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    Narratives of Home and Displacement

    Series series FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
    Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Futures

    Local Cultures, Global Change

    Series series FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
    There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these?Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists from different disciplines to assess the ... Read more

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  • Futurenatural

    Nature, Science, Culture

    Series series FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
    We are living in an age when 'nature' seems to be on the brink of extinction yet, at the same time, 'nature' is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and unstable as a category for representation and debate.Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature' - its past, present and future. Contributors discuss the impact on our daily life of recent ... Read more

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  • Belle

    The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice

    by Paula Byrne ...
    The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady.The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great ... Read more

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    An Introduction to Art Theory

    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Read more

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    Series series Exploded Views
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  • Wonder Woman

    Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948

    Series series Comics Culture
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