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Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the "Black world" paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the ...
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They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of A...
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Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the ea...
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Israeli Salvage Poetics
HardcoverOriginal price $94.99 - Original price $94.99Original price $94.99$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the "neg...
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False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992) examines the “return of history” that swept across ...
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False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975-1992)
HardcoverOriginal price $129.95 - Original price $129.95Original price $129.95$158.99$158.99 - $158.99Current price $158.99| /False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992) examines the “return of history” that swept across ...
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The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Gis...
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Intersections of Harm: Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places ...
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Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531505448 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication Date: 12-05-2023 Pages: 288
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They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of A...
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Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Love, and the different manifestations of it, is a common theme in literature around the world. In Cosmopolitan Love, Sijia Yao examines the writin...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, po...
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Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonis...
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Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature b...
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The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters
HardcoverOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9789819952687 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Publication Date: 10-07-2023 Pages: 425 Product Dimension...
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Mahakavi K. V. Simon: The Milton of the East
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /The first English study of poet K. V. Simon (1883-1944), with sample translations, including of his 12,000-line epic Vedaviharam, and a critical bi...
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The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438492551 Media Type: Paperback Pub...
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Literary Representations of Japan: At the Intersection of David Mitchell and Haruki Murakami's Worlds
HardcoverOriginal price $61.00 - Original price $61.00Original price $61.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book will focus on analyzing the different aspects of Japan's representation in the novels of Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell. It is proven...
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The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438492544 Media Type: Hardcover Pub...
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States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literatu...
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A Language of One's Own: Literary Arabic, the Palestinians and Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Following the establishment of Israel in 1948, literary Arabic became one of the main representative of Palestinian national identity within Israel...
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Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Hiyem Cheurfa examines twenty-first-century Arab women's life writing as sites for the artic...
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Persian Literature as World Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a ca...
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Palestinian and Arab-Jewish Cultures: Language, Literature, and Identity
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Part of a two-volume set, this volume examines the issues of commitment and hybridization in Arabic literature concentrating on Palestinian literat...
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