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31. Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels

    By Auli Ek

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States, and in so doing, compellingly engages popular culture in order to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
32. Children's Language

    Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

    Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

    These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
33. State Formation and Radical Democracy in India

    By Manali Desai

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
34. Civility and Empire

    Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

    By Anindyo Roy

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
35. Mobile Homes

    Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature

    By Su-Ching Huang

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000....

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
36. Children's Language

    Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

    Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

    These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
37. The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

    By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
38. The Poetic Edda

    Essays on Old Norse Mythology

    Edited by Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington

    Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks

    This collection of applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. It also provides useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
39. Beatrix Potter

    Writing in Code

    By M. Daphne Kutzer

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre. Daphne Kutzer...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
40. Chicano-Anglo Conversations

    Truth, Honesty, and Politeness

    By Madeleine Youmans

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    This groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and white, middle-class literacy tutors who worked with them--makes an important contribution to research on the sociolinguistics of the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge