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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an important book, combining discussions of large-scale political events with insights into their impact on individual Muslims and Muslim communities. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This is an important book for scholars of modern Uzbekistan, and will be a worthwhile addition to student reading lists. It provides a fascinating journalistic account of an important period in modern post-Soviet politics, and will also appeal to general readers interested in the Central Asian region. For students and scholars of Islamist movements, there are also important insights into processes of religious revival and radicalization. -- David Lewis * The Russian Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an important book, combining discussions of large-scale political events with insights into their impact on individual Muslims and Muslim communities. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This is an important book for scholars of modern Uzbekistan, and will be a worthwhile addition to student reading lists. It provides a fascinating journalistic account of an important period in modern post-Soviet politics, and will also appeal to general readers interested in the Central Asian region. For students and scholars of Islamist movements, there are also important insights into processes of religious revival and radicalization. -- David Lewis * The Russian Review *

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Book SynopsisIn this volume of SSLP the contributions of Dutch scholars working in the field of Slavic literature and culture to the 14th International Congress of Slavists (Ohrid, Macedonia, September 10–16, 2008) are brought together. All of them except one (on the Polish poet Cyprian Norwid’s story Stigma), deal with Russian literature from the end of the 18th century up to recent years. A variety of topics is treated, such as the feminization of Russian literature, the reflection of poetry in prose, anthropological and religious dimensions of literature, the specifics of theme and of plot, Russian modernism and postmodernism, and the status of language, from different methodological angles: gender studies, structural analysis, philosophical-contextual, postcolonial. Works of such Russian authors as Ippolit Bogdanovich, Ivan Turgenev, Pavel Mel’nikov-Pecherskii, Ignatii Potapenko, Iurii Trifonov, Timur Kibirov and Viktor Pelevin are discussed in detail. This volume is of interest for a scholarly audience interested in Russian literature of the last 250 years.Table of ContentsThera GIEZEN: Lap-dogs, or the Feminization of Russian Literature Eric DE HAARD: Love of Poetry and Literary Creation in Turgenev’s First Love Willem G. WESTSTEIJN: The Structure of the Plot in the Novels of Pavel Mel’nikov-Pecherskii Arent VAN NIEUKERKEN: Stigma, a Short Story of Cyprian Kamil Norwid. In Search of Traces of Sacred History on the Surface of the World Otto BOELE: “New Times Require New People”. The Demise of the Epoch-making Hero in Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature Dennis IOFFE: Russian and European Modernism and the Idea of Life-Creation Joost VAN BAAK: The House of Socialism in Literature. Trifonov’s House on the Embankment Ellen RUTTEN: Strategic Sentiments. Pleas for a New Sincerity in Post-Soviet Literature Boris NOORDENBOS: Copy-writing Post-Soviet Russia. Viktor Pelevin’s work in Postcolonial Terms Sander BROUWER: What Is It Like to Be a Bat-Author? Viktor Pelevin’s Empire V Index

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Book SynopsisStands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realities of industrial America and their aspirations for a better life.Trade Review"Papanikolas brings to Buried Unsung a gift for moving prose and an intimate understanding of those Greek cultural values that affected the Ludlow strikers. . . . At every step, the author merges the written record with oral material and his personal experiences to give unbelievable power to the tale."—American Historical Review"[A] stunning book, one of the most exciting I have read in a decade. . . . The mystery and drama of [Papanikola's] journey to resurrect Tikas and discover his own soul still haunt me weeks after I finished reading the book."—Harry Mark Petrakis, Chicago Tribune

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Book SynopsisOpera''s Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.Trade Review"...provides many new and remarkable conclusions from a contemporary, Eastern European point of viewthat will interest opera specialists and cultural historians." -- A.M. Hanson, Ihoice"...an engaging and frequently illuminating commentary on the impulses, desires and fantasies that enrich both our own lives and those of the colorful characters that populate our favorite operas." -- Barry Millington, BBCMusic Magazine DirectTable of ContentsIntroduction: For the Love of the Opera 1. Philosophy in the Opera Mladen Dolar 1.1 The Birth of Opera from the Spirit of Absolutism 1.2 Acheronta movebo 1.3 The Logic of Mercy 1.4 Opera buffa 1.5 Syntax 1.6 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 1.7 Figaro 1.8 Don Giovanni 1.9 The Opera in Philosophy: Mozart and Kierkegaard 1.10 La femme-machine 1.11 Machine in Love 1.12 A Philosopher in the Opera 1.13 Machine and Enjoyment 1.14 The Rationalistic Myth of the Enlightenment 1.15 He is a Man - Even More, He is a Prince 1.16 Three Continuations 2. I Do Not Order My Dreams Slavoj Zizek 2.1 Death Drive and the Wagnerian Sublime - The Forced Choice - The Disavowal Deeper than the day could read The 'What-Ifs' - Tristan's Journey to the Bottom of the Night - Transgression? No, thanks! - Wagner's Sexualized Politics - The Moebius Band 2.2 The Everlasting Irony of the Community Wagner with Kierkegaard - Kundry's Laughter . - . and her Kiss - The Feminine versus Woman 2.3 Interlude: The Feminine Excess 2.4 Run, Isolde, Run The Cyberspace Tristan - The Morning After - It quacks, hoots, pants, and gasps - The Separated Flames - No More Running Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMit der Frage nach Formen und Funktionen der literarischen Todesmeditation bewegt sich die komparatistisch ausgerichtete Studie im Rahmen einer thematischen Untergruppe der religiösen Meditation, die zunächst nur mit dem allgegenwärtigen Topos der Vergänglichkeit von Interesse zu sein scheint. Sie stellt jedoch die Betrachtungen des Todes bzw. die Bildlichkeit des Todes in der Meditation in ihren Zusammenhang mit der frühneuzeitlichen Herausbildung eines "meditativen" Gewissenskonzeptes, um deren Potential zur Individualisierung von Erinnerung zu zeigen. Das meditierende Ich findet hier jenseits des Vanitas- und Memento-mori-Topos ein Strukturmodell für Selbsterinnerung, das subjektiv-individuelle und rollenhaft-exemplarische Selbstthematisierung verschränkt. Das Konzept des "meditativen Gewissens" ist als verinnerlichter Anspruch an sich selbst zu beschreiben. Dieser führt dazu, daß Sünde als Selbstentfremdung empfunden und in den Bildern von Tod, Verfall und Verwesung als "körperliche" Selbstentfremdung thematisiert wird. Auf der Basis eines umfangreichen deutsch-, französisch- und englischsprachigen Quellencorpus wird so das Potential der meditatio mortis für die Individualisierung von Erinnerung untersucht. Die Arbeit zielt insbesondere auf die literarisch-poetologischen Konsequenzen, die die Meditation als Textstruktur impliziert: Charakteristisch ist vor allem das hohe Maß an Selbstreflexivität und die Bedeutung der anatomischen Perspektive, die die Selbstbetrachtung des meditierenden Ich prägen.

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Book SynopsisThis is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.Trade ReviewRushdy's book tells us a great deal not just about the four novels he reads closely, but also about the American conceptions of slavery and race in the second half of the Twentieth century; we walk away from Neo Slave Narratives with a multilayered sense of what Rushdy calls the social logic of the form, a logic which demonstrates that form is not extrinsic to historical understanding but rather constitutive of it. In short, Rushdy approaches his texts as complex objects circulating in many intersecting exchanges and listens carefully for the whistling and humming around him. * Eric Gardner, Theory and Cultural Studies *

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Book SynopsisThis text follows the destinies of characters from the Polish town of Bociany as they grow up, grow old and leave the shtetl for the city. It offers portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. This is the sequel to Bociany.

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Book SynopsisPresents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to catastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and retribution that have sustained the Jewish people despite pogroms, massacres, and expulsions - from the destruction of the First Temple through the Holocaust to the eventual return to their homeland.

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Book SynopsisHistorians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov''s greatest defeat". Veterans called this colossal battle, which continued for a total of 15 months, "the Rzhev slaughterhouse" or "the Massacre", while the German generals named this city "the cornerstone of the Eastern Front" and "the gateway to Berlin". By their territorial scale, number of participating troops, length and casualties, the military operations in the area of the Rzhev - Viaz''ma salient are not only comparable to the Stalingrad battle, but to a great extent surpass it. The total losses of the Red Army around Rzhev amounted to 2,000,000 men; the Wehrmacht''s total losses are still unknown precisely to the present day. Why was one of the greatest battles of the Second World War consigned to oblivion in the Soviet Union? Why were the forces of the German Army Group Center in the Rzhev - Viaz''ma salient not encircled and destroyed? Whose fault is it that the German forces were able to withdraw from a pocket that was never fully sealed? Indeed, are there justifications for blaming this "lost victory" on G.K. Zhukov? In this book, which has been recognized in Russia as one of the best domestic studies of the Rzhev battle, answers to all these questions have been given. The author, Svetlana Gerasimova, has lived and worked amidst the still extant signs of this colossal battle, the tens of thousands of unmarked graves and the now silent bunkers and pillboxes, and has dedicated herself to the study of its history.

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Book SynopsisOnce again, the extraordinary storyteller, Ludovic Bruckstein, opens the door onto a lost world of Jewish history and lore in the central European Carpathian region, now parts of Hungary, Romania and Ukraine. Invoking the tales of a great maggid – a wandering storyteller within the East-European tradition of Hassidism - he weaves tales of wisdom and mystery which linger inside us long after the story has ended. Bruckstein's previous titles (The Trap, 2019 and With an Unopened Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, 2021) have gained him a growing audience of dedicated readers in the English-speaking world, where his work has been too-long absent. This edition comes complete with a fascinating glossary of terms and historical references complied by the translator.

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Book SynopsisA study of literature written by Jewish authors while interned in Nazi ghettos emphasizes how authors processed their horrific experiences through poetry and prose. So much Holocaust-era writing was destroyed, and for the most part, we have no way of knowing what was lost along with the very lives of authors. Most of the texts discussed in this book were buried in biscuit tins or milk cans in the Warsaw ghetto's Oyneg Shabes Archive, the massive archival project that documented Jewish life in Poland under German occupation. Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos shows that we cannot take the survival of such works for granted. It also demonstrates that literature was not an aesthetic offshoot of life within Nazi ghettos, but an intrinsic part of it, both in the reading and writing habits of starving inhabitants and in the ways that literature shaped the perception and reception of their realities. Rose delves into work written from within Nazi ghettoes. While historiographical approaches to Holocaust studies presuppose a neat distinction between reportage, on the one hand, and the vagaries of literature, on the other, Sven-Erik Rose shows that it is misguided to privilege the least literary modes of discourse as closer to the brute reality of these catastrophic events. Literature, he argues, was one of the key frameworks victims used to comprehend their traumatic and ever-changing circumstances. Touching on poetry, short prose, novels, and autobiography by Leyb Goldin, Itzhak Katzenelson, Shmuel Marvil, Yehoshue Perle, Zelman Skalov, and others, Rose explores how the distinction between documentary and literary writing has failed to recognize the ways literature was built into everyday life in the ghettos. The book also takes up Theodor Adorno's famousand widely misreadstatement that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible. Rose argues that this dictum has led scholars to neglect poetry written during the Holocausteven though the use of literary genres raised important questions about what it meant to narrate the catastrophic events of ghetto life.

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Book SynopsisPreface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. He became a leading force of dissent throughout the Caribbean and a lightning rod of controversy. The 1968 Rodney Riots erupted in Jamaica when he was prevented from returning to his teaching post at the University of the West Indies. In 1980, Rodney was assassinated in Guyana, reportedly at the behest of the government. In the mid-'70s, Rodney taught a course on the Russian Revolution at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. A Pan-Africanist and Marxist, Rodney sought to make sense of the reverberations of the October Revolution in a decolonising world marked by Third World revolutionary movements. He intended to publish a book based on his research and teaching. Now historians Jesse Benjamin, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Vijay Prashad have edited Rodney's polished chapters and unfinished lecture notes, presenting the book that Rodney had hoped to publish in his lifetime.1917 is a signal event in radical publishing, and will inaugurate Verso's standard edition of Walter Rodney's works.

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