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The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution / by Richardson, Matt, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : listening to the archives : Black lesbian literature and queer memory -- Desirous mistresses and unruly slaves : neo-slave narratives, property, power, and desire -- Small movements : queer blues epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her -- "Mens womens some that is both some that is neither" : spiritual epistemology and queering the Black rural South in the work of Sharon Bridgforth -- "Make it up and trace it back" : remembering Black trans subjectivity in Jackie Kay's Trumpet -- What grace was : erotic epistemologies and diasporic belonging in Dionne Brand's In another place, not here -- Epilogue : grieving the queer : anti-Black violence and black collective memory.…”
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Listening For A Life : A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / by Sawin, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance -- Epilogue.…”
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Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel & Alexander Thiel -- Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast -- Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis López -- Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht -- Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher -- A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen -- Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grüdl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Öhl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul.…”
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Approaches to coastal wetlands restoration Northern Gulf of Mexico / by Turner, R. E. (Robert Eugene), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Equivalent unites -- Subject index.…”
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The king within reformations of power in William Shakespeare and Pedro Calderón de la Barca / by Howard, Anita, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…England and Spain: reformations of power -- The drama within: staging kingship -- Searching for authority: King Richard II and el Príncipe constante -- The king's soul: King Henry VIII and la Cisma de Ingalaterra -- From kingship to kinship: the tempest and la Vida es Sueño -- The internal theatre: kingship among subjects.…”
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Representations of working-class masculinities in post-war British culture : the left behind / by Crowley, Matthew, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Home sweet home: the post-war settlement, 1945-1951 -- Changing the subject: the 'angry young men?', 1950-1960 -- Swinging for him? …”
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The inspired teacher how to know one, grow one, or be one / by Steele, Carol Frederick, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Knowing the subject -- Using knowledge of teaching and learning -- Solving instructional problems -- Improvising -- Managing a classroom -- Interpreting events in progress -- Being sensitive to context -- Monitoring learning -- Testing hypotheses -- Demonstrating respect -- Showing passion for teaching and learning -- Helping students reach higher levels of achievement -- Helping students understand complexity.…”
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In spite of partition Jews, Arabs, and the limits of separatist imagination / by Hochberg, Gil Z., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…History, memory, identity : from the Arab Jew "we were" to the Arab Jew "we may become" -- The legacy of Levantinism : against national normality -- Bringing Hebrew back to its (Semitic) place : on the deterritorialization of language -- Too Jewish and too Arab or who is the (Israeli) subject? -- Memory, forgetting, love : the limits of national memory.…”
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Activists in office Kurdish politics and protest in Turkey / by Watts, Nicole F.

Table of Contents: “…Other routes of resistance -- Early routes : conditions of Kurdish electoral mobilization -- New collective challengers : the institutional trajectory of Turkey's first pro-Kurdish party -- Resources of the system -- Characteristics of coercion : obstructing access to resources -- Producing competing truths -- Creating a new Kurdish subject -- Conclusions : assessing a challenger's impact.…”
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The light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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Bastards of utopia : living radical politics after socialism / by Razsa, Maple

Table of Contents: “…Grassroots globalization in national soil -- Uncivil society : NGOs, the invasion of Iraq, and the limits of polite protest -- "Feeling the state on your own skin" : direct confrontation and the production of militant subjects -- "Struggling for what is not yet" : the right to the city in Zagreb -- The occupy movement : direct democracy and a politics of becoming -- Conclusion : from critique to affirmation.…”
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The Light of Knowledge Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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Specialist support approaches to autism spectrum disorder students in mainstream settings by Hewitt, Sally, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Familiarization -- Transitions in and around schools -- Physical positioning -- Verbal instructions -- Work (station) areas -- Visual timetables -- Other visual prompts -- Working materials and methods -- Specific subject areas -- Social/sharing/friendship skills -- Home/school liaison/statement review meetings/individual education plans -- Break and lunchtimes -- Afterword -- Index.…”
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The elephant in the room silence and denial in everyday life / by Zerubavel, Eviatar

Table of Contents: “…The trouble with elephants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.…”
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Human Rights, Inc the world novel, narrative form, and international law / by Slaughter, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…Novel subjects and enabling fictions: the formal articulation of international human rights law -- Becoming plots: human rights, the bildungsroman, and the novelization of citizenship -- Normalizing narrative forms of human rights: the (dys)function of the public sphere -- Compulsory development: narrative self-sponsorship and the right to self-determination -- Clefs à roman: reading, writing, and international humanitarianism.…”
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The rule of empires those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / by Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The subjects of empire -- Roman Britain : the myth of the civilizing empire -- Muslim Spain : blurring subjecthood in imperial Al-Andalus -- Spanish Peru : empire by franchise -- Company India : private empire building -- Napoleonic Italy : empire aborted -- British Kenya : the short life of the new imperialism -- France under the Nazis : imperial endpoint -- Imperial epitaph.…”
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Mad at school rhetorics of mental disability and academic life / by Price, Margaret, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Listening to the subject of mental disability : intersections of academic and medical discourses -- Ways to move : presence, participation, and resistance in kairotic space -- The essential functions of the position : collegiality and productivity -- Assaults on the ivory tower : representations of madness in the discourse of U.S. school shootings -- "Her pronouns wax and wane" : mental disability, autobiography, and counter diagnosis -- In/ter/dependent scholarship.…”
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Queering contemporary French popular cinema images and their reception / by Waldron, Darren

Table of Contents: “…Queerness, French film and the audience -- Queering the French sexual subject -- Queering contemporary French "popular" cinema : images of resistance and compliance -- Out of the films and into the audience -- Sexuality and beyond : subcultural affiliations, normative identifications and aesthetic contemplation -- Childhood and gender, sexuality and ethnicity : negotiating sameness and difference, past and present -- Queer and beyond : images of identity and desire.…”
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