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“edward chamberlain”

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  • Significant Food

    Critical Readings to Nourish American Literature

    by Ericka Birkenstein, Anton Smith, Greg Hartley, Katy Lewis, Shelley A. Ingram, Sanghamitra Dalal, Méliné Kasparian-Le Fèvre, Molly Mann, Carrie Tippen, Rachel Fernandes, Edward Chamberlain, Mary-Lynn Chambers, Heidi Oberholtzer Lee, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Serena Demichelis ...
    Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for public consumption ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Caribbean Migrations

    The Legacies of Colonialism

    by Anke Birkenmaier, Anke Birkenmaier, Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Edward Chamberlain, Jorge Duany, Vivian Halloran, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Daylet Domínguez, Devyn Spence Benson, Iraida H. López, Rafael Rojas0, Jane Bryce1, Rebecca Dirksen2, Kendy Vérilus3, Kiran C. Jayaram4, April J. Mayes5, Emily A. Maguire6, Alejandro Portes7, Jossianna Arroyo8 ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects,” and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Enchanted Hunters

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  • Feeling Backward

    Loss and the Politics of Queer History

    by Heather Love ...
    Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet ... Read more

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  • How Dare We! Write

    A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse

    by Sherry Quan Lee ...
    How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection from publishers and classmates, and to stand against traditions that silence you?" and "How can writers ... Read more

    $5.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving the Crossing

    (Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen

    by Jessica Rabin ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity. ... Read more

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  • Reel Food

    Essays on Food and Film

    Edited by Anne L. Bower ...
    Reel Food is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film, featuring original essays by major food studies scholars, among them Carole Counihan and Michael Ashkenazi. This collection reads various films through their uses of food-from major food films like Babette's Feast and Big Night to less obvious choices including The Godfather trilogy and The**Matrix. The ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers

    by Maria Nikolajeva ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This book considers one of the most controversial aspects of children’s and young adult literature: its use as an instrument of power. Children in contemporary Western society are oppressed and powerless, yet they are allowed, in fiction written by adults for the enlightenment and enjoyment of children, to become strong, brave, rich, powerful, and independent -- on certain conditions and for a ... Read more

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  • Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema

    by Asma Sayed ...
    Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern Europe, Canada, and the United States, the various chapters contextualize the socio-cultural ... Read more

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  • Feasting Our Eyes

    Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States

    by Laura Lindenfeld, Fabio Parasecoli ...
    Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food—they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as ideological pluralism, ethnic and racial acceptance, gender equality, and class flexibility—but not as progressively as you might think. Feasting Our ... Read more

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  • Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics

    by Kristin K. Winet, Abby L. Wilkerson, Winona Landis, Alexis M. Baker, Arlene Voski Avakian, Carrie Helms Tippen, Erin Branch, Abby M. Dubisar, Lynn Z. Bloom, Elizabeth Lowry, Sylvia A. Pamboukian, Tammie M Kennedy, Consuelo Carr Salas, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Jennifer E. Courtney, S. Morgan Gresham, Rebecca Ingalls, Sara Hillin ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
    Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.Contributors analyze messages about food and bodies—from what a person watches and reads ... Read more

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