"Partendo da una duplice intuizione - la prima più generale sull'importanza spesso trascurata della matrice simbolica dei vangeli, l'altra più specifica sulla natura simbolica del gesto di Gesù nei confronti del fico in Mc 11,12-25 - il presente studio esplora la dimensione simb…
This book provides a collection of poems, texts and sketches of the Indian plantation experience as well as a deconstruction of the idea of the coolie.
A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.
Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so…
This title is squarely situated at the intersection of literature and psychology. Psychologists' dicoveries about when childhood memories form, and what form they most often take, resonate throughout the works of the three writers Martens highlights.
"The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric examines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's most prominent writers. Maurice Sceve's Delie is the first French sequence of…
Narrato nel libro biblico dei "Numeri", il viaggio del popolo di Israele dalla schiavitù d'Egitto attraverso il deserto fino alla Terra Promessa è stato interpretato da uno dei maggiori padri della chiesa, Origene, come allegoria del viaggio dell'anima dall'idolatria e dal pecca…
In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race, and Ethnicity is a collection of essays by scholars and Americanists who labor under the conviction that the dynamically evolving field of postcolonial studies facilitates the development of new ways of conceptualizing race and …
"Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness and heteronormativity in children's literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established scholars examine how fic…
![Outing Goethe [and] his age](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/0804726140-M.jpg?default=false)
The gospel character of Judas clearly indicates Christian myth making. As the insider become outsider he demarcates Christian boundaries and, therefore, helps define insider identity and locate evil. Three Versions of Judas explores the mythic work transpiring in the Judases of …
"In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pa…
