Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.Utilizing many staples of African American...

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Nice Surprises contains poems and short stories. Please do not confuse nice with mice. Mice play no part in this book, sorry, unless you mean cute little things, then yes! In my country, it is customary to call a nice girl a mouse. The main characters in these stories are all German. Yes, there is a German language course in this work, and you can learn words that you will never hear in a normal course. German proverbs are translated literally, like this example. »I know where the frog's c...

Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology represents a possible paradigm shift in our way of life. But complex challenges and obstacles impose a reality at odds with the utopian visions propounded by AV enthusiasts in the private and public sectors.The new volume in the Urban Agenda series examines the technological questions still surrounding autonomous vehicles and the uncertain societal and legislative impact of widespread AV adoption. Assessing both short- and long-term concerns, the ...

This timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy and academic publishing: bilingualism and multilingualism, Indigeneity, multiple canons (literary and other), the relationship between print culture and other media, the development of information st...

666 is supposed to be the number of the devil, but funny enough, one has to dial up the 555 first, to contact Satan via telephone, but only in films, yet. A German author, writer of detective stories travels to the Baltic, to write the story of his life. A thriller about the perfect crime. During his journey on the train, the writer comes to know a man, one who makes him understand, that nobody will ever be able to committ a perfect crime. Only one existed, and that took place 2000 years a...

When the Antichrist comes, the final hour will have struck, and Jesus will soon return. To the joy of all those who have been eagerly waiting for him, because they will be welcomed by Jesus and not condemned. We live in an age of misinformation. The New Testament is full of warnings about false teachers. In Revelation 13, a beast manipulates the world so that mankind worships a mighty power that blasphemes God and wages war against saints. This book warns of these dangers.

A friend of a contract killer, the owner of a nightclub, arranges a job where the hitman knows the victim very well.

In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven sugar's origins are as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new in...

There was no denying they were being followed. The only question remaining was what they were supposed to do about it. And as Patrick and Amanda make their way home from a party, they will be forced to confront this sinister figure before it makes it's way into their home...

Set over the course of one night in Berlin, Expat Joe returns home and weaves through decadence and self loathing desperate to connect with who he once was and a happiness that he gave away too easily."Rückspiel" was first published in Jonathan: A Queer Fiction Journal, issue 11, in March 2016. It had previously been shortlisted in the 2015 The Reader Berlin Short Story Competition.