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The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction, and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Milly Williamson
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• Author(s): Milly Williamson • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer explores the...
View full detailsThe Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in Darién, 1640-1750
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz
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• Author(s): Ignacio Gallup-Diaz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaThe European powers were forced to make the Kuna people of present-day Panama and Columbi...
View full detailsThe Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television Since 1933
Toby Haggith
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• Author(s): Toby Haggith • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustBased on an event held at the Imperial War Museum in London, this book is a unique blend of voices and perspec...
View full detailsOn the Road to Freedom: Canadian-East European Relations, 1963-1991
Aloysius Balawyder
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• Author(s): Aloysius Balawyder • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralBalawyder explores how cultural, academic, commercial, and scientific exchanges with Canad...
View full detailsA Glossary of Food Science and Technology [English-Chinese Bilingual Edition]
Chi-Fai Chau
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• Author(s): Chi-Fai Chau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyThis work lists comprehensively over 20,000 terms commonly used in food science...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Scandinavia
Jacob Neiiendam
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• Author(s): Jacob Neiiendam • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA new volume in the "Twenty-Four Frames" series that focuses on twenty-four key films from Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, Norw...
View full detailsThe Chess Master: (Chinese-English Bilingual Edition)
A Cheng
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• Author(s): A Cheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Chess Master is a story of escape and salvation, and the clue for both is chess. The protagonis...
View full detailsYes Prime Manipulator: How a Chinese Translation of British Political Humor Came Into Being
Nam-Fung Chang
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• Author(s): Nam-Fung Chang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThis is a study of the author's Chinese translation of ""Yes Prime Minister"". It co...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Scandinavia
Jacob Neiiendam
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• Author(s): Jacob Neiiendam • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA new volume in the "Twenty-Four Frames" series that focuses on twenty-four key films from Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, Norw...
View full detailsMoving Image Technology: From Zoetrope to Digital
Leo Enticknap
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• Author(s): Leo Enticknap • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis text provides a thorough introduction into the history and theory of moving image film, video, sound recording and allied t...
View full detailsThe Musical: Race, Gender, and Performance
Susan Smith
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• Author(s): Susan Smith • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis study explores one of the most popular and successful of genres, yet one that has not fully enjoyed critical ...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Britain and Ireland
Brian Mcfarlane
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• Author(s): Brian Mcfarlane • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA fresh, concise, but wide-ranging introduction and overview to British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each...
View full detailsPursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Lisa Anderson
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• Author(s): Lisa Anderson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly ch...
View full detailsVillage Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories
James Watson
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• Author(s): James Watson • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralConstituting an ethnographic record of a cultural system teetering on the threshold of ...
View full detailsNew Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
Göran Aijmer
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• Author(s): Göran Aijmer • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsThis study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradit...
View full detailsWriting Women in Modern China: The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976
Amy Dooling
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• Author(s): Amy Dooling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsIncludes various literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the events in the mid-twentieth-century Chines...
View full detailsWriting Women in Modern China: The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976
Amy Dooling
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• Author(s): Amy Dooling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsIncludes various literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the events in the mid-twentieth-century Chines...
View full detailsThe Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry of China: A True Story
Jisen Ma
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• Author(s): Jisen Ma • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralA factual account of the course of the ten-year Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry, based...
View full detailsFrom a Cottager's Sketchbook: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition
Shiqiu Liang
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• Author(s): Shiqiu Liang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe articles are written in elegant and highly polished style. It is enjoyable to read...
View full detailsReinventing China: A Generation and Its Films
Paul Clark
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• Author(s): Paul Clark • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis is a pioneering study of the genesis and films of the fifth-generation of Chinese film...
View full detailsA Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese
Shou-He Tian
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• Author(s): Shou-He Tian • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralA Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese is a companion reference work to Chinese tex...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Spain and Portugal
Alberto Mira
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• Author(s): Alberto Mira • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralAn overview of Spanish and Portuguese cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Fi...
View full detailsThe Czechoslovak New Wave
Peter Hames
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• Author(s): Peter Hames • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe Czechoslovak New Wave was originally published in 1985 and was quickly established as the world's leading authoritative Englis...
View full detailsSigns of Life: Cinema and Medicine
Graeme Harper
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• Author(s): Graeme Harper • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralSigns of Life explores the representation of doctors, nurses, patients, diseases, and disabilities in films such asApocalypse No...
View full detailsSigns of Life: Cinema and Medicine
Graeme Harper
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• Author(s): Graeme Harper • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralSigns of Life explores the representation of doctors, nurses, patients, diseases, and disabilities in films such asApocalypse No...
View full detailsReality TV: Realism and Revelation
Anita Biressi
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• Author(s): Anita Biressi • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps...
View full detailsFilm Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation
Andrew Klevan
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• Author(s): Andrew Klevan • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPerformers make a crucial contribution to the achievement of narrative films. By moving through exemplary sequen...
View full detailsPartnership and Change: Toward School Development
John Chi-Kin Lee
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• Author(s): John Chi-Kin Lee • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThe book is broadly divided into two parts. Part One focuses on university-school partners...
View full detailsThe Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945
J. Thomas Rimer
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• Author(s): J. Thomas Rimer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseCollects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. This ...
View full detailsPublic Service Reform in East Asia: Reform Issues and Challenges in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong
Anthony Cheung
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• Author(s): Anthony Cheung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThese essays deal with various selected reform issues confronted by the four develope...
View full detailsThe Emancipation of the Serfs in Eastern Europe
Emil Niederhauser
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• Author(s): Emil Niederhauser • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis volume, by Hungary's preeminent scholar of Eastern European social history, illustrates the s...
View full detailsA Chinese Ethics for the New Century: The Chi'en Mu Lectures in History and Culture, and Other Essays on Science and Confucian Ethics
Donald Munro
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• Author(s): Donald Munro • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernA link between evolutionary biology and Chinese ethics runs through the...
View full detailsRussia's Revolutionary Experience, 1905-1917: Two Essays
Leopold Haimson
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• Author(s): Leopold Haimson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Russia - Generalhe eminent historian Leopold Haimson examines the nature of political power in Russia during the years lea...
View full detailsHungary and the Hungarian Minorities: Trends in the Past and in Our Times
László Szarka
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• Author(s): László Szarka • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis volume of essays traces the historical-sociological background of minority policies in Hungary, a...
View full detailsDangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis
Nancy B Tucker
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• Author(s): Nancy B Tucker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFeatures essays by scholars and practitioners in the arena of US-Taiwan-Chinese relations....
View full detailsThe Art of Akira Yamaguchi
Akira Yamaguchi
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• Author(s): Akira Yamaguchi • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralYoung painter Akira Yamaguchi has taken Japan's art world by storm. His work combines the techniques of cla...
View full detailsRomania in Harm's Way, 1939-1941
Nicholas Constantinesco
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• Author(s): Nicholas Constantinesco • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis books deals with the grave, some times insurmountable, difficulties encountered by the ...
View full detailsMental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives
Stuart Kirk
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• Author(s): Stuart Kirk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psych...
View full detailsPossible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
Alison Knowles Frazier
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• Author(s): Alison Knowles Frazier • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and...
View full detailsMental Disorders in the Social Environment: Critical Perspectives
Stuart Kirk
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• Author(s): Stuart Kirk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psych...
View full detailsGroups That Work: Structure and Process
Paul Ephross
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• Author(s): Paul Ephross • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meeti...
View full detailsGroups That Work: Structure and Process
Paul Ephross
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• Author(s): Paul Ephross • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meeti...
View full detailsShanghai Bride: Her Tumultuous Life's Journey to the West
Christina Ching Tsao
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• Author(s): Christina Ching Tsao • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: HistoricalThis is an autobiography of a woman of unusual strength and determination who grew up in 1930s Shanghai....
View full detailsWhat Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi
Yoshimi Takeuchi
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• Author(s): Yoshimi Takeuchi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanThis book explores Japanese modernity, literature, and nationalism as well as Chinese intellectual history, a...
View full detailsWhat Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi
Yoshimi Takeuchi
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• Author(s): Yoshimi Takeuchi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanRegarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditiona...
View full detailsA Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution
Gregory Brown
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• Author(s): Gregory Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralThis study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial str...
View full detailsContemporary Armenian American Drama: An Anthology of Ancestral Voices
Nishan Parlakian
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• Author(s): Nishan Parlakian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralA valuable anthology of eight plays best representing the Armenian American drama of the last thirty ye...
View full detailsThe Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema
Phil Powrie
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• Author(s): Phil Powrie • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Spilt i...
View full detailsTroubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming
Eric Ramirez-Ferrero
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• Author(s): Eric Ramirez-Ferrero • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Men's StudiesIn Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of ...
View full detailsKeeping It Real: Irish Film and Television
Ruth Barton
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• Author(s): Ruth Barton • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA series of essays considering the nature and direction of Irish film and television. Films discussed includeOdd Man Out, The Boxe...
View full detailsLeaving Home: The Art of Separating from Your Difficult Family
David Celani
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• Author(s): David Celani • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Parenting - Parent & Adult ChildThe human personality, Fairbairn argued, is not the result of inherited (and thus immutab...
View full detailsVampirettes, Wretches, and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women
Valentina Glajar
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• Author(s): Valentina Glajar • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Women's StudiesThis collection traces some of the major patterns of representation of East European women in Western art an...
View full detailsLanzelet
Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven
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• Author(s): Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MedievalLanzelet, one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story, is a critical work in medieval literature....
View full detailsLanzelet
Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven
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• Author(s): Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MedievalLanzelet, one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story, is a critical work in medieval literature....
View full detailsEnglish and Globalization: Perspectives from Hong Kong and China
Kwok-Kan Tam
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• Author(s): Kwok-Kan Tam • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Study & TeachingAddresses the political, cultural and pedagogical issues of English in the age of...
View full detailsZhongda Chinese-English Dictionary
Jiande Zheng
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• Author(s): Jiande Zheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: ChineseFirst published in 1999, the Concise Chinese-English Dictionary reflects the changes and growt...
View full detailsFrom Coffin to Heaven: A Psychological Study of Christian Conversion in Drug Rehabilitation
Ho-Yee Ng
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• Author(s): Ho-Yee Ng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Social WorkThe story of a group of men who called themselves ""heroin-coffin"", a story of ascension fro...
View full detailsGeometries of Silence: Three Approaches to Neoclassical Art
Anna Ottani Cavina
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• Author(s): Anna Ottani Cavina • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralBased on little-known or hitherto unpublished material, and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illust...
View full detailsBurnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature
Valerie Sweeney Prince
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• Author(s): Valerie Sweeney Prince • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlHome is a powerful metaphor guiding the literat...
View full detailsOn Sexuality and Power
Alan Sinfield
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• Author(s): Alan Sinfield • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay StudiesIt is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay...
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