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South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and eating. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian writers and texts and of key cinematic works. She explores the formal and…
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- 9780748641888
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- viii, 256p.
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- Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
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- 820.900914 MAX s
The Myths that made America: an introduction to American studies
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man…
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- 9783839414859
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- 451p.: ill.
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- 970.3 PAU m
Synchronized factories : Latin America and the Caribbean in the era of global…
The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner involves 43 suppliers located in 135 locations around the globe. There are many ex…
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- 9783319099910
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- xiv, 141p. : ill.
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- 658.5 SYN s
The Pedagogics of Liberation : a Latin American philosophy of education
Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation — and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society David I…
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- 9781950192281
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- 204 p.; 22 cm.
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- 199.82 DUS p
Palestinian Chicago: identity in exile
"Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political ideology, but since the 1990s its structures have weakened and Islamic institutions have gained strength. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interview data, Palestinian Chicago charts the origins of these cha…
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- 9780520974401
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- xv, 265p.
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- 305.89274077311 LYB p
Environmental governance in Latin America
The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals have led to a myriad of contrasting initi…
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- 9781137505729
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- xii, 338p. : ill.
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- 333.7098 ENV e
Firm innovation and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : the eng…
This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international lin…
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- 9781349581511
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- xxv, 346p. : ill.
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- 338.9 FIR f
Literary culture in early modern England, 1630–1700 : angles of contingency
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide a…
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- 9783110691375
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- XII, 282 p.
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- 810.90 BER l
Stories from Quechan oral literature
"The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduc…
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- 9781909254879
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- XII, 533 p.
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- World Oral Literature Series
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- 970.00497 HAL s
The NFL, activism, and #BlackLivesMatter
"What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the relationship between American football, violence and the larger relations of power w…
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- 9781138923560
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- p.227-253
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- 796.332 MOD n
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