Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History
Ann Huss and Jianmei Liu
ISBN13: 9781934043080
Date: 28-May-07
This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yong's works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience.
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Man of the American Stage
Lynn Matluck Brooks
ISBN13: 9781604977752
Date: 18-Oct-11
This book takes the perspective of the theater as a crucible for the forging of American identity and culture. John Durang (1768–1822) is both an exemplary and a remarkable figure in early American theater. Among the first native-born Americans to appear on the stage, he was the first to make the theater his life.
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Honorifics, Narrative, and Ideology in Air Force Talk
Edith A. Disler
ISBN13: 9781604975383
Date: 28-Aug-08
In this landmark book, the author opens the door to considerations of power, gender dynamics, and language and ideology in a community that has not yet been studied using the techniques of discourse analysis.
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Ethnogenesis in Context
Antonio Olliz Boyd
ISBN13: 9781604977042
Date: 08-Aug-10
By exploring the works of Latin American novelists, poets, and lyricists, this study shows how they creatively expose their most intimate feelings on ethnic Blackness through a semiotic reliance on the inner voice. At the same time, the
reader becomes a witness to the writers’ associations with a sense of
Africanness as it artistically affects them and their communities in
their formulations of self-identity.
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