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  • Women and Water in Global Fiction

    Modifié par Emma Staniland ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine and, therefore, with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital importance of water as life force, which has given it a central place in cultural vocabularies worldwide. These symbolic economies, in turn, inform the discourses through which positive or negative ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

    par Emma Staniland ...
    Collections series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

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    Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the ... En savoir plus

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  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    par Nicholas Evans ...
    Collections Livre 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... En savoir plus

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  • Violent Phenomena

    Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation

    par Kavita Bhanot, Jeremy Tiang ...
    “These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”—Jhumpa LahiriA manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena breaks stale rules about who can and should translate, envisioning a future more reflective of the beautiful polyphony of literature in all languages.?What would it take to unlearn centuries of ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    par Graham Harvey ...
    Collections series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... En savoir plus

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  • I Saw the Dog

    How Language Works

    par Alexandra Aikhenvald ...
    Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, while Estonians have only one word for both men and women: tema. In Dyirbal, an Australian ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Modifié par Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... En savoir plus

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  • In the Shadow of the Palms

    More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

    par Sophie Chao ...
    With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to ... En savoir plus

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  • Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-Modern Society

    par Manu Mangattu ...
    Postmodernism has become the Holy Grail that charts 'living' in the present world through speculations, deliberations and negotiations. This collection of scholarly research articles map our dialogues with the intersections that twenty-first century society offers to individuals. Mapping the changing landscape of the Post-modern world is essential as man will not be talked out of finding meaning ... En savoir plus

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  • Beauty Unlimited

    par Gregory Velazco Trianosky, Noël Carroll ...
    "A feminist aesthetics text which bridges aesthetic theory, art and popular culture and acknowledges the evolving character of standards of beauty" ( Teaching Philosophy ).Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty, both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate ... En savoir plus

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  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Modifié par Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
    The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... En savoir plus

    $37.59 CAD