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1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China (2016)
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Tan, T. Y. (2016). T. Y. Tan, P. Edmondson, & S.-P. Wang (Eds.). 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472587206

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting pla... Read More about 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China.

Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (2015)
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Kotef, H. (2015). Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375753

We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Orderi... Read More about Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility.

Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures (2014)
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Harrison, R. (Ed.). (2014). Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. Rowman and Littlefield

Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentre... Read More about Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures.

The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution (2014)
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El-Desouky, A. (2014). The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392442

The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra – the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency – to explore the relationship between the Egyptian intellectual and 'the people' in contemporary Eg... Read More about The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution.

Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques (2013)
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Rettová, A. (2013). Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques. Zdeněk Susa

Sando Marteau is a musician, who lives and works in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the rare Congolese poets using the Swahili language to express his art. Full of melancholy, his songs evoke the suffering and difficulties of t... Read More about Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques.

Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion - Equality, Identity Politics and Democracy in Nepal (1990-2007) (2013)
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Malagodi, M. (2013). Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion - Equality, Identity Politics and Democracy in Nepal (1990-2007). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198082910.001.0001

Since Nepal was created as a nation, its constitutional history has been inextricably linked to the tortuous process of democratization and the efforts to create a more equitable and inclusive polity. A specific segment of Nepal's constitutional traj... Read More about Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion - Equality, Identity Politics and Democracy in Nepal (1990-2007).

Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (2012)
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Chang, B.-Y., Klöter, H., Liao, H.-H. S., Morris, A., Birtwistle, A., Liu, J. C.-H., & Lee, A. (2012). B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.). Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics. Harrassowitz

Since the 1990s the issue of identity has been one of the most prominent and hotly-debated topics in Taiwan Studies. A rich corpus of literature has been produced in various fields in the attempt to address this problematic issue, examining questions... Read More about Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics.

Waswifu wa Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany (2012)
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Said, A. (2012). C. Githiora (Ed.). Waswifu wa Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany. JC Press

Biography of Swahili scholar and writer from Lamu, Kenya with introduction by Chege Githiora.

Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11 (2011)
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Morey, P., & Yaqin, A. (2011). Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061149

Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the... Read More about Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11.

Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius: Deux débats théologiques après le Triomphe de l’orthodoxie (2004)
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Dorfmann-Lazarev, I. (2004). Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius: Deux débats théologiques après le Triomphe de l’orthodoxie. Peeters

Face au conflit qui allait en s'aggravant entre les sièges de Constantinople et de Rome en 862, le patriarche Photius se tourna vers l'Arménie pour y chercher un soutien. Il espérait devenir lui-même facteur d'unité chrétienne au moment où la reconqu... Read More about Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius: Deux débats théologiques après le Triomphe de l’orthodoxie.