"37" Result
Sort By:
This dissertation analyzes contemporary Italian crime fiction’s success, relating it to the penal system’s growing centrality in the Italian (and global) political, social, and cultural scene. Although crime literature’s great popularity is commonly accepted as a fact, literary …
Film noir started in the early 1940s and has continued to today with adaptations that reflect modern society. The style of film noir, influenced from German expressionism, has stayed consistent with its stark shadows and tilted camera angles. While film noir divulges into multip…
This thesis studies a period of historical transition (1945-1950) and proposes to use scandal as a critical tool to account for the ambiguity of the immediate post-war period in literature. As set out in pragmatic sociology, scandal is understood to involve a test to the stabili…
The career path of African American novelist Chester Himes is often characterised as a u-turn. Himes grew to recognition in the 1940s as a writer of the Popular Front, and a pioneer of the era's black 'protest' fiction. However, after falling out of domestic favour in the early …
Audacious and genre-defying, 'Black and Blue' is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and this book is framed by the author's memories of her moth…
Audacious and genre-defying, 'Black and Blue' is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and this book is framed by the author's memories of her moth…
Postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement anchor this exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and comprehend the incomprehensible.
Audacious and genre-defying, 'Black and Blue' is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and this book is framed by the author's memories of her moth…
Although extremely popular in diverse national literatures, the police procedural--a novel in which a sympathetic cop-hero uses real-world forensic techniques to investigate a believable crime--has appeared in Arabic only in Morocco. In this dissertation, the first in any langua…
Textos en diáspora. Una antología sobre afrodescendientes en América
by Hall, Stuart, Bastide, Roger, Wacquant, Loïc, Agudelo, Carlos Efrén, Bonniol, Jean-Luc, Chivallon, Christine, Cottias, Myriam, Cuche, Denys, Cunin, Elisabeth, Guillaumin, Colette, Hoffmann, Odile, Lomné, Georges, Mourier, Thomas, Vermeren, Patrice, Zucchelli, Morena
0
Type: Book
Mientras que las poblaciones afrodescendientes en las Américas está por definición asociadas a una lógica diaspórica, y las personas, los bienes y las ideas se desplazan de un extremo a otro del planeta, los estudios que los analizan quedan a menudo anclados en limites nacionale…