Lexington Books: 3858 books
The Ambiguous Foreign Policy of the United States toward the Muslim World
More than a Handshake
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This book sheds light on key issues in the Middle East. As the politics and society of the Middle East change, American foreign policy has become stagnant and stubborn. However, the changes occurring in the Middle East have brought into existence new, unfamiliar policies from regimes that reject old...
Gender, Culture, and Physicality
Paradoxes and Taboos
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Although a plethora of scholarship analyzes gender dynamics, this book seeks to explore the paradoxes and taboos associated with gendered meanings given to human bodies in action, or "physicality." Physicality provides a particularly clear playing space for developing concepts of gender...
by Laura Call, Nathan Germain, Gilles Mossière
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Ecocriticism is a critical approach that focuses on the representation in literature of the non-human elements of the natural world, a method of inquiry that has been largely limited to literature written in English. The aim of Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French is twofold: to introduce...
by Sage Leslie-McCarthy, Jayne Steel, Stella M. Hockenhull
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the...
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc
Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Drawing from recent theories on youth subcultures, this collection of essays considers official attempts to accommodate and contain jazz, rock-and-roll,...
Jazz and Postwar French Identity
Improvising the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally...
Who Governs the Internet?
A Political Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book will present a new conceptual framework for analysis that deconstructs the Internet into four policy “layers” with the aim of formulating a new political architecture that accurately maps out and depicts authority on the Internet today. Foremost, it will seek to draw a distinction between...
by Stylianos A. Sotiriou
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book places Eurasia in its entirety within a single explanatory framework and examines, for the first time to that extent, Russia as a Eurasian energy power in its affairs with the two main geopolitical players of the region, the EU and China. Part of this geopolitical space is the Former Soviet...
Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan
Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities**,** but also about migration and technology, especially social media....
Intercourse in Television and Film
The Presentation of Explicit Sex Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
As many critics and theorists have noted, non-pornographic films, documentaries, and quality television series have increasingly included explicit sex scenes since the 1990s, some of such scenes featuring the performance of actual sex acts. The incidence of sex in narratively powerful, resonant visual...
J.M.G. Le Clézio
A Concerned Citizen of the Global Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This monograph represents the first comprehensive study of the multifaceted representations of the complex phenomenon of globalization in the diverse repertoire of the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This interdisciplinary investigation explores the original euphoria related to the ambivalent concept...
Spaces of Creation
Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying experiences of displaced mothers and their...
by Gladys M. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s sake” aestheticism, and commodification through representations of “uglified” spaces, transgressive...
Writing through the Visual and Virtual
Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors—whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance...