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  • Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction

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    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where...
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
    Subject:
    Social sciences, Literary criticism, Religion, and Islam
    Creator:
    Edwin, Shirin
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/23/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/23/2023
    Date Created:
    2016
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3369-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3367-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6

  • Demonic History: From Goethe to the Present

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    In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at  www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Wetters, Kirk
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    06/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2014
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2976-4, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3253-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6764-3

  • Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage

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    Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly haste or strategic delay, sparked new kinds of attachments,... and This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Minnesota. Learn more at the TOME website,...
    Keyword:
    theatre and early modern history
    Subject:
    Medieval and early modern world and Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Row, Jennifer Eun-Jung
    Owner:
    Chris Diaz
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    04/15/2022
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2022
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4470-5 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4472-9 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4471-2