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Cover of The Norther
by Emilio Carballido
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

Recognized in Mexico as one of the country's most important contemporary dramatists, Emilio Carballido has only recently become known in other countries through his plays and short stories. This translation introduces Carballido as a novelist. In The Norther what makes and breaks human relationships...
Cover of The Journey Home
by Dermot Bolger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Young Francis Hanrahan dreams desperately of a life different from that of his country-born, suburban-living parents. On his first day at his first job Francis makes his first real friend. Shay, a would-be older brother, introduces "Hano" to Dublin's appealingly seedy after-hours bars and drug-fueled...
Cover of Six Plays for Children
by Aurand Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

Six Plays for Children by Aurand Harris brings together a variety of dramatic forms that have enormously enriched the literature of children's theatre in this country and around the world. These works by this respected children's theatre playwright show Harris's great versatility: in the commedia dell'arte...
Cover of Speech Play and Verbal Art
by Joel Sherzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Puns, jokes, proverbs, riddles, play languages, verbal dueling, parallelism, metaphor, grammatical stretching and manipulation in poetry and song— people around the world enjoy these forms of speech play and verbal artistry which form an intrinsic part of the fabric of their lives. Verbal playfulness...
Cover of Andean Cosmopolitans

Andean Cosmopolitans

Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court

by José Carlos de la Puente Luna
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018

After the Spanish victories over the Inca claimed Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native Andeans undertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal court in Spain. Ranging from an indigenous commoner entrusted with delivering birds of prey for courtly entertainment to an Inca prince...
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Exchange and the Maiden

Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy

by Kirk Ormand
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014

Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage....
Cover of Herodotus and the Question Why
by Christopher Pelling
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019

In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known history to break from the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive examination of the methods behind the Histories and...
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Practicing Transnationalism

American Studies in the Middle East

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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, American studies programs began to spread in the Middle East. During a time of rising anti-American sentiment, ten major programs were established in the region. What impulses propelled universities in the Middle East to establish these centers and programs?...
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Not Your Average Zombie

Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks

by Chera Kee
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

The zombie apocalypse hasn't happened—yet—but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee...
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Television Rewired

The Rise of the Auteur Series

by Martha P. Nochimson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019

In 1990, American television experienced a seismic shift when Twin Peaks premiered, eschewing formulaic plots and clear lines between heroes and villains. This game-changing series inspired a generation of show creators to experiment artistically, transforming the small screen in ways that endure...
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Watunna

An Orinoco Creation Cycle

by Marc de Civrieux
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present. The first English edition...
Cover of The Mixe of Oaxaca

The Mixe of Oaxaca

Religion, Ritual, and Healing

by Frank J. Lipp
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010

The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. Frank Lipp...
Cover of Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes
by Judy Mielke
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010

For gardeners who want to conserve water, the color, fragrance, shade, and lush vegetation of a traditional garden may seem like a mirage in the desert. But such gardens can flourish when native plants grow in them. In this book, Judy Mielke, an expert on Southwestern gardening, offers the most comprehensive...
Cover of Whose School Is It?

Whose School Is It?

Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City

by Rhoda H. Halperin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Whose School Is It?: Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City is a success story with roadblocks, crashes, and detours. Rhoda Halperin uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria Anzalda's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to deconstruct the creation and advancement of a public...
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