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Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur
Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), ix, 459 pp.
"Das Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden interdisziplinären Überblick über die postkoloniale Theorie und Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es verbindet die Einführung in das Thema mit einer kritischen Zwischenbilanz zu diesem internationalen Forschungsfeld. Auf einen T
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La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone (1960-2012)
Paris: CNRS Éditions (2017), 442 pp.
"Comment une œuvre littéraire accède-t-elle au rang de « classique » lorsque son auteur est issu d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone, l’une des zones les plus déshéritées du monde selon les standards culturels internationaux ? Si les noms de Léopold Sédar Senghor et d’Ahmadou Kouroum
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Comics & Memory in Latin America
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2017), vi, 262 pp.
"Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contr
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Oral History Theory
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2016), xi, 238 pp.
"Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of oral history theory in an accessible format. The book is structured around key themes, including the peculiarities
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Geoblocking and Global Video Culture
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2016), 203 pp.
Sociological Perspectives on Media Piracy in the Philippines and Vietnam
Singapore: Springer (2016), xiv, 259 pp.
"This book addresses the persistence of the optical media piracy trade in the Philippines and Vietnam. It goes beyond arguments of defective law enforcement and copyright legal systems by applying sociological perspectives to examine the socio-economic forces behind the advent of piracy in the regio
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Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xxiii, 578 pp.
"Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the rich and diverse traditions of classical and contemporary performing arts in Asia, showcasing significant scholarship in recent years. An international team of over 50 contributors provide authoritative overv
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Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 288 pp.
"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa
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Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences
Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill (2016), xiii, 295 pp.
"Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became m
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The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique
London: Routledge (2016), xvi, 212 pp.
"This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre's engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretica
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Gringo Trails, Gringo Tales: Storytelling, Destination Perspectives, and Tourism Globalization
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 189-199
"The documentary film Gringo Trails explores the long-term effects of tourism globalization on cultures, economies and the environment in the developing world through the lens of budget backpacker travelers and their storytelling. This chapter explores the travel narrative to tourism globalization a
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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.
"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t
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The Caribbean Oral Tradition: Literature, Performance, and Practice
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxvii, 201 pp.
"The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism of interorality as the systematic t
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From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.
"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide
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Von Helden, Bösewichten und Herrschern: Der sowjetische Märchenfilm zwischen Folkloretradition und Entstehungswirklichkeit. Mit einer umfangreichen Materialdokumentation sämtlicher in der Sowjetunion von 1938-1989 entstandenen Märchenlangspielfilme
Freiburg im Breisgau: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 500 pp.
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 583 pp.
"Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: "key issues of definition and of methodology, religious encounters with popular
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Remediating Orality: The Cultural Domestication of Video Technology in Kenya
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 4 (2015), pp. 479-495
"The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality
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