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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Privilege of Crisis Narratives of Masculinities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography, and Film

Yekani Elahe Haschemi

ISBN: PB: 9783593393995, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
320 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view".The Privilege of Crisis" d...

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General

Belonging in an Adopted World Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

Yngvesson Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226964478, ISBN: HB: 9780226964461, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 9 tables, 16 halftones

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging in an Adopted World", Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implica...

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Poetry

Culture Studies

Medicine Show

Yuill Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226971650, ISBN: HB: 9780226971643, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
80 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "Medicine Show", inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and...

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