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American ethnic writers
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ISBN: 9781587654626 9781587654633 9781587654640 9781587654657 1587654628 1587654636 1587654644 1587654652 1281770485 9786611770488 1587654660 9781587654664 Year: 2009 Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press,


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Transnational Canadas : Anglo-Canadian literature and globalization
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ISBN: 9781554580637 9781554581658 1554581656 1554580633 1554586682 1282534289 9786612534287 Year: 2009 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students. Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today’s economic climate, Transnational Canadas explores the legacy of leftist nationalism in Canadian literature. It examines the interventions of multicultural writing in the 1980s and 1990s, investigating the cultural politics of the period and how they increasingly became part of Canada’s state structure. Under globalization, the book concludes, we need to understand new forms of subjectivity and mobility as sites for cultural politics and look beyond received notions of belonging and being. An original contribution to the study of Canadian literature, Transnational Canadas seeks to invigorate discussion by challenging students and researchers to understand the national and the global simultaneously, to look at the politics of identity beyond the rubric of multiculturalism, and to rethink the slippery notion of the political for the contemporary era.


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Race and antiracism in black British and British Asian literature
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ISBN: 1781388180 1846316251 9781781388181 9781846314827 1846314828 Year: 2010 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on a selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian writers. The study argues that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism: the politics of opposing discrimination that manifest at the level of state legislation, within local and national activism, and inside the scholarly exploration of race. It is antiracism that now most strongly conditions the emergence of racial categorisations but also of racial identities and models of behaviour. This sense of how antiracism may determine the form and content of both political debate and individual identity is traced through an examination of ten novels by black British and British Asian writers. These authors range from the well known to the critically neglected: works by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Fred D’Aguiar, Ferdinand Dennis, Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Caryl Phillips, Mike Phillips, Zadie Smith, and Meera Syal are carefully read to explore the impacts of antiracism. These literary studies are grouped into three main themes, each of which is central to the direction of racial political identities over the last two decades in Britain: the use of the continent of Africa as a symbolic focus for black political culture; the changing forms of Muslim culture in Britain; and the emergence of a multiculturalist ethos based around the notion of ethnic communities.


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Borrowed Tongues : Life Writing, Migration, and Translation
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ISBN: 9781554583577 1554583578 9781554583997 1554583993 9786613863102 6613863106 1283550652 9781283550659 1554584000 Year: 2012 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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Focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. This title examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative.

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Translating and interpreting --- Canadese letterkunde (Engels) --- Vrouwelijke auteurs --- Self-translation --- Migratie --- Minderheden in de literatuur --- Bilingualism --- Autobiography --- Women immigrants --- Identity (Psychology) --- Canadian prose literature (English) --- Prose canadienne-anglaise --- Prose américaine --- Immigrantes --- Écrits de femmes autobiographiques --- Traduction --- Social aspects. --- Canada --- geschiedenis en kritiek --- Verengide Staten --- Psychological aspects. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- Minority authors --- Auteurs issus de minorités --- Histoire et critique. --- Auteurs issus des minorités --- Biographies --- Philosophie. --- Canadese letterkunde (Engels). --- Vrouwelijke auteurs. --- Self-translation. --- Minderheden in de literatuur. --- Identity (Psychology). --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- American prose literature --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- American literature --- Canadian prose literature --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature --- Bilinguisme --- Autobiographie --- Écrits d'immigrés canadiens --- Écrits d'immigrés --- Identité (psychologie) --- Littérature canadienne de langue anglaise --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique --- Femmes écrivains --- États-Unis --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Philosophie


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Cultural grammars of nation, diaspora, and indigeneity in Canada
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ISBN: 9781554583362 9781554584178 1554584175 1554583365 9781554584185 1554584183 129931323X 9781299313231 Year: 2012 Publisher: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new “cultural grammar” is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways it operates. The essays reference pivotal moments in Canadian literary and cultural history and speak to ongoing debates about Canadian nationalism, postcolonalism, migrancy, and transnationalism. Topics covered include the Asian race riots in Vancouver in 1907, the cultural memory of internment and dispersal of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s, the politics of migrant labour and the “domestic labour scheme” in the 1960s, and the trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver in 2007. The contributors are particularly interested in how diaspora and indigeneity continue to contribute to this critical reconfiguration and in how conversations about diaspora and indigeneity in the Canadian context have themselves been transformed. Cultural Grammars is an attempt to address both the interconnections and the schisms between these multiply fractured critical terms as well as the larger conceptual shifts that have occurred in response to national and postnational arguments.


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Presumed incompetent : the intersections of race and class for women in academia
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ISBN: 9786613935229 0874218705 1283622777 9780874218701 9780874218695 0874218691 9780874219227 0874219221 6613935220 9781283622776 Year: 2012 Publisher: Boulder, CO : University Press of Colorado,

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Presumed Incompetentis a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.


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Building Fires in the Snow : A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry
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ISBN: 1602233020 9781602233027 9781602233010 1602233012 Year: 2016 Publisher: Fairbanks (Alaska) : University of Alaska Press,

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"Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures of a family--shopping, going out, working--to intimate encounters with Alaska's breathtaking natural beauty. At a time of great change and major strides in LGBTQ civil rights, Building Fires in the Snow shows us an Alaska that shatters stereotypes and reveals a side of Alaska that's been little seen until now"--

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Sexual minorities' writings, American. --- Sexual minorities --- American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- American sexual minorities' writings --- Gender minorities --- GLBT people --- GLBTQ people --- Lesbigay people --- LBG people --- LGBT people --- LGBTQ people --- Non-heterosexual people --- Non-heterosexuals --- Sexual dissidents --- Minorities --- Alaska --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-kâ --- AK --- Alaasika --- ʻĀlaka --- Alasca --- Alasijia --- Alasijia Zhou --- Alaska Eyâleti --- Alaska osariik --- Alasḳah --- Alasko --- Alaszka --- Ali︠a︡sk --- Ali︠a︡ska --- Aljaška --- Allaesŭkʻa --- Allaesŭkʻa-ju --- Allaesŭkʻaju --- Alyaska --- Alyaska Shitati --- Arasuka --- Arasuka-shū --- Arasukashū --- Civitas Alascae --- Estado de Alaska --- Estado ng Alaska --- Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo --- Medinat Alasḳah --- Politeia tēs Alaska --- Russian America --- Russkai︠a︡ Amerika --- Shtat Ali︠a︡ska --- State of Alaska --- Statul Alaska --- Territory of Alaska --- Πολιτεία της Αλάσκα --- Αλάσκα --- Аљаска --- Аляск --- Аляска --- Алјаска --- Русская Америка --- Штат Аляска --- אלאסקע --- אלסקה --- מדינת אלסקה --- アラスカ --- アラスカ州 --- 阿拉斯加 --- 阿拉斯加州 --- 알래스카 --- 알래스카 주 --- 알래스카주 --- Literature (LGBTQ). --- Queer literature. --- Alaska Territory --- Minorites sexuelles --- Litterature americaine --- Écrits de lesbiennes americaines --- Écrits d'homosexuels americains --- Dans la litterature --- Anthologies. --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorites --- Lesbiennes, gays, bi et trans --- LGBT --- Non hétérosexuels --- Sexualités marginales --- Coming out --- Gay Pride --- Hétérosexualité --- Identité sexuelle --- Minorités sexuelles et éducation --- Orientation sexuelle --- Quartiers gays et lesbiens --- Sexualité --- Adolescents appartenant à des minorités sexuelles --- Bisexuels --- Homosexuels --- Parents appartenant à des minorités sexuelles --- Transgenres --- Minorités


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Minorités religieuses, religions minoritaires dans l’espace public
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ISBN: 9782868205667 2868205666 9791034404438 Year: 2019 Publisher: Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg,

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La pluralité des religions est une réalité des sociétés européennes : leur paysage religieux est désormais composé de groupes divers, souvent minoritaires. Cependant, la place que ces groupes peuvent prendre dans l'espace public est encore objet de débat. On a vu ainsi récemment divers pays européens s'interroger sur la construction de minarets, le port de signes religieux, les cours de religion ou encore la circoncision, montrant l'importance des questions sociales posées par les religions minoritaires. Et de fait, de plus en plus de minorités religieuses s'engagent dans des stratégies d'affirmation et de visibilisation dans l'espace public. Les différentes contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage offrent une approche plurielle de la présence des minorités religieuses dans l'espace public. Elles abordent ainsi le statut juridique de leurs organisations – aussi bien la reconnaissance officielle que peuvent offrir les instances étatiques que les modalités d'organisation en association dans le cadre du droit commun. Elles analysent également la constitution des frontières de la minorité, les relations causales entre les diverses dimensions du fait minoritaire, et la façon dont les États organisent la visibilité des groupes religieux minoritaires. L'éclairage apporté aux enjeux de la visibilité, ou de l'invisibilité, des minorités religieuses, est essentiel au débat sur leur légitimité sociale et leur reconnaissance légale.

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Freedom of religion --- Religious minorities --- Liberté religieuse --- Minorités religieuses --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Droit --- Religion et État --- Statut juridique --- Politique publique --- Aspect politique --- Europe --- Religion --- Liberté religieuse --- Minorités religieuses --- Minorités religieuses. --- Sociologie religieuse --- Religiöse Minderheit. --- Sichtbarkeit. --- Öffentlicher Raum. --- Minorités religieuses. --- Religion. --- Participation sociale. --- Histoire --- Droit. --- Aspect politique. --- Statut juridique. --- Öffentlicher Raum. --- sociologie --- religion --- droit --- relation religion / État --- le turban --- réformisme sikh --- identités diasporiques en Grande-Bretagne --- logique d'exclusion en France --- les Sikhs de France --- visibilité des protestants en France --- la Fédération protestante de France --- Eglises évangéliques --- la FPF --- les étudiants sénégalais thiantacounes en France --- la Mouridyya --- Cheikh Bethio Thioune --- ethnic business --- helâl business --- l'entrepreneuriat étranger en France --- Turcs --- Chinois --- Indiens --- Bakou --- les métropoles centrasiatiques --- minorités religieuses dans l'espace public --- la reconnaissance des minorités --- institutionnalisation --- minorités religieuses et pluralisme religieux --- la délégitimation des minorités religieuses --- la représentativité des minorités religieuses --- validation des demandes sociales --- identité de la minorité religieuse --- l'ordre social --- l'ordre public --- valeurs sociales --- la protection des minorités religieuses --- la protection de la personne appartenant à une religion --- infractions figurant dans la loi sur la liberté de la presse --- les infractions figurant dans le Code pénal --- la protection de l'exercice de la religion --- protection de la croyance --- affirmation des minorités religieuses --- la revendication individuelle de droits garantis collectivement --- revendications collectives d'une liberté individuelle --- la protection des droits reconnus aux structures collectives du culte --- la protection des intérêts fiscaux et patrimoniaux --- la reconnaissance du statut d'association cultuelle --- protection de l'honneur et de la dignité de la foi --- cultes d'Orient et Occident --- les droits de l'être humain --- groupements religieux --- la discrimination des femmes dans l'accès aux fonctions cultuelles --- inapplication du principe de non-discrimination sexuelle aux fonctions cultuelles sur le fondement de la liberté de religion --- l'égalité des sexes dans le domaine religieux --- Eglises d'Etat --- les Témoins de Jéhovah --- secte --- sectarisme en France --- définition psychologique du sectarisme --- la physionomie changeante du sectarisme --- la lutte contre les sectes --- l'islam minoritaire --- l'autorité islamique en France --- la structuration de l'imamat en France --- le culte musulman --- Islam en France --- laïcité à la française --- la déprivation de l'islam --- normes et rituels alimentaires --- alimentation halal --- déni d'islam --- les Africains musulmans à Paris --- les West African Muslims à New York --- ethnologie africaniste --- humanisme colonial --- les Maghrébins --- les Etats-Unis --- symbolisme ethnoreligieux --- les sikhs --- Grande-Bretagne


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Callaloo : a journal of African diaspora arts and letters.
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ISSN: 01612492 10806512 Year: 1977 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins press


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Translating pain : immigrant suffering in literature and culture
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ISBN: 080209919X 1442612193 9780802099198 9781442612198 1442689498 9781442689497 144269324X Year: 2009 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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