Förderer: KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
Transnational Black Dialogues
Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
- Nehl, Markus
This transnational study focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery and engage in the intricacies of (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon
Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age
- Pooch, Melanie U.
This work provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe
Biographical Patterns and Cultural Exchanges
- zur Nieden, Gesa
- Over, Berthold
- (eds.)
In the book musicologists and historians examine music migrations between elite and everyday musicians' mobilities during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
Houses, Secrets, and the Closet
Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James
- Bauer, Gero
This study investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in English literature from the early Gothic until the turn of the twentieth century.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
American Mobilities
Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture
- Leyda, Julia
Geographical, economic, and social mobility were central tropes in American literature and film in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. This study provides in-depth case studies with particular attention to class, race, and gender as they intersect with representations of mobility.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
Intersex Narratives
Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture
- Amato (verst.), Viola
Intersex activists reclaim their narratives from the medical hegemony. How do cultural productions negotiate this recent shift in ideas about intersex?
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945
- Imesch, Kornelia
- Schade, Sigrid
- Sieber, Samuel
- (eds.)
Shaping the politico-cultural public spheres in post-war Europe, newsreel cinema and television to date remains a potent medium of archiving and staging cultural and national identities.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
Ageing and Technology
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
- Domínguez-Rué, Emma
- Nierling, Linda
- (eds.)
Taking the human being and not technology first may help us to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018
At Face Value and Beyond
Photographic Constructions of Reality
- Schwärzler, Monika
What could easily be taken at face value sometimes deserves a closer look! This study in media analysis offers an intriguing multi-perspective approach on contemporary photographs.
Erscheinungstermin: 01. März 2018