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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “arin g keeble”
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  • The 9/11 Novel

    Trauma, Politics and Identity

    by Arin Keeble ...
    This is a comprehensive study of the first decade of literary representations of 9/11, moving from Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (2003) to Amy Waldman's The Submission (2012). It traces the way literature has dealt with an event that continues to shape world conflict and resonate prominently in the American imagination, and argues that the corpus of literary fiction discussing 9/11 ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context

    Literature, Film and Television

    by Arin Keeble ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee. It argues that these texts engage with the human tragedy and political fallout of the Katrina crisis while simultaneously responding to issues that have characterized the wider, George W. Bush era of American history; notably the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Ten Years after Katrina

    Critical Perspectives of the Storm's Effect on American Culture and Identity

    by Joseph Donica, Florian Freitag, Kate Horigan, Arin G. Keeble, Christopher Lloyd, Daisy Pignetti, Michael Samuel, Thomas Stubblefield, Laura Tansley, Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza ...
    Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrought massive psychological and cultural trauma on Gulf Coast residents and on America as a whole. Details of the devastation were quickly reported—and misreported—by media outlets, and a slew of articles and books followed, offering a spectrum of socio ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Wire and America's Dark Corners

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Arin Keeble, Ivan Stacy ...
    In post-9/11 America, while all eyes were on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Wire (2002-2008) focused on the dark realities of those living in America's disintegrating industrial heartlands and drug-ravaged neighborhoods, striving against the odds in its schools, hospitals and legal system.With compelling story lines and a memorable cast of characters, The Wire has been compared to the work of Tolstoy ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Violence

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reality Isn't What It Used to Be

    Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World

    by Walter Truet Anderson ...
    Anderson reveals the reality of postmodernism in politics, popular culture, religion, literary criticism, art, and philosophy -- making sense of everything from deconstructionism to punk. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Eaglestone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Assia Djebar's L'Amour La Fantasia and the historiographic approach

    by Laura Aletti ...
    This essay will discuss Hutcheon's theory about “historiographic metafiction” in order to explain the meanings of Djebar's work; it will introduce Djebar's approach to history from a gender and post-colonized point of view; finally, issues related to language and history will be addressed. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twenty-First-Century Fiction

    A Critical Introduction

    by Peter Boxall ...
    The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament – one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • After the Fall

    American Literature Since 9/11

    by Richard Gray ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    After the FallA common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.” After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray – widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature – ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Criticism

    Literature - Film - Culture

    by Michael Ryan ...
    An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism.Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such as evolutionary theory, cognitive studies, ethical criticism, and ecocriticismOffers explanations of key ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD