Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Special issue co-editor: Barbara Mennel Title: The Singular Plural of Feminist Film Practice. In Feminist German Studies38.1 (2022). (With Angelica Fenner) This special issue responds to an extraordinary, conjunctural moment for women’s filmmaking in Germany unfolding in the early twenty-first century, one in which continuities with post-1968 feminist filmmaking have become visible and resonate within […]

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Authors: Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts, eds. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2021. Goncharov in the Twenty-First Centurybrings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens. Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov’s service career, the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in […]

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Author: Gabriele Belletti Publisher: Al Dante (French) ISBN 978-2-37896-229-6 (Hardback) A singular analysis of Italian poetic modernity and its relationship to reality, by the poet and theorist Gabriele Belletti. For summary and availability, click here

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Author: Benjamine Hebblethwaite. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, […]

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Co-editor and translator: Benjamin Hebblethwaite (with Mariana Past) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African […]

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Russia’s Visionaries: Direct Speech examines the latest thinking regarding Russia’s present position and its anticipated future by leading Russian philosophers, political scientists, economists, and cultural figures, to whom the author refers as “visionaries.” These thinkers position Russia as a global protector of fairness and a safeguard against any single nation’s world hegemony. Despite Russians’ abiding tendency […]

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Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers (Leo Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, and Meyerhold) respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the […]

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Translator: Christopher Smith Yunomae: Kurodahan Press, 2019. “A journey into the carefree, today-centric generation of Japan’s economic boom years, as they enjoy the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Tokyo while exploring new dimensions in Japanese society and self-image. It won the coveted Bungei Prize partly because it was so completely different from the relatively staid, traditional literature […]

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London: Routledge, 2008; second revised edition, 2019. The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the importance of the filmic depiction of capitals […]

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Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation. Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent’s varied kinds of […]

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