Lexington Books: 3858 books
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of literary and sociopolitical movements of the Black Diaspora in the writings of key political figures. It comparatively and dialogically examines such movements as Pan-Africanism,...
Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers
Relational Science, Ethnographic Collaboration, and Tribal Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling signification and meaning. Regardless...
Russian Tales of Demonic Possession
Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia is a translation from the Russian of two stories of demonic possession, of innocence lost and regained. The original versions of both tales date back to the seventeenth century, but the feats of suffering and triumph...
Political Dissent: A Global Reader
Ancient to Early-Modern Sources
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This is a global anthology of great texts in the history of political dissent. Volume 1 spans the ancient and early-modern world, beginning with the Book of Isaiah, from the eighth century, BCE, and ending with John C. Calhoun’s “South Carolina Exposition,” from the early nineteenth century...
Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book offers the expert of Haitian studies new perspectives on the imbricated relationship between Caribbean, francophone, and French studies. It also offers the reader unfamiliar with Haiti a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of twentieth and early twenty-first century Haitian thought, including...
Reading Contemporary African American Literature
Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this...
Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler
Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible...
by Iyunolu Osagie
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book is a significant and original contribution to the ongoing conversation on modernity. It uses the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright and novelist Femi Euba to demonstrate the place and function of African cultures in modernity and makes the case for the vibrancy of such cultures...
by David Murphy, Dayna Oscherwitz, Matthew H. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture examines the works of one of Africa’s most influential writers and filmmakers within the context of his career-long preoccupation with the production of culture. Contributors to the collection foreground Sembene’s fixation on the centrality of culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Chronicling the British military's invasion of Iraq in 1917, Eleanor Franklin Egan was an intrepid American journalist whose autobiographical account of her time spent amongst British officers describes the relationship between British and American forces in the Middle East during and just after World...
The Other Hybrid Archipelago
Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of...
by Cyril Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
In this excellent study of Karl Marx's thought, Cyril Smith takes a long and winding route that starts with classical world thought. When he arrives at the door to Marx's pantheon we see that, with the significant yet largely overlooked example of Spinoza, most thinkers—and especially Western ones—are...
by John H. Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Plato and the Elements of Dialogue examines Plato’s use of the three necessary elements of dialogue: character, time, and place. By identifying and taking up striking employments of these features from throughout Plato’s work, this book seeks to map their functions and importance. By focusing...
by Jennifer Travis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth Century American Literature; or, Crash and Burn American invites readers to examine the “threat horizon” through its nascent expression in literary and cultural history. Against the emerging rhetoric of danger in the long nineteenth century, this book examines...