Making Home. Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels, Paperback - Maria Holmgren Troy

Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- .

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Isabelle de le (Independent Scholar, Switzerland) CourtIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

This book explores culture, memory, and creativity in acting and plays in Tamajaq-speaking, Muslim, semi-nomadic Tuareg society in northern Mali. R...

Reducere. Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity, and culture. It invest...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): David M. SchneiderNumber of pages: 148Publication date: 1980Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 9Cover typ...

As a study of presidential image-fashioning, FDR in American Memory will be of immediate relevance to present-day readers.Publisher: Johns Hopkins ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Explores the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, These essays turn their attention to the wealth of...

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, diaries, and heaps of so...

Reducere. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps...

This is the story of a bald eagle named Troy who has adventures with friends and helps new friends find a home. His friends are loyal and brave, an...

This book examines contemporary recollection of Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s and its connection to the country's current polit...

Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and I...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Sascha RothNumber of pages: 256Collection: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of EurasiaPublication date: 2021Dimens...

Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book ...

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), 'contemporary' Fren...

Reducere. In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home reg...

Publisher: Cornerhouse PublicationsAuthor(s): Sophia Al-MariaNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 11Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Loving MemoryA beautiful guest book that is designed for funerals, memorial services and wakes.This guest book will allow you to capt...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Loving MemoryA beautiful guest book that is designed for funerals, memorial services and wakes.This guest book will allow you to capt...

In Loving MemoryThis guest book will allow you to capture the memories and thoughts of your loved ones.You are given the opportunity to add their n...

Reducere. In Loving MemoryThis guest book will allow you to capture the memories and thoughts of your loved ones.You are given the opportunity to add their n...

Reducere. In Loving MemoryThis guest book will allow you to capture the memories and thoughts of your loved ones.You are given the opportunity to add their n...

DescriptionCan reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts a sophisticated theoretical framework ...

This book critically examines the role of cinema and television in shaping and spreading narratives of memory politics in contemporary Russia to pr...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn Loving MemoryA beautiful guest book that is designed for funerals, memorial services, and wakes.This guest book will allow you to cap...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Loving MemoryA beautiful guest book that is designed for funerals, memorial services, and wakes.This guest book will allow you to cap...

The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodn...

Protectia drepturilor culturale in dreptul international - Laura-Maria Craciunean

DescriptionA powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the ...

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives - Aleida Assmann

DescriptionINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revel...

DescriptionA first-hand account of an unlikely friendship between a visiting nurse and her patient, Josephine. When Val rie first met Josephine, sh...

Reducere. The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fish...

A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished jou...

After years of entertaining the masses with his popular cartoons, TidalWave Productions turns the tables by making Family Guy creator Seth MacFarla...

In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness - on toughness and...

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Reducere. We live in a future-facing world, consumed by a sense of urgency. Responsibilities press upon us and, inevitably, the stories of where we live scat...

Reducere. In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often syno...

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Reducere. . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's boo...

Reducere. Whether discussing the transformative power of art or music, the lasting trauma of residential schools, growing up poor, or achieving success, the ...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...