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Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies
The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
This study discusses Anglophone Arab works in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets radically displaced by strategic relational dissonance.
Empowering the Elderly?
How ›Help to Self-Help‹ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
By investigating how state and economic interests intersect with everyday life, this book provides important insights into the provision of eldercare.
Strange Blood
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond
A unique story of 19th century medical knowledge, ambition, and controversy – of crossing boundaries and challenging taboos.
Weimar Controversies
Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer
In this book, political conflicts over occultism, nudism, and popular literature reveal themselves as toxic ingredients to the demise of the Weimar Republic.
Home/Fronts
Contemporary War in British Literature, Drama, and Film
An analytical survey of contemporary war narratives in British Literature, Drama, Film, and Television.
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Opacity – Minority – Improvisation
An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory
A performative account of queerness, linguistics, and being on the periphery. An exploration of the closet through slangs, queer and postcolonial theory.
Thomas Lahusen
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Schamma Schahadat
(eds.)
Postsocialist Landscapes
Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang
This volume explores the traces of socialism in very different parts of the world today, from East Central Europe to North Korea, in private as well as in public spaces.
Family in Crisis?
Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives
Interdisciplinary and transnational analyses of a broad variety of cultural texts highlighting today's families and their lived realities.
Susanne Epple
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Getachew Assefa
(eds.)
Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia
Actors, Challenges and Solutions
Legal pluralism is a challenge, but one that has stimulated remarkably creative responses to handling the many legal systems in Ethiopia today.