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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende--"la Famosa" to her fellow Chileans--is the world's most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the interwoven roles of women in family history opens the minds of outsiders to the sufferings of women and their children during years of social and political nightmare. This reference work provides an introduction to Allende's life as well as a guided overview of her body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Allende canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events and themes. A comprehensive index is included.
Warrior Women
When looking for historical examples of women who have fought as soldiers, one can refer--with disappointment--to the words of John Keegan, one of the world's most well-known military historians: "Women look to men to protect them from danger, and bitterly reproach them when they fail as defenders...Women do not fight."In this book, anthropologist and historian Robert Edgerton disagrees, taking as his centerpiece the women warriors of Dahomey, a West African kingdom that reached its heyday during the height of the African slave trade. In this land (now the Republic of Benin), women eventually became the elite force of the kingdom's standing army, the prime fighting force faced by the French when they defeated and colonized the region in the 1890s. This book is both a narrative history of these women and their role in Dahomian society as well as a more far-ranging refutation of the argument that warfare has always been a club "for men only."
Philological Papers
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Translating Cain
Unless we recognize the cultural context embedded in the Genesis story of Cain and Abel, the significance of Cain’s rejection and consequent violence is often lost in translation. While many interpreters highlight the theme of sibling rivalry to explain Cain’s murderous violence, Samantha Joo relates Cain’s anger and shame to the social marginalization of Kenites in ancient Israel, for whom Cain functions narratively as an ancestor. To better understand and experience Cain’s emotions in the narrative, Joo provides a method for re-contextualizing an ancient story in modern contexts. Drawing from post-colonial theories of Latin America translators, Joo focuses on analogies which simulate the “moveable event” of a story. She shows that novels like Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Richard Wright’s Native Son, in which protagonists kill to escape their invisibility, capture the “event” of Cain and Abel. Consequently, readers can empathize with the anger and shame resulting from the social marginalization of Cain through the alienation of a poor, ex-university student, Raskolnikov, and the oppression of a young black man, Bigger Thomas.
Balzac's Cane
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Antigone: Rezeption und Transformation des Urtextes seit der Antike
Sophokles schrieb den Mythos der Antigone 442 v. Chr. nieder und schaffte ein Werk, welches die Menschen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg bis heute fasziniert. ‚Antigone‘ durchlief seit der Veröffentlichung einer Vielzahl von Veränderungen hinsichtlich des Mythos als auch der Figuren selbst. Gerade im 20. Jahrhundert hat das Werk den Höhepunkt seiner Signifikanz gefunden und wurde in dieser Phase am häufigsten interpretiert und weiter entwickelt. Autoren wie Brecht, Hasenclever und Hölderlin haben den griechischen Mythos als Grundlage verwendet, und die Figuren in einen neueren, zeitlich angepassten Kontext gesetzt. Interessant ist hierbei nicht nur die Frage, was Sophokles‘ ‚Antig...
Die Antigonen von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Allgemeines, Note: 2, Universität Erfurt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit seiner Aussage über das bedeutendste Werk des griechischen Dichters Sophokles, trifft Georg Steiner den Kern der Bedeutsamkeit und Wichtigkeit der ‚Antigone‘. Sophokles schrieb den Mythos der Antigone 442 v. Chr. nieder und schaffte vor tausenden Jahren ein Werk, welches die Menschen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg bis heute fasziniert und immer wieder aufs Neue interessiert. Aufgrund dessen zählt Sophokles‘ Werk zu den literarischen Texten, die im Laufe der Literaturgeschichte am meisten neu interpretiert, transformiert und rezipiert wurde. ...
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Routledge Handbook on Consumption
Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook, it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies, politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences.
