This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s …
Kisah Novel Sejarah Tusalama' ini menguak kisah inspiratif Syekh Yusuf Al Makassari yang Penuh Makna bagi Generasi Zaman Now. Menyibak tabir sejarah dan kearifan nilai-nilai budaya lokal, sisi spiritualitas dari sosok ulama pejuang, yang dinobatkan sebagai pahlawan nasional di dua negara yakni Indonesia dan dan Afrika Selatan. Novel ini berisi 25 kisah kumpulan mozaik kehidupan Syekh Yusuf Al …
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and coll…
COVID-19’s impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity—it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage and support students around the world. Gathering together educators who teach writing at colle…
Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual studies and literary history with integrated approaches to Spanish American narrative, this book traces the evolution from aesthetic cosmopolitanism through anti-colonial nationalism to modern politic…
In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im …
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What is the relationship between theory and practice in the creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes beyond the recent vocabulary of research management to consider t…
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected es…
Apakah kamu tahu kalau cengkih tertua di dunia ada di lereng gunung Gamalama, Ternate? Atau kamu pernah mendengar mengenai senyawa Euganol yang ada di dalam cengkih bisa menghilangkan rasa sakit? Atau pernahkah kamu mendengar kisah tentang perahu Sawerigading yang dipakai pelaut untuk mengarungi samudra dalam perjalanan mencari rempah? Jika kamu belum pernah mendengar tentang hal-hal itu, janga…