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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed that the sincerity of emotions and the force of affects depend on their immediacy, Pahl explores to...
- Keyword:
- analysis, emotionality, philosophy, Hegel, emotion, and mediation
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Pahl, Katrin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2784-5, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6567-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2785-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that...
- Keyword:
- social science, journalism, women's studies, and morality
- Subject:
- Social sciences and Women's studies
- Creator:
- Kroeger, Brooke and Hamill, Pete
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2619-0 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6351-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil shows how theater was a key site in the struggle to redefine the relationship between art and social change and the rise of an international avant-garde in both nations from 1917 to 1934.
- Keyword:
- performance studies, avant-garde, Mexico, Brazil, and vanguardias
- Subject:
- Performing arts and Theater
- Creator:
- Townsend, Sarah J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3740-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3741-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3742-4
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Kai Evers’s Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Evers, Kai
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2930-6, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2962-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6727-8
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Miriam Felton-Dansky’s Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century.
- Keyword:
- political theater, digital media, media, viral transmission, Artaudian, and performing arts
- Subject:
- Performing arts
- Creator:
- Felton-Dansky, Miriam
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3717-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3715-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3716-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart...
- Keyword:
- Frederick Douglass, racial violence, Zora Neale Hurston, southern mythmaking, emancipatory politics, Black joy, segregation, public sphere, and W. E. B. Du Bois
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stewart, Lindsey
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4411-8, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4412-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4413-2
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- Dunsky weaves historical background and data with the everyday narratives of Palestinian farmers, scientists, professors, writers, entrepreneurs, cultural initiators, and artists in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi calls the book “meticulously reported” and an “uplifting but gritty book.”
- Keyword:
- Palestine -- Biography Palestine -- Social conditions Palestinian Arabs Social conditions Middle East -- Palestine
- Creator:
- Dunsky, Marda
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Situated within motherhood studies, this edited volume is at the interdisciplinary intersection of literature, life writing, gender, (im)migration, refugee, and cultural studies. Contributors examine literary fiction, memoirs, and children’s literature. The borders that displaced mothers face are examined through frameworks of postcolonialism, nationalism, feminism, and diaspora studies.
- Keyword:
- Motherhood -- Cross-cultural studies --Conditions sociales Motherhood-- Motherhood in literature -- Motherhood in motion pictures -- Women immigrants in literature -- Women immigrants in motion pictures -- Women immigrants -- Social conditions Women refugees -- Social conditions
- Subject:
- Motherhood, Women immigrants, Cross-cultural studies, Women immigrants in motion pictures, Women refugees--Social conditions, Motherhood in motion pictures, Motherhood in literature, and Women immigrants in literature
- Creator:
- Lombard, Maria (ed)
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- Lexington Books
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Mahmud’s Bangali language monograph, Bangali Musolman Proshno, argues that the national historical narrative of Bengali Muslims has racialized and Orientalized the entire population of peasant Muslims (150 million people, or about 80 percent of the country’s population). This has served to protect the power of the ruling elite since the...
- Keyword:
- Bengali Muslims
- Subject:
- Bengali Muslims
- Creator:
- Mahmud, Hasan
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- Swore O Publisher
- Language:
- Bengali
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- This edited volume presences a nuanced look at a range of issues affecting motives to migrate and outcomes of integration, demonstrating that equitable migration can only be realized by paying attention to how migrants interact with institutional mechanisms and social processes. Michigan State Professor Steven Gold calls the book a...
- Keyword:
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Subject:
- Immigration Act of 1990 (United States), United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century, Emigration and immigration, Government policy Foreign workers -- United States , Economic aspects United States , United States -- Emigration and immigration, and United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Creator:
- Mahmud, Hasan
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- New York University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023
- Resource Type:
- Book