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Christ in Russia

The History, Tradition, and Life of the Russian Church

By: Helene Iswolsky

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Christ in Russia

The History, Tradition, and Life of the Russian Church

By: Helene Iswolsky

“Is all of Russia not in her church?” asked the great essayist, Rosanov. The question is likely to surprise many American Christians tempted, in spite of themselves, to believe a purely political propaganda. Russia—The Enemy—is both the historical Christian reality and the present hope. In a book of profound contemporary significance, the author has presented both a scholarly and moving history of the Church of Christ in Russia, from its beginnings to the present day, and a deeply sympathetic description of the Russian Church’s Tradition and Life. The author is herself a Russian, a scholar, and a convert from the Orthodox Church in which she was raised. She writes with simplicity and with loving familiarity of things she has not only studied but lived with her heart.

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1789125065

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Christ in Russia

The History, Tradition, and Life of the Russian Church

By: Helene Iswolsky

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Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

By: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

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Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

By: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

Contemporary Latin American fiction establishes a unique connection between masquerade, frequently motivated by stigma or trauma, and social justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between these two themes. Weldt-Basson examines fourteen novels by twelve different Latin American authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Galindo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Fernando del Paso, Mayra Santos-Febres, Isabel Allende, Carmen Boullosa, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Marcela Serrano, Sara Sefchovich, Luisa Valenzuela, and Ariel Dorfman. She elucidates the varieties of social justice operating in the plots of contemporary Latin American novels: distributive, postmodern/feminist, postcolonial, transitional, and historical justices. The author further examines how masquerade and disguise aid in articulating the theme of social justice, why this is important, and how it relates to Latin American history and the historical novel.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826358160

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9780826358165

Making Camp

Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture

By: Helene A. Shugart,Catherine Egley Waggoner

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Making Camp

Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture

By: Helene A. Shugart,Catherine Egley Waggoner

The rhetorical power of camp in American popular culture Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality. Camp has long been aligned with gay male culture and performance. Helene Shugart and Catherine Waggoner contend that camp in the popular media—whether visual, dramatic, or musical—is equally pervasive. While aesthetic and performative in nature, the authors argue that camp—female camp in particular—is also highly political and that conventions of femininity and female sexuality are negotiated, if not always resisted, in female camp performances. The authors draw on a wide range of references and figures representative of camp, both historical and contemporary, in presenting the evolution of female camp and its negotiation of gender, political, and identity issues. Antecedents such as Joan Crawford, Wonder Woman, Marilyn Monroe, and Pam Grier are discussed as archetypes for contemporary popular culture figures—Macy Gray, Gwen Stefani, and the characters of Xena from Xena: Warrior Princess and Karen Walker from Will & Grace. Shugart and Waggoner find that these and other female camp performances are liminal, occupying a space between conformity and resistance. The result is a study that demonstrates the prevalence of camp as a historical and evolving phenomenon in popular culture, its role as a site for the rupture of conventional notions of gender and sexuality, and how camp is configured in mainstream culture and in ways that resist its being reduced to merely a style.

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200

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University of Alabama Press

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0817316078

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9780817316075

The Helene Hanff Omnibus

By: Helene Hanff

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The Helene Hanff Omnibus

By: Helene Hanff

Reflecting her combination of dry humour and observation, this is an omnibus edition of the American Helene Hanff's five autobiographical books - Underfoot in Showbusiness, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Apple of My Eye and Q's Legacy.

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Sphere

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0751507768

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9780751507768

Book's by Helene Iswolsky

Christ in Russia

Christ in Russia

Christ in Russia

Christ in Russia

Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Making Camp

Making Camp

The Helene Hanff Omnibus

The Helene Hanff Omnibus

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