Claire Taylor's Books

Kiss Me, I'm Irish

The Sins of His Past\Tangling with Ty\Whatever Reilly Wants...

By: Roxanne St. Claire,Jill Shalvis,Maureen Child

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Kiss Me, I'm Irish

The Sins of His Past\Tangling with Ty\Whatever Reilly Wants...

By: Roxanne St. Claire,Jill Shalvis,Maureen Child

In three love stories featuring Irish men, a former baseball player competes against his ex-lover for his father's bar, a physician falls for the architect remodeling her apartment, and a best friend tempts a man trying to stay celibate.

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HQN Books

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0373776543

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9780373776542

The False Prophet

Conspiracy, Extortion, and Murder in the Name of God

By: Claire Booth

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The False Prophet

Conspiracy, Extortion, and Murder in the Name of God

By: Claire Booth

Describes how stockbroker Taylor Helzer, his brother Justin, and a malleable girl named Dawn formed an alliance, stole money from unsuspecting former clients, and then brutally murdered them.

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Penguin

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0425219747

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9780425219744

The New Working Class

How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes

By: Ainsley, Claire

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The New Working Class

How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes

By: Ainsley, Claire

Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support? Based on the opinions and voices of lower and middle income voters, this insightful book proposes what needs to be done to address the issues of the 'new working class'. Outlining the composition, values, and attitudes of the new working class, it provides practical recommendations for political parties to reconnect with the electorate and regain trust.

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Policy Press

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1447344200

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9781447344209

Coretta Scott King Award Books

Using Great Literature with Children and Young Adults

By: Claire Gatrell Stephens

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Coretta Scott King Award Books

Using Great Literature with Children and Young Adults

By: Claire Gatrell Stephens

Here's a fresh opportunity to learn more about these fine titles and integrate them into the curriculum. The first half of the book presents annotated bibliographies of all author and illustrator winners and honor books. The entire second half of the book is devoted to activities, including some reproducibles, based on select titles. During the past 30 years, the titles recognized by the Coretta Scott King Award have consistently presented excellent writing, storytelling, history, and values. Stephens's book is designed to help educators learn more about these fine titles and integrate them into the curriculum. After giving background about the award and its history, the author presents annotated bibliographies of all author and illustrator award winners and honor books. The second half of the book is devoted to providing activities based on specific titles. Helpful tips and reproducibles make this a classroom-friendly resource.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313080186

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9780313080180

Real Life at the White House

Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

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Real Life at the White House

Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

An irresistible chronological overview of daily life in the presidential residence. Divided into 42 chapters representing each succeeding administration, this survey is brimming with fun facts, tantalizing tidbits, and memorable anecdotes detailing two centuries of domestic bliss and strife in the White House. From George Washington, who chose the sight and initiated work on the presidential mansion, to Bill Clinton, whose well-documented White House escapades titillated and scandalized the nation, each individual president has contributed to the mystique of the most readily recognized home in the U.S. Together with scores of drawings, portraits, and photographs, the breezy text chronicles the significant physical, social, and emotional changes wrought by each First Family as they sought to personalize daily life in the White House.

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Psychology Press

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0415939518

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9780415939515

Edge of Sight

By: Roxanne St. Claire

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Edge of Sight

By: Roxanne St. Claire

The killer she can't escape . . . The heartbreak she can't forget . . . The one man who can stop them both. When Samantha Fairchild witnesses a murder in the wine cellar of the restaurant where she works, the Harvard-bound law student becomes the next target of a professional assassin. Desperate for protection the authorities won't provide, Sam seeks help from Vivi Angelino, an investigative reporter who recruits her brother, Zach, to protect Samantha. A Special Forces vet with the scars to prove he's equally fearless and flawed, Zach takes the job, despite the fact that he and Sam once shared a lusty interlude that ended when he left for war and disappeared from her life. Now, as they crack a conspiracy that leads to Boston's darkest corners, Sam and Zach must face their fears, desires, and doubts, before a hired killer gets a second shot... "When it comes to dishing up great romantic suspense, Roxanne St. Claire is the author you want." -- RT Book Reviews

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Forever

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0446574236

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9780446574235

Mistry by Moonlight

By: Claire Merchant

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Mistry by Moonlight

By: Claire Merchant

After a year in Europe, Taylor Mistry returns to South Coast a changed woman inside and out. While some people barely recognise the person they have known for years, similarly Taylor doesn’t recognise herself, finding it difficult to fit back into her old life. The once overweight young woman who felt invisible to everyone is suddenly getting attention from all sides: an old infatuation and a mysterious stranger are vying for her attention, while the handsome man who quickly stole her heart back in Italy is still in her thoughts. Life seems more complicated than ever, but Taylor is soon to find out that it’s worse than even she realises. Her life is in danger but she’s not sure why. Are her suitors more than they appear? And does it all have something to do with an act of kindness towards an injured wolf?

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Claire Merchant

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1925918114

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9781925918113

Community Gardening as Social Action

By: Claire Nettle

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Community Gardening as Social Action

By: Claire Nettle

Drawing on case studies and social movement theory Claire Nettle provides a new empirical and theoretical understanding of community gardening by applying a contextual framework that considers the activity as a way for people to engage in collective social action. Through this a richer, more complete understanding of community gardening as a form of social activity and of its potential contributions to activism, community, democracy and culture can be reached.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409455866

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9781409455868

John Wesley Hardin

Dark Angel of Texas

By: Leon Claire Metz

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John Wesley Hardin

Dark Angel of Texas

By: Leon Claire Metz

Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to gain insight into Hardin’s homicidal mind, Leon Metz describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace, and traces his life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down and received a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso saloon.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806129956

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9780806129952

Theatre History and Historiography

Ethics, Evidence and Truth

By: Claire Cochrane

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Theatre History and Historiography

Ethics, Evidence and Truth

By: Claire Cochrane

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.

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Springer

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1137457287

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A Secret Sisterhood

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

By: Emily Midorikawa,Emma Claire Sweeney

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A Secret Sisterhood

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

By: Emily Midorikawa,Emma Claire Sweeney

Two female writers and best friends bring to light the literary friendships of four iconic female authors. Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their discovery of a wealth of surprising collaborations: the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, playwright Anne Sharp; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, who shaped the work of Charlotte Brontë; the transatlantic friendship of the seemingly aloof George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, most often portrayed as bitter foes, but who, in fact, enjoyed a complex friendship fired by an underlying erotic charge. Through letters and diaries that have never been published before, A Secret Sisterhood resurrects these forgotten stories of female friendships. They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always—until now—tantalizingly consigned to the shadows. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood “A thought-provoking meditation on literary friendship as well as engagingly intimate glimpses of four of the world’s finest writers.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A medley of vivid narratives.” —The Atlantic “Midorikawa and Sweeney have committed an exceptional act of literary espionage. English literature owes them a great debt.” —Financial Times “A vital and necessary contribution to women's history, literary history, and the literature of friendship.”—Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544883780

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9780544883789

Dynasties: The Elliotts Miniseries

By: Kara Lennox,Barbara Dunlop,Roxanne St. Claire,Emilie Rose,Kathie DeNosky,Maureen Child

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Dynasties: The Elliotts Miniseries

By: Kara Lennox,Barbara Dunlop,Roxanne St. Claire,Emilie Rose,Kathie DeNosky,Maureen Child

When sexy, suave, millionaire spy Bryan Elliott rescued her, banker-turned-mole Lucy Miller knew his alias was well deserved. The dashing agent simply took her breath away. With danger at her doorstep, Bryan whisked her to safety at his pricey Manhattan penthouse, gave her a new name and a new look, taking her from plain Jane to gorgeous sophisticate. Gone was shy little Lucy Miller from Kansas. The new sexy siren embraced the pretend role of Bryan's lover--but she had to remember their attraction was just a cover.... Or was it?

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Silhouette

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1552547574

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9781552547571

Winter Range

A Novel

By: Claire Davis

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Winter Range

A Novel

By: Claire Davis

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel In Winter Range, the intimate details of ranching and small-town life are woven into the suspenseful story of three people struggling to survive, to belong, and to love in the chillingly bleak landscape of eastern Montana. Ike Parsons is a small-town sheriff whose life is stable and content; his wife Pattiann is a rancher's daughter with a secret past. But when Ike tries to help a hard-luck cattleman named Chas Stubblefield, he triggers Chas's resentment and finds his home and his wife targeted by a plot for revenge.

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Picador

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1429903414

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9781429903417

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

By: Leon Claire Metz

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The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

By: Leon Claire Metz

Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.

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Infobase Publishing

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143813021X

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Where the Heart Is Romance Collection

Love Is a Journey in Nine Historical Novellas

By: Andrea Boeshaar,Carol Cox,Rhonda Gibson,Sally Laity,Jane West,Claire Sanders,Pamela Kaye Tracy,Erica Vetsch

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Where the Heart Is Romance Collection

Love Is a Journey in Nine Historical Novellas

By: Andrea Boeshaar,Carol Cox,Rhonda Gibson,Sally Laity,Jane West,Claire Sanders,Pamela Kaye Tracy,Erica Vetsch

Journey along with nine women who find themselves on the move out of their comfortable lives and into the unknown as they set up new homes, take on new jobs, seek out loved ones, and encounter romance. Will their faith endure the hardships, and will love form when life is in transition? Written by nine inspirational romance authors who have a passion for American history and faith.

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Barbour Publishing

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1634098285

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9781634098281

Translating Mind Matters in Twenty-First-Century French Women’s Writing

By: Claire Ellender

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Translating Mind Matters in Twenty-First-Century French Women’s Writing

By: Claire Ellender

Attitudes towards, and strategies for treating, those who suffer from abnormal mental states have evolved considerably over the centuries, and these are reflected in the various literary genres of all eras. In its introduction, this book provides a concise, yet thorough, overview of this phenomenon, citing key examples taken from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Each of the eight chapters which constitute Part One of this study then focuses on representations of a particular mental health issue in a work of literature produced by a twenty-first-century French woman writer. Considering the causes and symptoms of the given condition, it situates the representation of its treatment in relation to current attitudes and practices in the West. Inspired by the concept that reading literature which concentrates on mental health problems can be both informative and of comfort to those affected by such issues, Part Two provides detailed textual analyses, and discusses the English-language versions, of four works examined in Part One which already exist in translation. Suggesting how these may be of benefit to an Anglophone readership, it recommends that the four remaining texts, which may be equally helpful, are suitable for translation into English.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527546411

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9781527546417

Charlotte Brontë

A Fiery Heart

By: Claire Harman

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Charlotte Brontë

A Fiery Heart

By: Claire Harman

On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Brontë from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman’s biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to quiet rebellion and fierce ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte’s inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotte’s adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: While working at a girls’ school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated her as “nothing special to him at all.” She channeled her torment into her first attempts at a novel and resolved to bring it to the world's attention. Charlotte helped power her sisters’ work to publication, too. But Emily’s Wuthering Heights was eclipsed by Jane Eyre, which set London abuzz with speculation: Who was this fiery author demanding love and justice for her plain and insignificant heroine? Charlotte Brontë’s blazingly intelligent women brimming with hidden passions would transform English literature. And she savored her literary success even as a heartrending series of personal losses followed. Charlotte Brontë is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time. Shaped by Charlotte’s lifelong struggle to claim love and art for herself, Harman’s richly insightful biography offers readers many of the pleasures of Brontë’s own work.

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Vintage

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0307962091

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9780307962096

Marx for Cats

A Radical Bestiary

By: Leigh Claire La Berge

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Marx for Cats

A Radical Bestiary

By: Leigh Claire La Berge

At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism, and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and “sabo-tabbies,” La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration.

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Duke University Press

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1478023880

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9781478023883

Another Man's Ground

A Mystery

By: Claire Booth

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Another Man's Ground

A Mystery

By: Claire Booth

This contemporary take on a locked-room puzzle is chilling, compelling and completely entertaining, and Claire Booth is a wonderful new voice in crime fiction.”—Hank Phillippi Ryan on The Branson Beauty It starts out as an interesting little theft case. Branson, Missouri’s new Sheriff Hank Worth is called out to look at stands of trees that have been stripped of their bark, which the property owner had planned to harvest for the booming herbal supplement market. At first, Hank easily balances the demands of the investigation with his fledging political career. He was appointed several months earlier to the vacant sheriff position, but he needs to win the fast-approaching election in order to keep his job. He thinks the campaign will go well, as long as he’s able to keep secret the fact that a group of undocumented immigrants – hired to cut down the stripped trees – have fled into the forest and he’s deliberately not looking for them. But then the discovery of a murder victim deep in the Ozark backwoods sets him in the middle of a generations-old feud that explodes into danger not only for him, but also for the immigrants, his deputies, and his family. He must rush to find a murderer before election day, and protect the vulnerable in Branson County, where politicking is hell and trespassing can get you killed. In Another Man's Ground, her next novel featuring Sheriff Hank Worth, acclaimed author Claire Booth delivers a taut, witty mystery that will grip readers from the opening pages to the breathless conclusion.

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Minotaur Books

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1250084423

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9781250084422

Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature

By: Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman

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Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature

By: Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman

This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation including the development of different types of cybercommunities in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword that deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper.

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Liverpool University Press

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178138701X

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9781781387016

Soldered states: nation-building in Germany and Vietnam

By: Claire Sutherland

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Soldered states: nation-building in Germany and Vietnam

By: Claire Sutherland

The book examines the power of nationalism to solder nation-states back together rather than break them apart. In this innovative, cross-continental comparison of nation-building in Germany and Vietnam, the focus is on their shared experience of division, communism and regional integration, offering original insights into how governments go about maintaining nation-state legitimacy in the twenty-first century. Neither German nor Vietnamese governments have succeeded in effacing national division, for a host of historical, economic, psychological, sociological and even climatic reasons. Yet their efforts tell us a great deal about how national identity is negotiated today. The study offers a fresh perspective on nationalist ideology which will be of interest to specialists and students in comparative politics, European and Southeast Asian studies as well as nationalism studies. For the general reader, it provides a fascinating introduction to contemporary nation-building in a unique combination of cases across two continents.

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Manchester University Press

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1526135272

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9781526135278

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