practitioners dealing with modern France, as well as interdisciplinary scholars of automobility and those working in the cultural history of transportation and technology.”David Inglis, University of HelsinkiTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1Theorizing the car as a fetishized commodityChapter 2Motor Sport in France: Commodifying the CarChapter 3An Object of Desire: Early 20th-Century Representations of the CarChapter 4Vers le Midi: The Automobile Discovered and as a Vehicle of DiscoveryChapter 5Three Ages of the Car in French Post-War MagazinesChapter 6Evolving Critiques of the CarConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book advocates for the ethically formative labor that fiction accomplishes. As a force of production, the fictional labor of literature and the visual arts shapes the formation of collective meaning in an era marked by the negligence of social, financial, and environmental responsibility. As neoliberalism’s hegemony since the 1980s has intensified through the proliferation of digital technologies in the 21st century, considering works of creative art as an ethically productive force is a necessary complement to political and economic critiques. The book invites readers to rethink how mutations in the production, circulation, and consumption of literary and visual materials are implicated in the commodification of information and attention for private gain. The link can have a positive effect that transforms the social relation from a capitalist ethos that expends life for profit to an alterity-driven ethos that defends life. But remedying the paucity of moral sentiments of social existence requires fictional labor to generate ethical sensibilities, cares, desires, and wills. The book’s close analyses demonstrate the aesthetic and formal aspects of literary and visual art that mediate between social relations to yield a dependence alterity, including the otherness of a precarious present, a menacing future beyond economic mastery, and an environment enmeshed with living beings and things.Trade Review‘Fictional Labor is a work of deep erudition that brings a wide spectrum of theoretical speculation to bear on formally inventive works of visual art and literature… Baek’s reflections on technology, neoliberalism, ethics, politics, and aesthetic form deliver a wealth of smart and ultimately auspicious insights that will encourage readers to imagine new ways of living—and of making art—as we forge ahead into a world unknown.’ Ari J. Blatt, L’Esprit CréateurTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Surplus-word2. Mask3. Vector4. Savage-wordConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDecadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with the expansion of France’s modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery signifier, Decadence figures alternately as pro-colonial, anticolonial and apolitical. This edited volume gives a sense of the sheer range and diversity of intersections between colonialism and Decadence, from anticolonial anarchist writers to colonial discourse, from nineteenth-century women writers to our contemporary, Michel Houellebecq. Different chapters explore these intersections in the cultural imagination of dance, the novel, travel writing, historiographical theory, and literary networks. Decadence is often seen as an essentially metropolitan, urban movement, but this study identifies key spaces elsewhere, from fin-de-siècle Saigon to India in the heyday of French colonialism, from Byzantium to ancient Persia. Although the colonies were held up by some as an antidote to the threat of French decline, other writings reveal anxiety that the antidote might itself be a form of poison. Colonial contact might exacerbate degeneration, whether through cultural mixing or through the violence of colonial aggression itself. A profound anxiety about French identity and France’s so-called mission civilisatrice is played out through the imagery, the style and the pose of Decadence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and ExoticismJennifer YeeChapter 1Bibelotic Buddhas: Decadence and its CriticsSam BootleChapter 2Sous-mission and the mission civilisatrice: Houellebecq’s Parody of Empire and DecadenceJenai Engelhard HumphreysChapter 3Gender, Decadence, and Orientalism in Jane Dieulafoy’s Journal de fouilles and ParysatisJulia HartleyChapter 4Anti-colonial exoticism in Mirbeau’s Jardin des supplicesRichard HibbitChapter 5Decadent and Anti-Decadent Networks of the Belle époque: littérature coloniale as a Rhetorical AllianceVladimir KaporChapter 6The Anarchist Denunciation of Decadent Colonialism: Georges Darien, Octave Mirbeau, and Jules VallèsAurélien LorigChapter 7Judith Gautier, La Conquête du Paradis or L’Inde éblouie: when French colonization becomes an Indian epicValérie Magdelaine-AndrianjafitrimoChapter 8Exoticism and the Threat of Contagion: Danger or Therapy for Decadent DanceHélène MarquiéChapter 9Decadent Colonial Saigon in Fin-de-siècle French LiteratureWanrug SuwanwattanaGeneral BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures examines how the discourses and narratives of Portuguese imperial exceptionalism and Portuguese racial identity, developed during the last centuries of Portuguese settler colonialism continue to inform an array of cultural production and consumption in the four decades since decolonization. By examining a range of contemporary popular cultural production (literature, football, musical production, and celebrity culture) in critical conversation with intellectual production of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Empire Found examines how narratives of Portuguese racial hybridity and indeterminacy operate alongside ongoing structures of coloniality and white supremacy in the realms of cultural production. I argue that these implied or overt historical dialogues carried out through cultural production are integral to the very reproduction of the Portuguese nation-state apparatus, as well as its racial structures and claims to whiteness in the wake of decolonization and marginal integration into the European Union.Trade Review"Daniel F. Silva’s book will make an important, innovative, and much needed contribution in the field of Lusophone Studies and beyond. This original book interrogates Portugal’s historical depths of historical, linguistic, symbolic and political ties to its former colonies and the meaning of these articulations for the country’s post-imperialism and current notions of Portuguese cultural identity."Sandra Sousa, University of Central FloridaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Portuguese Whiteness and Racial Ambiguity in Intellectual Thought during Empire2. Post-Imperial Orientalism and Portuguese Claims to Late Capitalist Whiteness in José Rodrigues dos Santos’s Mystery Thrillers3. Football, Empire, and Racial Capitalism in Portugal4. Color Games: Anti-Blackness, Racial Plasticity, and Celebrity Culture5. Latin Reinventions: Contemporary Portuguese Singers, Latinidad, and Latinx Musical FormsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first women’s football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material that cuts through the clichés to uncover the lived reality of women footballers. It includes the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers’ views into dialogue with institutional and media perspectives. The early chapters consider the backdrop Latin American women footballers operate in, a media and institutional panorama that privileges a heteronormative athletic femininity whilst ensuring women’s football is never portrayed as anything other than an inferior version of the hegemonic (men’s) game. Following this, drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in which 33 semi-structured interviews were carried out with players and institutional figures, this pioneering book foregrounds the lived reality of women’s football in three strategic locations. Firstly, three months were spent in the Amazon region of Brazil where Esporte Clube Iranduba provides a fascinating alternative model for the growth of women’s football. This is contrasted with Santos FC, where women’s football tends to be constantly overshadowed by the presence of banal patriarchy, and finally with another fleeting glimpse of how another model is possible at Atlético Huila of Colombia, the surprise winner of the women’s Copa Libertadores in 2018.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Glossary of Terms Acknowledgements Foreword from Silvana Goellner Introduction Chapter 1 - Mis-representing the agenda: The Case of Yoreli Rincón at the Women’s Copa Libertadores 2018 Chapter 2 – Football Institutions Chapter 3 – Atlético Huila: The Champions of South America Chapter 4 –Mermaids in the Land of the King Chapter 5 –The Team from the Heart of the Amazon Chapter 6 – Surveying the Field from the Players’ Perspective Overall Conclusions & Policy Recommendations Recommendations for Further Research References Semi Structured Interview List

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Book SynopsisThe LAMALIF anthology presents a wide variety of articles from LAMALIF, Morocco’s longest-serving Francophone journal. Active between 1966 and 1988, LAMALIF covered the most critical periods of Moroccan history and engaged in crucial debates about democratization, feminism, culture, education, Third World relations, and decolonization. However, LAMALIF was not just a journal; it was a real school, where Morocco’s, North Africa’s, and the developing world’s emerging and established writers, artists, and thinkers found a space to disseminate their ideas and address readerships across different cultures and geographical areas in French. This anthology is the first comprehensive translation into English of a wide selection of LAMALIF’s articles covering literary and art criticism as well as critical theory, feminism, Islam, and emigration. In addition to making available to Anglophone readerships articles about transnational solidarities and connections between North Africa and the rest of the world, LAMALIF anthology historicizes this sociocultural and political project within the painful period of authoritarianism in Morocco and reveals how culture worked as a trenchant weapon in the struggle against repression and silence.Trade ReviewBrahim El Guabli and Ali Alalou… emphasise the significance of this two-volume anthology as a crucial archival source for understanding Morocco's Years of Lead.... The act of translation of these voices of sociopolitical opposition emerges as an act of memory in the age of post-Arab Uprisings... It is therefore an invaluable source not only for historical and historiographical insight, but also for cultural and sociological analysis.' Aomar Boum, The Journal of North African StudiesTable of ContentsList of FiguresIntroductionPart I: Feminism and Gender StudiesAdelmounaim Dyalmi: A Moroccan Fqīh and the Rights of Women in the Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Kai KenrieckeThérèse Benjelloun: Cultural Contradictions of Maghrebi WomenTranslated by Steve FleckFatima Mernissi: A Future without Women?Translated by Naima HachadA. Cherkaoui: No Future without WomenTranslated by Lucy McNairFatima Mernissi: No Future without DialogueTranslated by Lucy McNairSouad Filal et Fadela Kanouni: The Hidden Labor of WomenTranslated by Lucy McNairFatima Mernissi: Democratic Technology and the Feminine FutureTranslated by Lucy McNairFattouma Benabdenbi et Souad Filal: Inquiry: Moroccan Women’s Quest for IdentityTranslated by Habiba BoumlikGhita el Khayat: Women Bound by Tradition: Evolving Medical and Psychological Aspects of Women’s Work in MoroccoTranslated by Naima HachadPart II: Morocco, Africa, Maghreb, MediterraneanKhalil Zniber: The OAU and MoroccoTranslated by Paraska Tolan SzkilnikNadir Yata: Morocco between African Hopes and Arab DisillusionsTranslated by Paraska Tolan-SzkilnikLamalif editors: The OAU Festival: A Celebration of Cultural LiberationTranslated by Paraska Tolan SzkilnikBen Messaoud: OAU: The Day after the FestivalTranslated by Paraska Tolan SzkilnikMohamed Bennouna: A Ready-Made MaghrebTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevZakya Daoud: Three Reasons for a Possible MaghrebTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevAhmed Zrikah: Challenges to Maghrebi Unity: Underlying CausesTranslated by Jill JarvisZakya Daoud: Maghreb: From Utopia to Bitter RealitiesTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevAhmed Zrikah: On the Limitations of Different Attempts to Unify the MaghrebTranslated by Jill JarvisBrahim Boutaleb: Morocco and the MediterraneanTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevAnouar Abdel-Malek: The Mediterranean at the Heart of the New Balance of Global PowerTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevPart III: Immigration: The Maghreb in FranceAhmed Lamghili: Investigation: The Moroccan Worker Population in FranceTranslated by Laura ReeckFarida Moha; Immigration: The “Beur” MarchTranslated by Laura ReeckGeorges Lapassade: Rockin’ Babouches: The New Culture of “Second-Generation” Maghrebis in FranceTranslated by Laura ReeckZakya Daoud: Immigrants: They Won’t Go BackTranslated by Laura ReeckMohamed Salaheddine: Immigrants in France: Jeha’s NailsTranslated by Laura ReeckMohamed Tozy: The Suburbs of IslamTranslated by Rebecca E. Monger

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Book SynopsisTransnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.Table of ContentsIntroductionKevin N. CAWLEY and Julia C. SCHNEIDERPART ONE. CULTURES CROSSING BORDERSChapter 1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational Modus VivendiKevin N. CAWLEYChapter 2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: Emplantation and the Crossing of Cultural BoundariesJames H. GRAYSONChapter 3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational IdentityCarlotta SPARVOLIChapter 4: Translation beyond the Written Word: The Transnational Spread of The Journey to the West in East AsiaBarbara WALLPART TWO. NATION, EMPIRE AND BEYONDChapter 5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing EmpireJulia C. SCHNEIDERChapter 6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance Against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s Ai rŏbŭ yu (I Love You, 1962)Nadeschda BACHEMChapter 7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and his International Popular FrontLei QINChapter 8. Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese CommunityJulia MARINACCIOPART THREE. TRANSNATIONALISM IN POPULAR CULTURESChapter 9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film Maker Yang Yong-hiTill WEINGÄRTNERChapter 10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese relations through Flavors of YouthJamie COATES and Jennifer COATESChapter 11. Translation /Transplantation of Queer in South KoreaAllan SIMPSONChapter 12. A Transnational Approach in Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular MusicYu-Wen CHENPART FOUR. TRANSNATIONALISM IN GLOBAL EAST ASIAChapter 13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants inside and outside Taiwan’s University CampusesSarah HANISCHChapter 14. Transnationalism and the Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s-70s)Aya HOMEIChapter 15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962Adam CATHCARTChapter 16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-first Century East Asia: The Case of North KoreaMarco MILANI

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Book SynopsisTransnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.Table of ContentsIntroductionKevin N. CAWLEY and Julia C. SCHNEIDERPART ONE. CULTURES CROSSING BORDERSChapter 1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational Modus VivendiKevin N. CAWLEYChapter 2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: Emplantation and the Crossing of Cultural BoundariesJames H. GRAYSONChapter 3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational IdentityCarlotta SPARVOLIChapter 4: Translation beyond the Written Word: The Transnational Spread of The Journey to the West in East AsiaBarbara WALLPART TWO. NATION, EMPIRE AND BEYONDChapter 5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing EmpireJulia C. SCHNEIDERChapter 6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance Against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s Ai rŏbŭ yu (I Love You, 1962)Nadeschda BACHEMChapter 7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and his International Popular FrontLei QINChapter 8. Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese CommunityJulia MARINACCIOPART THREE. TRANSNATIONALISM IN POPULAR CULTURESChapter 9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film Maker Yang Yong-hiTill WEINGÄRTNERChapter 10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese relations through Flavors of YouthJamie COATES and Jennifer COATESChapter 11. Translation /Transplantation of Queer in South KoreaAllan SIMPSONChapter 12. A Transnational Approach in Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular MusicYu-Wen CHENPART FOUR. TRANSNATIONALISM IN GLOBAL EAST ASIAChapter 13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants inside and outside Taiwan’s University CampusesSarah HANISCHChapter 14. Transnationalism and the Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s-70s)Aya HOMEIChapter 15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962Adam CATHCARTChapter 16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-first Century East Asia: The Case of North KoreaMarco MILANI

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Book SynopsisRecognized as one of the most influential studies of memory in the late twentieth century, Pierre Nora’s monumental project Les Lieux de mémoire has been celebrated for its elaboration of a ground-breaking paradigm for rethinking the relationship between the nation, territory, history and memory. It has also, however, been criticized for implying a narrow perception of national memory from which the legacy of colonialism was excluded. Driven by an increasingly critical postcolonial discourse on French historiography and fuelled by the will to acknowledge the relevance of the colonial in the making of modern and contemporary France, the present volume intends to address in a collective and sustained manner this critical gap by postcolonializing the French Republic’s lieux de mémoire. The various chapters discern and explore an initial repertoire of realms and sites in France and the so-called Outremer that crystalize traces of colonial memory, while highlighting its inherent dialectical relationship with firmly instituted national memory. By making visible the invisible thread that links the colonial to various manifestations of French heritage, the objective is to bring to the fore the need to anchor the colonial in a collective memory that has often silenced it, and to foster new readings of the past as it is represented, remembered and inscribed in the nation’s collective imaginary.Trade ReviewReviews'Written by recognized experts across a rich inter-disciplinary field, this is a hugely impressive survey of the problematic of postcolonial memory in both mainland France and les Outre-mer.'Alec G Hargreaves, Florida State University'This is an important and informative volume which will be a very useful addition to Francophone postcolonial studies.'Bill Marshall, University of Stirling‘An elegant yet accessible work, Postcolonial Realms of Memory not only exposes the colonial blind spot that left Pierre Nora’s Lieux de mémoire incomplete, but begins the long task of remedying it. This is a crucial intervention that the field has required for some time.’ Gemma King, Contemporary French Civilization'Postcolonial Realms of Memory is a rich, most welcome contribution to the debate. Three dozen short articles, preceded by a thoughtful introduction, present a series of fascinating reflections and additions to Pierra Nora’s [lieux-de-mémoire] project. [...] The editors have done a good job of selecting an intriguing set of lieux de mémoire and inviting imaginative authors to write about them.'Gert Oostindie, BRILL Table of ContentsIntroduction: Postcolonizing lieux de mémoireInstitutionsArchives (Oana Panaïté)L’École républicaine (Leon Sachs)La Sorbonne (Ruth Bush)The Clamart Salon (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting)Literary Prestige (Claire Ducournau)TerritoryRegions/Province (Kate Marsh)Borders (Michael Gott)Banlieues (Hervé Tchumkam)17 October 1961(Michel Laronde)Marseille (Kathryn Kleppinger)The Mediterranean (Kathryn Kleppinger)MonumentsFort de Joux (Cilas Kemedjio)La Case créole (Julia Waters)Memorials and Museums (Robert Aldrich)Memorials in the Caribbean (Anny Dominique Curtius)The Memorial ACTe (Fabienne Viala)The Abolition of Slavery (Sophia Khadraoui-Fortune)Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration (Patrick Crowley)Displacement/MobilityLe Bagne (Charles Forsdick)Rivesaltes (Susan Ireland)Ouvéa (Pim Higginson)BUMIDOM (H. Adlai Murdoch)Les Sans-papiers (Dominic Thomas)BodiesColonial Exhibitions (Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard)Les Tirailleurs sénégalais (David Murphy)Colonial heroes (Berny Sèbe)Jeanne Duval (Mireille Rosello)Women’s Rights (Françoise Vergès)Words and ImagesFrench Language (Cécile Van den Avenne)Anti-Colonialism (David Murphy)Children’s Literature (Philip Dine)Post and the Postage Stamp (David Scott)Colonial Photography (Xavier Guégan)The EverydayVine and Wine (Jacqueline Dutton)Couscous (Sylvie Durmelat)Toys (Elizabeth Heath)Bande dessinée (Mark McKinney)Sport (Philip Dine)

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Book SynopsisFrench feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year for the women’s movement in France. Through a critical review of the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from the perspective of both preceding and subsequent ‘waves’ of feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures have come into play. Edited and written by an international group of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a vital moment in women’s cultural history, and a new analysis of the relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist politics and culture.Trade Review‘This collection is exceptionally well curated. Each of the chapters has been very carefully written and edited, and together this is fascinating, informative, critical and scholarly.'Gill Allwood, Nottingham Trent University“This volume is a lively and accessible mix of history, culture and politics, which nonetheless does not shy away from the complexities of feminism both in the contemporary sphere: the controversy over the burkini ban and the #metoo campaign, and historically: between essentialists and materialists of the second wave, for example, or between radical and what might be considered more moderate feminists.”Helena Chadderton, University of Hull‘This collection of essays offers a remarkably diverse and intelligent exploration of the many faces of the feminist movement in France, and of the challenges women faced and still face today. It will be a very useful read for students, researchers, and teachers and for all feminists.' Dominique Carlini Versini, Modern Language Review 'This is an important book. Even before one begins to read the individual essays, the volume’s usefulness is apparent: e.g., the glossary includes acronyms of various feminist organizations; the timeline extends from 1944, when French women got the right to vote, to the 2018 debate in Le Monde on sexual harassment and violence; and both the up-to-date bibliography and impeccably edited index extend to more than 20 pages. This well-documented, jargon-free volume will be valuable for those interested in feminism or contemporary French culture.'A. M. Rea, emerita, Occidental College, CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgementsContentsList of illustrationsTimelineGlossaryIntroduction: Making WavesMARGARET ATACK, ALISON S. FELL, DIANA HOLMES, IMOGEN LONGPART 1. THEN: SECOND WAVE FEMINISM IN FRANCE1. Before Les Femmes s’entêtent: the Bermuda Triangle of French feminism?SI N REYNOLDS2. 1975: The Year of womenDIANA HOLMES AND IMOGEN LONG3. From Muse to Insoumuse: Delphine Seyrig, vidéasteGRACE ANPART 2. THEN AND NOW: FEMINISM AND PUBLIC ARENAS4. Work-family reconciliation policy in France: challenging or reinforcing the gender division of domestic and care work since the 1970s?JAN WINDEBANK5. Feminist publishing in France 1975 - 2000: a quest for legitimacyFANNY MAZZONE6. Parole(s) de femmes: from Le Torchon brûle to Les Nouvelles NewsMAGGIE ALLISON7. Utopian Gaiety: French lesbian activism and the politics of pleasure (1974-2016)TAMARA CHAPLIN8. ‘La femme du soldat inconnu’: Feminism and French lieux de mémoireALISON S. FELL9. A Mediterranean Bazaar : The Bazar du Genre exhibition at the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM) in Marseille, 2013BRONWYN WINTERPART 3. NOW: REAPPRAISALS AND NEW AGENDAS10. Time to laugh or to cry? ‘Le Rire de la Méduse’ after 40 yearsMAIREAD HANRAHAN11. ‘Les hommes et les femmes, c’est vraiment pas pareil’ (‘Men and women just aren’t the same’): Nancy Huston’s Passions d’Annie LeclercDIANA HOLMES12. Across the waves: Benoîte Groult, Catel Muller and bande dessinéeIMOGEN LONG13. Voix blanche? Annie Ernaux, French feminisms and the challenge of intersectionalityLYN THOMAS14. Third Wave collective manifestos: What do feminists still want?MICHÈLE SCHAALConclusionMARGARET ATACK, ALISON S. FELL, DIANA HOLMES, IMOGEN LONGBibliographyNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisTransatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and discussions contained in this volume’s 35 essays by leading scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to incorporate within this new framework.Trade ReviewReviews'This volume is, without a doubt, the first attempt to fully theorize the disciplinary practices associated with the umbrella term “transatlantic studies”. Furthermore, it promises to provincialize, once and for all, Iberian Studies as well as to open Latin American Studies to a more radical and cosmopolitan critical practice.'Luis Martín-Cabrera, UC San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — Transatlantic Studies: Staking Out the FieldTransatlantic Methodologies2. Francisco Fernández de Alba — Transatlantic Coloniality in Cuba: The Case of Virgilio Piñera and Wilfredo Lam3. Joan Ramon Resina — Transatlantic Studies: The Discipline That Thinks Itself Beyond Its Threshold4. Joseba Gabilondo — The Atlantic State of Violence: State of Exception, Colonial/Civil Wars, and Concentration Camps5. Mario Santana — Iberian Studies: The Transatlantic Dimension6. Abril Trigo — Transatlantic Studies and the Geopolitics of Hispanism7. Lisa Surwillo — Transatlantic Currents: Oceanic Crossings in Novás Calvo’s El negrero8. Zeb Tortorici — Iberian Atlantic Bodies, Commodities, and Texts9. Benita Sampedro — Inscribing Islands: From Cuba to Fernando Poo and backTransatlantic Linguistic Debates10. José Del Valle — Linguistic History and Language Academies in Transatlantic Perspective11. Lena Burgos-Lafuente — Los amarres de la lengua: Spanish Exiles, Puerto Rican Intellectuals, and the Battle Over Spanish, 1942-201612. Julio Ortega — The Transatlantic Trajectory13. Robert Newcomb — “Across the Waves”: The Luso-Brazilian Republic of Letters at the Fin de SiècleTransatlantic Displacement14. Aurélie Vialette — Rewriting the Colonial Past: Spanish Women Intellectuals as Agents of Cross-Cultural Literacy in the Mexican Press15. Christina Karageourgou-Bastea — Luis Cernuda’s “Historial de un libro,” A Travelogue16. Pedro García-Caro — Triangulating the Atlantic: Blanco White, Arriaza, and the London Debate over “Spain”Transatlantic Memory17. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel — Children’s Gaze in Contemporary Cinema: A Transatlantic Poetics of Exile and Historical Memory18. Lisa DiGiovanni — Childhood Memories of Inner Exile in Spain and Chile19. Ana Corbalán — Ethical questions about human trafficking during times of dictatorship: Kidnapped children in Spain and Argentina20. James D. Fernández — Between Empires: Spanish Immigrants in the United States (1868-1945)21. Jennifer Duprey — The Exile as Disinherited: Pere Calders in Mexico22. Sebastiaan Faber — Rethinking Spanish Civil War Exile: The Curious Case of the Catalans23. Gina Herrmann — Transatlantic TrotskyTransatlantic Postcolonial Affinities24. Luis Fernández Cifuentes — Notions of Empire: Transatlantic Art at the Height of the Cold War (A Case Study)25. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones — Transatlantic Film Studies in the Age of Neoliberalism: Towards a Post-National Cinema?26. Brad Epps — Looping the Loop: The African Vector in Hispanic Trans-Atlantic Studies27. Thomas Harrington — When the Mediterranean Moved West: Catalan Social Networks and the Construction of 19th and Early 20th Century Uruguayan Society and Culture28. Silvia Bermúdez — “Africa begins in…” Donato Ndongo’s and Francisco Zamora Loboch’s Transatlantic Cartographies29. Michelle Murray — Coerced Migration and Sex Trafficking: Transoceanic Circuits of Enslavement30. Marco Antonio Landavazo — The Good Monarchical Government: Popular Translations of Spanish Political Thought During Mexico’s IndependenceTransatlantic Influence31. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado — Alfonso Reyes, Hispanist Praxis and the Critique of Transatlantic Reason32. Lanie Millar — Nicolás Guillén and Lusophone Negritude33. Estela Vieira — Transatlantic Modernisms: Portugal and Brazil34. Vicente Cervera — Hispanisms in the Works of Pedro Henríquez Ureña35. Robert Wells — It’s Complicated -Ortega y Gasset’s Relationship with Argentina36. Enrique Cortez — Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo: The Colonial Matrix and the Latin American LiteraturesEpilogue37. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — The Future—If There Is One—Is Transatlantic

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