Upa: 654 books
Len Jenkin's Theatre
Wonder and Heart
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart. Imagination creates wonder by transforming nature to suggest more than nature. Love engages the heart on the quest to experience the wonder, for though Jenkin is an experimental playwright, his plays...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This is a critical edition, or “édition critique,” of Victor Hugo’s play Hernani. The in-depth introduction includes a study of the manuscript, the galley proofs and all other original documents. The preface and play contain a critical apparatus that indicates all modifications made by Hugo...
The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx
Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980’s, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage. The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque...
The Ingenious Simpleton
Upending Imposed Ideologies through Brief Comic Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno’s character “Cantinflas,” and in the esquirol of the 1960s Actos of the Teatro Campesino. Spanning multiple regions and time periods, this book fills an important void in Spanish and theatrical studies.
Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures
Sport and Asian Pacific American Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Since Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures was originally published in 2000, new findings in Asian Pacific American sports have come to light. Moreover, Americans of Asian Pacific ancestry have made the sports world incredibly more exciting than before. Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures tells...
Beyond Secularism and Jihad?
A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenge posed by—and to—modernity and historic Islam as they encounter one another. He compares the Western separation of Church and state with the unitary Islamic State, and explores the proposed cultural and societal principles of the Second Vatican Council as...
Head Games
De-Colonizing the Psychotherapeutic Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Head Games is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process. It examines a family therapy program being run by a major public university, tied to the criminal justice system and the educational establishment, aiming...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play and Culture Studies series. Students, play scholars, and play practitioners will gain information from groundbreaking studies, philosophical treatises,...
No Holding Back
The 1980 John B. Anderson Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
No Holding Back tells the story of John Anderson's 1980 presidential campaign. Anderson gave up a safe seat in the House of Representatives, a position in the Republican leadership, and a likely nomination for a Senate seat to run what every expert considered a hopeless race for the GOP presidential...
The German Colonial Experience
Select Documents on German Rule in Africa, China, and the Pacific 1884-1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I. Knoll and Hiery show how Africans, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders reacted to German rule, how the Germans ran...
by : James Heitzman, Gerhard Jaritz, Heinz Grotzfeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier and Dr. Wolfgang Schenkluhn. The World in the Year 1000 is organized in four thematic sections covering five world regions: Europe,...
In the Forest
Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (1858-2006)
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
There are always at least two 'histories' of encounter or contact, as each party would tell the story differently, but where and when is it really the 'first contact' and for whom? This book deploys an analytical framework developed from Semiotics to have both sides of the story address each other....
Roars of Traditional Leaders
Mong (Miao) American Cultural Practices in a Conventional Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The aim of this book is to sustain the Mong cultural practices. It is based on the roaring views of fifteen Mong traditional leaders about the oral and cultural practices of the Mong people in the U.S. Maintaining the cultural legacies of a group of indigenous people such as the Mong Americans is...
Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt
Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan gathers pioneering essays by major scholars in Filipino American Studies, American Studies, and Philippine Studies as well as historic documents on Carlos Bulosan’s work and life for the first time. This anthology—which...