Lexington Books: 3858 books
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood
Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category...
Interpreting the Republic
Marginalization and Belonging in Contemporary French Novels and Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Interpreting the Republic focuses on contemporary French literary and cinematic works (1986-2003) that reflect on what it means to belong to a nation such as France by giving voice to those who find themselves marginalized by French society. While citizenship and belonging can be, and indeed are,...
Collective Memory
France and the Algerian War (1954-62)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Collective Memory examines the difficult transmission of memory in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954-62). Emphasizing the current lack of transmission of memories of this war through a detailed case study of three crucial vectors of memory: the teaching of school history, coverage in...
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent
Religions and Conflicts in Francophone Literature from the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent analyzes fiction, films, comics, autobiographical narratives, and essays by Francophone Arab writers whose Christian (Accad, Antaki, Chédid, Maalouf), Jewish (Albou, Cixous, El Maleh, Memmi), Muslim (Bachi, Benaïssa, Benguigui, Ben Jelloun, Boudjedra, Boudjellal,...
by Cecile Accilien
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for intense identity formation because it functions...
Writing Postcolonial France
Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction,...
State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues
Uncanny Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship foregrounds the literary, sociological, and political structures of urban literature in France. It uses postcolonial theory, sociology, and political philosophy to investigate the modalities surrounding...
History's Place
Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness through literature, and that post-colonial writers revised it while retaining its...
by Katie Barnett, Laura Beadling, Brenda Boudreau
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This collection of essays presents a sampling of film and television texts, interrogating images of U.S. masculinity. Rather than using “postfeminist” as a definition of contemporary feminism, this collection uses the term to designate the period from the late 1980s on—as a point when feminist...
The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
Red Sport, Red Tape
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow,...
Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Based on Chinese archival documents, interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the Sino-Soviet alliance between the end of the World War II and 1959, when the alliance was left in disarray as a result of foreign and...
Visualizing Modern China
Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters of well-illustrated original scholarship and a supplemental website providing resources for hundreds of images, the book introduces key themes of modern...
How the Market Is Changing China's News
The Case of Xinhua News Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book provides a critical account of the transformations, both structural and in terms of journalism practice, undergone by Xinhua, the top Party organ of the Communist regime in China, since the start of the reform age in the late 1970s. It sets out to answer a number of key questions:
How...
Democratic Decision-Making
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Democratic Decision-Making: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives contains eight essays by political scientists addressing various aspects of the democratic decision-making process. The book is divided into four parts: democratic statesmanship, the extent to which limitations of the democratic...