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Product Description: Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England...read more

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9780190272555 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 4, 2016, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England.

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Product Description: One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality offers a wide array of narratives that complicate the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism and the related discourses of «hybridity»...read more
By Nirmala Menon (editor) and Marika Preziuso (editor)

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9781433118128 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 31, 2014, cover price $82.95 | About this edition: One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism?

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Product Description: In Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media, Mahriana Rofheart proposes a revised understanding of Senegalese migration narratives by asserting the importance of both local and global connections in recent novels, hip-hop songs, and documentary videos...read more

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9780739175125, titled "Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media: Don't Abandon Our Boat" | Lexington Books, December 19, 2013, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: In Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media, Mahriana Rofheart proposes a revised understanding of Senegalese migration narratives by asserting the importance of both local and global connections in recent novels, hip-hop songs, and documentary videos.

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Product Description: In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence...read more

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9781137399816 | Palgrave Pivot, December 3, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence.

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Product Description: Traversing a variety of places - real and imagined, past and present, new and as old as time - Children's Literature on the Move traces how children's books have helped both to create national identity and to resist it, empowering readers young and old with the ability to make meaning from physical, political, and emotional upheaval...read more
By Beth Rodgers (editor)

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9781846824128 | Four Courts Pr Ltd, November 29, 2013, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Traversing a variety of places - real and imagined, past and present, new and as old as time - Children's Literature on the Move traces how children's books have helped both to create national identity and to resist it, empowering readers young and old with the ability to make meaning from physical, political, and emotional upheaval.

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Product Description: Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of film in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Featuring specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe, and the United States, this companion to the cinema of Central Asia combines serious scholarly study with practical accessibility to construct an historical narrative, to discuss aspects of film production, and to consider the impact of film...read more
By Birgit Beumers (editor)

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9781845119003 | Tauris Academic Studies, November 26, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of film in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day.

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9781845119010 | Tauris Academic Studies, November 26, 2013, cover price $29.50

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Product Description: Nowhere has Western public distrust towards Islam been as strong as in the Netherlands. This book provides a thorough discussion of Dutch multicultural society seen through the lens of literature. The literary work of four important contemporary writers - Kader Abdolah, Robert Anker, Abdelkader Benali and Hafid Bouazza - is analysed alongside the public debate about the encounter between Islam and the West...read more

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9783631624906 | Bilingual edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 5, 2013), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Nowhere has Western public distrust towards Islam been as strong as in the Netherlands.

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Product Description: Immigration has become a contentious issue in Europe in recent decades, with immigrants being accused of resisting integration and threatening the secular fabric of nationhood. The most extreme form of this unease has invented and demonized an Islamic ‘other’ within Europe...read more

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9783034308595 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 28, 2012, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Immigration has become a contentious issue in Europe in recent decades, with immigrants being accused of resisting integration and threatening the secular fabric of nationhood.

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The Octopus: A Story of California is a novel written by author Frank Norris. The Octopus is about wheat growers who are in conflict with a railroad company during late 19th century California. The railroad company, controlling the local newspaper, state legislature and the land prove to be a tough force for the local wheat growers to fight against. The Octopus is highly recommended for those who are interested in novels taking place in early California and also those who enjoy the writings of author Frank Norris.

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9781404322943 | Indypublish.Com, September 1, 2002, cover price $22.99
9780899680705, titled "Octopus" | Lightyear Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The Octopus: A Story of California is a novel written by author Frank Norris.

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9781605979878 | Book Jungle, July 30, 2008, cover price $21.95
9781605976877 | Standard Pubns Inc, May 30, 2008, cover price $21.95
9781434603838 | Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007, cover price $38.75
9781434604569 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007), cover price $43.75 | About this edition: There had not been much of a crop to haul that year.
9781419175862 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $40.95
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Product Description: "Whom do our people read? Vynnychenko. Whom do people talk about if it concerns literature? Vynnychenko. Whom do they buy? Again, Vynnychenko." So wrote Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky about the young Volodymyr Vynnychenko. An innovative and provocative writer, Vynnychenko was also a charismatic revolutionary and politician who responded to the dramatic upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century by challenging old values and bringing forward new ideas about human relationships...read more

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9780773540378 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 16, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: "Whom do our people read?

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Product Description: Violencia, género y migración en el Caribe hispano: Reescribiendo la nación examina la representación de la violencia y la nación en la obra de escritoras y artistas contemporáneas del Caribe hispano y su diáspora en los Estados Unidos...read more

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9781433115462, titled "Violencia, genero y migracion en el Caribe hispano: Reescribiendo la naci¢n" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 1, 2011, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Violencia, género y migración en el Caribe hispano: Reescribiendo la nación examina la representación de la violencia y la nación en la obra de escritoras y artistas contemporáneas del Caribe hispano y su diáspora en los Estados Unidos.

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Product Description: In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives...read more

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9780802099198 | Univ of Toronto Pr, February 21, 2009, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically.

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9781442612198 | Reprint edition (Univ of Toronto Pr, October 23, 2010), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically.

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Product Description: Ireland, north and south of the border, has witnessed volatile patterns of immigration in the past decade, and stage representations of these fluctuations have begun to emerge. In the Republic, immigration has coincided with, and it has been encouraged by the economic boom known as Celtic Tiger...read more

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9781443823821 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, October 1, 2010, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Ireland, north and south of the border, has witnessed volatile patterns of immigration in the past decade, and stage representations of these fluctuations have begun to emerge.

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Product Description: This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations...read more

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9780230620650 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2010), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.

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Product Description: The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants «willingly» arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals...read more

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9781433106019 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 28, 2010, cover price $80.95 | About this edition: The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants «willingly» arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals.

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Product Description: The literature of Caribbean writers living in the United States embodies a duality, an awareness of multiple sites of identity as well as conflict of place and space. Easily grouped with African Americans, Caribbean peoples and other immigrants from the African Diaspora make up the quasi-political face of Black America...read more

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9781433104626 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 2009, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: The literature of Caribbean writers living in the United States embodies a duality, an awareness of multiple sites of identity as well as conflict of place and space.

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Product Description: The essays collected in this volume explore a wide range of aesthetic, philosophical and generic applications of the concepts of belonging and exclusion in the context of migration. Organised in two sections, 'Performing belonging' and 'Narrating otherness', this original study represents a timely interdisciplinary approach to a topic of great contemporary and future interest...read more
By Anne-rose Meyer (editor)

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9781443810005 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, July 1, 2009, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: The essays collected in this volume explore a wide range of aesthetic, philosophical and generic applications of the concepts of belonging and exclusion in the context of migration.

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Nineteenth-century California wheat farmers wage a fierce battle against the rapid expansion into their fertile lands of the nation's railroads

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9780140390407, titled "The Octopus" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA), cover price $9.95 | also contains The Octopus | About this edition: Nineteenth-century California wheat farmers wage a fierce battle against the rapid expansion into their fertile lands of the nation's railroads

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Product Description: Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists.

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9780230608283, titled "Migration and Literature: Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad" | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2008), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists.
9780133702637, titled "A Guide to Marketing New Industrial and Consumer Products" | Prentice Hall, April 1, 1985, cover price $65.00 | also contains A Guide to Marketing New Industrial and Consumer Products

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