Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States offer rich insight into the movement from a traditional community...

Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative conversations that have transformed the studyof islands, coasts and...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Climate Justice in Action celebrates the activism and adaptations of Eastern Africa, one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world. Contributions from activists and researchers highlight diverse innovations and efforts to curb environmental catastrophe through transforming social inequalities and addressing root causes. The book amplifies community voices and intersectional approaches that integrate environmental s...

Xhosa storyteller Inkululeko tells the story of her life and narrates the history of South Africa from the start of the twentieth century until just before the end of apartheid. He stories help preserve the native African culture, inspiring her people and keeping hope alive.

Eher lustlos löst Oscar Wilde sein Versprechen ein, sich auch weiterhin um die ungelösten Fälle zu kümmern. Doch dann weckt eine Akte sein Interesse. In einem kleinen Ort in der Nähe von Glastonbury wurde vor Jahren die blutleere Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Und das kurz nachdem sich dort plötzlich Fledermäuse angesiedelt hatten. Gemeinsam mit Abraham Van Helsing begibt sich Wilde in den kleinen Ort. Schon bald sind die beiden in einen Fall verwickelt, mit dessen Ausmaß sie nicht ger...

Juliet and her family spend their lives in the dinning room, watched over by the mysterious painter in the corner. Outside, the alligator waits for them.

It's the Grand Opening of the new SuperGiantMegaFoodMart! And the only two people in the store form an unlikely connection over food.

With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century’s accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then...