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  • Shakespeare in Malawi

    Power and Performance

    by Amy Bonsall ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book critically examines the forces and events that led to Shakespeare performance becoming an important part of the contemporary Malawian cultural and educational landscape. It brings together archive material, interviews, existing literature and practice as research to understand, examine and interrogate theories of ‘intercultural theatre’ and post-colonial theories, to highlight the unique ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Talking Bodies Vol. II

    Bodily Languages, Selfhood and Transgression

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume brings together scholars from across disciplines and continents in order to continue to analyse, query, and deconstruct the complexities of bodily existence in the modern world. Comprising nine essays by leading and emerging scholars, and spanning issues ranging from literature, history, sociology, medicine, law and justice and beyond, Talking Bodies vol. II is a timely and prescient ... Read more

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    The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

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    In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life what it is, and what makes it possible David Malouf returns to the "highest wisdom" of the classics, looks at ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 60 Political Amnesia

    How We Forgot How To Govern

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    Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world?In this crisp, profound and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of the once-great Australian public service, from the jingoism of the past to the tabloid scandals of ... Read more

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  • Morrison’s Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

    How a beginner reshaped Australian foreign policy

    by Paul Kelly ...
    When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges: an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by making highly contentious changes that will be felt for decades, not least the historic decision to ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

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  • #StayWoke: Go Broke - Why South Africa Won’t Survive America’s Culture Wars (and What You Can Do About it)

    by Helen Zille ...
    It's time to fight back.Each day, more South Africans are targeted, labelled, and hounded out of society for expressing their opinions – ordinary opinions that just a few years ago were accepted as rational common sense.Have you been "cancelled" by an online mob that won't stop harassing you until you're fired from your job?Helen Zille almost was – but she survived by fighting back.In #StayWoke: ... Read more

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  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

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  • Contemporary African Art

    Series series World of Art
    A revised edition of this seminal title, surveying the diverse, ever-evolving field of contemporary African art from the 1950s to today, illustrated in color throughout.Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude ... Read more

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  • A House Divided

    Battle for the Mother City

    It's 2018 and Cape Town is wracked by its worst drought on record. The prospect of 'Day Zero' – when the taps will run dry – is driving citizens into a frenzy.Then the ruling Democratic Alliance removes control of the water issue from Mayor Patricia de Lille. While politicians turn on each other, revealing deep-lying faultlines and new enmities, it raises a critical question: who will lead the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

    Edited by Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through to the present day. Each relates Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns and adopts ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance

    Edited by James C. Bulman ...
    The Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespeare specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. Shakespearean performance criticism has firmly established itself as a ... Read more

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