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This work presents a critical perspective on many of the best-known texts of Algerian literature in French. It also discusses Maghrebian immigration into France; contemporary French writing about the Maghreb; and "nomadic" poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity and sociality.

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A history of Welsh women's writing in both Welsh and English during the twentieth century. This book identifies and analyses a distinctive female literary tradition and reveals that Wales is represented very much as 'a different country' by its modern women writers.

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Who is guest, and who is host Adoption, Antigone, zombies, clones, and minotaursall building blocks, forming and reforming our ideas.

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The essays of Untimely Passages emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies, commitments, and atmosphere of the crises of modernism accompanying Jerry Zaslove's reading of world literature.

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One of the most acclaimed authors on the meaning of reading and writing takes on Nabokov's classic memoir.

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When the Kissing Had to Stop is Leonard at his best, with his reflections on the best new literature of today and what it can tell us about America now.

This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars.

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An examination of alternate imaginaries of the global in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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This book examines, from the angle of more than a dozen perspectives, the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most prominent thinkers and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. It opens a new critical discourse that reshapes our current understanding of Bakhtin.

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Offers an investigation of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials Trilogy", and the insights it offers to the world. Contributors with backgrounds in philosophy, theology, science fiction, and children's literature help readers find their way through Pullman's trilogy.

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Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.

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Compact guide to the great modernist writer.

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