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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.
Benedikt Jager
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Steffi Hobuß
(eds.)
(Post)Colonial Histories – Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War
In which way interact (post)colonial discourses with memory discourses? This anthology deals with these questions with the film "My heart of darkness" as a starting point.
The Promise of Diversity
How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities and Work
How precarious is diversity? An ethnographic encounter with affective laborers in a Brazilian fashion enterprise.
Transnational Black Dialogues
Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
This transnational study focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery and engage in the intricacies of (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.
Gisela Cánepa Koch
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Ingrid Kummels
(eds.)
Photography in Latin America
Images and Identities Across Time and Space
This book explores how photographic images from Latin America are currently being used regarding memory politics, ethnographic imagination, as well as the negotiation of identity.
Kai Merten
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Lucia Krämer
(eds.)
Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies
A Critical Encounter
Essays on selected topics relating to both Postcolonial Studies and Media Studies illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other.
Caribbean Food Cultures
Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
»Caribbean Food Cultures« is dedicated to the emerging academic field of Caribbean food studies. The anthology focuses on food and consumption practices, thus filling a gap in contemporary Caribbean and diaspora studies.
Deconstructing Gender in Carnival
A Cross Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual
Gender at the carnival – this original study unveils the para-political character of seemingly harmless entertainment rituals, looking for nothing less than new forms of social subjectivity.