Translation Imperatives. African Literature and the Labour of Translators, Paperback - Ruth (University of Bristol) Bush

This Element explores the politics of literary translation via case studies from the Heinemann African Writers Series and the work of twenty-first-...

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Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent f...

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground ...

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Contributors analyse the theories behind children's literature, its functions and cultural significance, and suggest the new directions this litera...

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Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 2 b-w illustrationsTranslator: David ShulmanNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2022Dim...

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta HarrisonIllustration(s): 1 map. 36 b/w illus.Number of pages: ...

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it ...

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The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

This book discusses the failings of the prison system in many countries and offers positive pointers for the future. It shows the way forward will ...

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Examines house types from Britain to Syria to understand how people imagined and articulated their place in the Roman world. Employing a wide range...

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Marshall examines the ideological structuring of current planning models and the interplay of political interests. He analyses attempts at planning...

The Apocryphal New Testament includes new translations of the most significant and famous of the non-canonical Christian works. These apocryphal te...

Spanning the UK, North America and Australia, this comparative study brings maternal workers' politicized voices to the centre of contemporary deba...

Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues t...

Looking at examples across anti-racist movements and developments in nationhood/nationalism, institutional racism, migration, white supremacy and t...