Sussex Academic Press: 85 books
The Rosary, the Republic, and the Right
Spain and the Vatican Hierarchy, 19311939
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special “privileges” they enjoyed would end. The Catholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and...
by Marius Hentea
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Providing a theoretically sophisticated and historically nuanced reading of Henry Green’s novels, this work makes the case for his importance in reconsiderations of modernism, late modernism, and postwar realism. An ambitious reassessment of Green’s oeuvre to date, this book argues against the...
Jewish Drama & Theatre
From Rabbinical Intolerance to Secular Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Jewish theater has followed a tortuous path from extreme rabbinical intolerance to eventual secular liberalism, with its openness to the heritages of both Judaism as a culture and prominent foreign cultures, to the extent of multicultural integration. Arguing that since biblical times until the 17th...
Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in Mexico, 19281934
Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacán and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of the revolutionary constitution. Cárdenas sought to strengthen his position through the ruling party...
Otto Abetz and His Paris Acolytes
French Writers Who Flirted with Fascism, 1930–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Before Hitler comes to power Otto Abetz is a left-wing Francophile teacher in provincial Germany, mobilizing young French and German idealists to work together for peace through Franco-German reconciliation and a united Europe. Abetz marries a French girl but after 1933 succumbs to the Nazi sirens....
Reinventing the Sublime
Post-Romantic Literature and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Reinventing the Sublime looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity, and at intimations of a post-Romantic’ sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of invention’ taking the Latin meaning of to come upon’, find’, discover’ that involves...
Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West
The Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The book is a case study in the literary, psychoanalytic, and theological encounters between diasporic Muslim intellectuals and secular western modernity. It centers on the simultaneous search for the possibility of both a reformation of Islamic fundamentalism and a transformation of the exclusionary...
by Saskia E. Wieringa, Abha Bhaiya, Nursyahbani Katjasungkana
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. These two major cities have substantively different...
The Bounds of Liberalism
The Fragility of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The central question at the heart of this consideration is how far the West may need to modify or extend the liberal philosophy that informs its responses to the multiple world crises it is currently addressing. The book provides a review of the strengths and weaknesses of a social liberalism that,...
The Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold
Letters to Clough, the 1853 Preface, and Some Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Many of the ideas that appear in poet Matthew Arnold’s Preface to the Poems of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Literature was, in Arnold’s perception, meant to communicate a message rather...
Spanish–Israeli Relations, 1956–1992
Ghosts of the Past and Contemporary Challenges in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Despite a common heritage dating back centuries and mutual national interests, such as their joint fear of Soviet influence across the Mediterranean, it took 38 years after the establishment of the State of Israel (1948) and a decade after Franco's death (1975) for relations to be established between...
The Ring of Myths
The Israelis, Wagner and the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the fall of 1938, following Kristallnacht, the symphonic orchestra in Palestine cancelled the performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. No one could foresee that this would be the beginning of a never-ending boycott. The boycott began in a society struggling for its existence and collective...
Future Theatre Research
Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the preverbal imagistic mode of thinking. This mode characterizes the remnants of preverbal thinking, such as unconscious thinking (dreaming), the embryonic speech of toddlers, and their imaginative play...
José 'Pepe' Mujica
Warrior, Philosopher, President
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Toward the end of his administration (2010–2015), then Uruguayan President José ‘Pepe’ Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-globalization...