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The Fornes Frame
Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is...
Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature
Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years...
Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust
Africa in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
In Dante’s Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere masterfully sketches...
Mexican American Mojo
Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican...
Rhythms of Race
Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America,...
by Tanja Kasper
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, grade: 1,7, University of Vaasa, course: Transfer in Literature and the Media, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Is it possible to transfer the basics about another culture...
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
What It Means to Be Black Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Now in paperback, “one of the most acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young, Black, and middle-class in contemporary America…told in a distinctive voice that is often humorous…but always intensely engaging” (Orlando Patterson, The New York Times).
In this provocative...
North Korea under Communism
Report of an Envoy to Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine. What are the reasons behind this peculiar choice of direction? Why did the leaders in Pyongyang pursue a policy abandoned...
China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922
To the Ends of the Orient
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Throughout the centuries, as Russia strove to build itself into an imperial power equal to those in the West, China and Japan came to occupy a special place in Russians’ view of the orient. Never colonised by Russia or the West, China and Japan were linked not only to the greatest of Russian imperial...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state’s work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new narratives...
Evangelicals in a Frontier Town: Tucson, 1859-1918
First Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
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by Donald L. Niewyk, Francis R. Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today.
Each...
Rainy Season
Haiti-Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake.
Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past,...