Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Yanoula Athanassakis, Mary Louisa Cappelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
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
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
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...
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth
Beyond Schools
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...