“Amanda Powell‘s poems are dark, witty, and intimate; at once autobiographical and formally sophisticated; sound-rich; and full of linguistic surprises. These poems are both deeply embedded in our literary traditions and right on the edge of contemporary poetics. Moving, unflinching and alive, they reward the closest attention with a cornucopia of unexpected pleasures.” – Linda Bamber

“Trafalgar, a novel-in-stories, was originally published in Argentina in 1979. It starts off light and refreshing right from the very first short “Who’s Who in Rosario” listing for Trafalgar, although there are occasional clouds that pass through Trafalgar Medrano’s bright and happy stories.”

“Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism’s concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries.”

“Latin American Studies as a fully recognized field of scholarly inquiry only exists for those accustomed to viewing the region from north of the U.S.-Mexican border. Although never completely stable or uncontested, Latin American Studies had its first heyday between the mid1960s and late 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, when the region became the focus of intense geopolitical contention. While two decades later it is clear that Latin American Studies has remained vibrant in the face of such challenges, its resilience is due to innovation, rather than to a merely reactive defense of deeply engrained premises and institutional practices."

“Although scholars and practitioners have identified explicit structural impediments that constrain countries’ efforts to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable social development, there has been limited research conducted to identify the specific barriers to development that prevail in Pakistan today. The authors … go far toward filling this void….”

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“This book examines work in several genres of life writing—autobiography, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction—focused either on what it means to live with schizophrenia or what it means to understand and ‘treat’ people who have received that diagnosis. Challenging the romanticized connection between literature and madness, Life Writing and Schizophrenia explores how writers who hear voices and experience delusions write their identities into narrative, despite popular and medical representations of schizophrenia as chaos, violence, and incoherence."

“Betrayal is fundamental to the human condition and yet because of betrayal blindness often goes unseen. Drawing on empirical research, clinical thought, and real stories, this book explores central questions about betrayal and betrayal blindness: What is betrayal? What is its scope? How do we become aware of it and heal from its effects?”

“This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women’s mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of ‘modern girls’ continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women’s roles have undergone during the course of the last century.”

“Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. … Identifying five forms of women’s work as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, she shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America.”