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Haram in the harem domestic narratives in India and Algeria / by Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi

Table of Contents: “…Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.…”
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Career paths in human-animal interaction for social and behavioral scientists /

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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? …”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour and Diana Spencer -- Rome at a gallop : Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void / Diana Spencer -- 'In the name of the father' : Ovid's Theban law / Micaela Janan -- 'I get around' : sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal / Paul Allen Miller -- Holes in the body : sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome / David H.J. …”
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Naturalized bioethics toward responsible knowing and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Groningen naturalism in bioethics / Margaret Urban Walker -- Moral bodies: epistemologies of embodiment / Jackie Leach Scully -- Choosing surgical birth: desire and the nature of bioethical advice / Raymond G. …”
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Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics / by Rabinoff, Eve

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Shaping entrepreneurship research : made, as well as found /

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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Feminism, sexuality, and politics essays / by Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Identities, values, and inquiries : a personal history -- Separatism as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930 -- Separatism revisited : women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters -- Women's networks and women's loyalties : reflections on a tenure case -- Small group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times -- No turning back : the historical resilience of feminism -- The historical construction of homosexuality in the United States -- Uncontrolled desires : the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960 -- The prison lesbian : race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965 -- The burning of letters continues : elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality -- When historical interpretation meets legal advocacy : abortion, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Poets on the Psalms

Table of Contents: “…The secret life of poetry and the Psalms / Madeline DeFrees -- On restiveness--in art, in life : the Psalms / Carl Phillips -- Psalm and anti-Psalm : a personal interlude / Alicia Ostriker -- Lover, dark and dangerous / Jill Alexander Essbaum -- Psalm 22 and the Gospels : a Midrashic moment and a hope for connection / Enid Dame -- Of time and vision / Pattiann Rogers -- Psalm 23 / Catherine Sasanov -- I shall not want : the twenty-third Psalm comes to Cleveland, Ohio / David Citino -- Want / Angie Estes -- 'Tis the season : holidays, harvests, and the Psalms / Lynn Domina -- Upon the floods / Diane Glancy -- "The devices and desires of our own hearts" : reflections on blessing and curse in the songs of ascent / Robert A. …”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism / by Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: mediated Mormonism -- Mormonism as meme and analytic: spiritual neoliberalism, image management, and transmediated salvation -- The Mormon glow: the raced and gendered implications of spectacular visibility -- The epistemology of the (televised, polygamous) closet: the cultural politics of mediated Mormonism and the promises of the American Dream -- Polygamy USA: visibility, charismatic evil, and gender progressivism -- Gender trouble in happy valley: choice, happy affect, and the Mormon feminist housewives -- "Pray (and obey) the gay away": conscience and the queer politics of desire -- Conclusion: afterthoughts and latter days -- Epilogue. …”
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Dirt, undress, and difference critical perspectives on the body's surface /

Table of Contents: “…Bastian -- Breasts, (un)dress, and, modernist desires in the Balinese-tourist encounter / Margaret Wiener -- Body talk : revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs / Katherine Frank -- The naked spirit : disrobing, deviance, and dissent in Bori possession / Adeline Masquelier -- Japanese bodies and Western ways of seeing in the late nineteenth century / Satsuki Kawano -- Purity and conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Did you bathe this morning? …”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism / by Weber, Brenda R., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: mediated Mormonism -- Mormonism as meme and analytic: spiritual neoliberalism, image management, and transmediated salvation -- The Mormon glow: the raced and gendered implications of spectacular visibility -- The epistemology of the (televised, polygamous) closet: the cultural politics of mediated Mormonism and the promises of the American Dream -- Polygamy USA: visibility, charismatic evil, and gender progressivism -- Gender trouble in happy valley: choice, happy affect, and the Mormon feminist housewives -- "Pray (and obey) the gay away": conscience and the queer politics of desire -- Conclusion: afterthoughts and latter days -- Epilogue. …”
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Lost souls stories / by Hwang, Sun-wŏn, 1915-2000

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History of the mafia by Lupo, Salvatore, 1951-

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Unnatural narratives--unnatural narratology

Table of Contents: “…Unnatural Narrators and Minds / Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus) -- Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration / Stefan Iversen (Aarhus) -- "In flaming flames": crises of Experientiality in Non-Fictional Narratives / Caroline Pirlet (Freiburg) -- Toward a Hybrid Approach to the Unnatural: "Reading for the Consciousness" and the psychodynamics of Experientiality in Caryl Churchill's Heart's Desire -- 3. Unnatural Time and Causality / Marina Grishakova (Tartu) -- Narrative Causality Denaturalized / Martin Hermann (Freiburg) -- Hollywood Goes Computer Game: Narrative Remediation in the Time-Loop Quests Groundhog Day and 12:01 / Per Krogh Hansen (Kolding) -- Backmasked Messages: On the Fabula Construction in Episodically Reversed Narratives -- 4. …”
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Elizabeth Gaskell and the art of the short story

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the boundaries in Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction / Alan Shelston -- Chains of our own forging : Gaskell and a search for freedom / Ian Campbell -- Tracing the linguistic fingerprints of the unitarian ethos : a corpus-based study of Elizabeth Gskell's short stories / Massimo Verzella -- Elizabeth Gaskell and the crime short story / Mariaconcetta Costantini -- Elizabeth Gaskell's Disappearances : narratives of absence between mystery and empirical detection / Renzo D'Agnillo -- In and out of the Victorian house : the representation of domestic spaces in Gaskell's The grey woman / Anna Enrichetta Soccio -- The cat on her knee : Gaskell's leave-taking / Benedetta Bini -- Interpreting otherness : Elizabeth Gaskell and The crooked branch / Marilena Saracino -- Narrating nineteenth-century dress codes : Elizabeth Gaskell and the desire for a turban / Francesco Marroni -- Illustrating Cranford : George du Maurier and Hugh Thomson / Valentina Polcini -- Filming Gaskell's shorter fiction / Raffaella Antinucci -- Ruth-sick for home : the Keatsian imagination in the novel of Elizabeth Gaskell / Allan C. …”
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