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Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China
ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...
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£28,00
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£72,00
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On the Edge of the Holocaust The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781611688566, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment...
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£32,00
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Poetics of Trauma The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
ISBN: PB: 9781611683554, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
198 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-le...
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£28,00
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Holocaust Literature A History and Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781611683585, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East,...
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£32,00
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Midrashic Women Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781584651789, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansio...
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£24,00
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