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Transcultural Narrative Identities - A Study Of Memoir In Contemporary Anglophone Women Authors Of The Italian Diaspora

by Eva Pelayo-Sanudo e Maria Pilar Rodriguez

~~79,50€~~ 71,55€ 10% OFF

 This is the first study on the development of Italian ethnic identity in North America (United States and Canada) from a gender perspective and based on memoir. It argues for a thoughtful reexamination of an emerging genre in contemporary autobiographical writing which is particularly apt for narrating the experiences of women and ethnic minorities.
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Searching For The Origins Of The Portuguese Waltzes

by Richard Simas

~~79,50€~~ 71,55€ 10% OFF

 Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes is a collection of narratives depicting a six-year quest to discover the roots of a piece of traditional music played in St. Johnâ€™s, Newfoundland: the Portuguese Waltzes.
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American Murids - A Lived Muslim Practice Of Nonviolence

by Jonathan Bornman

~~88,78€~~ 79,90€ 10% OFF

 This is an ethnography of the Muridiyya community in Harlem. These representatives of an old West African Muslim Pacifist tradition now live in a pluralistic society. Young Murids, negotiating intergenerational tensions are rewriting what it means to be faithful to their spiritual and ethical tradition and a new American Muridiyya is emerging.
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Contos Populares Portugueses De Massachusetts (Guilherme Alexandre Da Silveira) / Portuguese Folktales From Massachusetts

by Manuel da Costa Fontes

98,05€ + 10% CARD

 This is the third of three collections dedicated to the Portuguese folktale in North America (Canada, California, and Massachusetts). The present volume, which contributes to preserving an ancient, disappearing tradition, consists of 82 folktales of Indo-European character recorded in Taunton, Massachusetts.
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American Studies Over_Seas 1: Narrating Multiple America(S) - In Honor Of Teresa F. A. Alves And Teresa Cid

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 American Studies Over_Seas I: Narrating Multiple America(s) is a contribution to the ongoing debate in the field of American Studies in its most recent turnTransnational American Studiesa paradigm shift in the discipline which runs counter to a consensus version of U.S. history and culture. The essays highlight the dissenting narratives in the study of "America" as a mindscape, multivocal and varied in its discourses of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. They also evidence the interrelation of the United States with Europe and examine how society, history, literature, and art intersect, providing alternative ways to comprehend the current geopolitical and cultural mindset on both sides of the Atlantic. These are interdisciplinary and diverse texts, authored by both senior leading scholars and promising younger researchers. The volume will benefit students and scholars of international American Studies, interdisciplinary and multicultural studies in history, sociology, modern languages literatures and cultures, cultural studies, comparative literatures, identity and ethnic studies, among others. It will also be of interest to researchers of American studies, transatlantic and transoceanic studies, diasporas and related fields of history, literature, art, and politics, as well as to the general reader with a background in the social sciences and the humanities.
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American Studies Over_Seas 2: (Multi)Vocal Exchanges Across The Atlantic - In Honor Of Teresa F. A. Alves And Teresa Cid

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 (Multi)Vocal Exchanges Across the Ocean is the second volume of the project American Studies Over_Seas, an edited collection of texts honoring two pioneering Portuguese scholars in American literature and culture. Devoted to relations between Portugal and the United States, it includes essays by leading scholars whose research illuminates the multifarious ways in which history, sociology and literature intersect. A special feature of this collection is the inclusion of creative writing pieces that provide an imaginative intellectual backdrop to the transnational turn in American Studies. The literary contributions focus on diasporic experiences, dramatizing issues of ethnicity, identity, and interculturality. The essays of a more personal nature highlight the career of the two honorees, discuss protocols involving academic exchanges, and showcase dialogues between Europe and America over the past 30 years. Of benefit to the academic and the interested reader, this volume enriches the metaphor of the Atlantic Ocean as a space not only of struggle but also of ongoing conversation.
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Contos Populares Portugueses Do Canadá / Portuguese Folktales From Canada

by Manuel da Costa Fontes

105,87€ + 10% CARD

 This book, which is also of great linguistic value, ends with four appendices: vocabulary, informants, motifs and tale-types.
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Landscapes Of Writing - Collected Essays Of Bapsi Sidhwa

by Bapsi Sidhwa

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 This book is collection of essays that provide a writerâ€™s perspective on issues of South Asian Literature, linguistics, poetry and views of political events and globalization.
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Landscapes Of Writing - Collected Essays Of Bapsi Sidhwa

by Bapsi Sidhwa

91,03€ + 10% CARD

 This book is collection of essays that provide a writerâ€™s perspective on issues of South Asian Literature, linguistics, poetry and views of political events and globalization.
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The Transnational Imaginaries Of M. G. Vassanji - Diaspora, Literature, And Culture

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 The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji is a collection of scholarly articles that engages with, analyzes, and appreciatively critiques the fiction and nonfiction writing of M. G. Vassanji, a multiple award-winning author.
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The Transnational Imaginaries Of M. G. Vassanji - Diaspora, Literature, And Culture

101,96€ + 10% CARD

 The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji is a collection of scholarly articles that engages with, analyzes, and appreciatively critiques the fiction and nonfiction writing of M. G. Vassanji, a multiple award-winning author.
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Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup - Persons, Names, Words, And Proverbs In Portuguese America

by George Monteiro

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 Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States.
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Invisible In Plain Sight - Self-Determination Strategies Of Free Blacks In The Old Northwest

by Jill E. Rowe

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 The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined free black communities between 1820 and 1850 in the Old Northwest, becoming an important safe haven and beacon of freedom. Its notoriety and size grew as slaves often migrated to these locations after they were granted emancipation in the wills of slave owners who purchased land in the area for them to settle on. The newly free people found sanctuary as these communities were also rumored to shelter runaway slaves in their role as active participants in the Underground Railroad Movement. However, the prosperity of blacks living in these villages angered some of the local whites many of whom were migrating at the same time and were connected to local law officials and politicians. Archival documents reveal continued acts of terrorism perpetuated against blacks which heightened the importance of the strength of the communities they founded specifically schools, churches, businesses, and intergenerational family structures in providing a unified front that allowed them to bond and thrive in an environment that was not always conducive to their survival. Invisible in Plain Sight: Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest provides a rare detailed examination of an often overlooked piece of the American tapestry. It is perfect reading for history classes in high school and college, as well as for history enthusiasts looking for something new.
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Sages Of Darkness - A Depiction Of Kurdish Life In Late Ottoman Times

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 Previously unavailable in English, Salim Barakats Sages of Darkness depicts Kurdish life in the period of transition from a traditional tribal existence to half-hearted modernization under the Ottomans. A saga of the lives and deaths of two Kurdish chieftains and their families, it is filled with fantasy, humor and wonder as well as tragedy and devotion to the futile, and delves into the intertwined workings of history, mythology and memory. It is a landmark of Kurdish literature. The translator, Aviva Butt, has meticulously developed a fitting vocabulary to render Barakats poetic Arabic into English. The translation is accompanied by extensive notes, some of which explain the translators rationale in relation to particular moments in the text. With her deep knowledge of Middle Eastern texts, including the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, she brings unique skills and breadth of understanding to a subtle rendering of what was previously considered impossible to translate. A critical Introduction alerts the reader to what is to come, the new and otherwise unexpected.
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Perceptions De Lespace Chez Frankétienne Et Tahar Ben Jelloun

by Jean Norgaisse

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 Le présent ouvrage est une étude comparative entre deux grandes figures de la littérature dexpression française: Frankétienne, haïtien de souche, et Tahar Ben Jelloun, dorigine marocaine. Ils jouissent dune renommée internationale, fondée sur une ½uvre forte. Entendons: une ½uvre visionnaire, pertinente, qui sinscrit dans la mimésis spatio-temporelle, le vécu humain, et qui fait aussi entendre un cri perçant, un souffle envoûtant, une musique originale. Elle croise, à bien des égards, celle de René Depestre, dAbdelkébir Khatibi, de Yasmina Khadra, de Soljénitsyne et de Zola. Singulière, elle est à la fois géographique et dramatique, avec le nomadisme des personnages, la mise en scène de lespace, des atrocités et conflits actantiels. Lespace-fiction chez les deux poètes-romanciers sancre dans lhorreur, le chaos et la psychose, qui constituent des thèmes fondamentaux de leurs ½uvres. Létude, qui offre une nouvelle approche théorique et une méthode danalyse efficiente, est présidée par la démarche anthropo-géographie sémiologique, qui suggère une lecture ouverte, interdisciplinaire, favorisant une pluralité de sens de l½uvre de Frankétienne et de Ben Jelloun. Elle permet ainsi dappréhender leur discours fictionnel et poétique, plein de fièvre et de colère, qui rend compte du monde claustral, sinistre, angoissant, et qui refuse que lhomme sombre dans la déchéance morale, linhumanité. Doù résulte une anthropologie poético-géographique et philosophique.
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American Murids - A Lived Muslim Practice Of Nonviolence

by Jonathan Bornman

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 This is an ethnography of the Muridiyya community in Harlem. These representatives of an old West African Muslim Pacifist tradition now live in a pluralistic society. Young Murids, negotiating intergenerational tensions are rewriting what it means to be faithful to their spiritual and ethical tradition and a new American Muridiyya is emerging.
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Contos Populares Portugueses De Massachusetts (Guilherme Alexandre Da Silveira) / Portuguese Folktales From Massachusetts

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Contos Populares Portugueses De Massachusetts (Guilherme Alexandre Da Silveira) / Portuguese Folktales From Massachusetts

by Manuel da Costa Fontes

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 This is the third of three collections dedicated to the Portuguese folktale in North America (Canada, California, and Massachusetts). The present volume, which contributes to preserving an ancient, disappearing tradition, consists of 82 folktales of Indo-European character recorded in Taunton, Massachusetts.
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John Dewey, Albert Barnes, And The Continuity Of Art And Life - Revisioning The Arts And Education

by David A. Granger

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 John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life is a carefully-researched book offering a dynamic and expansive Deweyan vision for the arts and education by examining the influence of Barnes on Dewey.
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John Dewey, Albert Barnes, And The Continuity Of Art And Life - Revisioning The Arts And Education

by David A. Granger

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 John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life is a carefully-researched book offering a dynamic and expansive Deweyan vision for the arts and education by examining the influence of Barnes on Dewey.
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Landscapes Of Writing - Collected Essays Of Bapsi Sidhwa

by Bapsi Sidhwa

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 This book is collection of essays that provide a writerâ€™s perspective on issues of South Asian Literature, linguistics, poetry and views of political events and globalization.
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The Transnational Imaginaries Of M. G. Vassanji - Diaspora, Literature, And Culture

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 The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji is a collection of scholarly articles that engages with, analyzes, and appreciatively critiques the fiction and nonfiction writing of M. G. Vassanji, a multiple award-winning author.
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There'S No Word For Â«Saudadeâ» - Perspectives On The Literature And Culture Of Portuguese America

by George Monteiro

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 ThereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s No Word for SAUDADE contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate to Portuguese America.
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Invisible In Plain Sight - Self-Determination Strategies Of Free Blacks In The Old Northwest

by Jill E. Rowe

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 Invisible in Plain Sight: Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest provides a rare detailed examination of an often overlooked piece of the American tapestry, the Land Act of 1820.
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The Search For A New National Identity - The Rise Of Multiculturalism In Canada And Australia, 1890sâ€“1970s

by Jatinder Mann

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 This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians defined themselves as a Â«peopleÂ» from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s.
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