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The Global Histories of Books : Methods and Practices / / edited by Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers
| The Global Histories of Books : Methods and Practices / / edited by Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 334 p. 13 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 002 |
| Collana | New Directions in Book History |
| Soggetto topico |
Books—History
Literature Civilization—History History of the Book Postcolonial/World Literature Cultural History |
| ISBN | 3-319-51334-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction -- SECTION ONE: COLONIAL NETWORKS -- Chapter 2. London’s Geographic Knowledge Network and the Anson Account (1748) - Katherine Parker -- Chapter 3. The Other Empire: Australian Books and American Publishers in the late nineteenth century- David Carter -- Chapter 4. Reading by Chance in a World of Wandering Texts - Alexander Bubb -- SECTION TWO: GLOBAL GENRES -- Chapter 5. ‘Read! Learn!’: Globalisation and (G)localisation in Caribbean Textbook Publishing - Gail Low -- Chapter 6. Governing by the Book: Mediterranean Travel and Sanitary Prophylaxis in the Nineteenth-Century - Riccardo Liberatore -- Chapter 7. The Circle of Knowledge: Radical Commensurability and the Deaf Textbook - Hansun Hsiung -- SECTION THREE: READING RELATIONSHIPS -- Chapter 8. ‘Bringing Spring to Sahbai’s Rose-Garden’: Persian Printing in North India after 1857 - Zahra Shah -- Chapter 9. Reading The Discovery of India in the Library of an Australian Prime Minister - Sybil Nolan -- SECTION FOUR: CULTURAL TRANSLATION -- Chapter 10. Bustānī’s Iliad and Imperialism in the Middle East - Evelyn Richardson -- Chapter 11. ‘The Narcissism of Small Differences’: Plagiarism in South African Letters - Kate Highman -- Chapter 12. The Fear of Solitude: How Marketing Makes Real Magic - Ben Holgate -- Afterword - Elleke Boehmer -- . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255068503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nelson Mandela: The Black Pimpernel
| Nelson Mandela: The Black Pimpernel |
| Autore | Boehmer Elleke |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Zed Books Limited, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1-78360-196-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Nelson Mandela |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494735403321 |
Boehmer Elleke
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| [Place of publication not identified], : Zed Books Limited, 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Planned Violence : Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture / / edited by Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies
| Planned Violence : Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture / / edited by Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.900912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Sociology, Urban Postcolonial/World Literature Contemporary Literature Urban Studies/Sociology |
| ISBN | 3-319-91388-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies Section I Planned/Unplanned Cities -- 2 White Cities, Black Streets: Planned Violence and Native Maps in Richard Wright’s Chicago and Modikwe Dikobe’s Johannesburg Loren Kruger -- 3 Grey Space, Tahrir Laser: Conspiracy, Critique and the Urban in Julie Mehretu’s Depictions of Revolutionary Cairo Nicholas Simcik Arese -- 4 Thames Valley Royal (or, Maxwell in Oxford): The Story of a Football Club and the History of a City William Ghosh -- 5 Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny Ankhi Mukherjee -- 6 The Not-so-Quiet Violence of Bricks and Mortar Zen Marie -- 7 Intervention I. What You Find in the River: Isolarion Ten Years On James Attlee Section II Forensic Infrastructures -- 8 The Intimacy of Infrastructure: Vulnerability and Abjection in Palestinian Jerusalem Hanna Baumann -- 9 Sound Systems and Other Systems: The Policing of Urban Aesthetic Spaces in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson Louisa Olufsen Layne 10 ‘Throwing Petrol on the Fire’: Writing in the Shadow of the Belfast Urban Motorway Stephen O’Neill -- 11 Writing the City and Indian English Fiction: Planning, Violence, and Aesthetics Alex Tickell 12 Blue Johannesburg Pamila Gupta -- 13 Intervention II. Take Me There Selma Dabbagh Section III Structural Violence, Narrative Structure -- 14 ‘A Shadow Class Condemned to Movement’: Literary Urban Imaginings of Illegal Migrant Lives in the Global North Ruvani Ranasinha 15 ‘A Dagger, a Revolver, a Bottle of Chloroform’: Colonial Spy Fiction, Revolutionary Reminiscences and Indian Nationalist Terrorism in Europe Ole Birk Laursen -- 16 Detecting World-Literature: (Sub-)Urban Crimes in the Nineteenth Century Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee -- 17 Weird Collocations: Language as Infrastructure in the Storyworlds of China Miéville Terence Cave -- 18 Aquacity Versus Austerity: The Politics and Poetics ofIrish Water Michael Rubenstein -- 19 Intervention III. Control Courttia Newland -- 20 Afterword Sarah Nuttall Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300011003321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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