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Creolizing Europe : Legacies and Transformations /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : creolizing Europe : legacies and transformations -- Creolite and the process of creolization -- World systems and the Creole, rethought -- Creolization and resistance -- Continental creolization : French exclusion through a Glissantian prism -- Archipelago Europe : on creolizing conviviality -- Are we all Creoles? : 'Sable-Saffron' Venus, Rachel Christie and aesthetic creolization -- Re-imagining Manchester as a queer and haptic brown Atlantic space -- Queering diaspora space, creolizing counter-publics : on British South Asian gay and bisexual men's negotiations of sexuality, intimacy and marriage -- On being Portuguese : luso-tropicalism, migrations and the politics of citizenship -- Comics, dolls and the disavowal of racism : learning from Mexican Mestizaje -- Creolizing citizenship? …”
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Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.…”
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