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Belonging and Narrative
A Theory of the American Novel
Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.
TransCoding – From `Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture
Social Media – Art – Research
Barbara Lüneburg investigates participatory multimedia art via web 2.0 from an exclusive inside view through artistic research.
Art and Economics in the City
New Cultural Maps
"Art and the City" faces the complex issues of the new multicultural urban dynamics generated by the globally emerging economic paradigm. The arts play a pivotal role!
Games and Bereavement
How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief
Sabine Harrer explores videogames' capacity to model attachment, loss and grief. She proposes an approach to videogame design with and for grievers.
Christa Buschendorf
(ed.)
Power Relations in Black Lives
Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.
Solvejg Nitzke
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Nicolas Pethes
(eds.)
Imagining Earth
Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet
Imagining Earth gathers interdisciplinary perspectives on the medial, philosophical and literary conditions of the emergence and popularization of the central object of current environmental and ecocritical discussions: Planet Earth.
Resistance
Subjects, Representations, Contexts
This volume explores phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments, thus opening up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across disciplines.
Nicolaj van der Meulen
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Jörg Wiesel
(eds.)
Culinary Turn
Aesthetic Practice of Cookery
Cooking, eating and nutrition have become omnipresent cultural topics. This volume investigates the dimensions of a culinary turn, combining for the first time the theory and practice of cooking.
Culture – Theory – Disability
Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies
How can Cultural and Disability Studies stimulate each other? This essential volume addresses a variety of overlaps and resonances.
American Mobilities
Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture
Geographical, economic, and social mobility were central tropes in American literature and film in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. This study provides in-depth case studies with particular attention to class, race, and gender as they intersect with representations of mobility.