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Free Download Tabea Alexa Linhard, "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico"
English | ISBN: 1503634698 | 2023 | 306 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Unexpected Routes chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II: Cuban-born Spanish writer Silvia Mistral, German-born Spanish writer Max Aub, German writer Anna Seghers, German author Ruth Rewald, Swiss-born political activist, photographer, and ethnographer Gertrude Duby, and Czech writer and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch. While these six writers came from different backgrounds, wrote in different languages, and enjoyed very different levels of recognition in their lifetimes and posthumously, they all made sense of their forced displacement in works that reveal their conflicted relationships with the people and places they encountered in transit as well as in Mexico, the country in which they all eventually found asylum. The literary output of these six brilliant, prolific, but also flawed individuals reflects the most salient contradictions of what it meant to escape from fascist occupied Europe. In a study that bridges history, literary studies, and refugee studies, Tabea Alexa Linhard draws connections between colonialism, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II and the Holocaust to shed light on the histories and literatures of exile and migration, drawing connections to today's refugee crisis and asking larger questions around the notions of belonging, longing, and the lived experience of exile.

Free Download Iván A. Ramos, "Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics "
English | ISBN: 1479808466 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging

Free Download Claudia Yaghoobi, "Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora "
English | ISBN: 1399512374 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors. Yaghoobi argues that this liminal state of fluidity helps them to develop a resilience towards ambiguity and handling ambivalence in dealing with various cultures as well as resisting dualistic thinking which in turn allows them to move beyond national boundaries to transnationalism, yet simultaneously display the collective Armenian identity characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and continuity as a result of both multiple uprooting and a Genocide that continues to this day. They serve as a bridge between the homeland and the host nation, occupying what the author theorizes as

Free Download James Rendell, "Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror: Digital Distribution, Abject Spectrums and Participatory Culture"
English | ISBN: 9463726322 | 2023 | 334 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the twenty-first century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal. Located within a transmedia matrix, Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror triangulates this boom across screen content, industry practices, and online participatory cultures. Understanding the genre within a post-TV paradigm, the book readdresses what is horror television, analysing not only broadcast TV and streaming platforms but also portals such as YouTube, Twitch.TV, and apps. The book also investigates complex digital media ecologies, blurring distinctions between niche and general audience viewing practices, and fostering new circulation pathways for horror television from around the world. Undertaking netnography, the book further offers an innovative model - abject spectrums - to empirically explore myriad audience responses to TV horror, manifesting in various participatory practices including writing, imagery, and crafts. As such, the book greatly expands what is considered horror television, its formatting and circulation, and the transmedia materiality of audience engagement.

Free Download Marsely Kehoe, "Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age "
English | ISBN: 9463723633 | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 3 MB
We all look to our past to define our present, but we don't always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subsequent events. It's easy to forget that the Dutch dominated the world's oceans and trade in the seventeenth century when our cultural imagination conjures up tulips and wooden shoes instead of spices and slavery. This book examines the Dutch so-called "Golden Age" though its artistic and architectural legacy, recapturing the global dimensions of this period by looking beyond familiar artworks to consider exotic collectibles and trade goods, and the ways in which far-flung colonial cities were made to look and feel like home. Using the tools of art history to approach questions about memory, history, and how cultures define themselves, this book demonstrates the centrality of material and visual culture to understanding history and cultural identity.

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English | ISBN: 1479820725 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Outlines the successes and failures of the movement to support survivors of violence

Free Download The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108481795 | 293 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and Description, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that complements the epic mythological story is re-imagined afresh in relation to the themes of each epic poem. As Deborah Beck argues in this stimulating book, over time a simile world takes shape across many poems composed over many centuries. This evolving landscape resembles the epic story world of battles, voyages, and heroes that comes into being through relationships among different epic poems. Epic narrative is woven from a warp of the mythological story world and a weft of the simile world. They are partners in creating the fabric of epic poetry.

Free Download Hui Wang, "The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought"
English | ISBN: 0674046765 | 2023 | 1088 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The definitive history of China's philosophical confrontation with modernity, available for the first time in English.

Free Download George S. Tavlas, "The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927-1960"
English | ISBN: 0226823180 | 2023 | 656 pages | PDF | 2 MB
An essential origin story of modern society's most influential economic doctrine.

Free Download Cornelius Castoriadis, "The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983 Ed 148"
English | ISBN: 1474475329 | 2023 | 336 pages | PDF | 1237 KB
This book collects 12 previously untranslated lectures by Castoriadis from 1982 to 1983. Castoriadis focuses on the interconnection between philosophy and democracy and the way both emerge within a self-critical imaginary already in development in the work of early Greek poets and Presocratic philosophers.