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Series
Cultural studies volume Volume 12, Number 2
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese José Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and the South African J.M. Coetzee. In the first section, the author discusses the political aspects of Couto's collection of short stories Contos do nascer da terra (Stories of the Birth of...
Series
Jewish cultural studies volume Volume 1
Publisher
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his...