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Book SynopsisRevisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its conflation with testimony and its expansion beyond literary texts. The book analyzes life narratives in Arabic, colloquial Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media. The various case studies highlight narrative strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization, while engaging patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices. Using a transdisciplinary interpretative lens, the analyses focus on how women authors, artists, and activists collapse the boundaries between autobiography, biography, testimony, and sociopolitical commentary to revise dominant conventions of authorship, transgress oppressive definitions of gender roles and relations, and envision change.Revisionary Narratives marks auto/biography and testimony as a specific field of inquiry within the study of women’s postcolonial cultural productions in the Moroccan and, more broadly, the Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts.Trade ReviewReviews‘This work presents an original study and critique of current cultural production by Moroccan women as a response to the repressive Years of Lead …The qualities of the work are exceptional and it will add a dimension to the studies on Moroccan women’s cultural production that has not been addressed before.'Valérie K. Orlando, University of Maryland'This book's central focus on auto/biography and testimony in works of cultural production by women of Morocco makes a valuable contribution to recent scholarship in life writing/life narratives critically departing from the mostly male-centred repertoire of the sovereign subject. By including photographic and accompanying artistic practices, Hachad extends the field of auto/biographical studies beyond the preoccupation with writing.'Norman Saadi Nikro, University of PotsdamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Moroccan Women’s Auto/biographical and Testimonial Acts in ContextChapter 1: The Rise of a Feminist Consciousness in Saïda Menebhi’s Prison WritingsChapter 2: (Re)writing the Woman Resister: Violence, Gender, and Legitimacy in Fatna El Bouih and Malika Oufkir’s TestimoniesChapter 3: Speaking for the Voiceless: Political and Ethical Considerations of Moroccan Women’s ‘Collective Testimonial Self’Chapter 4: Visual, Cultural, and Geopolitical Thresholds in Lalla Essaydi’s Depiction of Moroccan WomenChapter 5: Carolle Bénitah’s Photo-Embroidery: Remembering, Reframing, Disfiguring, and Embellishing the PastChapter 6: Modes of Feminine Resistance and Testimony in the Wake of the Mudawana reform and the Arab Uprisings: Contemporary Discourses of Contestation in Naïma Zitan’s play Daily and Fedwa Misk’s Webzine QandishaConclusion: The Future of Moroccan Women’s Auto/biography and TestimonyBibliography

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Book SynopsisRevisioning French Culture brings together a remarkable group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects. Revisioning French Culture grapples with topics vital to the contemporary cultural landscape, including universalism, globalization, the idea of Francophonie, and religious and secular identity. This essay collection furthermore transcends and illuminates the contemporary by delving into matters that have long resonated in the humanities and letters, such as death, war, trauma, power and politics, notions of the truth, conceptions of the self, and modes of reading and writing. With contributions by a number of figures known across the humanities and the social sciences, Revisioning French Culture provides cultural, political, and historical context for the crisis facing democracy and liberalism around the world today. These essays were assembled in honor of Lawrence D. Kritzman, whose writing and editorial work in French studies inspired the wide-ranging themes examined here.Table of ContentsAndrew Sobanet, IntroductionI. France in Perspective: The Hexagon, Francophonie, EuropePierre Nora, The MetamorphosisMaurice Samuels, Historicizing French Universalism: The Case of Jewish EmancipationFrançoise Lionnet, Universalisms and FrancophoniesJulia Kristeva, A European Culture ExistsII. Visions of the World Wars, or L’Histoire avec sa grande hachePeter Brooks, Death Drives: Freud and ProustSusan Rubin Suleiman, Foreigners and Strangers: Jews in French Society and Literature between the Two World WarsGerald Prince, Bernard Frank and Patrick Modiano: Jewish WritersBarbara Will, Beckett’s French ResistanceIII. Refractions and ReflectionsNelly Furman, Between Acceptance and Betrayal: Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, rue LabatRoxana Verona, In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain: The Photo Album and the Francophone (Dis)connectionHélène Cixous, Osnabrück Station to JerusalemIV. French Literature, RevisionedR. Howard Bloch, Mallarmé MédiévalStephen G. Nichols, What’s in a Word?: Language, Philosophy and Satire in Troubadour PoetryPierre Saint-Amand, Rousseau’s Late Botany: Living to the EndAlbert Sonnenfeld, Mallarmé's Gardens of Culinary DelightsWarren Motte, The Book, Inside and OutV. The Subject in FocusGeorges Vigarello, Internal Senses and the History of the Western SubjectFrançois Noudelmann, The Author's Afterlife: What is a Posthumous Truth?J. Hillis Miller, What Happens When I ReadVI. Philosophical LensesSouleymane Bachir Diagne, ‘African Philosophy’: The History of an ExpressionFrançois Hartog, Making History or Preventing the World from Destroying ItselfEtienne Balibar, Philosophy and Contemporary Reality: Beyond the Event?Brian J. Reilly, Jacques Derrida’s Pedagogical Imperative for the SciencesVII. CodaPierre NoraJulia Kristeva

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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 Review'While some could see the thematic limitation as a weakness in the volume, I see it as a strength… the editors focus on their joint expertise, and the synergy between their academic background and the academic training of their translators… the editors of the volume demonstrate a will to build a community of North Africanists with multidisciplinary backgrounds and viewpoints... thus expanding the spehere of intellectual conversation between the Global South and North.' Aomar Boum, The Journal of North African StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and Translation ChoicesList of FiguresPreface by Zakya Daoud (a.k.a Jacqueline David)IntroductionPart I: Literature and Literary CriticismMohamed Berrada: Itinerary and Problematics of Modern Arab CultureTranslated by Steve FleckRachid Mimouni: A Literature, Fait AccompliTranslated by Matthew ReeckMohamed Bennis: The Manifesto of WritingTranslated by Matthew BrauerJamal Al Achgar: Driss Chraïbi: “I am from a lost generation.Translated by Andrea LloydSamira Mounir: Laâbi, or the New MessianismTranslated by Andrea LloydJamal Eddine Naji: Mostafa Nissaboury, “Moving past absence and deference to create.”Translated by Matthew BrauerFatima Mernissi: Abdallah Zrika, the Voice of Love Still UnheardTranslated by Andrea LloydAbdelfattah Kilito: Meddeb and His DoublesTranslated by yasser elhariryJ. M. et Zakya Daoud: Khaïr-Eddine: “We can’t stare at the sun without exposing ourselves to the tragedy of lucidity.”Translated by Khalid LyamlahyJacques Alessandra: The Fascination with FormalismTranslated by Khalid LyamlahyMohammed Khaïr-Eddine: Rediscovering the SouthTranslated by Khalid LyamlahyZakya Daoud: Khaïr-Eddine’s Linguistic Guerrilla WarfareTranslated by Khalid LyamlahyAbderrahmane Lakhsassi: The Conception of Tashelhit PoetryTranslated by Matthew BrauerAbdelwahab Meddeb: The Writer and Exile (A Reading of Anabase by St. John-Perse)Translated by Matthew ReeckJuan Goytisolo: The Current State of MudéjarismTranslated by Matthew BrauerZakya Daoud: Interview: A. Khatibi, To Be a Witness Generation, To Listen to the TimesTranslated by Matthew ReeckMohamed El Malki: The Arab Theater in Search of a Redefinition of its Socio-Cultural FunctionTranslated by Steve FleckZakya Daoud: Tayeb Saddiki Assesses Moroccan CultureTranslated by Matthew BrauerPart II: Art and Art CriticismLamlif editors: Tallal: A Sad ViolenceTranslated by Katarzyna PieprzakZakya Daoud: Chebaa: “The painting is working itself out in my head” Translated by Megan MacdonaldZakya Daoud: Amine Demnati: “Here they want to destroy. Art is beautiful. Destruction, on the other hand, is ugly.” Translated by Katarzyna PieprzakMohamed Chebaa: Let’s Liberate Painting from the Paratext!Translated by Elizabeth MarcusAlain Flamand: Chaibia’s Childhoods, or A Painter’s GraceTranslated by Megan MacdonaldToni Maraini: Yacoubi, Who Were You?Translated by Megan MacdonaldAbdallah Bounfour: Intertext and the Imaginary in The Work of AboulouaqarTranslated by Megan MacdonaldMohamed Kacimi: Writing on WritingTranslated by Megan MacdonaldJamal Al Achgar: Comics, a New Art... Translated by Andrea LloydAlain Flamand: Miloudi’s ShapesTranslated by Elizabeth Marcus Part III: Critical TheoryOmar Benjelloun/Mohamed Elberini: Document—Class Struggle in MoroccoTranslated by Idriss JebariMohamed El Berini: The Language Issue and the Class StruggleTranslated by Jill JarvisMoulim Laarousi: We Must Create a Language: Bouzfour and OubelhajTranslated by Kristin HickmanMoulim Laroussi: Ahmed El Yabouri: The Reflection of HegemonyTranslated by Kristin HickmanAbderrahman Tenkoul: Maghrebi Literature of French Expression and Critical DiscourseTranslated by yasser elhariryMohamed Jibril: What is the Purpose of Education?Translated by Ali AlalouFarida Bennis: Thesis: Is Marxism a Freudian Idealism? Translated by Idriss JebariZakya Daoud: FIRST COMMISSION: To Liberate Culture Is to Liberate ManTranslated by Jill JarvisAmina Achour Ihrai: Laroui, Belal, and Guessous: In the Face of Historical Lag and TraditionTranslated by Samia ErrazzoukiZakya Daoud: Abdelkébir Khatibi: We Must Attempt a Lasting Double CritiqueTranslated by Matthew ReeckMustapha Sihimi: COUNTERPOINT: What Policy? What Culture?Translated by yasser elhariryBensalem Himmic: CULTURE: Intellectuals in the Face of Historical DepressionTranslated by yasser elhariryAdelkébir Khatib: Beyond Trauma: Morocco/Spain (In Search of Lost Paradise)Translated by Matthew Reeck

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Book SynopsisWe are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. […] This region itself, we soon foresee, as difficult as it may seem to formulate its partition, is mixed in time as much as in space, a common site which hides another gap. Time has changed and space has changed. A steep separation of time and space, overwhelming one another. A new region that is an epoch, mixing all times and all durations, an epoch also which is an inexhaustible country, accumulating expanses, which are looking for other limits, in incalculable but always finite number, as has been said of atoms. […] we are entering into this new region of the world, of totalized space, of relativized time, where everyone already admits that differences are determinant, but most often they refuse to recognize that their sum, their realized quantity, sketches another Relation, quite different because we have so long ignored it, but we know that it is made and brewed from inextricable and propitious contaminants. […] And we enter into the Whole-World, which always for us covers the totality of the world, but here it is that this Whole-World is also in our actuality another region of the world, a whole new region, and the world is there, it is right-here, it is ahead of us, who say it without saying it while saying it again, undertaking a new category of literature. None of the regions of the world is really unknown, the explorers have driven their trains to their endpoint, yet there is another region of the world in the world, which we have not traveled so much, for we will have to cross it all together, it is this very improbable Whole-World, and a few had knowledge of it. Well then, the world is completely recognized, and the Whole-World covers entirely the world, however and for us the Whole-World is to be discovered and known. It is a part of the world, which right-here transcends the world and designates it.Trade Review“The spirit and letter of the essay have been beautifully transferred into English, without betraying any of the original impetus […] it reproduces, in interesting and sometimes surprising ways, exactly what the Francophone reader would experience faced with the original text.”Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisWe are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. [] This region itself, we soon foresee, as difficult as it may seem to formulate its partition, is mixed in time as much as in space, a common site which hides another gap. Time has changed and space has changed. A steep separation of time and space, overwhelming one another. A new region that is an epoch, mixing all times and all durations, an epoch also which is an inexhaustible country, accumulating expanses, which are looking for other limits, in incalculable but always finite number, as has been said of atoms. [] we are entering into this new region of the world, of totalized space, of relativized time, where everyone already admits that differences are determinant, but most often they refuse to recognize that their sum, their realized quantity, sketches another

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Book SynopsisThe Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers’ political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Émile Zola and three writers connected to him – Ferdinand Brunetière, Henry Céard and Saint-Georges de Bouhélier – drew on their affinities and antagonisms concerning Zola’s naturalist fiction to shape their political discourse in the Dreyfus Affair. Zola and Bouhélier were Dreyfusard, Brunetière and Céard anti-Dreyfusard, yet in each case they transformed a vision of what literature should be into arguments about French national identity, the proper relationship between literary and political thought, and the tensions between individual rights and raison d’état.Developing a method entitled ‘microhistories of ideas,’ Cooke shows that a longitudinal approach to each writer’s career yields a set of central unit-ideas that reappear in the new, emotive context of the Affair. Through close readings of material such as pamphlets, newspaper columns and aesthetic essays, the significance of often ephemeral writing to the larger questions of intellectual history – and to the outcome of the Dreyfus Affair itself - becomes clear.Trade Review"The significance of this approach is to highlight the importance of esthetic considerations in this—and potentially other—political debates rather than making art the handmaiden of political discourse. I think this is not only original, but could become a model for scholars studying literary politics in other times and places."Robert A. Nye, Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Microhistories of Ideas and the Dreyfus AffairConcise Chronology1. The Prehistory of ‘J’Accuse…!’: Zola’s Career as Critic2. Beyond ‘J’Accuse…!’: Zola in the Dreyfus Affair3. Against Zola and Individualism: Ferdinand Brunetière from Literary Critic to anti-Dreyfusard4. Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, Dreyfusard malgré lui5. Henry Céard Reads the Dreyfus AffairConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.Trade Review"Through a sophisticated close reading of a variety of yet untapped Italian literary sources, this thought-provoking volume sheds light on a fascinating and understudied aspect of Italian foreign relations and cultural diplomacy. An exciting read for anyone interested in Japan-Italy relations, Orientalism, and East-West relations."Rebecca Suter, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Japanese Studies, The University of SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Searching for Japan1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation. Views from the Russo-Japanese War2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan4. Madama Butterfly RevisedPostscript

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Book SynopsisA cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again.’ The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court’s move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a ‘ghetto’, and by the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s restoration plan of André Malraux (which did not go without criticism and opposition). Its most recent avatar has been as the best-known gay quartier of the capital, though again this identity has not been a straightforward or always easily-accepted one. The stress throughout will be on representations – literary, cinematic, autobiographical, photographic and in graphic-novel form – as much as if not more than the unfolding of historical events.Trade Review'This book offers a rich and stimulating cultural topography of the Marais quarter of Paris, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The author nimbly synthesizes a wide range of historical research on the quarter. This in turn furnishes the context for the more original dimension of the project: the close reading of the ways in which the Marais figures in a range of cultural representations.'Douglas Smith, University College DublinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One’The poor and the well-to-do lived side by side in the same street’ : The Marais before the French RevolutionChapter Two ‘Grass grows, a passer-by is an event, and everybody knows everybody else’: the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary PeriodChapter Three‘This is why the Jews had their ghetto there’ : the Marais in the pre-Second War twentieth centuryChapter Four‘The Occupation robbed them of their childhood, their adolescence’: the Marais in the war years and the Fourth RepublicChapter Five‘The inhabitants are taken into account’ (?): the conservation of the MaraisChapter Six‘A different kind of ghetto’ : the gay Marais comes to dominate its Jewish predecessor

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Book SynopsisThis volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Sarah Arens, Nicola Frith, Jonathan Lewis and Rebekah Vince I. Colonial Continuities and Nostalgia Bayadères in the French Imagination: A Persistent Dance Tessa Ashlin Nunn Jean-Paul Kauffmann: Nostalgia, Empire and Imagined Resurrections Patrick Crowley A Russian Love Affair: Memory, Nostalgia and Transimperial Connections Srilata Ravi Colonialism, Race and Caribbean Migration: A History of the BUMIDOM Antonia Wimbush Continuity or Rupture?: Remapping the End of Empire in Marguerite Duras’s ‘Cycle Indien’ Julia Waters The Visible Other: Muslim Women, Feminism, and National Identity in France Edwige Crucifix Bridge Slaves of Fashion. Les Indiennes: The Extended Triangle The Singh Twins II. Decoloniality and Transcolonial Modes of Resistance Hidden Heritages and Unlikely Legacies: An Eastern Jerusalem in Hubert Haddad’s Premières neiges sur Pondichéry Rebekah Vince Decolonizing Collective Memory from within: Rwandan Remembrance in Belgium and France Catherine Gilbert Divided Worlds, Distorted Selves: Coloniality and the Process of Identification in Yasmina Khadra’s Ce que le jour doit à la nuit Abdelbaqi Ghorab The Enslaved Man in Un Cœur simple: A Story within a Story Sucheta Kapoor Mobility, Immobility and Transgression: Representations of Dangerous Travellers in Mounsi’s La Noce des fous Jonathan Lewis Policing Black Anti-Colonial Activism in Interwar France: The Surveillance of Lamine Senghor in Fréjus, Marseille and Bordeaux David Murphy Afterword Charles Forsdick

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Book SynopsisThis unique book considers COVID-19 as one pandemic amongst many, forming an episodic era of ebbing and flowing crises: the Virocene. Investigating COVID-19 in the context of the phenomenology of the crisis, it offers critical exploration of key theses in the study of mobility and futures, travel and citizenship. Through thought-provoking and insightful analysis Rodanthi Tzanelli suggests that COVID-19, and any highly infectious virus that follows, evolves into the new self-governing principle of various forms of movement, acting as an ontological magnet: as mobilities become reshaped by remote technologies, the very order of reality changes.Examining how one viral crisis can trigger more crises, prompting radical self-assessment in the new orders of life, Tzanelli suggests that the Virocene and the Anthropocene interact in ways that may lead to multiple ecological failures or produce the key to better futures. This interdisciplinary book analyses contemporary events from a range of perspectives, providing a large-scale qualitative assessment of recent phenomena.It will be a key resource for students and scholars of cultural sociology, sociological theory, geography, anthropology, environmental humanities and communication studies, while also benefiting practitioners in crisis management and policymaking interested in alternative approaches to pandemics and social change.Trade Review‘Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene: Mutating the Crisis deftly transcends both the myopic obsession with the crisis at hand and the optimistic platitudes about its aftermath that have circulated in popular pandemic commentary. In their place, Tzanelli offers a fresh perspective on the pandemic, arguing that it is not merely a momentary reordering of our daily (im)mobilities, but rather symptomatic of a new epoch in which recurring crises have become a hallmark of human life on earth. Tzanelli’s diagnosis shifts the conversation into an altogether different register, inviting readers to question our deeply held assumptions about the nature of reality and pointing us toward the real hopes we might harbor for our future world.’ -- Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I RE-INTRODUCING THE COENIC : OVERLAPPING ERAS = OVERLAPPING IMAGINARIES? Introduction to Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene PART II VIROPOLITICS 1. Virocene imaginaries: colonising the ontic sphere 2. Virocene emplotments: masking cultural politics as biomedical events PART III FABRICA MUNDI (DIGITALIS) : THE RADICAL SHIFT 3. Work and the new (im)mobilities of the Virocene 4. Virocene pilgrimage in micro-spheres PART IV TOURISM, TRAVEL, ALTERMOBILITIES 5. Post-viral tourism’s antagonistic tourist imaginaries 6. Beyond technophilia: from alternative modernities to alternative realities PART V BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (IS THE DAY WE ALWAYS COME HOME Conclusion: pluritopia and pluriworlds that travel (with) us Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA map and compass in troubled times for global changemakers and leaders.

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Book SynopsisCultural economics has become well established as a subject of interest for students and instructors of courses ranging from economics to arts administration as well as for policy-makers and practitioners in the creative industries. Digitization has had a tremendous impact on many areas of the creative economy and the third edition of this popular book fully reflects it. The Handbook of Cultural Economics is an acknowledged leading source for students, teachers and others interested in finding out about the subject. Cultural economics covers a wide range of topics and they are reflected in the many short and accessibly written chapters. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the subject and offers both suggestions for further reading and cross-references to other related chapters in the book. It therefore combines accessibility with depth of knowledge. The intention of the book is to introduce the reader to the various topics and to testify to the strength of economics in explaining the economic aspects of the world of the arts and creative industries. The third edition demonstrates the huge impact that digitization has had on production and consumption in the sector. While being accessible to any reader with a basic knowledge of economics, it presents a comprehensive study at the forefront of the field for students and teachers of economics, business economics, creative industries, and media and arts administration as well as for policy-makers. Contributors include: O. Ashenfelter, V. Ateca Amestoy, M. Bacache-Beauvallet, W. Baumol, P. Belleflamme, P.J. Benghozi, F. Benhamou, T. Bille, M. Blaug, K. Borowiecki, M. Bourreau, S. Cameron, D.C. Chisholm, F. Colbert, T. Cuccia, C. Dalla Chiesa, J. Denis, P. Di Caro, G. Doyle, J. Farchy, V. Fernandez-Blanco, B. Frey, O. Gergaud, V. Ginsburgh, M. Gómez-Vega, K. Graddy, A. Haddida, C. Handke, L.C. Herrero-Prieto, M. Hutter, W.M. Landes, M. Lavanga, Y.-H. Liu, I. Mazza, C. McAndrew, J. McKenzie, T. Navarrete, D. Netzer, J.W. O Hagan, T. Orme, M. Peitz, J. Prieto-Rodriguez, H. Ranaivoson, M. Rushton, G. Schulze, B. Seaman, S. Shin, J. Snowball, D. Throsby, R. Towse, O. Velthuis, R. Watt, J. Waldfogel, G. Withers, M. ZiebaTrade Review'Ruth Towse and Trilce Navarrete Hernandez are leading lights in cultural economics, and the third edition of the Handbook of Cultural Economics once again is the go-to source for research and wisdom in this area of research, impressive for both its depth and breadth.' --Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi Introduction 1 Ruth Towse and Trilce Navarrete Hernández 1 Application of welfare economics to the arts 9 William J. Baumol 2 Art auctions 19 Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy 3 Art dealers 29 Olav Velthuis 4 Artificial intelligence 38 Joëlle Farchy and Juliette Denis 5 Artists’ labour markets 46 Trine Bille 6 Artists’ resale rights 56 Victor Ginsburgh and Clare McAndrew 7 Artists’ rights 66 Michael Rushton 8 Broadcasting 72 Glenn Withers 9 Business models 82 Pierre-Jean Benghozi 10 Contingent valuation 95 Tiziana Cuccia 11 Contract theory and information goods 106 Richard Watt 12 Copyright 116 William M. Landes 13 Cost of production 129 Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 14 Creative industries 137 Ruth Towse 15 Creativity 145 Karol Jan Borowiecki 16 Criticism 154 Samuel Cameron 17 Crowdfunding 158 Carolina Dalla Chiesa and Christian Handke 18 Cultural capital 168 David Throsby 19 Cultural districts 174 Mariangela Lavanga 20 Cultural diversity 183 Heritiana Ranaivoson 21 Cultural entrepreneurship 192 Mark Blaug and Ruth Towse 22 Cultural statistics 197 David Throsby 23 Cultural value 206 Jen D. Snowball 24 Demand 216 Jordi McKenzie and Sunny Y. Shin 25 Digital piracy 228 Jordi McKenzie 26 Digitization in the cultural industries 235 Joel Waldfogel 27 Economic impact of the arts 241 Bruce A. Seaman 28 Event cinema 254 Allègre L. Hadida 29 Festivals 262 Bruno S. Frey 30 Google Trends data 266 Olivier Gergaud and Victor Ginsburgh 31 Heritage 279 Françoise Benhamou 32 Information goods 287 Michael Hutter 33 Intangible cultural heritage 294 Tiziana Cuccia 34 Intermediaries 304 Paolo Di Caro, Luigi Di Gaetano and Isidoro Mazza 35 International trade 311 Günther G. Schulze 36 Marketing the arts 320 François Colbert 37 Media economics and regulation 329 Gillian Doyle 38 Motion-picture industry 339 Darlene C. Chisholm and Yu-Hsi Liu 39 Museums 349 Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 40 Music industry 358 Christian Handke 41 Music publishing 371 Ruth Towse 42 Non-profit organizations 379 Dick Netzer (updated by Bruce A. Seaman) 43 Orchestras 392 Luis César Herrero-Prieto and Mafalda Gómez-Vega 44 Participation 399 Victoria Ateca-Amestoy 45 Performance indicators 408 Trilce Navarrete Hernández 46 Performing arts 415 Ruth Towse 47 Platforms 421 Maya Bacache-Beauvallet and Marc Bourreau 48 Political economy 430 Isidoro Mazza 49 Pricing the arts 441 Michael Rushton 50 Public support 449 Bruno S. Frey Index

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Book SynopsisIn the eighteenth century, as the forms, practices and spaces of urban sociability emerged and took shape (such as salons, clubs, theatres, public places and promenades), police forces and policing practices were undergoing far-reaching changes.

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Book SynopsisSounds Senses is about what happens to the francophone postcolonial condition when sound is taken as a point of departure for engaging cultural production.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together academics, researchers, and practitioners to investigate historical continuities and discontinuities in the public discourse and the creation of diverse sets of opinions around conflict in Greece and internationally.

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Book SynopsisAs a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren Rock’, ‘Fragrant Harbour’, ‘Port of Incense’, ‘Pearl of the Orient’, ‘Asia’s World City’, ‘Vertical City’, ‘Floating City’ to ‘City at the End of Time’ among others. In the post-handover, post-hangover years, the circulation, reverberation and reception of cultural symbols, old and new, such as the King of Kowloon, Song Emperor’s Terrace, and Lion Rock have revealed the multifaceted appearances and connotations of Hong Kong’s ‘local’. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption and multiple voices, the book extracts and examines the local relations between the inhabitants of the territory and the human and nonhuman agencies that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong across time and through space. Via the lens of places, things and cultural icons, the book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War period of the twentieth century—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?Trade Review“This is a highly original and timely study in a field that is still developing, having been neglected in terms of its global cultural significance until very recently. Now Dr Wu’s book couldn’t be more topical.”Professor Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong KongTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE HANGOVER AFTER THE HANDOVERCHAPTER 1LOCAL RELATIONS AND THEIR POSTCOLONIAL OUTLOOKSCHAPTER 2HONG KONG’S LOCAL: (DE-)GENERATING LOCAL RELATIONSCHAPTER 3ALL HAIL THE KING OF KOWLOON! MEDIATING MALLEABLE MATERIALITYCHAPTER 4CONNECTING WITH THE LOCAL, OR NOT: THE SONG EMPEROR’S TERRACECHAPTER 5ANOTHER ROCK, ANOTHER HONG KONG STORY: LION ROCK FROM BELOW AND ABOVECONCLUSION: LOCAL AND TRANSLOCAL: LESSONS FROM HONG KONGBIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. It aims to consider what the extreme and subjective act of self-killing, narrated in suicide letters, can tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies. What do rising work-related suicides reveal about conditions of human labour in the twenty-first century? Does neoliberal economics condition a desire for suicide? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act? Combining critical perspectives from sociology, history, testimony studies, economics, cultural studies and public health, the book raises critical questions about the human costs of the shift to a finance-driven neoliberal order and its everyday effects within the French workplace.Trade ReviewReviews'This book offers us an exhaustive and penetrating analysis of the questions posed by workplace suicide. Sarah Waters makes it an essential key to understanding not only the transformations of the French society but of any society.' Christophe Dejours, Directeur de l'Institut de Psychodynamique de TravailTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Capitalism, work and suicideChapter Two: Suicide as TestimonyChapter Three: Going PostalChapter Four: Orange on the InsideChapter Five: Fast Cars and Vital ExhaustionConclusionBibliographyReferences

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Book SynopsisOver recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profound shift in contemporary French economy, culture and society. Engaging with work in political economy and sociology, the book sketches a new interpretative framework, the better to understand the nature and implications of these profound changes. It examines the challenges such changes have posed to fundamental French republican values, arguing they have opened up a rift between older notions of French republican citizenship and the precarious forms of subjectivity characteristic of post-Fordist labour. The book traces the symptoms of this rift in a range of cinematic and literary representations of the contemporary workplace, as these depict the dilemmas faced, the trajectories followed, and the geographical regions inhabited by French workers of different ages, sexes, social classes, and ethnicities.Trade Review“This is a well-written and clearly argued treatment of the implications of a post-Fordist regime of economic management on employment in France, as seen through literary and filmic representations."Nick Parsons, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPART ONE: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIESChapter One: The Crisis of Fordism. Symptoms and DiagnosesChapter Two: Modulating Work and WelfarePART TWO: CHARACTER TYPES, TRAJECTORIES, UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIESChapter Three: Modulated masculinitiesChapter Four: Femmes FortesChapter Five: Doomed YouthChapter Six: Sans PapiersConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Culture of War explores the unexpected flourishing of literature both high and low during the Siege of Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. When Prussian forces completely blockaded Paris, isolating the city from the outside world, Parisians turned to literature to resist the enemy, to fill the idle hours under siege, and to articulate their place in history. This cultural boom was a conscious effort on the part of literary institutions like newspapers, publishers, and theaters to ensure the viability of their industries during a period of political uncertainty. To do so, many publishers, editors, and directors sought legitimacy through populism, promoting literature written by anonymous and unknown authors or that spoke to populist ideas. A study of national tragedy on a local scale, The Culture of War goes beyond traditional narratives of communal or individual psychology, and studies institutional responses to financial and political instability, viewing literature as a product of economic and political forces.Trade Review"This book offers an original and intriguing look into the literature of the four-month period of the Siege (introducing some virtually unknown works to readers) as well as a novel exploration of the ways that literary institutions responded to this moment of turmoil.”Anne O'Neil-Henry, Georgetown University'Because the book shows the power of a patriotism which reactivates references to the French Revolution, to the people in arms, the work, although written by a specialist in literature, is also extremely careful to get out of textual analysis stricto sensu to question literature as a social activity, [...] gives new life to printers, publishers, owners of newspapers and theatres, who are the actors of this moment of exceptional creativity. [...] All in all, this stimulating book reinforces the value of a multidisciplinary approach to writing in times of war.'Odile Roynette, Contemporary TerritoriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPart I: On StageChapter 1: The Boulevards Lose Their TheatersChapter 2: HugomaniaPart II: Off PressesChapter 3: The Feuilleton at WarChapter 4: The Dubious Battle of ReichshoffenPart III: At HomeChapter 5: Letters to No OneChapter 6: Historians of the PresentPart IV: In PrintChapter 7: De-Modernizing PublishingChapter 8: To Make the Past PublicCodaThe Siege and State ViolenceBibliography

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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 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 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 SynopsisAbdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi’s engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi’s works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.Contributors: Assia Belhabib, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Dominique Combe, Rim Feriani, Charles Forsdick, Olivia C. Harrison, Jane Hiddleston, Debra Kelly, Khalid Lyamlahy, Lucy McNeece, Matt Reeck, Alison Rice, Nao Sawada, Andy Stafford, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Alfonso de ToroTrade Review'It is difficult to overstate the importance of Abdelkebir Khatibi, not just for the postcolonial or francophone world but for literary and cultural studies in general. This volume will be a significant contribution to scholarship on the multifaceted and complex work of this original literary and cultural voice.'Nasrin Qader, Northwestern University'Jane Hiddleston and Khalid Lyamlahy’s hard-hitting collection of essays on Abdelkébir Khatibi represents the first major English-language publication devoted to the Moroccan thinker and his work.[...] In this sense, there can be no greater homage to, or recognition of, Khatibian destabilisation and instigation than the editors' thoughtful interfolding of elements of surprise into the collection’s structure. [...] This book is positioned to be of immense interest to students and scholars of postcolonialism who are invested in the complex intersections of politics, literature, language, and identity, both within and beyond the francosphere. One of the book’s most precious contributions to (francophone) postcolonialism is how it points to fecund crossovers with adjacent fields of scholarship, and gestures toward potentially trailblazing interventions.'Yasser Elhariry, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies'There is also a useful overview of Khatibi scholarship, which in turn offers readers a chance to consider new avenues for research and enquiry. Particularly impressive is the way that this volume brings together many Khatibi scholars. [...] Hiddleston and Lyamlahy have done a laudable job of making the book accessible to a wide audience; whether one has just discovered Khatibi’s writings or spent a lifetime studying him, there is something in this collection for everyone.'Shannon K. Winston, French Studies'Abdelkébir Khatibi is quite properly characterized by the editors of this impressive collaboration as among the most important theorists of postcolonialism and contemporary Islamic culture. [...There are] fourteen individually fascinating and cumulatively compelling essays offered here, and which are valuably complemented by translations of substantial extracts from two of Khatibi’s major texts. [...] This absorbing introduction to his life and work deserves to be widely read and discussed.'Philip Dine, International Journal of French Studies'[Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond] stands as the most comprehensive account of Khatibi available in English to date. It presents insightful and authoritative readings on his relation to critical theory, poststructuralism, and postcolonial theory while integrating crucial but neglected aspects of his writing, notably his work in sociology, popular culture, and visual arts.' Matthew Brauer, Journal of North Africa StudiesTable of ContentsList of photographsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAbdelkébir Khatibi, At Home and AbroadJane Hiddleston and Khalid LyamlahyI. Critical Thinking: From Decolonisation to TransnationalismThe ‘Souverainement Orphelin’ of Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Early Writings: Sociology in the Souffles YearsAndy StaffordTireless Translation: Travels, Transcriptions, Tongues and the Eternal Plight of the ‘Étranger professionnel’ in the corpus of Abdelkébir KhatibiAlison RiceAbdelkébir Khatibi’s Mediterranean IdiomEdwige Tamalet TalbayevAbdelkébir Khatibi and the Transparency of LanguageAssia Belhabib (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Performativity and Abdelkébir Khatibi, ‘From where to speak’: Living, Thinking and Writing with an ‘epistemological accent’Alfonso de ToroII. Cultural and Philosophical DialoguesKhatibi and the Transcolonial TurnOlivia C. HarrisonSegalen and Khatibi: Bilingualism, Alterity and the Poetics of DiversityCharles ForsdickDerrida and Khatibi: A ‘Franco-Maghrebian’ dialogueDominique Combe (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Maghrebian Shadow: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Japanese CultureNao SawadaIII. Aesthetics and Art in the Islamic World and BeyondReading Signs and Symbols with Abdelkébir Khatibi: from the Body to the TextRim Feriani, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Debra KellyAbdelkébir Khatibi: The Other Side of the MirrorLucy McNeeceThe Carpet as a Text, The Writer as a Weaver: Reading the Moroccan Carpet with Abdelkébir KhatibiKhalid LyamlahyThe Artist’s Journey, or, the Journey as Art: Aesthetics and Ethics in Pèlerinage d’un artiste amoureux and beyondJane HiddlestonIV. TranslationsExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi, La Blessure du nom propre (Paris: Editions Denoël, 1974)Translated from the French by Matt ReeckExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi and Jacques Hassoun, Le Même Livre (Paris: Editions de l’Eclat, 1985)Translated from the French by Olivia C. HarrisonV. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBy exploring dynamic Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, we offer an alternative chronology and lens to a growing trend in media and scholarship that views these interactions primarily through conflict. Our volume interrogates interaction that crosses the genres of theatre, music, film, art, and stand-up, emphasising creative influence and artistic cooperation between performers from the Maghrib, with a focus on Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and diaspora communities, notably in France. The plays, songs, films, images, and comedy sketches that we analyse are multilingual, mixing not only with the former colonial language French, but also the rich diversity of indigenous Amazigh and Arabic languages. The volume includes contributions by scholars working across and beyond disciplinary boundaries through anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, and literature, engaging with postcolonial studies, memory studies, cultural studies, and transnational French studies. The first section examines accents, affiliations, and exchange, with an emphasis on aesthetics, familiarity, changing social roles, and cultural entrepreneurship. The second section shifts to consider departure and lingering presence through spectres and taboos, in its exploration of absence, influence, and elision. The volume concludes with an autobiographical afterword, which reflects on memories and legacies of Jewish-Muslim interactions across the Mediterranean. Contributors: Cristina Moreno Almeida, Jamal Bahmad, Adi Saleem Bharat, Aomar Boum, Morgan Corriou, Ruth Davis, Samuel Sami Everett, Fanny Gillet, Jonathan Glasser, Miléna Kartowski-Aïach, Nadia Kiwan, Hadj Miliani, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Elizabeth Perego, Christopher Silver, Rebekah Vince, Valérie ZenattiTrade Review"This collection dances off the page, with a series of engaging, accessible, insightful essays on the many ways in which Jewish and Muslim artists and performers from North Africa engaged (and continue to engage) with one another creatively, through comedy, art, film, theater, and music, from the colonial period to the present day."Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA"Excellent ouvrage appelé à faire date. Savamment argumenté et novateur, il bouscule intelligemment des schèmes et des préjugés fossilisés. Les éclairages qu'il apporte sur les relations entre Juifs et Musulmans, oubliées ou occultées, sont pertinents et vivifiants. La mise en évidence, solidement argumentée et nuancée, de leurs affinités artistiques, culturelles et autres, va à contre-courant de l'approche conflictuelle habituelle de leurs interactions. Ce livre a l'immense mérite de sortir des sentiers battus et d'ouvrir de stimulantes perspectives de recherches. A l'ère des extrêmes et du déferlement du populisme, sa lecture s'impose absolument." - Mohammed Kenbib, Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Original quote]"A landmark volume that skilfully and innovatively disrupts fossilized schemas and prejudices through its arguments. The insights that it brings to bear on Jewish-Muslim relations, hitherto obfuscated or forgotten, are pertinent and restorative. Its elucidation of artistic and cultural affinities, convincingly argued and with great nuance, serves as a counterpoint to the more commonplace narrative of conflict when it comes to such interactions. This book is particularly noteworthy as it takes us off the beaten track and opens up stimulating avenues for research. In an era of extremes and a surge in populism it is a must read." - Mohammed Kenbib, Université Mohammed V de Rabat [English translation]"Quand les arts et la création artistique racontent les relations des juifs et des musulmans, ils offrent, alors, au lecteur les échos vibrants d'une histoire partagée dont les héritages résonnent encore aujourd'hui. C'est le défi relevé par les auteurs de cet ouvrage, affranchis des paradigmes politiques et idéologiques, et qui entre passé et présent renouent avec une histoire qui n'existe plus." - Karima Dirèche, CNRS TELEMME [Original quote]"When the creative and performing arts recount relations between Jews and Muslims, they offer to the reader vibrant echoes of a shared history whose legacies continue to resound today. Such is the challenge taken up by the authors of this volume who, free from political and ideological paradigms, reconnect with a forgotten history, somewhere between past and present." - Karima Dirèche, CNRS TELEMME [English translation]"A fascinating, eminently readable collection of essays documenting the dynamic, creative, and surprisingly close collaboration between Muslims and Jews in all domains of the performing arts in the Maghreb and in France from the 1920s to the contemporary post-independence period. In this collection, we encounter a colourful gallery of artists, authors, producers – both Muslims and Jews – who together entertained generations of mixed audiences with theatre plays in vernacular Arabic, cabaret performances, concerts, films, and comic one-man shows.This volume offers us a welcome and timely antidote to the feeling of complete deterioration of the relations between Jews and Muslims in recent decades."Professor Lucette Valensi, École des hautes études en sciences sociales'In brief, this is an exciting and much needed contribution to intercommunal religious studies in North Africa and France. …Scholars in art, music, theater and film will undoubtedly applaud the incontestable demonstration that the arts deeply matter in history and geopolitics.' Tamara Dee Turner, The Journal of North African Studies Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Samuel Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince I. Accents, Affiliations, and Exchange Albert Samama, a Tunisian Filmmaker in the Ottoman Empire at War (1911–1913) Morgan Corriou Translated by David Motzafi-Haller More than Friends? On Muslim-Jewish Musical Intimacy in Algeria and Beyond Jonathan Glasser Nationalist Records: Jews, Muslims, and Music in Interwar North Africa Christopher Silver Marie Soussan: A Singular Trajectory Hadj Miliani and Samuel Sami Everett Retelling the Jewish Past in Tunisia through Narratives of Popular Song Ruth F. Davis ‘Free, but United’? Artistic and Political Issues of Intercommunal Solidarity in Tunisia and Algeria, 1940–1960 Fanny Gillet Translated by David Motzafi-Haller II. Absence, Influence, and Elision Neglected Legacies: Omissions of Jewish Heritage and Muslim-Jewish Relations in Algerian Bandes Dessinees, 1967 through the 1980s Elizabeth Perego Forgotten Encounters: Sounds of Coexistence in Moroccan Rap Music Cristina Moreno Almeida Unmuted Sounds: Jewish Musical Echoes in Twenty-first Century Moroccan and Israeli Soundscapes Aomar Boum Connecting the Disconnect: Music and its Agency in Moroccan Cinema’s Jewish-Muslim Interactions Vanessa Paloma Elbaz Jerusalem Blues: On the Uses of Affect and Silence in Kamal Hachkar’s Tinghir-Jerusalem: Les echos du Mellah (2012) Jamal Bahmad A Newfound Voice from across the Mediterranean: Kamal Hachkar’s Dans tes yeux, je vois mon pays (2019) Milena Kartowski-Aiach Translated by David Motzafi-Haller Creative Coexistence or Creative Co-resistance? Transcultural Complexity in the Work of Street Artist ‘Combo’ Nadia Kiwan Shalom alikoum! Challenging the Conflictual Model of Jewish-Muslim Relations in France through Stand-up Comedy Adi Saleem Bharat Post-face Valerie Zenatti Afterword - Translated by Samuel Sami Everett About the Contributors Index

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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 SynopsisMarvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training, but who shared the common experience of having left Spain to join colonial societies in the making, this book analyses the paths their texts charted to attitudes and political positions that would come to characterize a criollo mode of enunciation. Unlike the accounts of first explorers, which sought to amaze audiences back in Europe with descriptions of strange and astonishing lands, these texts instead engaged the marvellous in an effort to supersede it, stressing the value of sensorial experience and of verifying information through repetition and demonstration. Vernacular medical writing became an unlikely early platform for a new form of regionally anchored discourse that demanded participation in a global intellectual conversation, yet found itself increasingly relegated to the margins. In responding to that challenge, anatomical treatises, natural histories and surgical manuals exceeded the bounds set by earlier templates becoming rich, hybrid narratives that were as concerned with science as with portraying the lives and sensibilities of women and men in early colonial Mexico.Trade Review“This book is highly original, combining very well the approaches, methods and techniques of two disciplines that usually have very different work agendas: the history of medicine and the history of literature.”María Luz López-Terrada, INGENIO [CSIC-UPV]‘Pérez Marín’s important new work is sure to generate future research on topics like these in literary studies of medicine.’ Allison Bigelow, H-LatAm'Pérez Marín has introduced these fascinating medical texts as a way of telling a more complete story of colonial Latin America. She closely reads them through the lens of cultural studies and literary analysis, balancing the highly technical information with its delivery in a narrative voice.' Patricia M. García, Seventeenth-century news‘Marvels of Medicine provides a thorough and compelling read towards the histories of Hispanic health disparities and medical experiences, acknowledging the roles of language proficiencies as well as racial and ethnic biases.’ Margaret E. Boyle, Nursing Clio 'Pe´rez Marı´n’s work offers a valuable, rich interdisciplinary analysis of early colonial medical texts and their authors. The author’s literary and historical contextualization of political, scientific, and cultural discourses that determined the fate of these men and their work is thorough and engaging. This book will be especially useful for scholars interested in viceregal medicine and circulation of knowledge.'Aimee Da´vila Hisey, Hispanic American Historical Review'Marvels of Medicine is a valuable addition to the field [of interdisciplinary study] and stands as an example of the intertextual delights available to us when we bring these skillsets to our reading of early medical writing. [...] The strength of this book lies in its engagement with the literary connections between the various works, highlighting how these individuals were not only authors and medical practitioners, but readers crafting their thoughts in relation to and over-against each other's publications and changing perceptions of Latin America, nature, climate and the human body in the late sixteenth century. [...] Marvels of Medicine offers a very interesting prism through which to engage with medical, social and literary thought in early modern scholarship and creates scope for similar intertextual analysis in this and later periods of medical writing.'Michael Vargas, Bulletin of Spanish Studies'Most of the early works on the natural history of New Spain were printed in Spain and marketed to a Spanish readership eager to feast on wonder [...] In her absorbing new book, Marvels of medicine: literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America, Yarí Pérez Marín, a historian of literature at Durham University, seeks to redress the imbalance that inevitably accompanies such renderings by turning to a body of literature that hasn’t been included in the Latin American literary canon.' William Eamon, Colonial Latin American ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionMedical books and colonial Latin American literatureChapter 1The surgeon’s secrets: the medical travel narrative of Pedro Arias de BenavidesChapter 2Irreconcilable differences?: anatomy, physiology and the New World bodyChapter 3Weakening the sex: the medicalization of female gender identity in New SpainChapter 4Contested medical knowledge and regional self-fashioningConclusionEpilogueWorks cited

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Book SynopsisUnderstories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.Trade Review‘A timely exploration of plant studies in the hemispheric Americas, Understories showcases diverse methodologies for uncovering the imbrications of plant and human world-making across the two continents. Each chapter uniquely challenges the place of plants—from trees to succulents, breadfruit to transgenic soy—in the popular imaginary by charting dynamic histories of growth, transplantation, contamination, and adaptation in a variety of human-plant entanglements.’ Amanda M. Smith‘What impresses the reader of, specially, Latin American literature is the ways in which the fitting title of the collection – Understories also brings to mind plant stories/histories that have passed before our eyes unseen – among other production of its contributors, and in particular its editor, Lesley Wylie, has changed the ways in which we read canonical fictions about plants.’ Felipe Martinez-PinzonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures Introduction. Green Power: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics Lesley Wylie The Dark Twin: Cacao from Mesoamerican Cosmology to the Contemporary Neotropics Bruce Dean Willis “A Good Thing Spring Up”: The Breadfruit Story in the Caribbean Elaine Savory Ceiba pentandra: Axis of the Mesoamerican World / Mirror of Climate Change in the Caribbean Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert The Politics of Yerba Mate Nina Gerassi-Navarro Transgenic Soy in Argentina: Arts of the Toxic Zone Sebastián Figueroa “A Home of Cactus and Maguey”: Dwelling and Cultural Representation of Succulents of the Americas Odile Cisneros From Tropical Pathology to Tropical Plantation: the Hevea brasiliensis, 1839 to 1945 Lesley Wylie The Vine at the End of the World: Reimagining Kudzu in the U.S. South Jessica Martell and Zackary Vernon Bibliography Contributors

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Book SynopsisDuring August 1942 several women jumped to their deaths from a second story window at the tile factory in the small town of Milles near Aix-en-Provence. Between 1939 and 1942 the factory assumed various roles as internment camp, transit camp and ultimately deportation camp. This book is about the view from the ‘suicide window’ as it is presented within the Camp des Milles memorial museum which opened in 2012. It explores how this view might help us to understand and imagine the world of internment and deportation camps operating in France during the Second World War and their memorial today. The book uses the views framed by the window to think critically about the museography of the memorial within the wider context of France’s relatively late acknowledgment of its role in the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War.Trade Review“The author’s ability to locate often unforeseen comparisons with other historical contexts, objects and realities makes for a narrative full of surprising twists and turns that can enrich an otherwise intense, densely packed narrative account.” - Richard J. GolsanTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction. This is not a CampChapter One. Window FrameChapter Two. TricoloreChapter Three. WagonChapter Four. LandscapeChapter Five. SkyConclusion. Recollections of a viewBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Offering an extensive and coherent presentation of theory on the experience economy, this stimulating Advanced Introduction discusses what experiencing is and why people are seeking experiences. Jon Sundbo defines the experience concept in contrast to similar concepts such as culture and creative economies, and presents measurements of the value of the experience economy.Key features include: Analysis of how experiences are replacing services and knowledge as a key driver for the economy Discussion of the future of the experience economy and the impacts Covid-19 may have on this Different perspectives on the experience economy including ones from: evolutionary economics, micro-economics, psychology, marketing, innovation and production, sociology and digitalization. Concise and invigorating, this Advanced Introduction will be a helpful read for marketing, economics, tourism, culture studies and management scholars looking for a stronger theoretical understanding of the experience economy. It will also be interesting to data science scholars, including those focusing on web and social media construction.Trade Review‘This book offers a comprehensive overview and summary of research on the experience economy. It elaborates on the differences of functional services and experiences, and primary and secondary experiences, points at the importance of experience propositions as well as central topics and approaches.The value of paid organized experiences has increased over the last three decades, and was revealed further by its absence during the coronavirus pandemic. Scholars, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduate students will find it a useful resource.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Advanced Introduction to the Experience Economy 2. Experience and similar concepts 3. The experience economy 4. Experience sectors and measurement 5. Experience psychology 6. Experience marketing 7. Experience production—management and business models 8. Experience design, innovation and entrepreneurship 9. Digitalization and experiences 10. Experience sociology 11. Interest regimes 12. Experience research fields 13. Wrapping up and future perspectives Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Offering an extensive and coherent presentation of theory on the experience economy, this stimulating Advanced Introduction discusses what experiencing is and why people are seeking experiences. Jon Sundbo defines the experience concept in contrast to similar concepts such as culture and creative economies, and presents measurements of the value of the experience economy.Key features include: Analysis of how experiences are replacing services and knowledge as a key driver for the economy Discussion of the future of the experience economy and the impacts Covid-19 may have on this Different perspectives on the experience economy including ones from: evolutionary economics, micro-economics, psychology, marketing, innovation and production, sociology and digitalization. Concise and invigorating, this Advanced Introduction will be a helpful read for marketing, economics, tourism, culture studies and management scholars looking for a stronger theoretical understanding of the experience economy. It will also be interesting to data science scholars, including those focusing on web and social media construction.Trade Review‘This book offers a comprehensive overview and summary of research on the experience economy. It elaborates on the differences of functional services and experiences, and primary and secondary experiences, points at the importance of experience propositions as well as central topics and approaches.The value of paid organized experiences has increased over the last three decades, and was revealed further by its absence during the coronavirus pandemic. Scholars, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduate students will find it a useful resource.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Advanced Introduction to the Experience Economy 2. Experience and similar concepts 3. The experience economy 4. Experience sectors and measurement 5. Experience psychology 6. Experience marketing 7. Experience production—management and business models 8. Experience design, innovation and entrepreneurship 9. Digitalization and experiences 10. Experience sociology 11. Interest regimes 12. Experience research fields 13. Wrapping up and future perspectives Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon international case studies, and building upon Iain J.M. Robertson?'s work on ?'heritage from below?', After Heritage sheds critical light on heritage-making and heritagescapes that are, more frequently than not, located in virtual, less conspicuous and more everyday spaces. The book considers the highly personal, often ephemeral, individual ?- vis-à-vis collective -? experiences of (in)formal ways the past has been folded into contemporary societies. In doing so, it unravels the merits of examining more intimate materializations of heritage not only as a check against, but also complementary to, what Laurajanne Smith refers to as ?'Authorized Heritage Discourses?'. It also argues against the tendency to romanticize the fleeting and largely obscured means through which alternative forms of heritage-making are produced, performed and patronized. Ultimately, this book provides a clarion call to reinsert the individual and the transient into collective heritage processes.Researchers in human and cultural geography, heritage studies and tourism studies will find this strong contribution to the developing field of Critical Heritage Studies an insightful read. Policy makers and heritage practitioners will also develop a deeper understanding of how heritage practices may benefit from the '?heritage from below?' approach.Contributors include: A. Aceska, R. Carter-White, M. Cook, D. Drozdzewski, J. Gillen, C. Minca, H. Muzaini, M. Ormond, A.E. Potter, I.J.M. Robertson, J. TynerTrade ReviewAfter Heritage not only offers much needed critical analysis of the heritage-making power and practices of ordinary people, but also productively de-stabilizes the binaries that have long constrained critical memory studies - individual versus collective, intangible versus material, and bottom up versus top down. Its rich array of case studies move us beyond monolithic understandings of how the past is produced, resisted and emplaced within everyday life.' --Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee, US'By excavating politics and identities from below, the nine chapters of this book fascinatingly bring back into focus the everyday, mundane and the local; themes and contexts that continue to be too often overlooked by scholars in heritage studies. Moving away from accounts of state politics and world heritage sites, the book identifies why we need to critically examine family memorabilia, Bruce Lee and motorbiking as forms of heritage. After Heritage makes a significant contribution to the debate concerning where critical heritage studies should head in the future through its various nudges for conceptual innovation and its welcome incorporation of examples from different regions.' --Tim Winter, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking heritage, but ‘from below’ Hamzah Muzaini and Claudio Minca 2. Official memorials, deathscapes, and hidden landscapes of ruin: material legacies of the Cambodian genocide James A. Tyner 3. Motorbikes as ‘aspirational’ heritage: rethinking past, present and future in Vietnam Jamie Gillen 4. The Bruce Lee statue in Mostar: ‘heritage from below’ experiments in a divided city Ana Aceska and Claudio Minca 5. Death camp heritage ‘from below’? Instagram and the (re)mediation of Holocaust heritage Richard Carter-White 6. Unfinished geographies: women’s roles in shaping Black historical counter narratives Matthew R. Cook and Amy E. Potter 7. Stolpersteine and memory in the streetscape Danielle Drozdzewski 8. Adoption, genealogical bewilderment and biological heritage bricolage Meghann Ormond Afterword Iain J. M. Robertson Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Providing a critical overview of cultural economics, this Research Agenda explores the current state of affairs in the field, suggesting methods of improvement for the coherency and progressiveness of future research. Situating work in this area in its historical context, Samuel Cameron draws together a range of international contributors to explore the development of cultural economics.Undertaking a thorough examination of matters of data quality, statistical methodology and the challenge of new developments in technology, chapters examine the different approaches to cultural economics. The book explores the myriad ways in which the topic has been neglected by mainstream economics, and examines reasons why it needs to be considered, evaluated and explored in more detail in our modern world. Current researchers in cultural economics, as well as cultural policies and leisure studies will find this book an invaluable read in exploring different ways to integrate cultural economics into mainstream studies. This Research Agenda will also be an invaluable aid for advanced students to create discussions suitable for essay topics and dissertations. Contributors include: S. Cameron, C. Peukert, J. Snowball, H. Sonnabend, M. ZiebaTrade Review'Exemplary in their commitment to pushing the field into the future, Cameron and colleagues take on many of the elephants in the room for cultural economics: global digital monopolies, technological change, new business models, and social media. Brave, probing, exciting work.' --Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'This seminal work finds no fixed boundaries in cultural economics. Professor Cameron and cohorts plumb the impact on the field of digital technology, integrating metrics with other disciplines, the limits of pricing models and global tourism. It is essential reading for all associated with this important and exciting field.' --Robert Ekelund, Auburn University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Why do we need a Cultural Economics? History and Development of the Field Samuel Cameron 2. Contemporary Challenges to Cultural Economics Samuel Cameron 3. Individual Choice Behaviour Samuel Cameron 4. Flexible digital supply behaviour Christian Peukert, 5. Pricing Hendrik Sonnabend, 6. Government policy Jen Snowball 7. Global trade in cultural tourism services Marta Zieba 8. What is the agenda for cultural economics? Samuel Cameron Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.As the world faces extreme economic, environmental and political crises, this bold and accessible Advanced Introduction argues for a future-facing approach to the creative economy and creative innovation. The book analyses contemporary and historical arts and culture whilst assessing historical shifts from national to global cultures; analogue to digital technologies; and individualist to systems thinking.Key features include: A new approach to the creative industries based on complex systems and evolutionary dynamics Combining humanities-based analysis with economics of innovation A critique of important theorists and intellectual traditions involved in the study of modern mediated creativity Reconceptualizing arts, copyright, cities, time, global media and social agency A thought-provoking reassessment of modernity to pivot creative enterprise for the challenges of the Anthropocene era. Scholars and students of media and communications studies, political economy and economics will benefit from the new approach to creative media and culture, and its proposals to rethink the economics of creativity and innovation. This book will be a helpful guide for policy-makers, consultants and freelancers who work across the borderlines of art, media, technology, business and regulation.Trade Review‘In Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries, John Hartley provides a new understanding of the creative industries and how they have evolved, drawing on real-life examples and case studies. In making the creative economy tangible and relatable, this book is a relevant and practical resource for those with an existing interest in the creative industries as well as those who are new to the landscape.’ -- Sarah Ramadhita, LSE Review of Books‘John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries is a simple but magnificent take on the idea of 'creative industries'; it is less an introduction than a pithy synopsis of the author' s life-long thinking on how to make critical inquiries a creative instrument of social change.’ -- Jin Wen, International Comparative Literature‘20 years ago, John Hartley was at least partly responsible for establishing the creative industries as an academic field; his ongoing project to understand them deeply, and advocate for them passionately, finds new expression here. This characteristically ambitious, wide-ranging and, above all, lively book is - much like the creative industries themselves – bubbling with unruly ideas, unlikely connections, and hope for the future.’ -- Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'Not all writing about the creative industries practises what it preaches! So how exciting to read a creative analysis of these industries. This book sidesteps expectations by offering an imaginative and highly thought-provoking engagement with its puzzling subject matter.' -- - Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Every single human being is creative, and every industry must become a creative industry. John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries provides the research and data we need to better understand the creative industries that increasingly power our economy and shape our society.' -- - Richard Florida, University of Toronto, Canada and author of The Rise of the Creative Class'John Hartley always was and continues to be the very best guide to how to think about the creative industries, how to really understand its cosmological significance as well as its practical use. This book explores a fascinating range of topics, from digital art and intellectual property to the nature of cities, existence, class wars, and deep time. Self-recommending, as they say.'BR> - Jason Potts, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.As the world faces extreme economic, environmental and political crises, this bold and accessible Advanced Introduction argues for a future-facing approach to the creative economy and creative innovation. The book analyses contemporary and historical arts and culture whilst assessing historical shifts from national to global cultures; analogue to digital technologies; and individualist to systems thinking.Key features include: A new approach to the creative industries based on complex systems and evolutionary dynamics Combining humanities-based analysis with economics of innovation A critique of important theorists and intellectual traditions involved in the study of modern mediated creativity Reconceptualizing arts, copyright, cities, time, global media and social agency A thought-provoking reassessment of modernity to pivot creative enterprise for the challenges of the Anthropocene era. Scholars and students of media and communications studies, political economy and economics will benefit from the new approach to creative media and culture, and its proposals to rethink the economics of creativity and innovation. This book will be a helpful guide for policy-makers, consultants and freelancers who work across the borderlines of art, media, technology, business and regulation.Trade Review‘In Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries, John Hartley provides a new understanding of the creative industries and how they have evolved, drawing on real-life examples and case studies. In making the creative economy tangible and relatable, this book is a relevant and practical resource for those with an existing interest in the creative industries as well as those who are new to the landscape.’ -- Sarah Ramadhita, LSE Review of Books‘John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries is a simple but magnificent take on the idea of 'creative industries'; it is less an introduction than a pithy synopsis of the author' s life-long thinking on how to make critical inquiries a creative instrument of social change.’ -- Jin Wen, International Comparative Literature‘20 years ago, John Hartley was at least partly responsible for establishing the creative industries as an academic field; his ongoing project to understand them deeply, and advocate for them passionately, finds new expression here. This characteristically ambitious, wide-ranging and, above all, lively book is - much like the creative industries themselves – bubbling with unruly ideas, unlikely connections, and hope for the future.’ -- Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'Not all writing about the creative industries practises what it preaches! So how exciting to read a creative analysis of these industries. This book sidesteps expectations by offering an imaginative and highly thought-provoking engagement with its puzzling subject matter.' -- - Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Every single human being is creative, and every industry must become a creative industry. John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries provides the research and data we need to better understand the creative industries that increasingly power our economy and shape our society.' -- - Richard Florida, University of Toronto, Canada and author of The Rise of the Creative Class'John Hartley always was and continues to be the very best guide to how to think about the creative industries, how to really understand its cosmological significance as well as its practical use. This book explores a fascinating range of topics, from digital art and intellectual property to the nature of cities, existence, class wars, and deep time. Self-recommending, as they say.'BR> - Jason Potts, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia

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Book SynopsisHistorically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations. Underlying the issues addressed in this book is the question of how important cultural differences are and will continue to be.Ferrie Pot analyses the impact of national culture on the way the employment relationship is organized using case studies from the United States and the Netherlands. Evidence from these countries suggests that nations respond to globalization in line with their cultural values. As such, this book challenges the widespread belief that global trends will lead to the homogenization of the employment relationship.Trade Review'. . . I would recommend this book to any student of international employment relations. It approaches the subject from a wide and unusual angle and is rooted, most importantly, in research.' -- Len Holden, Asia Pacific Business ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Cultural Embeddedness of the Employment Relationship 2. The Employment Relationship: Mechanisms of Change 3. Globalization of the Employment Relationship 4. The Concept of Culture 5. An Empirical Illustration: The United States versus the Netherlands 6. Discussion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book investigates the importance of national culture as it applies to the strategic management of multinationals. The author focuses on backward linkage strategies within US, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean microcomputer multinationals investing in Europe. In particular, both market-driven and resource-driven strategic orientations are depicted in new and established firms.The main premise of the book is concerned with the backward linkage strategy of US and Asian Pacific firms, and is therefore based on a specific set of relevant core cultural values rather than a universal set of values. The material in this volume is derived from directly and indirectly collected data, and in addition, unstructured face-to-face interviews with representatives from multinational firms headquartered across different cultures.This volume will provide academics, researchers, students, business consultants and strategists a new perspective on business strategy as well as an up-to-date source of industry material.Trade Review'The backward linkage strategies of major multinationals differ significantly between firms within the same industry. In this provocative book, Denise Tsang explains these differences in strategy in terms of the culture of the parent company and the age of the firm. Her case study of the European microcomputer industry encompasses major multinationals from the US, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, and includes both long-established firms and recent start-ups. It contains a wealth of fascinating detail which she elegantly synthesises to support her thesis.' -- Mark Casson, University of Reading, UK'This book is a major contribution to our understanding of international business strategy. It adopts a unique culturist view that has been long neglected by mainstream strategy theorists.' -- Geoffrey G. Jones, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Strategy of Microcomputing 2. US and Asia Pacific Multinationals and European Microcomputers 3. Microcomputer Strategic Paradigm 4. Strategy and Values 5. Nations and Values 6. A Theory of Cultural Selectivity 7. US and Asia Pacific Multinationals Backward Linkage Strategy 8. Creativity in Software 9. Continuous Improvement and Manufacturing Process 10. People and Culture 11. Conclusion References Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions. The book begins by examining theoretical aspects of social and economic institutions. It goes on to explore the operation of, and change within, these institutions as a result of globalisation, using examples from selected countries over five continents. The contributors conclude that globalisation has produced beneficial impacts on those social institutions which have been necessary for achieving genuine growth and development. On this evidence they argue for the need to embrace globalisation by undertaking relevant institutional changes.Approaching the issue of globalisation from a novel perspective - namely how the forces of globalisation are transforming domestic, social and economic institutions to create greater opportunities for empowerment in individual countries - this book will be a fascinating read for those with an interest in development, institutional and international economics.Trade Review'Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment provides a useful contribution to the emerging literature on institutions and economic development. It also provides interesting examples of the failures and successes of institutional reform.' -- Esteban Perez Caldentey, Eastern Economic Journal'Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment is highly topical and presents a multidimensional perspective of the changing role of institutions and their impact on development in the era of globalisation.' -- Global Business Review'The editors of this volume . . . deserve our wholesome appreciation for choosing so many diverse case studies under one cover. . . the book deserves to be read by policymakers, academics and civil society groups throughout the world.' -- P.S. Jayaramu, Journal of Social and Economic DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment: An Overview of Issues Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras PART II: CONCEPTS 2. Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They Are and How to Acquire Them Dani Rodrik 3. The Effects of the Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions on Social Stability and Economic Development Svetozar Pejovich 4. Globalisation, Democracy and Citizens’ Sovereignty: Can Competition Among Governments Enhance Democracy? Viktor Vanberg PART III: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 5. Globalisation: Contradictory Implications for US Women Cal Clark and Janet Clark 6. Corruption: Is Dollarisation a Solution? Jennifer S. Holmes and Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres 7. Western Europe: German Unification, Integration, Globalisation – The German Social Market Economy Facing a Threefold Challenge Michael Wohlgemuth 8. Regional Retreat: The Reaction of Russian Institutions to Liberalising Reform Richard E. Ericson 9. Institutional Deterrents to the Empowerment of Women: Kenya’s Experience Tabitha W. Kiriti, Clem Tisdell and Kartik C. Roy 10. WTO and the Dangers of Privatisation: An Analysis of the Saudi Case Jean-François Seznec 11. Institutional Impediments to Women’s Empowerment in Rural India Kartik C. Roy 12. Estate Taxes and Family-run Firms: An Empirical Study of Publicly Traded Corporations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Kam-Ming Wan, Shi-Jun Liu and Hsihui Chang 13. Globalisation and Institutional Change in the Australian Labour Market Kyle Bruce PART IV: CONCLUSION 14. Institutional Change and Empowerment under Globalisation: Some Lessons Learnt Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras Index

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Book SynopsisDid the Pedestrian Die? is an accumulation of a decade of research into cultural diversity across the globe with a wide range of client organizations. Trompenaars and his research team have identified the issues that really make a difference at the level of the individual and the organization as a whole. In addition to his well-established cross-cultural database of 70,000 managers from across the world, Trompenaars has more recently interviewed thousands of business leaders and managers to understand the challenges and concerns they face, the tensions between competing priorities, demands and values. Often humorous, always inspiring, Did the Pedestrian Die? collects the insights of the world's most sought-after culture guru and shows how they can be put to immediate effect in any organization.Trade Review"...lively and informative read...an excellent introduction to the issues of transcultural management..." (People Management, 10 July 2003) "...essential reading for those concerned with cultural issues..." (Long Range Planning, Vol 37, 2004)Table of ContentsPreface Did the pedestrian die? Leadership: reconciling the dilemmas of today Matching Values People Functions Globalization Diversity Corporate identity, culture and change POSTSCRIPT Dilemmas to be addressed in globalizing organizations References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the expanding field of cross-cultural and comparative management, and addresses the issue of whether the main Scandinavian countries - Denmark, Norway and Sweden - exhibit such similarities in management style and practice as to constitute a country cluster.It is based on a qualitative, interview-driven study of managers in companies matched by industry in the three countries and seeks to contextualise the research findings in a general discussion of the Scandinavian countries, showing their intertwined histories and similar institutions and values. The book argues that the central values of these managers are equality, informality, decency, and conflict avoidance; it shows that the behaviour of Scandinavian managers is inspired by these values and that they can be attributed to national culture and not to the peculiarities of any particular industry.Management in Scandinavia will be of interest to students and teachers of international management, as well as practitioners of business and management.Trade Review'Unconventional, rich of facts and stimulating perspectives. Readable and entertaining at the same time as being thought-provoking. A synoptic view of Scandinavia which combines industrial diversity and common culture of three countries.' -- Arndt Sorge, University of Groningen, The Netherlands'A very useful in-depth study of Scandinavian management.' -- Malcolm Warner, Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Making the Case 2. Context 3. Breweries 4. Furniture 5. Confectionery and Food Production 6. Shipbuilding and More Besides 7. Differences and Similarities 8. Present and Prospect Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing comparisons with the broader Huguenot diaspora, this book reassesses the prevailing view that Huguenots in North America quickly conformed to Anglicanism and abandoned the French language and other distinctive characteristics in order to assimilate into Anglo-American culture. Although the standard interpretation may still be true for Huguenots in heterogeneous urban communities, it should be modified for Huguenots in ethnically and religiously homogeneous rural settlements like New Paltz and New Rochelle, where the process was more akin to a gradual acculturation.Trade ReviewPaula Wheeler Carlo has produced a concise, richly detailed, and thoroughly researched account of rural New York Huguenots that gives us a more nuanced understanding of this groups role in colonial America Essential reading for anyone studying the Huguenot experience in colonial America, and an important reminder that much of rural colonial America consisted of ethnic and religious communities that resisted, with varying degrees of success, the forces of homogenisation. -- Journal of American History"Carlo observes a gradual process of acculturation in these two rural areas not a quick assimilation and bases her observation on the continued use of French in the private sphere, such as manuscript sermons, church records, and business and family records. Chapters on family structure, inheritance patterns (testators in both communities adhered to French and Dutch practices rather than English), slaveholding, and the run-up to the Revolution (both were pro-Independence) are full of interesting detail that places these two communities squarely into the context of other colonial communities, while also establishing some differences. -- De Halve Maena much needed contribution to the historiography of North American Huguenot communities which have rarely been studied in such detail. Carlos original and thorough study of these two New York Huguenot communities is a welcome addition to the growing yet still small body of academic literature on the Refuge in British North America. Her thesis of gradual and incomplete assimilation, which parallels findings in South Carolina, is compelling. -- Proceedings of The Huguenot SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Huguenot Diaspora; Creating Communities in the Wilderness; The Churches of New Paltz and New Rochelle; Religious Beliefs and Practices; Educating Children and Young People; Families and Households; "Considering the Shortness and Frailty of Life"; Masters and Slaves; On the Eve of Independence; Conclusion A Gradual Process of Acculturation; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematised by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes. Throughout Jean-Michel Rabate is concerned with two key questions: what is it that we enjoy when we read murder stories? and what has modern art to say about murder? Indeed, Rabate compels us to consider whether art itself is a form of murder. The book begins with Marcel Duchamp's fascination for trivia and found objects conjoined with his iconoclasm as an anti-artist. The visual parallels between the naked woman at the centre of his final work, 'Étant donnés', and a young woman who had been murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947, provides the specific point of departure. The text moves onward to Steven Hodel, the 'Black Dahlia' murder; Walter Benjamin's description of Eugene Atget's famous photographs of deserted Paris streets as presenting 'the scene of the crime'; and Ralph Roff's 1997 exhibition, which implied that modern art is indissociable from forensic gaze and a detective's outlook, a view first advanced by Edgar Allan Poe.Table of ContentsThe Esthetics of Murder: Of Sirens, Traces and Auras; Freud's Da Vinci Code: Interpretation as Crime; Duchamp's fait-divers: Murder as a "Read-Made"; Scene of the Crime: Nothing to See!; Scalpel and Brush, Pen and Poison: The Ekphrasis of Murder; Who Killed Bergotte? The Patch and the Corpse; Surrealist Esthetics of Murder: From Hysteria to Paranoia; Murder as Kitsch, Abstraction and Ritual; Conclusion - How to Think "Not Abstractly"; Index.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematised by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes. Throughout Jean-Michel Rabate is concerned with two key questions: what is it that we enjoy when we read murder stories? and what has modern art to say about murder? Indeed, Rabate compels us to consider whether art itself is a form of murder. The book begins with Marcel Duchamp's fascination for trivia and found objects conjoined with his iconoclasm as an anti-artist. The visual parallels between the naked woman at the centre of his final work, 'Étant donnés', and a young woman who had been murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947, provides the specific point of departure. The text moves onward to Steven Hodel, the 'Black Dahlia' murder; Walter Benjamin's description of Eugene Atget's famous photographs of deserted Paris streets as presenting 'the scene of the crime'; and Ralph Roff's 1997 exhibition, which implied that modern art is indissociable from forensic gaze and a detective's outlook, a view first advanced by Edgar Allan Poe.Table of ContentsThe Esthetics of Murder: Of Sirens, Traces and Auras; Freud's Da Vinci Code: Interpretation as Crime; Duchamp's fait-divers: Murder as a "Read-Made"; Scene of the Crime: Nothing to See!; Scalpel and Brush, Pen and Poison: The Ekphrasis of Murder; Who Killed Bergotte? The Patch and the Corpse; Surrealist Esthetics of Murder: From Hysteria to Paranoia; Murder as Kitsch, Abstraction and Ritual; Conclusion - How to Think "Not Abstractly"; Index.

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Book SynopsisSa'di Yusuf has long been acknowledged as Iraq's foremost living poet and one of the pre-eminent modernists of Arabic poetry. In this first book-length study in English on the subject, the author seeks to provide a comprehensive look at Yusuf's literary accomplishments through thematic analysis and close readings that place his texts within wider literary contexts. Encompassing discussions of more than a hundred poems, this study offers a coherent framework for understanding the body of work created by a major poet of our time.Trade Review"Ever since I began reading Sa'di Yusuf he has become the one who appealed the most to my poetic taste. He is one of our greatest poets. Poetry led him -- or rather he led poetry -- to revolt against the transcendence of poetic language and in its stead to create a new language: one characterised by austerity and its core by the search for essence. In this way poetry in his poems becomes life itself -- life in all its fullness and spontaneity." -- Mahmud Darwish."Sa'di Yusuf is a poet of universality and multiple open visions enabling us to discover the poetics of the real world." -- Abbas Beydhoun, Lebanese poet and critic."Sa'di Yusuf was born in Iraq, but he has become, through the vicissitudes of history and the cosmopolitan appetites of his mind, a poet, not only of the Arab world, but of the human universe." -- Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic.Table of ContentsTransferring Life into Words; "I Walk with Everyone but Each Step is Mine"; Poet of His People: 1955-1963; Exile, Homecoming, Exile: The Aesthetics of Displacement; War, Metapoetics and Minute Realities: The Later Poetry; Index.

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Book SynopsisStarting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.

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Book SynopsisStarting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.

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