This book explores fictional representations and narrative functions of animal characters in animated and live-action film and television, examining the ways in which these representations intersect with a variety of social issues. Contributors cover a range of animal characters, from heroes to villains, across a variety of screen genres and formats, including anime, comedy, romance, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Aesthetic features of these works, along with the increased latitude ...

Translating Migration: Multilingual Poems Of Movement brings together the poetic voices of migrants across regions, languages, and circumstances. As a collection of intertwined poetry by migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, and recent immigrants, Translating Migration deliberately questions the divisions between diverse human experiences of movement.

Translating Migration: Multilingual Poems Of Movement brings together the poetic voices of migrants across regions, languages, and circumstances. Twenty narrators bring the poems to life, allowing the voices of migrants to be heard by those with locations and life experiences much different from their own. Translating Migration seeks to translate the creative work of migrants between languages and across contexts. As a collection of intertwined poetry by migrant workers, ...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

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