Author: Muṣṭafá ʻUthmān Ismāʻīl
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Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Author: Rosa Simas
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Presents a textual and ideological analysis of circularity in "Absolom Absolom!" by William Faulkner, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "Avalovara" by Osman Lins.

Author: Frank Edward Manuel
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: James E. McClellan III
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Gordon Randolph Willey
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Martyn Bone
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region’s relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales: hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania), and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of “scale” that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope.

Author: Craig Lockard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199882916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Here is a brief, well-written, and lively survey of the history of Southeast Asia from ancient times to the present, paying particular attention to the region's role in world history and the distinctive societies that arose in lands shaped by green fields and forests, blue rivers and seas. Craig Lockard shows how for several millennia Southeast Asians, living at the crossroads of Asia, enjoyed ever expanding connections to both China and India, and later developed maritime trading networks to the Middle East and Europe. He explores how the people of the region combined local and imported ideas to form unique cultures, reflected in such striking creations as Malay sailing craft, Javanese gamelan music, and batik cloth, classical Burmese and Cambodian architecture, and social structures in which women have often played unusually influential roles. Lockard describes colonization by Europeans and Americans between 1500 and 1914, tracing how the social, economic, and political frameworks inherited from the past, combined with active opposition to domination by foreign powers, enabled Southeast Asians to overcome many challenges and regain their independence after World War II. The book also relates how Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam are now among the fastest growing economies in the world and play a critical role in today's global marketplace.

Author: Park Benjamin
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Author: David Eltis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521840686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777

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The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The author chronicles his experiences as a member of the baby-boom generation, beginning with life in Dallas during the 1960s, and offers insights into the events of three decades