Liverpool University Press: 64 books
Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst...
Smashing H-Block
The Popular Campaign against Criminalization and the Irish Hunger Strikes 1976-1982
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Smashing H-Block is a political history of the Irish republican struggle against criminalization from 1976 to 1982. This struggle, which culminated in the historic hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, is widely regarded as a turning point in Ireland's 'Troubles', marking the 'last great wave of activism...
by Andrew Milner
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to...
Life and Limb
Perspectives on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affected by the American Civil War. The essays and recollections detail some of the earliest attempts by...
by Nuar Alsadir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Claudia Rankine described the poems in Alsadir's first book as 'lawless,' 'provocative, and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse from the inside out...come alive in the back and...
Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838
The Steadfast Scot in the British Anti-Slavery Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In 1833 Thomas Fowell Buxton, the parliamentary successor to William Wilberforce, proposed a toast to 'the anti-slavery tutor of us all. - Mr. Macaulay.' Yet Zachary Macaulay's considerable contribution to the ending of slavery in the British Empire has received scant recognition by historians. This...
Leaving the North
Migration and Memory, Northern Ireland 1921-2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Leaving the North is the first book that provides a comprehensive survey of Northern Ireland migration since 1921. Based largely on the personal memories of emigrants who left Northern Ireland from the 1920s to the 2000s, approximately half of whom eventually returned, the book traces their multigenerational...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the past three decades, international and regional human rights bodies have developed an ever-lengthening list of measures that states are required to adopt in order to prevent torture. But do any of these mechanisms actually work? This study is the first systematic analysis of the effectiveness...
Art and Pluralism
Lawrence Alloway's Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was one of the most influential and widely respected (as well as prolific) art writers of the post-war years. His many books, catalogue essays and reviews manifest the changing paradigms of art away from the formal values of modernism towards the inclusiveness of the visual...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Since the onset of the troubles in the late 1960s, people in Northern Ireland have been working together to bring about a peaceful, non-violent end to the conflict. In doing so, they have used their efforts as a means to support the transition to a post-conflict society in the wake of the ceasefires...
by Eleanor Rees
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In her third full-length collection Blood Child, Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change - fleeting, elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through the landscapes of self and city. The idea of generation...
London Irish Fictions
Narrative, Diaspora and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
This is the first book about the literature of the Irish in London. By examining over 30 novels, short stories and autobiographies set in London since the Second World War, London Irish Fictions investigates the complex psychological landscapes of belonging and cultural allegiance found in these unique...
Intimate Enemies
Translation in Francophone Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The concept of translation has become central to postcolonial theory in recent decades, offering as it does a useful metaphor or metonym for many of the processes explored within the framework of postcolonial studies. Translation proper, however, remains relatively underexplored and, in many postcolonial...
by Jodie Hollander
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Set against the charms and vicissitudes of growing up in a family of musicians, Jodie Hollander's beautifully-structured and compelling debut follows the story of a daughter's maturing relationship with her mother. Interspersed with versions of Rimbaud, and always alert to the surreal comedy of the...