Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books

by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Yanoula Athanassakis, Mary Louisa Cappelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Monolingual, monolithic English is an issue of the past. In this collection, by using cinema, poetry, art, and novels we demonstrate that English has become the heteroglossic language of immigration – Englishes of exile. By appropriating its plural form we pay respect to all those who have been...

Feminist Ecocriticism

Environment, Women, and Literature

by Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Monique LaRocque, Theda Wrede
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012

Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction....

Novel Approaches to Anthropology

Contributions to Literary Anthropology

by Mary-Elizabeth Reeve, John W. Pulis, Helena Wulff
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies...
by K Daniel Cho, Brian Friedberg, Douglas Kellner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and...

Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922

'A Great Disobedience Against the People'

by Paul E. Dunscomb
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new 'world situation' left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the...

Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan

Pal's Dissenting Judgment at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

by Nariaki Nakazato
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016

Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented from the majority opinion, holding that all Japanese “Class A” war criminals were not guilty of any of the charges brought against them. In postwar...

Creating the Arabian Gulf

The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf

by Paul J. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009

Even whether to call the Gulf 'Arabian' or 'Persian' is an unending argument. Regardless of its name, the Gulf is one of the most politically important regions of the world. Despite its constant presence in the headlines, the fact that it was part of the British Indian empire for many years has gone...

Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives

Memory in Memoir and Fiction

by Victoria Aarons, Alan Astro, Alan Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to the second-generation—the...

Africana Critical Theory

Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral

by Reiland Rabaka
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009

Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This...
by Mark H. Moss
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007

Shopping as an Entertainment Experience explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the department store, the mall, and the e-store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people...
by Steven Rybin
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's...

The Lives of Hans Luther, 1879 - 1962

German Chancellor, Reichsbank President, and Hitler's Ambassador

by Edmund C. Clingan
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

For the first time in any language, a book examines the life of Hans Luther, the German statesman whose career began at the tail end of the Second Empire and ended in the postwar years. Luther had a front-row seat for World War I, the Revolution of 1918, the Great Inflation, the Great Depression,...

The Daily Grind

How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship

by Marquita R. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship serves as a unique core text in the fields of labor studies and sociology by considering the employment relationship from the worker’s perspective of social justice. The text focuses on the structural and institutional barriers which...

Hip Hop's Inheritance

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

by Reiland Rabaka
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the...
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