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This book explores Ginzburg’s Jewishness in her autobiographical writings and traces the shift in her self-representation. It brings together substantial historical background on the period surrounding the Racial Laws, when Natalia Ginzburg and other Italian Jews were forced to confront the significance of their Jewishness. It highlights the reactions by Jews and non-Jews to the growing anti-Semitism of the times. In this context, moral identity is also discussed as a facet of Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani’s Jewish identity.
The volume gives an excellent overall view of Rodoreda's poetry in the original and in translation, her short stories and novels. A completely annotated, cross-indexed bibliography of the critical work on Rodoreda, accompanied by an analysis of the current state of criticism on her work is included.
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Madness Entanglement by TEP Madness Entanglement, by author TEP, is a thrilling hybrid of a novel that pulls only the best elements from criminal mysteries and slasher-style horror. Anviltown is a quiet, sleepy place where nothing exciting ever happens – until a mysterious killer called the Nameless appears to wreak havoc on the town’s inhabitants. Mass murder, psychopathic manipulation, and strategic killings are unleashed in Anviltown, and it is up to Detective Dylan Chase to stop these dreadful occurrences. He is partnered with the beautiful and strong Natalia and, together, they need to figure out how to stop this murderer before everything is lost. With the help of teenagers Marty and Zelda, who were this madman’s targets from the beginning, the detectives escape death numerous times to crack the case. Who is the Nameless? What is his endgame in murdering innocents? What is the madness that is entangling the town? This exciting novel will answer all of these burning questions and many more.
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An inversion of the fairy tale, Snow White and the seven dwarfs ; in this story there are seven Snow White characters and one dwarf.
Examines the themes, characters, plots, style, and technique of 347 works by authors from the non-English speaking countries of the world, including Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, and Russia.
This is the first book of its kind to address the crucial issue of why people choose to make Convention refugee claims. It represents a substantial and original contribution primarily to the field of refugee studies but also applicable for a broader readership of political science, international studies, sociology, law, history and women’s studies. Furthermore, it theorizes the problems that face refugees by discussing the perception of the possible host countries. The conclusions of the book bear directly upon contemporary issues in refugee studies that suggest refugees move on the basis of (generally) extreme levels of persecution.