Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture (Hill Melvin G.)(Pevná vazba)

Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture (Hill Melvin G.)(Pevná vazba)

Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture makes a series of valuable contributions to ongoing dialogues surrounding posthuman blackness and Afro-transhumanism. The collection explores the Black body (self) in the context of

The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics (Mwangi Evan)(Pevná vazba)

Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics demonstrates the importance of African writing to

The Ministry of Bodies: A Year of Life and Death in a Modern Hospital (O'Mahony Seamus)(Pevná vazba)

In The Ministry of Bodies, Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of life in a modern hospital over the course of a year. From difficult births and unexpected deaths to moral quandaries and bureaucratic disasters, O'Mahony documents life in the halls that all of us will visit at some point in our

The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories - Susan Hillová

A beautiful hardback edition of the famously terrifying ghost story, The Woman in Black, together with four other spine-chilling tales in one beautiful volume. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house

The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship (Proglio Gabriele)(Pevná vazba)

This edited volume aims to problematise and rethink the contemporary European migrant crisis in the Central Mediterranean through the lens of the Black Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars working in geography, political theory, sociology, and cultural studies, this volume takes the Black

Making the Modern Artist: Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain (Myrone Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Exploring the myths and realities of the origins of the 'modern artist' in Britain The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an artist? And do our deeply held beliefs stand up to

Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Lomax Tamura)(Paperback)

In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define black girlhood and womanhood. Drawing on writing by medieval thinkers and

Black: The History of a Color (Pastoureau Michel)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture--from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and

Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics (Calkin Melvin G.)(Pevná vazba)

This book takes the student from the Newtonian mechanics typically taught in the first and the second year to the areas of recent research. The discussion of topics such as invariance, Hamiltonian-Jacobi theory, and action-angle variables is especially complete; the last includes a discussion of

Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century: Literature, culture and community (Woodin Tom)(Pevná vazba)

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50

Gunslinging justice: The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law (Joyce Justin a.)(Pevná vazba)

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United

Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility (Pietrzak-Franger Monika)(Pevná vazba)

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the first large-scale interdisciplinary study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain whose significance lies in its unprecedented attention to the multimedia and

Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film (Serrano Carmen A.)(Pevná vazba)

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization,

The Politics of Bodies at Risk: The Human in the Body (Struble Maria Boikova)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Bodies at Risk re-engages and re-conceptualizes politics from the point of view of the everyday experiences of human materiality living with risk across geopolitical worlds and state

Parasites, Worms, and the Human Body in Religion and Culture (Gardenour Brenda)(Pevná vazba)

The fear of parasites - with their power to invade, infest, and transform the self - writhes and wriggles through cultures and religions across the globe, reflecting a very human revulsion of being invaded and consumed by both internal and external forces. However, in ancient China, the parasitic

Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea (Braund David)(Pevná vazba)

This is the first study of ancient theatre and performance around the coasts of the Black Sea. It brings together key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars on theatre and the Black Sea, from a wide range of disciplines, especially archaeology, drama and history

Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground (Adamowicz Elza)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive study of Dada's images of the body in various media and geographical centres. Mask or machine-part, grotesque or iconoclastic, the bodily image is confronted as both a reflection of and on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of wartime and post-war Europe, and a blueprint of the

The Desiring Modes of Being Black: Literature and Critical Theory (Rocchi Jean-Paul)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and

Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture (Hay John)(Pevná vazba)

The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology

Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas (Covington-Ward Yolanda)(Pevná vazba)

The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power. Among other topics, the essays examine the

Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us (Falcke Heino)(Pevná vazba)

The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion (Sargent Antwaun)(Pevná vazba)

In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curator and critic Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today. The featuring of the Black figure and Black runway and cover models in the media and art has been one marker of increasingly

Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. (Bond Beverly)(Pevná vazba)

From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world. Fueled by the insights of women of diverse backgrounds,

Marvel Myths and Legends - The epic origins of Thor, the Eternals, Black Panther, and the Marvel Universe (Hill James)(Pevná vazba)

Explore the fabled myths and epic legends of the vast and vibrant Marvel Universe.Visit the dawn of time to witness the birth of the Celestials and their warring creations, the Eternals and Deviants. Discover the pantheons of Thor, the Asgardians, and their Olympian rivals. Wonder at the arcane