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Images (IV)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Images (IV)

This book offers a cross-section of current research on the concepts of 'the Self' and 'the Other' as documented in the contemporary and historical perception and representation of three cities: Istanbul, Vienna, and Venice. The book's contributors are from the UK, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Turkey, and Austria, and they write from very different cultural, ideological, scientific, academic, and non-academic perspectives/backgrounds. (Series: Anthropology / Ethnologie - Vol. 60) [Subject: Sociology]

Images of the City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 122

Images of the City

Images of the City is a photographic album that documents urban culture. The 50 photos were taken by Veronika Bernard at several European cities (Cologne, Berlin, Budapest, Lyon, Istanbul, and others) during the period 2007-2013, as part of her two digital arts projects Ornamental Abstractions and Snapshots, along with her two academic projects Breaking the Stereotype and Images. (Series: Anthropology / Ethnologie - Vol. 56)

Images (II)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Images (II)

IMAGES (II) - Images of the Poor offers readers a cross-section of current research on the perception of poverty and on contemporary and historical representations of poverty coming from a variety of fields in people's daily lives. The fact that the international group of contributors to this book come from very different cultural, ideological, scientific/academic perspectives, and backgrounds is adding even more to the diversity of thought and ideas documented. The arguments presented help to raise the social awareness needed to break the vicious circle of poverty. (Series: Anthropology / Ethnologie - Vol. 52)

Juggling Between Two Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Juggling Between Two Worlds

Migration has been a life event for many Afghans during the past decades, with mass exoduses due to war, insecurity, and poverty. This book explores how Hazara migrant women reinterpret their narration of "self", ventilates opinions of their migratory lives and analyses ways Afghan immigrant women experience life in Germany. It presents an understanding how they experience sociocultural change as a consequence of their migratory experiences. It identifies contradictions in how Afghan immigrant women negotiate identity, belonging to and acquire status in the new society.

IMAGES (III) - Images of the City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

IMAGES (III) - Images of the City

IMAGES deals with the discourse of cultural encounters within the context of social co-existence. Within this scope, the project deals with both verbal and non-verbal communication and focuses on the thematic fields of cultural encounter, poverty, and migration. This volume thus offers readers a cross-section of current research both on the perception of urbanity and on contemporary and historical representations of the city, coming from a variety of fields in people's daily lives. (Series: Anthropology / Ethnologie - Vol. 57) [Subject: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Poverty Studies, Migration Studies]

The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 437

The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures

A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.

On the Way to the
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

On the Way to the "(Un)Known"?

This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.

Women in Dialogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Women in Dialogue

Women in Dialogue: (M)Uses of Culture results from an international symposium held at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, in 2006, which brought together scholars from over ten countries, and from multiple academic backgrounds, who share professional interest in women’s studies, and, to no less degree, in current women’s realities. The book presents a collection of essays united by a common focus on the position of women as objects of cultural production in different geographic, national, and political contexts, as well as the character and typology of women’s contribution to cultural activity across the ethnic or religious divide marking the face of contemporary world. The volume comprises...

Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-05
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  • Publisher: McFarland

To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ...

Facing Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

Facing Modernity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: MHRA

This is the first monograph on the work of Joseph Roth (1894-1939) to be published in English by a British-based academic, and should prove useful both to those with a specialized interest in Roth, whose novels and journalism continue to gain admirers around the world, and to those interested more broadly in an extraordinarily rich period in twentieth century European culture. It serves both as an introduction to the early part of a body of work whose variety and volume were for many years overshadowed by the reputation of the historical novel Radetzkymarsch (1932), and as a re-assessment of Roth's writing, both of fiction and of journalism, within the modern tradition. A perceived fragmenta...