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Mrs. Sartoris

By: Elke Schmitter

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An international sensation, Elke Schmitter’s explosive debut novel presents a modern-day twist on Madame Bovary. Margarethe can remember very clearly the last time she was happy: she was eighteen, prized for her beauty, and swept off her feet by her wealthy, dashing boyfriend. Then he left her. For the last twenty years she has lived in a provincial German town with her dependable husband, her self-directed daughter, and her adoring mother-in-law. Her life has been one of numbing predictability–until she meets Michael, a married man who stirs her from her resignation, delivering her to heights of rapture only to ignite far more destructive passions. An erotic, psychologically charged thriller narrated with chilling dispassion, Mrs. Sartoris opens a bracing portal onto obsession and the crucible of love.

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153

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Vintage

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0307426963

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9780307426963

Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism

Analysis of System Change with a Focus on Tanzania

By: Elke Grawert

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Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism

Analysis of System Change with a Focus on Tanzania

By: Elke Grawert

This study sends the reader on an exciting journey into social and political life in Africa. It gives space to the voices of Tanzanian villagers, rural associations, branches of political parties and local government officers and their views of socio-economic and political change during the 1990s. This authentic picture is combined with a thorough sociological and political economy analysis showing the dynamics in the relations between state components and social forces in the context of neo-liberal globalization. The book is not only attractive as a country case study. It contains a deep analysis of the paradigmatic shift of African political systems from post-colonial rule to governance in response to neo-liberalism and provides new insights in processes of political transformation.

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640

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Peter Lang

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3631574673

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9783631574676

The Politics of Necessity

Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa

By: Elke Zuern

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The Politics of Necessity

Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa

By: Elke Zuern

The end of apartheid in South Africa broke down political barriers, extending to all races the formal rights of citizenship, including the right to participate in free elections and parliamentary democracy. But South Africa remains one of the most economically polarized nations in the world. In The Politics of Necessity Elke Zuern forcefully argues that working toward greater socio-economic equality—access to food, housing, land, jobs—is crucial to achieving a successful and sustainable democracy. Drawing on interviews with local residents and activists in South Africa’s impoverished townships during more than a decade of dramatic political change, Zuern tracks the development of community organizing and reveals the shifting challenges faced by poor citizens. Under apartheid, township residents began organizing to press the government to address the basic material necessities of the poor and expanded their demands to include full civil and political rights. While the movement succeeded in gaining formal political rights, democratization led to a new government that instituted neo-liberal economic reforms and sought to minimize protest. In discouraging dissent and failing to reduce economic inequality, South Africa’s new democracy has continued to disempower the poor. By comparing movements in South Africa to those in other African and Latin American states, this book identifies profound challenges to democratization. Zuern asserts the fundamental indivisibility of all human rights, showing how protest movements that call attention to socio-economic demands, though often labeled a threat to democracy, offer significant opportunities for modern democracies to evolve into systems of rule that empower all citizens.

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264

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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029925013X

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9780299250133

Transforming the Images

Ergativity and Transitivity in Inuktitut (Eskimo)

By: Elke Nowak

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Transforming the Images

Ergativity and Transitivity in Inuktitut (Eskimo)

By: Elke Nowak

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

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325

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110808927

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9783110808926

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Mrs. Sartoris

Mrs. Sartoris

Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism

Departures from Post-colonial Authoritarianism

The Politics of Necessity

The Politics of Necessity

Transforming the Images

Transforming the Images

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