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Communalism and Sexual Violence in India
The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947. The Partition riots, which saw the brutal victimization of thousands of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh women, have so far dominated academic discussions of communal violence. This book examines the specific...
Why Buffy Matters
The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2005
Rhonda Wilcox is a world authority on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who has been writing and lecturing about the show since its arrival on our screens. This book is the distillation of this remarkable body of work and thought, a celebration of the series that she proposes is an aesthetic test case for...
The Tribes of Albania
History, Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Albanian-speaking tribes...
Queer Sexualities in Early Film
Cinema and Male-Male Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Since the publication of Vito Russo's seminal study The Celluloid Closet in 1981, much has been written about the representation of queer characters on screen. Until now, however, relatively little attention has been paid to how queer sexualities were portrayed in films from the silent and early sound...
Art and Emergency
Modernism in Twentieth-Century India
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. During these precarious intervals, wherein the human potential for violence is released and rehearsed, images also emerge. This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating...
Land of Eagles
Riding Through Europe's Forgotten Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe. It has a long, rich and troubled past, characterised by unrest and isolationism. Today, very little is known of its people - beyond those who have emigrated to other countries in Europe - and its landscapes have remained virtually untravelled...
Dharma
The Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Traditions of India
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as “ethics,” “religion,” “law,” or “social order,” dharma possesses elements...
The Spell of Hypnos
Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic intervention by a god or goddess. It might mark the transition...
Russia and the British Left
From the 1848 Revolutions to the General Strike
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The study of native `Marxisms' in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'. In this book, David Burke looks at the activities of the Russian political émigré community in Britain, and in particular the role of one Russian-Jewish political family: the Rothsteins....
Politics
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which 'gave' the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the globe...
by John Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
While writing a novel set in South America, John Hopkins travelled back there to "reacquaint himself with the scene". In 1972-3, he travelled by train, bus and boat from Mexico City to the centre of the continent, through Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua and on to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay...
The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora
Meaning and Identity since the Islamic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
The 1979 Revolution in Iran caused the migration of millions of Iranians, many of whom wrote of, and are still writing of, their experiences. Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
This work represents a significant corpus of Islamic manuscripts devoted to the theological, philosophical and historical traditions of the Fatimid, post-Fatimid Yemeni and Indian Ismaili literature. The catalogue, with its 179 annotated entries from the highly prized Zahid Ali Collection, examines...
Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey
Mass Media and ‘Woman’s Voice’ Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
TV Talk shows, often seen as vulgar and low-brow, can actually be a vehicle through which hitherto undiscussed topics (such as violence against women or political exclusion) are brought into the public sphere. Solen Sanli argues that this is the case in Turkey, where talk shows often invite ordinary...