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  • The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives

    af Eleanor Ty ...
    Serier serie Heritage
    Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways, Asian North Americans negotiate daily with 'birthmarks,' their shared physical features marking ... Læs mere

    313,24 kr.

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    Serier Bog 13 - Writer as Critic
    Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, ... Læs mere

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  • This Is My Country, What's Yours?

    A Literary Atlas of Canada

    af Noah Richler ...
    Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fictionA Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)National Post Best Books (2006)A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of the country seems daily more uncertain, Noah Richler looks to ... Læs mere

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  • Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel

    A Modern Korean Novel

    Originally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, "Peace Under Heaven" is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation. Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing ... Læs mere

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  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Redigeret af John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Serier serie Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Læs mere

    68,80 kr.

  • Boys and Girls in No Man's Land

    English-Canadian Children and the First World War

    af Susan Fisher ...
    Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort.Susan R. Fisher also considers how the representation of the war has changed in Canadian children's literature. ... Læs mere

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  • Slanting I, Imagining We

    Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s

    af Larissa Lai ...
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    The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment—from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of ... Læs mere

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  • Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase

    Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature

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    Serier serie Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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  • Azaleas

    A Book of Poems

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  • Public Discourses of Contemporary China

    The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television

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    Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today. ... Læs mere

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  • Transitive Cultures

    Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific

    Winner of the 2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize from the American Studies AssociationTexts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of multiculturalism—with its emphasis on authenticity and identifiable cultural difference—is precisely what this literature resists?Transitive Cultures offers a ... Læs mere

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