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Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even change the dominant political, social, economic, and cultural discourses and structures either consciously or unconsciously. The contributors do not claim that these cultural products constitute organized resistance movements, but rather that they reflect instances of defiance that stem from their peculiar contexts. If culture can be used to consolidate and perpetuate power relations in societies, it can also be used as the site of resistance to oppression in its various forms: gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, subverting existing dominant social and political hegemonies in the Middle East.
 

Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1979 and 1994, Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature offers a selection of scholarship from a time of great change in feminist studies and literary studies. The collection’s topics cover all aspects of women's literature, gender and feminism, through literary criticism and the work of women literary theorists.

Contents:

• Where No Man has Gone Before: Essays on Women and Science Fiction edited by Lucie Armitt.
• New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts edited by Isobel Armstrong.
• Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism edited by Joseph Allen Boone and Michael Cadden.
• Abjection, Melancholia, and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva edited by John Fletcher and Andrew Benjamin.
• Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual Shirley Foster.
• Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory Jane Gallop.
• Women Writing and Writing about Women edited by Mary Jacobus.
• Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism edited by Coppeìlia Kahn and Gayle Greene.
• Gender, Genre and Narrative Pleasure edited by Derek Longhurst.
• (Un)like Subjects: Women, Theory, Fiction Gerardine Meaney.
• Rereading Modernism: New Directions in Feminist Criticism edited by Lisa Rado.
• Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender Linda M. Shires.
• Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change Gaye Tuchman.
• Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern Patricia Waugh
• American Women’s Fiction, 1790-1870: A Reference Guide Barbara A. White

For a more detailed list of contents please download the collection’s flyer here, or visit the title's online entry here.
 

It is November already! Crazy. The year has really flown by and before long we will be into 2012. We are sure everyone is looking forward to a nice end-of-year rest and a chance to let your hair down. Before it is quite time to break out the New Year's champagne, however, we would like to bring you the brand new 2012 Reference Catalog, hot off the press and available for download today. Look out for all our social media links, divided by subject area, dotted throughout the Catalog. If you use Facebook or Twitter, there could be something for you!

2011 has been a busy year for Routledge Reference. The Routledge Revivals series, which reissues a wide range of out-of-print titles, has grown to include over 350 titles, all of which are available in hardback and as eBooks. And you can now purchase Revivals as subject-specific bundles within Sociology, Philosophy, Literature, Economics and Politics. Is there a bundle that could benefit your library?

We are expecting the next few months to be equally busy. In December we publish our long-awaited Education set, which boasts contributions from some of the greatest educationalists, teaching professionals and policy makers of the twentieth century. You can get the full low down on the 244-volume Education collection by taking a peek at its new dedicated Online Catalog.

And December will also see the publication of the last of our 2012 Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2012 and The USA and Canada 2012 will be published on the 8th and 15th December respectively. Again, to make life easier, we have put together a snazzy Online Catalog for this collection. In fact, Online Catalogs have been one of our big projects this year, to avoid sending you too many printed pieces (and saving trees in the process!). In the relevant sections of the Reference Catalog you will find screenshots explaining how you can access all our new Online Catalog. Enjoy!

To download the 2012 Reference Catalog in full, just follow this link. Alternatively, if you would like to receive a print copy of the Catalog, please email us at reference@routledge.com with your name and address and we will happily send you one!

It is almost November already! Crazy. The year has really flown by and before long we will be into 2012. We are sure everyone is looking forward to a nice end-of-year rest and a chance to let your hair down. Before it is quite time to break out the New Year's champagne, however, we would like to bring you the brand new 2012 Reference Catalogue, hot off the press and available for download today. Look out for all our social media links, divided by subject area, dotted throughout the Catalogue. If you use Facebook or Twitter, there could be something for you!

2011 has been a busy year for Routledge Reference. The Routledge Revivals series, which reissues a wide range of out-of-print titles, has grown to include over 350 titles, all of which are available in hardback and as eBooks. And you can now purchase Revivals as subject-specific bundles within Sociology, Philosophy, Literature, Economics and Politics. Is there a bundle that could benefit your library?

We are expecting the next few months to be equally busy. In December we publish our long-awaited Education set, which boasts contributions from some of the greatest educationalists, teaching professionals and policy makers of the twentieth century. You can get the full low down on the 244-volume Education collection by taking a peek at its new dedicated Online Catalogue.

And December will also see the publication of the last of our 2012 Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2012 and The USA and Canada 2012 will be published on the 8th and 15th December respectively. Again, to make life easier, we have put together a snazzy Online Catalogue for this collection. In fact, Online Catalogues have been one of our big projects this year, to avoid sending you too many printed pieces (and saving trees in the process!). In the relevant sections of the Reference Catalogue you will find screenshots explaining how you can access all our new Online Catalogues. Enjoy! 

To download the 2012 Reference Catalogue in full, just follow this link. Alternatively, if you would like to receive a print copy of the Catalogue, please email us at reference@routledge.com with your name and address and we will happily send you one!

Philip Nel is a Professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University and Director of the department’s Program in Children's Literature. His books include Keywords for Children’s Literature (co-edited with Lissa Paul, 2011) Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature (co-edited with Julia Mickenberg, 2008), The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats (2007), Dr. Seuss: American Icon (2004), The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks (2002), and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels: A Reader’s Guide (2001).

Routledge is excited about this new direction for Children’s Literature and Culture, and to be adding important new scholarship to the list of over 80 titles currently in the series, many of which are newly available in paperback. Please visit the series’ page on our website here, and email Liz Levine at Routledge if you would like to submit a proposal.

Series Editor: John Drakakis, University of Stirling, UK

The well-established New Critical Idiom series continues to provide students with clear introductory guides to the most important critical terms in use today.  Each book in this popular series:

• provides a handy, explanatory guide to the use (and abuse) of the term
• gives an original and distinctive overview by a leading literary and cultural critic
• relates the term to the larger field of cultural representation.

With a strong emphasis on clarity, lively debate and the widest possible breadth of examples, The New Critical Idiom series is an indispensible guide to key topics in literary studies.

A complete listing of books in the series can be found http://www.routledge.com/books/series/the_new_critical_idiom_SE0155/http://www.routledge.com/books/series/the_new_critical_idiom_SE0155/.

A word from editor A. Robert Lee...

Cowboys and Indians. Last of the Mohicans. Vanishing Americans. Hollywood’s Pocahontas and Geronimo. Lone Ranger and Tonto. Dances With Wolves.

Do popular culture and media images even begin to say anything historic, literary, about the tribes or Native life on the reservations and in the cities?

How have writers from within Native America and First Nations Canada created their own accounts – novels, poetry, drama, autobiography and different styles of discursive work?

How has oral legacy, and with it creation stories or Coyote and other trickster mythologies, become scriptural, a proliferation of texts whose luminous modern names include N. Scott Momaday and Lesley Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor and Louise Erdrich, Beth Brand and Tom King?

Volume 1 opens with a sequence of authors’ own overviews, Momaday to Louis Owen, followed by a roster of critical theory dealing with ideology and custodianship.

Volume 2 looks first to accounts of Native autobiography, from the Pequot William Apess onwards, and of early modern writing, from the Paiute-raised Sarah Winnemucca and Creek poet and satirist Alex Posey to the Sioux Luther Standing Bear.

Volume 3 gathers essays on modern Native fiction, a circuit of authorship to embrace writers like Momaday, Silko, Louise Erdrich, Vizenor, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, Diane Glancy and Anna Lee Walters.

Volume 4 takes on Native poetry and drama, whether Paul Gunn Allen, Luci Tapahonso, Simon Ortiz, Carter Revard, Wendy Rose, Jim Barnes or Ray Young Bear, and the plays of Hanay Geiogamah.

This wide-ranging collection includes detailed bibliographies, time-lines, and tribal groupings, together with 84 essays. It will prove invaluable to all readers with an interest in how writers of indigenous legacy have given literary imagination to their history in North America, Canada and beyond.

If you would like to learn more about this title, or to pre-order, please click here.
 

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature and culture, his most recent books include Relentless Progress: The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling; The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré; Why Fairy Tales Stick; Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, Beautiful Angiola; and The Robber with the Witch's Head, all published by Routledge.