Upa imprint: 654 books
Korean, Asian, or American?
The Identity, Ethnicity, and Autobiography of Second-Generation Korean American Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with minority, marginality, cultural ambiguity, and negative perceptions. Born in the United States, they are still viewed as foreigners because of their Korean...
by Robert J. Andreach
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians:...
Afrasia
A Tale of Two Continents
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Is there a new scramble for Africa involving China, Japan, and India in competition with each other and with the Western world? In the second half of the twentieth century, Mao’s China and Jawaharlal Nehru’s India were political players in Africa, while Japan limited itself to trade and investment...
by Nabila Hammami, Ashraf Esmail
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This book analyzes how Arabic teachers develop the cultural awareness of their high school students. Featuring face-to-face conversations with educators about integrating Arabic culture into the language classroom, this study highlights the complexities that characterize Arabic cultural awareness...
by Allan D. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
The Geography of Genocide offers a unique analysis of over sixty genocides in world history, explaining why genocides only occur in territorial interiors and never originate from cosmopolitan urban centers. This study explores why genocides tend to result from emasculating political defeats experienced...
From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!'
Righting Your Creative Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Part textbook and part handbook, From 'Huh?' to 'Hurray!': Righting Your Creative Writing leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. This accessible guide offers helpful suggestions to prompt and encourage even the most blocked writers to explore and develop...
by Jeffrey N. Dupée
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914–1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history—in...
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality
Western, Islamic, and African Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality outlines theories of gender within the intellectual paradigm of the triple heritage: Islam, Africanity, and the West. This book describes the impact of individual contexts and politics on meanings attributed to the human body. The Politics of Gender...
In the Middle of Nowhere
J.M. Coetzee in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee's formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life and writing career began in South Africa. Drawing on Coetzee's "South African" writings...
Embodied Collective Memory
The Making and Unmaking of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a “machine made up of flesh and bones.” The body is acquired, achieved, and learned. It is thus full of mimetic and mnemonic implications. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. Gestures, corporeal...
Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital
A Study of the 500-Year Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital examines the vastly under-explored link between natural disasters and social capital in regards to the unprecedented June 2008 flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In-depth qualitative interviews with flood victims and key informants in Cedar Rapids reveal...
'We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident...'
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
'We hold these truths to be self evident_' An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America delves into the philosophical, historical, socio/cultural and political evolution of racism and slavery in America. The premise of this work is that racism and slavery in America...
by Theodore John Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion. Rivers draws upon his expertise in the fields of medieval and religious history to discuss how the promotion of Christianity and monasticism in the Middle...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the interface between human rights and civil society, the media, gender, education, religion, health communication, and political processes in sub-Saharan Africa. It weaves theory, history,...