Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction
The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.
Performing Cultures of Equality
This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project and offers both theoretical and methodological analyses of an array of activities and artworks. The performative manifestations discussed include theatre, installations, social movements, mega-events, documentaries, and literary texts from multiple geopolitical locales. Engaging with the key concepts of re-enactment and relationality, the contributions explore the ways in which in/equalities are relationally re-produced in and through individual and collective bodies. This multi- and trans-disciplinary collection of essays creates fruitful dialogues within and beyond Performance Studies, sitting at the crossroads of ethnography, event studies, social movements, visual studies, critical discourse analysis, and contemporary approaches to textualities emerging from post-colonial and feminist studies.
Debating the Afropolitan
This volume evaluates the vitality of the term ‘Afropolitan’ within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable term, its wide circulation has allowed for Afropolitanism to become a contested space for critical inquiry. The contributions to this book are representative of the lively discussions that Afropolitan aesthetics, identity politics and Afro(cosmo)politanisms have sparked in recent years. The book aims to continue the debates around these concepts foregrounded by earlier works in the fields of postcolonial literature, African cultural studies, and studies of diaspora and transnationalism. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
Perfectly Tortured
What happens when you fall in love with the sister of the serial killer you’re hunting? Something perfectly tortured… ATL agent Harrison Fairclough has one thing on his mind: stopping a serial killer. He knows who the man is, where he lives and who he’s murdered. The problem? He can’t prove Liam Forrester is a killer without exposing ATL—an agency that isn’t supposed to exist. Needing to get close to Liam, and lead investigators to him before someone else dies, Harrison comes up with the perfect solution…he dates the serial killer’s sister. Except his plan quickly derails once he meets the curvy physical therapist. He’s drawn to her sensual smile, comes to crave her kisses ...
South by South East
Set against the backdrop of catastrophic climate change later this century, this necessitates the three central characters to flee their homes in search of a better life in the cooler Antarctica region. Their separate journeys there are traumatic and violent. Carla is an independent crop dusting pilot from a humble background and mother to a mixed race daughter, Sabine. She is forced to kill in self defence to survive before embarking on her polar escape from a society disintegrating into chaos around her. Joe by contrast is the privileged son of a wealthy Silicon Valley hot shot with the means and foresight to construct an emergency bunker in the Antarctic as a precautionary measure. Forced to relocate there, his travels are also beset by formidable obstacles. The three finally meet up and bond on the Antarctic Peninsula where life is initially idyllic. Their new lives are soon turned upside down by the arrival of a ship whose desperate crew have turned cannibal. In a brutal finale, Carla, Joe and Sabine must fight for their lives against these ghouls. Carla celebrates their victory by her sexual conquest of Joe, sealing their union.
Contested Cities and Urban Activism
This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses local...
Investigative Deception
Two English brothers decided to perform for the children who are being treated at the Seattle Children’s Hospital, but there’s only one problem. One of the brothers is missing but no one knows where or when he was taken. Meanwhile, a university professor has caught Feste’s eye, and neither of them has felt such attraction in a long time. Then Damon’s past catches up with him, and it puts one of his teammates in danger, which forces the escapologist to face his demons once and for all.
TACCLE2 - e-learning for primary teachers
TACCLE2 e-learning for primary teachers - A step-by-step guide to improving teaching and learning in your classroom is a project funded by the EU under its Lifelong Learning Programme. We, the authors, are real teachers just like you and we’ve got the battle-scars to prove it! Our aim is to help other teachers enhance their current practice by providing support and guidance as they begin bridging the gaps that have, until now, prevented them from taking advantage of the educational opportunities that information and communication technologies have to offer. This handbook contains 38 step-by-step comprehensive lessons, graded according to difficulty and organized according to age group and subject. As well as detailed lesson instructions you will also find handy hints and tips to help you avoid any potential pitfalls, safety notes so that you can be as confident as possible that learners will use the internet safely and responsibly, and a list of loads more ways you can use an applications once you’ve mastered it. We’re such nice people we’ve also included links to examples that we’ve use, links to online tutorials and helpful websites!
THE BABY COP
They call him "the baby cop" Ethan Knight, a detective in Desert City, Arizona, believes in putting children first. He's created an unofficial network of foster care for abused and abandoned kids; he's done this by calling on family and circumventing the system to get kids the help they need, when they need it. They call her "the battle-ax" Regan Grant is a by-the-book social worker, a woman who doesn't believe in "unofficial." She's the new supervisor at Child Help services, and she's been hired to make sure the rules are followed. All the rules, all the time… The other cops figure that if anyone can persuade her to bend those rules, it's Ethan. If anyone can charm her, it's Ethan. If anyone can make her fall in love, it's Ethan…and four rescued babies.
Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead
Explores the significance of Liz Lochhead's work for the twenty-first century.The first contemporary critical investigation since Liz Lochhead's appointment as Scotland's second Scots Makar, this Companion examines her poetry, theatre, visual and performing arts, and broadcast media. It also discusses her theatre for children and young people, her translations for the stage as well as translations of her texts into foreign languages and cultures.Several poets offer commentaries on the influence of Liz Lochhead on their own practice while academic critics from America, Europe, England and Scotland offer new critical readings inspired by feminism, post-colonialism and cultural history. The volume addresses all of Lochhead's major outputs, from new appraisal of early work such as Dreaming Frankenstein and Blood and Ice to evaluations of her more recent works and collections such as The Colour of Black and White and Perfect Days.
