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  • The Child in World Cinema

    by Michael Brodski, Juanita But, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Lennon Yao-chung Chang, Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Jessica Davidson, Paromita Deb, Yoad Eliaz, Einat Baram Eshel, Swarnavel Eswaran, Negin Golravesh Fekry, Walaa Ghanayim, Omri Grinberg, Caroline Isabel Grose, Seyyed Mohsen Habibi, Kelly Hansen, Belinda He, Kobe Chan Yan Chuen, Caroline Larde, Sin Wen Lau, Fabiana de Amorim Marcello, Kenta McGrath, Kaori Mori Want, Mina Rezaei, Carolina Rocha, Christine Singer, Adelaide Rezende de Souza, Paula Uglione, Onoriu Colacel, Christa Jones ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Cultural Representations of the Second Wife

    Literature, Stage, and Screen

    by Jo Parnell, Jane Bellemore, Azza Harras, Andrew Howes, Christa Catherine Jones, Kathryn Keeble, Shalini Nadaswaran, Harry Olufunwa ...
    Cultural Representation of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen, is a multifaceted, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural work that provides insights into the realities of second wives the world over. This book allows the reader a three-dimensional view of the second wife experience. It asks: What does it mean, and what does it feel like, to be a second wife in a polygamous union or in a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales

    by Christa Jones, Claudia Schwabe ...
    New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales provides invaluable hands-on materials and pedagogical tools from an international group of scholars who share their experiences in teaching folk- and fairy-tale texts and films in a wide range of academic settings.This interdisciplinary collection introduces scholarly perspectives on how to teach fairy tales in a variety of courses and academic ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom

    by Sara Austin, Tanja Nathanael, Debalina Banerjee, Danilo M. Baylen, Johann Frederick A. Cabbab, Hung-Shu Chen, Deanna Day, Stephen Dudas, Erika Haber0, Christa Catherine Jones1, Emily Murphy2, Mary Napoli3, Audrey Isabel Taylor4, Maria Truglio5, Sara Van den Bossche6, Jean Webb7, Yasemin Yilmaz Yüksek8 ...
    Global Children's Literature in the College Classroom explores the importance of children's literature as a pedagogical resource in any college course. It can be used to introduce a complex topic, give students a glimpse into a specific culture, or expand the way students think about education and teaching. Global children's literature is particularly useful in language classrooms, education ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales

    Edited by Claudia Schwabe, Christa Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures. It offers an expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, literary studies, and cultural studies.The first part considers global formations of the canon and acts to decolonize the field of fairy-tale studies, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Djeha, the North African Trickster

    Edited by Christa C. Jones ...
    Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that delights in immoral behavior. Orientalists Auguste Mouliéras (1855-1931) and René Basset (1855-1924) were among the first Frenchmen to collect and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Beneath the Poet's House

    A Thriller

    by Christa Carmen ...
    Narrated by Linda Jones ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    For a grieving writer, the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense from the author of The Daughters of Block Island.Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Daughters of Block Island, The

    A Novel

    by Christa Carmen ...
    Narrated by Linda Jones ...

    Unabridged

    In this ingenious and subversive twist on the classic gothic novel, the mysterious past of an island mansion lures two sisters into a spiderweb of scandal, secrets, and murder.Two sisters, strangers since birth yet bound by family secrets, are caught up in a century-old mystery on an isolated island.After arriving on Block Island to find her birth mother, Blake Bronson becomes convinced she’s the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Different Cultures, Different Harems

    by Fatema Mernissi ...
    Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt....So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons ... Read more

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  • An Imam in Paris

    Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

    by Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi ...
    Translated by Daniel L. Newman ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    In the 1820s, Rifa`a Rafi` al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European thought, introducing ... Read more

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  • Stigmata

    Escaping Texts

    by Hélène Cixous ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a surprising extent. With the inclusion of Stigmata, one of her greatest works into the Routledge Classics series, this is about to change. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Amazigh Arts in Morocco

    Women Shaping Berber Identity

    by Cynthia Becker ...
    In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewelry. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich in cultural symbolism; they are always breathtakingly beautiful—and they are typically made by women. Like other Amazigh (Berber) groups (but in contrast ... Read more

    $23.99 USD