Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Studying Native America Problems and Prospects
Book SynopsisScholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.
£21.56
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Price of Racial Reconciliation
Book SynopsisPresents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for reparations in the United States.
£22.75
LUP - University of Michigan Press Collateral Damage
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation.Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Collateral Damage in Political Communication 3. Conditions Necessary for Collateral Damage 4. Trump Rhetorical Analysis 5. Rhetoric and Attitudes towards America 6. Rhetoric and Attitudes towards the Republican Party and Donald Trump 7. Disaggregating the Attitudes of Second-Generation Americans 8. Conclusion 9. Appendix 10. Index
£28.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age A
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£16.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Congressional Black Caucus Minority Voting
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£24.65
The University of Michigan Press Marginal People in Deviant Places
Book SynopsisRevisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures - ranging from Los Angeles hoboes to men who have sex with other men in St Louis bathrooms, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California - produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly.Trade Review“The book makes a compelling argument, tells a fascinating and multilayered story, and is beautifully written. The diverse subjects of the ethnographies will be of interest to specialists in a wide range of fields, including urban studies, the history and sociology of medicine, queer studies, sexuality studies, youth studies, and African American studies.” —Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. LouisTable of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Making Up Hobos: Nels Anderson and Other Tramp Tales Chapter 3: The Taxi-Dance Hall: Paul Cressey’s Ambivalence Chapter 4: Zora’s Florida: Ethnographic Explorations of Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 5: Asylum Stories Chapter 6: Tearoom Trade: Tales of Public Sex Chapter 7: District for Deviants: Sherri Cavan’s Hippies of the Haight Chapter 8: Conclusion Index
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Uncle Toms Cabins
Book SynopsisAs Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin travelled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey.Trade ReviewSweeping in its scope and imaginative in its approach, this collection challenges contemporary scholars to revisit one of the most influential works in the American canon and to recognize that mere national borders never have and never can curtail the flow of ideas and culture. The essays illuminate the ways that even seemingly innocuous adaptations or translations shaped the resonance of Uncle Tom's Cabin for audiences around the world. The study should be a model for how to approach the impact of translation and adaptation across time and in different cultural contexts." - Heather S. Nathans, Tufts University
£27.50
The University of Michigan Press Black Cultural Traffic
Book SynopsisBlack Cultural Traffic traces how blackness travels globally in performance, engaging the work of an international and interdisciplinary mix of scholars, critics, and practicing artists.Trade ReviewThe explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need. - Mark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press AntiHeimat Cinema The Jewish Invention of the
Book SynopsisStudies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers' contemplations of “Heimat” - a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity – this book analyses their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968.
£65.55
University of California Press Great Kingdoms of Africa
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£27.96
MP-MEL Melbourne University Seeking Justice in Cambodia Human Rights
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£29.96
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group American Oasis
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£19.65
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Conquest of Mexico 500 Years of Reinventions
Book SynopsisThe Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed.Trade Review“There is no doubt that this collection deserves attention from scholars across disciplines, geographies, and period specializations. On its own, or as a companion to Restall’s When Montezuma Met CortÉs, the work adds to numerous conversations. It seems like we are at a new historiographical turn, and, in many ways, The Conquest of Mexico embodies the excitement of what comes next.”—
£22.46
John Wiley & Sons Black Immigrant Literacies
Book SynopsisLearn how to centre, affirm, and develop Black immigrant literacies in ways that allow all youth to engage with and honor their literacies. This book presents a framework to revolutionize teaching in ways that draw on students’ assets for redesigning, rethinking, and reimagining literacy and the English Language Arts curriculum.Table of ContentsContents (Tentative)Foreword Dr. Shondel NeroAcknowledgments and Dedication1. INTRODUCTION The Framework for Black Immigrant LiteraciesAuthentic NarrativesA Call to Teachers, Educators, Schools, and PolicymakersEnvisioning Imaginary Futures with Black Immigrant LiteraciesOverview of the Chapters2. RE-ENVISIONING THE LITERACIES OF BLACK IMMIGRANT YOUTH A Brief History and Demographics of Black Immigrants in the United StatesIntersections Surrounding Black Immigrant Youth as a "New Model Minority"Languaging and Englishes of Black Immigrants: A Selective ReviewPeer interactions in the Black Immigrant Experience(Re)envisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant YouthSummaryQuestions to Consider3. THE FRAMEWORK FOR BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES Elements of the Black Immigrant Literacies FrameworkIntersectional Lenses Undergirding "Black Immigrant Literacies"Applying the "Black Immigrant Literacies" FrameworkQuestions to Consider4. TEACHING CHLOE, A BLACK JAMAICAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: ENTANGLEMENTS OF ENGLISHES, RACE, AND MIGRATION Chloe's Authentic Narrative: Entanglements of Englishes, Race, and Migration: 'You'll Never Hear Her Speak, Like Broken'Questions to Consider5. TEACHING ERVIN, A BLACK BAHAMIAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: FOSTERING PEER INTERACTIONS Ervin's Authentic Narrative: Rac(e)ing Englishes as a Multilingual Migrant: "Talking Like I'm Ghetto"Insights From Ervin's Authentic Narrative"Black Enough" as a Way to BelongQuestions to Consider6. BRIDGING INVISIBLE BARRIERS WITH BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES: BUILDING SOLIDARITY AMONG SCHOOLS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES ParentsSchools and TeachersCommunitySummaryAPPENDIXREFERENCESAbout the Author
£31.35
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Fashioning Lives
Book SynopsisExamines the literacy practices of Black LGBTQ people, developing - from sixty in-depth interviews conducted with individuals of various ages living across the United States - an analytical theory of “black queer literacies”.
£35.66
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Women in the Church of God in Christ Making a
Book SynopsisThe Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s.
£25.60
Rutgers University Press Recovering the Black Female Body
Book SynopsisRecovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.Trade ReviewAlthough feminists have studied the social construction of the female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering collection of original writings by academics and artists on æhow African-American women, from slavery to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of the dominant culture.Æ. * Publishers Weekly *A collection of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to æamplifyÆ African American women writersÆ attempts to ætake back their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of impropriety and crime.Æ. * WomenÆs Review of Books *By examining African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a body of scholarly work but also attempts to ærecoverÆ a more accurate representation of the African American female body. * DePauw Magazine *A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity. -- Claudia Tate * Princeton University *Table of ContentsFrances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric / Michael Bennett "The deeds done in my body": black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken / Daphne A. Brooks The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona / Dorri Rabung Beam Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton / Ajuan Maria Mance Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world / Yvette Louis Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman / Doris Witt Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction / Vanessa D. Dickerson On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture / Margaret K. Bass Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman / Mark Winokur Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body / Jacqueline E. Brady Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield / Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins) Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals / Deborah E. McDowell
£28.80
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida From SitIns to SNCC The Student Civil Rights
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter by four North Carolina A&T college students, From Sit-Ins to SNCC brings together the work of leading civil rights scholars to offer a new and groundbreaking perspective on student-oriented activism in the 1960s.Trade Review“Central to the collection’s theme is the idea that [SNCC] was diffuse with different visions, and not a hierarchy. The approach was local, and the results hinged on the locality. . . . Adds much to the discussion of the nonviolent resistance movement.” —Choice“Provides fresh and original insights into the student protest movement of the 1960s. A must for anyone interested in the history of the SNCC or the civil rights struggle.” —Kevern Verney, Edge Hill University
£16.96
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida To Render Invisible
Book SynopsisWhat defines a city’s public space? Who designates such areas, who determines their uses, and who gets to use them? Robert Cassanello uses nineteenth-century Jacksonville as both backdrop and springboard to explore social transformation in Florida and the South. This is the first book to focus on the emergence of African American public life in Jacksonville between Reconstruction and the 1920s.
£14.36
MW - Rutgers University Press White Guys on Campus Racism White Immunity and
Book SynopsisWhite Guys on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among white male students. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of White students to engage in anti-racism.Trade Review"White Guys on Campus examines narratives of White males in order to reveal 'ecologies of Whiteness' that permit (and even empower) racism to persist. With sound scholarship and well-supported claims, this book is a unique and important contribution to the field." -- Susan Iverson * coeditor of Reconstructing Policy Analysis in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives *"There are and always have been lots of white guys on college campuses. This timely, important book helps us more deeply understand their racial identities, socialization, and attitudes. Cabrera masterfully complicates whiteness, illuminates white supremacy, and proposes ways to help white college men become less racist." -- Shaun R. Harper * Clifford and Betty Allen Professor, University of Southern California Rossier School of Education *"What Do ‘White Guys’ Think About Race? This Professor Is Trying to Find Out" by Chris Quintana interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Chronicle of Higher Education *"From racial jokes to affirmative action, Nolan L. Cabrera analyzes the persistent white mindset that obscures systemic racism on our college campuses. Read this book if you want a truthful and evidence-based explanation about the effects of racist discourse." -- Zeus Leonardo * author of Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education *“Cultivating Public Scholarship and a Radical Ethic of Love as Faculty of Color" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera * Resilient Campus *"In this era of educational resegregation, Nolan Cabrera’s White Guys on Campus examines how whiteness blocks paths toward truth, justice, and reconciliation. A timely, provocative, even hopeful book.” -- Jeff Chang * author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation *"An Asian American woman’s tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online?" by Eli Rosenberg and Erin B. Logan * Washington Post *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ruth Hammond * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Nolan Cabrera: HEOC Alumnus Studies Race on College Campuses," by Mackie Lorkis * Ampersand *"Reinforcing Racism: Color-Blind Curricula in Higher Education by Dr. Nolan Cabrera" * Equity Alliance Blog *"Emerging Scholars 2019: An Interdisciplinary Scholar" * Diverse Issues in Higher Education *"Arizona Faculty Members Want Charges Against Border-Patrol Protesters Dropped," by Katherine Mangan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A Life-Changing Course" podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera on Scholars Strategy Network * A Life-Changing Course podcast *Mention of White Guys on Campus in"Steller column: At UA forum, panelists feel campus activists' pain," by Tim Steller * Tucson.com *"It’s all Part of the Plan," by Nolan L. Cabrera * Contexts *"Debating Free Speech - The Buzz" interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Arizona Public Media "The Buzz" *Latinx Intelligentsia podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpswwwstichercompodcastlatinxintelligentsia/latinx-intelligentsia * Latinx Intelligentsia *"Episode 57 - Affirmative Action, the Model Minority Myth Right-Wing Divide-and-Conquer" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/speakoutwithtimwise/episodes/2019-10-14T09_33_59-07_00 * Speak Out with Tim Wise *BAR Book Forum: Interview with Nolan Cabrera https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-nolan-cabreras-white-guys-campus * Black Agenda Report *"Overall, Cabrera’s book offers an important contribution to the literature. He blends existing terminology and scholarship...and masterfully weaves the why of racial attitudes of White men on campus; as the what—many of the narratives, ideals, and beliefs shared by participants—may be familiar to individuals who are seasoned in racial justice work or research in higher education or student affairs. Through concise and accessible writing with quotations from and references to Frederick Douglass, Hari Kondabolu, W. E. B. Du Bois, Geto Boys, and James Baldwin interspersed throughout, Cabrera is successful in his attempt to render the racial justice discourse more complete." * Journal of College Student Development *"Cabrera unpacks decades of critical whiteness studies and provides encyclopedic coverage of how white supremacy has mutated and morphed." * Education Review *"One of the main takeaways of White Guys on Campus is that white people need to be facilitating their own racial development and pushing their friends, families, and peers to do the same." * Education Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 The unbearable Whiteness of being: White male racial immunity in higher education 2 “Race just doesn’t matter that much”: White insulation, Occam’s Racial Razor, and willful racial ignorance 3 “The only discrimination left is that against White men”: The campus racial politics of “reverse racism” 4 “Why can’t Stevie Wonder read? Because he’s Black”: Whiteness and the social performance of racist joking 5 “I almost lost my spot to a less qualified minority”: Imagined v. Real affirmative action 6 “They’d never allow a White Student Union”: The Racial Politics of Campus Space and Racial Arrested Development 7 “Because it’s the right thing to do”: Racial awakening and (some) allyship development 8 Conclusion: White guys on campus, What is to be done? Appendix A Appendix B Acknowledgments References Index
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Educated in Tyranny Slavery at Thomas Jeffersons
Book SynopsisMaurie McInnis, Louis Nelson, and a group of contributing authors tell the largely unknown story of slavery at the University of Virginia.
£24.65
University of Pennsylvania Press The Strangers Book
Book SynopsisThe Strangers Book explores how a constellation of nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger.Trade Review"[An] important and fresh contribution to the study of African American literature, rereading the works of the canonical Douglass and turning our attention to lesser-known African American francophone poetry . . . Pratt offers [a] compelling and forceful theory and method that no doubt will shape the work of literary scholars and have the power to influence theorizations of African American history." * American Literature *"Pratt's scholarship is timely. As #BlackLivesMatter informs us, the struggle for racial justice in America continues . . . The Strangers Book is about African Americans writing about their experiences of an America that does not permit them to be seen as human. Revealing a complex network of relationships and texts, it offers an innovative framework to understand and read early African American literature. That these writers are communicating through varied kinds of storytelling points to one similarity across difference and time; that the figure of the 'strange negro' persists in the stories of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, or Freddie Gray, points to another." * MELUS *"A lot of academic monographs are credited with offering a critique, but The Strangers Book is the rare book that really and profoundly assesses the limits of what is thinkable. Like black lives, black texts matter. But it rings hollow to claim that both things matters without also disaffirming the existing structures of power-and the categories of person and text that power has established-that create the need to say such things in the first place. Like the Black Lives Matter movement, The Strangers Book offers a utopian affirmation of difference couched in a language of refusal, where the particular matters more than the universal toward which it supposedly should add." * Public Books *"The alternative humanism claimed by former slaves yields many corrective lessons for the present. Lloyd Pratt transforms our understanding of that archive by inserting the figure of the stranger into the interpretative frame. Energized by a host of newly unearthed discoveries, his innovative, absorbing book initiates a novel and urgent enquiry: the entanglement of race with various kinds of xenology. Ambitious and learned, this book will reshape the field of U.S. literary history." * Paul Gilroy, King's College London *"Lloyd Pratt's work addresses and rearticulates, in an exquisite way, current discussions of the status of the human in antebellum African American literature." * Branka Arsić, Columbia University *"The Strangers Book provides a bracing and unexpected perspective on literary history. As Pratt's chapters unfold, the reader begins to see how early African American letters can be read as offering new critical possibilities for Western literature as a whole." * Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Print and the Human Chapter 1. The Making of Self-Evidence Chapter 2. Frederick Douglass's Stranger-With-Thee Chapter 3. Les Apôtres de la Littérature and Les Cenelles Chapter 4. The Abundant Black Past Chapter 5. How to Read a Strangers Book Epilogue. Stranger Literature Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£70.55
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Lifting Every Voice My Journey from Segregated
Book SynopsisBill Robertson was one of the US’s greatest pioneers and a tireless advocate for racial justice. One of his final acts was the completion of his memoirs. Lifting Every Voice reveals how the advances made during his lifetime were no foregone conclusion; without the passionate efforts of real people, our present could have been very different.
£23.36
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Kurds and the State Evolving National
Book SynopsisExamining Kurdish nationalism as a function of diverse political spaces, this book analyzes the formation of Kurdish national identity. In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, the author shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes.Trade ReviewThis is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of Kurdayeti, or Kurdish identity and nationalism, across the 20th century, with some prognostications of further development during the first decades of the 21st century. . . . Essential. An important, sophisticated work that goes far beyond many lesser studies and will be read with benefit by all scholars and others interested in the Kurdish problem. The author is to be congratulated for her major contribution.
£23.36
University of Arizona Press Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother
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£28.46
LUP - University of Georgia Press Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
Book SynopsisTraces the development and trajectory of the individual newspapers of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate, evaluating those with surviving issues, and presenting them as they existed in proximity to their Atlanta hub. In so doing, he emphasizes the thread of practical radicalism that ran through Syndicate editorial policy.
£46.10
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Druze and their Faith in Tawhid
Book SynopsisIn this book Dr Anis Obeid, a Druze layman, provides a penetrating analysis of Druze scriptures and beliefs (Tawhid). Presenting a chronological narrative of the foundation and development of the faith, he explains the historical conditions and religious rationale behind this closed religion.Trade ReviewObeid’s work will receive deep appreciation and high readership by the majority of Druze in the West and other immigrants of Middle Eastern origins." - Intisar Azzam, author of Change for Continuity"This book is above all a plea directed to all Druze, East and West, to take up the task of fundamental reform....The work’s eight chapters are accompanied by an excellent bibliography." - Choice
£22.46
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Man Called White The Autobiography of Walter
Book SynopsisThe autobiography of the Civil Rights activist, Walter White, during his 30 years of service to the National Association of Service for the Advancement of Colored People. Although African American, White's blue eyes and fair skin enabled him to cross the colour line and gather vital information.
£28.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Islamophobia in France
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed argue that Islamophobia in France is not the result of individual prejudice or supposed Muslim cultural or racial deficiencies but rather arose out of structures of power and control already in place in France.
£138.17
Liverpool University Press The Book of the Lover and the Beloved Aris
Book SynopsisRamon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God.Table of Contents Introduction The career of Ramon Llull (1232-1316) Llull's oeuvre and the great art Llull's literary works and the book of the lover and the beloved About this translation About this edition Acknowledgements Bibliography I. Studies of Ramon Llull and his work II. Studies on Christian Spirituality, Sufism and Christian-Muslim Relations in Llull's era The Book of the Lover and the Beloved Illustrations
£30.56
Liverpool University Press Ramón Maria del Valle Inclán The Grotesque Farce
Book SynopsisIt may well be the sheer virtuosity of its writing that has deprived English audiences hitherto of an opportunity to appreciate Los cuernos de Don Friolera . This comic masterpiece by Spain's most innovative modern dramatist provides a provocatively sardonic treatment of marital infidelity and honourable revenge.Table of Contents Translator's note Introduction The Grotesque farce of mr Punch the Cuckold Esperpento de los curnos de do Friolera
£30.56
Liverpool University Press Antonio Machado Lands of Castile and Other Poems
Book SynopsisAntonio Machado was born in Seville in 1885 and died in southern France early in 1939, escaping from the Nationalist advance in the Spanish Civil War.Table of Contents Preface Introduction Solitudes/Soledades I-LXXXVII (1895-1907) Lands of Castile/Campos de Castilla XCVII-CXXXIX (1907-1917) New Songs and Later Works/Nuevas Canciones y Obras Posteriores CLXI-LXXXIVS (1917-1930) Notes Selected Bibliography
£30.56
Liverpool University Press Gabriela Mistral Selected Poems Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisGabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English.Trade Review...a highly recommended no-nonsense introduction to the work of Mistral'Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction I. Desolation: Rodin's the Thinker, For the Hebrew People, The Lone Child, Ballad, The Sonnets of Death, prayer, The Bones of the Dead, Patagonian Landscape, To the Clouds, autumn, Summit II. Tenderness Rocking, Discovery, Mexican Child, Fear, The Rat, The Air, Mountain, Larks, The Earth Feeling: Flight, The Rose, The Foreigner, Drinking, We were All going to be Queens, Things, Catalonian Women IV. Wine Press The Other, The Fall of Europe, Hospital, Helpers, The Jewish Refugee, Daybreak; Morning; Evening; Night, The Last Tree V. Poem of Chile Waking up, My Mountain, Patch of Clover, Valparaiso, Poplar Groves, Talcahuano, Apple Trees, Ferns Southern Islands, Bibliograhy.
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Book of Alexander libro De Alexandre Hispanic
Book SynopsisThe Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna vía verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang.Trade ReviewIn short, this is a fine addition to the translated work series. It will not serve the expert, but this is not the aim of the work. It will, however, provide an excellent starting point for the student of medieval Iberian literature and anyone interested in the Alexander story who may have no knowledge of Spanish.'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of Alexander’s campaigns The life of Alexander the Great – a chronology Map of the Iberian Peninsula in the early thirteenth century Events of the early thirteenth century Illustrations Alexander tells his troops the story of the siege of Troy Alexander comes close to death after swimming in the River Cydnus A eleventh-century map of the world The labours of the months Notes on the illustrations Introduction 1. The distinctiveness of the Libro de Alexandre 2. A novel enterprise: the poet’s ‘manifesto’ 3. The manuscripts and the questions of date and authorship 4. Spain in the early thirteenth century: the background to the composition of the Libro de Alexandre 5. Alexander the Great in history and in literary tradition: our poet’s sources 6. Style and structure: the poet finds his voice 7. Warriors, kings and scholars – triumph but humility: the themes of the Libro de Alexandre 8. The Libro de Alexandre: a synopsis 9. The Spanish text 10. The translation Select Bibliography The Libro de Alexandre: text, translation and notes
£39.99
Liverpool University Press Tirso de Molina Tamars Revenge
Book SynopsisThe story comes from the Second Book of Samuel and tells of the incestuous passion of Amnon, David's eldest son, for his half-sister, Tamar and the subsequent murder of Amnon by his brother Absolom. Amnon's lust is set in the context of complementary passions of ambition and revenge, reflected in Absolom and Tamar respectively.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Tirso de Molina and his time Tirso and the Comedia Humour, irony and the paradox in Tirso's theatre The moral emphases of Tirso's theatre Tirso's biblical plays La venganza de Tamar A note on staging Notes to the Introduction Bibliography La Venganza de Tamar/Tamar's Revenge (facing page text and translation) ACT I Jornada primera ACT II Jornada segunda Jornada tercera Notes
£29.69
Liverpool University Press Saint Manuel Bueno Martyr Hispanic Classics San
Book SynopsisMiguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao on 29th September 1864. He wrote novels, essays, poems and plays, and in addition to these he played an important part in the political and intellectual life of Spain - an involvement that led to his exile to Fuerteventura in 1924.Table of Contents List of illustrations Introduction Author's prologue Saint Manuel Bueno/ San Manuel Bueno martir Martyr Notes Selected bibliography.
£29.69
Pathfinder Books Ltd Malcolm X Speaks Malcolm X speeches writings
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£13.30
Liverpool University Press Vicente Blasco Ibanez The Holding La Barraca
Book SynopsisThis passionate and moving story of social injustice, violence and revenge, set in the Valencian huerta, has become the classic text of Spanish regional realism.Table of Contents Introduction: La barraca: Genesis La barraca: Et in Arcadia Ego Fiat lux Paradise restored Baptism of water Nymphs Sheperds The horseman of the Apocalypse Sacrifice of innocence Baptism of blood Baptism of fire Our daily bread BIBLIOGRAPHY LA BARRACA, THE HOLIDING NOTES Illustrations Bibliography; La Barraca; The Holding; Notes
£29.69
Liverpool University Press The Book of the Lover and the Beloved Aris
Book SynopsisRamon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God.Table of Contents Introduction The career of Ramon Llull (1232-1316) Llull's oeuvre and the great art Llull's literary works and the book of the lover and the beloved About this translation About this edition Acknowledgements Bibliography I. Studies of Ramon Llull and his work II. Studies on Christian Spirituality, Sufism and Christian-Muslim Relations in Llull's era The Book of the Lover and the Beloved Illustrations
£109.50
Liverpool University Press The Leper Bishop A P Hispanic Classics Aris
Book SynopsisGabriel Francisco Miró Ferrer was born on July 28th 1879, in Alicante on the Costa Blanca. Brought up in the Castilian-speaking Alicante, Miró was sent away to school in nearby Orihela, aged eight. The Jesuit Colegio de Santo Domingo would become the "Jesús" in The Leper Bishop .Trade ReviewAn experienced translator, Borenstein acquits himself well in this engaging novel... recommended for all collections of literature in translation.'Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Select Bibliography I. PALACIO Y COLEGIO (Palace and School) II. MARIA FULGENCIA III. SALAS DE OLEZA (Drawing Rooms of Oleza) IV. CLAUSURA Y SIGLO (Cloistered and Worldly Life) V. CORPUS CHRISTI VI. PABLO Y MONJA (Pablo and the Nun) VII. LA FELICIDAD Notes
£40.93
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Circle Of MountainsBasque Shepherding
Book SynopsisProvides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community. The commune of Sainte-Engrâce extends along a mountain valley in the southeastern corner of Soule, one of the three Basque provinces in France. Sandra Ott examines the importance of cooperation and reciprocity as the essential basis for the main institutions within this community.Trade ReviewSandra Ott's fine-grained ethnography provides a memorable view of a French Basque agrarian and shepherding community and expands the scope of Basque ethnography in useful ways. . . . Ott is a formidable ethnographer."" —American Anthropologist
£19.16
University of Michigan Press The Washing Away of Wrongs Forensic Medicine in
Book SynopsisPrinted in 1247, this is the oldest extant book on forensic medicine in the world. Written as a guide for magistrates in conducting inquests, the book is a major source on early Chinese knowledge of pathology and morbid anatomy. Includes a lengthy introductory essay by the translator.
£20.85
LUP - University of Michigan Press Mao Zedongs Talks at the Yanan Conference
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£12.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press In the Voice of Others Chinese Music Bureau
Book SynopsisApplies new critical methods to medieval works in the genre known as Music Bureau poetry (yuefu shi), stripping away layers of ossified conventional reading to expose the genre’s vital core.
£19.90
LUP - University of Michigan Press Individualism and Holism Studies in Confucian
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£19.90
African American Images Bringing the Black boy to Manhood
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£13.25
LUP - University of Michigan Press Pan Chao Foremost Woman Scholar of China
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£16.95
University of Chicago Press Phantom Calls Race and the Globalization of the
Book SynopsisAfter a playoff loss, Houston head coach, Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls. This book shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the globalization of the NBA. It also explains how allegations of phantom calls challenge the fiction that America is a post-racial society.
£11.78
