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On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies.

Founded in 1909 as a ""garden suburb"" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Combining historical approach and cultural analysis, this work explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of the city.

This study of the relationship between Muslim culture and Western modernity, portrays a society bound to its own glorified history - yet facing an external reality from the West. The meeting of these two worlds leads to a profound distortion, especially in how the Muslim world sees itself.

This work places Sarah Mix (1832-1884) in the context of American religious history, and shows her influence on the emerging faith healing movement and other female healing evangelists, including Carrie Judd Montgomery and Maria Woodworth-Etter.

Descendants of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators offer insights into the intergenerational impact of their legacy and the second generation's role in shaping memory of the Shoah. In these personal, and often dramatic pieces, differences surface, but common ground is also revealed.

Illuminating the Jewish art exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1901, this study looks at its contributions to art and Jewish history and culture. Cultural Zionism was for the first time included into the official agenda, an important step for the politics of Zionism.

Examines the lives of five women writers, all upper-class British women, who rebelled against the conventions of their own societies and lived, travelled and explored the Middle East.

'Bridget' was the Irish immigrant service girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliche: the young girl who wreaks havoc in middle-class American homes. This book tells the story of such Irish domestic servants.

In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and O'Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of cultural memory in Joyce's Ireland, both real and imagined. The collection includes leading Joyce scholars including Luke Gibbons, Vincent Cheng, and Declan Kiberd and considers such topics as Jewish memory in Ulysses, history and memory in Finnegans Wake, and Joyce and the Bible.

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarised and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature. Drawing on extensive research the author explores to what effect such idealised depictions have been projected onto the international arena.

This collection brings together essays by authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab women novelists from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine. The works focus on texts available in English translations and explore topics such as the relationship of the authors' texts to societal change.

In Reading Arabia, Long explores the change in the tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines the role of mass print culture, including travel literature, newspapers, and silent films, in the construction of the British public's perception of "Arabia".

Considered an important figure in medieval French literature, Chretien de Troyes is credited with inventing the modern novel. This work demonstrates that Chretien learned the importance of translation from the Mediterranean-centered classical tradition. It examines how Irish monastic scholarship influenced the cultural identity of medieval Europe.

This text traces the influence on Dante of Provencal poets, medieval theology, Dante's personal life and the sources of his classical education to propose a radical reading of Dante. It compounds the riddles of dream, poetry,philosophy and Dante's concealed autobiography in his work.

In this work, Len Oakes - a former member of a religious movement, or so-called ""cult"" - explores the phenomenon of cult leaders. He examines the psychology of charisma and proposes his own theory of the five-stage life cycle of the two types of prophets: the messianic and charismatic.

In the dawn of the new African Millennium, the Rastafari movement has achieved unheralded growth. Moving beyond a pure spiritual movement, its aesthetic component has influenced cultures of the Caribbean, the US, and others across the globe. Locating the movement at a literal and figurative crossroad, Barnett sets out to consider the possible paths the movement will chart. He covers a range of perspectives, focusing not only on the movement's nuanced and complex religious ideology but also on its political philosophy, cosmology, and unique epistemology.

A fascinating look at the rise and fall of L.R. Steel's five and dime stores, a chain of 255 stores across America and Canada in the early 1920s, and the financial decisions which led to the fall and how this scandal related to and ultimately eclipses in scope the original Ponzi scheme.

More than a quarter century after its publication in English, Umberto Eco's ""The Name of the Rose"" remains a popular novel among medievalists and non-medievalists alike. This collection of essays approaches the novel as a primary text in medieval studies courses and seeks to provide ways of integrating it into such courses effectively.

The first anthology of its kind in the West, Contemporary Iraqi Fiction gathers work from sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic into English. Shedding a bright light on the rich diversity Iraqi experience, Shakir Mustafa has included selections by Iraqi women, Iraqi Jews now living in Israel, and Christians and Muslims living both in Iraq and abroad.While each voice is distinct, they are united in writing about a homeland that has suffered under repression, censorship, war, and occupation. Many of the selections mirror these grim realities, forcing the writers to open up new narrative terrains and experiment with traditional forms. Muhammad Khodayyir's surrealist portraits of his home city, Basra, in an excerpt from Basriyyatha and the magical realism of Mayselun Hadi's "e;Calendars"e; both offer powerful expressions of the absurdity of everyday life. Themes range from childhood and family to war, political oppression, and interfaith relationships. Mustafa provides biographical sketches for the writers and an enlightening introduction, chronicling the evolution of Iraqi literature.

This work shows the behind-the-scenes writers of the best and the worst American television shows. Writers instanced include Paddy Chafesky and Steven Bochco, recounting their experiences of working and fighting with network producers, censors and stars. The books uses interviews and ancedotes.

"Vanguard of a New Modernity" draws feminist scholarly and political attention towards the women activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a major movement of Islamic renewal and reform in South Asia.

"The Dybbuk" is arguably the most famous play in the Yiddish repertoire and plays an intrinsic part in the cultural system that created the Yiddish imagination. Along with this new translation, this text offers a variety of literary works spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries.

In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture, few writers and producers inspire more admiration than Joss Whedon. This collection of articles represents some of the best work covering a wide array of topics that clarify Whedon's importance, including considerations of narrative and visual techniques, myth construction, symbolism, gender, heroism, and the business side of television.

Sylvia Porter (1913-1991) was the US's first personal finance columnist and one of the most admired women of the twentieth century. Lucht traces Porter's professional trajectory, identifying her career strategies and exploring the role of gender in her creation of a once-unique, now-ubiquitous form of journalism.

This monumental work answers the grand question of where American Jewish liberalism comes from and ultimately questions whether the communal motivations behind such behaviour are strong enough to withstand twenty-first-century America.

Using the contested theory of "democratic peace" as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements.

Focusing on Irish-made films from 1960 to the 1990s, Scarlata considers the many ways in which filmmakers present the country as "occupied". Exploring Ireland's past in relation to its present, these films become a mode of postcolonial historiography, and, Scarlata argues, they are an important component in the re-evaluation of what constitutes political cinema and political resistance.