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“nels pearson”

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  • Irish Cosmopolitanism

    Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett

    by Nels Pearson ...
    Donald J. Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book "Pearson is convincing in arguing that Irish writers often straddle the space between national identity and a sense of belonging to a larger, more cosmopolitan environment."--Choice "Demonstrat[es]. . .just what it is that makes comparative readings of history, politics, literature, theory, and culture indispensable to the work that defines ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World

    by Nels Pearson ...
    Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

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  • The End of the Cognitive Empire

    The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. As a collection of knowledges born of and anchored in the experiences of marginalized peoples who actively resist capitalism, colonialism, ... Read more

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  • this bridge we call home

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    Edited by Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating ...
    More than twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over eighty original writings that offers a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Written by women and men- ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Edited by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
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  • The Idea of Culture

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it. ... Read more

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  • Sonic Agency

    Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance

    by Brandon Labelle ...
    Series Book 1 - Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series
    A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon ... Read more

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  • Rethinking History

    by Keith Jenkins ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin to make sense of the past?The perfect introduction to this thought-provoking area, Jenkins' clear and concise prose guides readers through the ... Read more

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. D. Mignolo ...
    This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into ... Read more

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  • On Stories

    by Richard Kearney ...
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    Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Stories presents in clear and compelling style just why narrative has this power over us and argues that the unnarrated life is not worth living. Drawing on the work of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud's patient 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard ... Read more

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  • Unthinking Eurocentrism

    Multiculturalism and the Media

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered ... Read more

    $61.99 USD