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This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

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French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History. Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics -- .

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Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavat

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A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.

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A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .

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Nine times out of ten, if someone accuses you of getting your facts wrong, what they're actually saying is that they don't like what you've done with them.


The facts in this book will aim to amuse and astound, and sometimes even to change the way you see the world.

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This work is invaluable as supplemental reading for courses in American history, American literature, and American studies.

In Search of America devotes an entire section to the early problems of the young nation in achieving intellectual and artistic, as well as political, independence.

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Analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947 onwards. This work suggests that carefully reading the production of a diasporic sensibility, one that is not simply an outgrowth of the nation-state, helps us to conceive of multiple imaginaries, of America, England, and India, as articulated to one another.

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Presents industrial ruins and explains what they can tell us about ourselves and our past. It is their fragmentary nature and lack of fixed meaning that render ruins meaningful. This book highlights the danger of eradicating such urban sites through policies that privilege homogeneous new developments.

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Presents industrial ruins and explains what they can tell about ourselves and our past. It is their fragmentary nature and lack of fixed meaning that render ruins meaningful. This book highlights the danger of eradicating such urban sites through policies that privilege homogeneous new developments.

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By listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves - their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them - the author provides insights into issues of subjectivity and identity.

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By listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves - their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them - the author provides insights into issues of subjectivity and identity.

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Introducing first and second year university students to cultural study approaches to everyday life, this accessible textbook prompts its readers to take a fresh, critical look at the familiar, yet strangely intriguing terrain of daily life in modern, industrialised societies.

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Helpful French vocabulary, questions and activities, and a resource guide accompany each issue to round out the unit.

The authors are careful to tie in the French issues to American society and culture.

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Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history re-assesses the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the fields of history, media and cultural studies debate the influence of 'Jack' on race, gender, the press, fiction, film and the city of London. -- .

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By examining the use of language as well as analyzing modern statistical data, Hayashi and Kuroda show how the Japanese concept of self is indistinct and how the Japanese live in a mental world of multiple truths.