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This book represents one of the positive responses towards the demand of the output quality of the students from Fakultas Ilmu Budaya – Universitas Brawijaya. Thus, hopefully, after the students finish the “Genre-Based Reading” course, they are not only able to comprehend and notice the meaning of the texts covering procedure, description, recount, narrative-news item, and the factual world, but also able to complete the exercises correctly. Because both of the reading texts and structured exercises available in this “
I would like to express my appreciation to Dr. Sri Herminingrum, M.Hum. as the author of the book “English for Fisheries and Marine Science”, which is now at our hands. It definitely represents one of her intellectual achievements because she is a lecturer with years’ experience in her field. In the context of Fisheries and Marine Science, this book is suitable for the class of English for Academic Purposes because the content not only expands the academic horizon of the students, but also supports their English skills. It encloses exercises that are tailored to their comprehension on the provided reading texts, structure study in connection with review of the patterns of English grammar, vocabulary building, and most importantly, writing ability.
From Kiana Davenport, the bestselling author of Song of the Exile and Shark Dialogues, comes another mesmerizing novel about her people and her islands. Told in spellbinding and mythic prose, House of Many Gods is a deeply complex and provocative love story set against the background of Hawaii and Russia. Interwoven throughout with the indelible portrait of a native Hawaiian family struggling against poverty, drug wars, and the increasing military occupation of their sacred lands. Progressing from the 1960s to the turbulent present, the novel begins on the island of O’ahu and centers on Ana, abandoned by her mother as a child. Raised by her extended family on the “lawless” Wai’anae c...
Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.
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The daughter of Indian Muslim immigrants deals with insecurities about her identity and discrimination as well as the struggles associated with a typical American upbringing.
This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, bringing material on Indonesia’s media and popular culture to an English readership for the first time. It includes analysis of important themes including citizenship, gender, class, age and ethnicity, showing how developments in Indonesian society more generally are inextricably linked to popular culture.
These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this ‘age of trauma’, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: partition narratives in India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru, graffiti in Tanzania, and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and Guantanamo. The contexts and media of these autobiographical trauma texts are diverse, yet they are linked by attention to questions of who gets to speak/write/inscribe autobiographically and how and where and why, and how can silences in the wake ...