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“michael k walonen”

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  • William T. Vollmann

    A Critical Companion

    by Georg Bauer, Carla Bolte, Aaron Chandler, Heather Corcoran, John K. Cox, Okla Elliott, James Franco, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Glawogger, Mariya Gusev, Joshua Jensen, Priscilla Juvelis, Miles Liebtag, Larry McCaffery, Françoise Palleau-Papin, Melissa Petro, Jordan A. Rothacker, Bryan Santin, Geoffrey D. Smith, Mary Austin Speaker, Michael K. Walonen, Buell Wisner ...
    "This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical CompanionThe ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition

    Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature

    by Michael K. Walonen ...
    In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Alfred Chester during the end of the colonial era and the earliest days of post-independence. The conceptualizations of space in these authors' descriptions of Tangier, Walonen shows, share ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • The Arab Spring

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  • Sowing Crisis

    The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

    by Rashid Khalidi ...
    Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining the strategic interplay of cold war superpowers, Khalidi explains how the momentous events that ... Read more

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  • Sexagon

    Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture

    by Mehammed Amadeus Mack ...
    Honorable Mention, Association for Middle East Women’s StudiesHonorable Mention, 2018 Arab American Book Awards (Non-Fiction)In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, ... Read more

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  • The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

    by Marcus Tomalin ...
    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756 ... Read more

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  • Reordering the World

    Essays on Liberalism and Empire

    by Duncan Bell ...
    A leading scholar of British political thought explores the relationship between liberalism and empireReordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain—at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political thought—Duncan Bell sheds new light on some of the ... Read more

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  • The Decolonial Abyss

    Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins

    by An Yountae ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a constructive and coherent thematization of the somewhat obscurely defined and underexplored mystical figure of the abyss as it occurs in Neoplatonic ... Read more

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  • Gay Indians in Brazil

    Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities

    by Estevão Rafael Fernandes, Barbara M. Arisi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book unveils an ignored aspect of the Brazilian history: how the colonization of the country shaped the sexuality of its indigenous population. Based on textual research, the authors show how the government and religious institutions gradually imposed the family model considered as "normal" to Brazilian indigenous gays through forced labor, punishment, marriages with non-indigenous and other ... Read more

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  • Law, Disorder and the Colonial State

    Corruption in Burma c.1900

    by J. Saha ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were inseparable: the informal world upon which formal colonial power rested. ... Read more

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  • The Comparative Approach to National Movements

    Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies

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    Series series Association for the Study of Nationalities
    Miroslav Hroch’s Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this book explore Hroch’s continued relevance to the field of nationalism studies with four case studies ... Read more

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