The first study to bring Hemingway, Vonnegut, O'Brien, and 9/11 literature together in order to examine views about war, gender, and domesticity over a hundred-year period.
This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its “New World” descendants.
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In this delightfully readable book, Bertram considers representations of the Turkish house in literature, art, and architecture to understand why the idea of the house has become such a potent signifier of Turkish identity.
This book explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and ‘home’ in contemporary diasporic Chinese women’s literature.
... kissing my feetand clothing,andbegging withdreadful pathosthat I should cure them. It was a task assadas it was difficult toexplain that their hopes were mistaken, and thatIwas impotent to help them... Sources: Kevin Brownlow,The ...
This collection invites a wide range of perspectives from different fields of the Humanities to explore the means of imagining Earth.
Imagining Home: Constructs, Images and Desires: Nineteenth-century Irish-Australian Women Re-imaging Home in Their Writing
How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of ...