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"Presents a comprehensive overview of the role of women in Burmese society from independence in 1948 to the present. It covers women in politics, women writers, working women, marginalised women such as prostitutes, and women's role in the 1940s as freedom fighters and since 198…
Kultura dźwięku: teksty o muzyce nowoczesnej
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This volume examines a body of literature by authors who, for historical reasons that derive from colonization, political or economic exile, or as a matter of choice, have assumed Spanish, Catalan, or Galician as their preferred language of literary creation.
"Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovations of Korean dramatists during a time of rapid social and historical change. Stretching from 1962 to 2004, these seven works tackle major subjects, such as th…
The evolution of Indian media in the context of economic, political and sociological developments.
Organized around each decade of the postwar period, this book analyses novels written by and for women since 1945. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women, focusing on writers such as Barbara Cartland, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.
100 years of The best American short stories
by Welty, Eudora, Saunders, George, Baldwin, James, Stone, Robert, Olsen, Tillie, Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), Hale, Nancy, Oates, Joyce Carol, Updike, John, Carver, Raymond, Englander, Nathan, Groff, Lauren, Otsuka, Julie, Paley, Grace, Wolff, Tobias, Ford, Richard, Gaitskill, Mary, Jones, Edward P., Baxter, Charles, Ferber, Edna, Anderson, Sherwood, Hemingway, Ernest, Lardner, Ring, Porter, Katherine Anne, Faulkner, William, Cheever, John, Roth, Philip, O'Connor, Flannery, Barthelme, Donald, Elkin, Stanley, Simpson, Mona, Louie, David Wong, Munro, Alice, Kincaid, Jamaica, Sharma, Akhil, Díaz, Junot, Lahiri, Jhumpa, Packer, ZZ, Alexie, Sherman, Percy, Benjamin
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Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
"Among the world's hotly contested, obsessively controlled, and often dangerous borders, none is deadlier than the Mediterranean Sea. Since 2000, at least 25,000 people have lost their lives attempting to reach Italy and the rest of Europe, most by drowning in the Mediterranean.…
Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects…
During one year, the writer Annie Ernaux has written a diary about her visits to the Auchan supermarket in one Parisian suburb.