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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture (New Black Studies Series #1)
by Badia Ahad-LegardyThe past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories. Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, Ahad-Legardy reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments. Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remedy to contend with the disillusionment of the present and the traumas of the past.
Freud Upside Down
by Badia Sahar AhadThis thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and conceptual models to challenge notions of race and racism in twentieth-century America. Freud Upside Down explores the relationship between these authors and intellectuals and the psychoanalytic movement emerging in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Examining how psychoanalysis has functioned as a cultural phenomenon within African American literary intellectual communities since the 1920s, Ahad lays out the historiography of the intersections between African American literature and psychoanalysis and considers the creative approaches of African American writers to psychological thought in their work and their personal lives.
The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics (Routledge Language Handbooks)
by Augustine Agwuele Adams BodomoThe Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field. Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.
Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty
by Óscar García AgustínThis book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state’s opposition to any attempt of secessionism. The volume addresses some of the key political and academic issues of contemporary European societies: nationalism, separatism and sovereignty. The banned referendum in Catalonia in October 2017 unveiled the existence of multiple crises, from territorial to economic and political. Indeed, the Catalan issue is about the crisis of sovereignty: who holds legitimacy to make decisions, and who is in power legally and politically? The book is structured according to three themes: sovereignty and its people, where the realignment to independence, populism and the definition of the demos are discussed; collective identities and actions, to account for the shaping of ‘us’, the importance of collective memory and the cross-alliances forged during the referendum; and internationalization, focusing on Europeanisation, international media and comparative constitutional perspectives.
La contracultura en México (Edición de aniversario): La historia y el significado de los rebeldes sin causa, los jipitecas, los punks
by José AgustínUna audaz radiografía sobre los movimientos contraculturales en México en voz de uno de sus mayores exponentes. "190 páginas llenas de salvajes historias de rebeldía, ingenuidad, incorrección, desmadre, lucidez, arte, literatura, drogas, punks, darketos, jipitecas, cholos, chavos banda, sexo y rockanroll. Pero sobre todo, [este libro] reivindica la dignidad de no estar de acuerdo con "el poder" y la vigencia de esa entelequia que se llama 'contracultura'" -Carlos Martínez Rentería, fragmento del prólogo- La contracultura en México se desplaza entre varios géneros, cubriendo los grandes movimientos y las manifestaciones contraculturales más importantes que ha tenido nuestro país, tales como los pachucos, los existencialistas, las pandillas juveniles o el rockanroll. En esta obra alucinante, el autor también da cuenta de las expresiones juveniles que han incidido en la música, la literatura, el teatro, el cine, la gráfica, la televisión y las publicaciones. El lector hallará excelentes herramientas para analizar la realidad, así como datos indispensables para leer y comprender los tiempos y las manifestaciones que han enfrentado a la cultura predominante. Otros autores han opinado: "Fue el primer escritor que incorporó recursos de la cultura de masas y contracultura a la literatura mexicana: las onomatopeyas de los cómics, el montaje cinematográfico, las acotaciones teatrales y el mundo interior de la psicodelia" -Juan Villoro- "Cuando un escritor logra identificarse con los jóvenes de cualquier época, trasciende el momento en el que escribió su obra, porque la juventud tiene más o menos las mismas características. Ése es el secreto de que las novelas de Agustín hayan sobrevivido y sigan siendo leídas por los jóvenes en la actualidad" -Enrique Serna- Fragmento del epílogo: "No sé bien si en estas páginas encontrarán las respuestas que buscan [...] pero de lo que estoy seguro es que además de informarse de lo que sucedió con el rock, los jipitecas, los alucinógenos y todo lo subsecuente, van a gozar esta crónica escrita a través de una prosa rodante y antisolemne que no ha perdido un ápice de su frescura original" -Ariel Rosales-
Cuentos completos
by José AgustínTodos los cuentos de José Agustín, el autor más emblemático de La Onda y uno de los mejores narradores en México. Esta antología reúne todas las narraciones cortas que José Agustín publicara entre 1968 y 2002: desde Inventando que sueño (1968), No hay censura (1988) y No pases esta puerta (1992), hasta los relatos de Los grandes discos de rock (2001) y el extenso relato inédito Los ojos de los demás (2002). Ésta es, en pocas palabras, la recopilación que los lectores de José Agustín esperábamos con tanto anhelo. Los relatos que aparecen en Cuentos completos destacan, como el resto de la obra de José Agustín, por su originalidad, por la fusión de la tradición con la rebeldía, por el humor, la irreverencia y por el profundo y sutil erotismo que habita estas historias. Cuentos completos incluye textos clásicos como Cuál es la onda, Amor del bueno y Transportarán a un cadáver por exprés, relatos que abrieron nuevos caminos para la narrativa mexicana y que representan una de las propuestas literarias más ambiciosas en la historia de nuestras letras.
Tragicomedia mexicana 1: La vida en México de 1940 a 1970 (Tragicomedia mexicana #Volumen 1)
by José AgustínUna excepcional crónica de la vida social, política, cultural y económica en México de 1940 a 1970 En este primer volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos políticos, los modos del "tapadismo" y del fraude electoral, las leyes no escritas del sistema, los laberintos obreros y agrarios, el fortalecimiento de los empresarios, la industrialización, el desarrollo estabilizador, la penetración paulatina e invencible de Estados Unidos en casi todos los ámbitos del país, la eterna carestía, las protestas populares y la correspondiente represión, las estrellas de cine, los espectáculos y el deporte, el surgimiento y el predominio aplastante de la televisión, las grandes celebridades, la vida social, el mambo, el chachachá y el rocanrol, los rebeldes sin causa, las minifaldas, los jipis, las mafias culturales, la vida intelectual, el movimiento estudiantil y el fin del sueño del "milagro mexicano".
Tragicomedia mexicana 2: La vida en México de 1970 a 1982 (Tragicomedia mexicana #Volumen 2)
by José AgustínUna excepcional crónica de la vida social, política, cultural y económica en México de 1970 a 1982. En este segundo volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1970 a 1982, tenemos el "superpresidencialismo tercermundista" y sus respuestas al 68, la guerra entre la iniciativa privada y el presidente Echeverría, la crisis económica y el Fondo Monetario Internacional, los providenciales yacimientos de petróleo, la "abundancia" y el derroche, la reforma política de López Portillo, el avance incontenible de la contaminación, la corrupción, la aplastante influencia de Estados Unidos, la deuda "eterna", las devaluaciones y la nacionalización de la banca, la revolución y la "contrarrevolución cultural", las nuevas mafias literarias, el nuevo periodismo, la nueva dramaturgia, el nuevo cine, el feminismo, las luchas de los grupos gay, Avándaro, los chavos banda, el nacimiento del rock mexicano y el inicio de la década perdida.
Tragicomedia mexicana 3: La vida en México de 1982 a 1994 (Tragicomedia mexicana #Volumen 3)
by José AgustínUna excepcional crónica de la vida social, política, cultural y económica en México de 1982 a 1994. En este tercer volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1982 a 1994, tenemos los años de la crisis, los "nuevos pobres", la globalización y las privatizaciones, la "renovación moral", los tecnos y los dinos, la renegociación de la deuda externa, la privatización de la banca, el fortalecimiento del narcotráfico, el terror del sida, la explosión de San Juanico y el terremoto de 1985, la "caída" del sistema en 1988, la familia Salinas, los negocios del hermano incómodo, el dinero de Pronasol, los nuevos megamillonarios, los cambios en el campo, la relación con la Iglesia católica y el Tratado de Libre Comercio, el dedazo "prematuro", la rebelión zapatista, Marcos Superstar, la "candidatura alterna", el asesinato de Luis Donaldo Colosio, la muerte de Ruiz Massieu y otra, más devastadora aún, crisis económica. Qué bonito acabamos, igual que empezamos.
This Ghostly Poetry: Reading Spanish Republican Exiles between Literary History and Poetic Memory (Toronto Iberic)
by Daniel Aguirre-OteziaThe Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.
El amor, el amor, el amor
by Carolina AguirreEste libro funciona como el diario de una escritora cuya obsesión es que la primera escena dialogue con la última; que vive pendiente de la eficacia del texto a cualquier precio; que cree que, en el fondo, todas las historias son de amor, y que no duda en hacer públicas sus miserias o intimidades si eso vuelve su texto más verdadero para el lector. Durante dos años, domingo por medio, Carolina Aguirre escribió una serie de columnas en la revista del diario La Nación acerca de su trabajo como guionista de TV. En ellas confesó los secretos, las técnicas y los trucos que usan los autores para construir el amor en la ficción, y al revelar esos secretos no tuvo más remedio que contar también todos los episodios de su vida amorosa, desde su infancia hasta el día de hoy. Este volumen recopila esos relatos y, junto con otros inéditos, funciona un poco como el diario de una escritora cuya obsesión es que la primera escena dialogue con la última; que vive pendiente de la eficacia del texto a cualquier precio; que cree que, en el fondo, todas las historias son de amor, y que no duda en hacer públicas sus miserias o intimidades si eso vuelve su texto más verdadero para el lector. Desde aquella maestra que a los ocho años la hizo llorar porque no le creyó que ese cuento era suyo hasta el testimonio de su última y desgarradora columna en el diario, Carolina Aguirre fue premiada y traducida en todo el mundo. Quizás sin proponérselo este libro sea una larga y desbordante clase de escritura, pero también una declaración de principios sobre su oficio.
Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past: Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations (St Antony's Series)
by Paloma Aguilar Leigh A. PayneThe foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy. That foundation is beginning to crack as perpetrators’ confessions upset the silence and exhumations of mass graves unbury new truths. It has become possible, even if not completely socially acceptable, to speak openly about the past, to disclose the testimonies of the victims, and to ask for truth and justice. Contentious coexistence that put political participation, contestation, and expression in practice has begun to emerge. This book analyzes how this recent transformation has occurred. It recognizes that political processes are not always linear and inexorable. Thus, it remains to be seen how far contentious coexistence will go in Spain.
Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona (Toronto Iberic)
by Anna Casas AguilarBilingual Legacies examines fatherhood in the work of four canonical Spanish authors born in Barcelona and raised during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Drawing on the autobiographical texts of Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Barral, Terenci Moix, and Clara Janés, the book explores how these authors understood gender roles and paternal figures as well as how they positioned themselves in relation to Spanish and Catalan literary traditions. Anna Casas Aguilar contends that through their presentation of father figures, these authors subvert static ideas surrounding fatherhood. She argues that this diversity was crucial in opening the door to revised gender models in Spain during the democratic period. Moving beyond the shadow of the dictator, Casas Aguilar shows how these writers distinguished between the patriarchal "father of the nation" and their own paternal figures. In doing so, Bilingual Legacies sheds light on the complexity of Spanish conceptions of gender, language, and family and illustrates how notions of masculinity, authorship, and canon are interrelated.
Upstairs at the Strand: Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore
by Andrea Aguilar Jessica StrandRevelatory conversations between renowned writers at New York City's legendary bookstore. For nearly ninety years, the Strand Book Store has been a New York institution, a legendary mecca for readers throughout the five boroughs, across the country, and around the world. Featuring freewheeling and behind-the-scenes conversations between renowned novelists, playwrights, and poets on how they work, think, and live, Upstairs at the Strand captures the happy collision of books and ideas in the Strand's famed reading series in its Rare Book Room. Upstairs at the Strand is indispensable for aspiring writers, readers of contemporary literature, and devoted fans of the 18 Miles of Books at the Strand Book Store. Contributors include: Renata Adler * Edward Albee * Hilton Als * Paul Auster * Blake Bailey * Alison Bechdel * Tina Chang * Junot Díaz * Deborah Eisenberg * Rivka Galchen * A. M. Holmes * Hari Kunzru * Rachel Kushner * Wendy Lesser * D. T. Max * Leigh Newman * Téa Obreht * Robert Pinsky * Katie Roiphe * George Saunders * David Shields * Charles Simic * Tracy K. Smith * Mark Strand * and Charles Wright.
Mobilities, Literature, Culture (Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture)
by Marian Aguiar Charlotte Mathieson Lynne PearceThis is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision of a mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel, technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation, geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.
Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora
by Marian AguiarThe first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination—an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage as a transnational cultural phenomenon, revealing how its meaning has been continuously reinvented within the South Asian diaspora of Britain, the United States, and Canada. Aguiar identifies and analyzes representations of arranged marriage in an interdisciplinary set of texts—from literary fiction and Bollywood films, to digital and print media, to contemporary law and policy on forced marriage.Aguiar interprets depictions of Asian arranged marriage to show we are in a moment of conjugal globalization, identifying how narratives about arranged marriage bear upon questions of consent, agency, state power, and national belonging. Aguiar argues that these discourses illuminate deep divisions in the processes of globalization constructed on a fault line between individualist and collectivist agency and in the process, critiques neoliberal celebrations of “culture as choice” that attempt to bridge that separation. Aguiar advocates situating arranged marriage discourses within their social and material contexts so as to see past reductive notions of culture and grasp the global forces mediating increasingly polarized visions of agency.
Strategies for Knowledge Elicitation: The Experience of the Russian School of Field Linguistics
by Tatiana B. Agranat Leyli R. DodykhudoevaThis volume provides an overview of experimental methods, approaches, and techniques used by field linguists of the Russian school, and highlights the fieldwork experience of Russian scholars working in regions with a range of languages that differ genetically, typologically, and in the degree of their preservation.The collection presents language and sociolinguistic data relating to fieldwork in diverse languages: Uralic, Altaic, Paleo-Siberian, Yeniseian, Indo-European Iranian, Vietic, Kra-Day, and Mayan languages, as well as pidgin.The authors highlight the fieldwork techniques they use, and the principles underlying them.The volume’s multidisciplinary approach covers linguistic, ethnolinguistic, sociolinguistic, educational, and ethnocultural issues. The authors explore problems associated with the study of minority languages and indicate diverse and creative techniques for data elicitation. Close collaboration with speakers lies at the core of their approach. The collection presents strategies for eliciting systems of knowledge from mother-tongue speakers, triggering linguistic self-awareness, and providing semantic and morphosyntactic context for their languages.This publication is intended for academics, and for specialists in the field of linguistics and minority and indigenous languages. It will also benefit students as a guide to field research, as well as language activists, interested in documenting and preserving their mother tongue.
Collateral Damage: Women Write about War
by Marjorie Agosín Michèle Sarde Peipei Qiu Miyoko Hikiji Bárbara Mujica Christine Evans Nancy Sherman Ghusoon Mekhaber Al-Taiee Carolin Emcke Domnica Radulescu Aminatta Forna Scholastique Mukasonga Florinda Ruiz V. V. Ganeshananthan Carolina Rivera Escamilla Trudy Mercadal Carmen Duarte Betty MilanFrom Homer to Tim O’Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children disproportionately suffer the consequences of conflict: famine, disease, sexual abuse, and emotional trauma caused by loss of loved ones, property, and means of subsistence.Collateral Damage tells the stories of those who struggle on the margins of armed conflict or who attempt to rebuild their lives after a war. Bringing together the writings of female authors from across the world, this collection animates the wartime experiences of women as military mothers, combatants, supporters, war resisters, and victims. Their stories stretch from Rwanda to El Salvador, Romania to Sri Lanka, Chile to Iraq. Spanning fiction, poetry, drama, essay, memoir, and reportage, the selections are contextualized by brief author commentaries.The first collection to embrace so wide a range of contemporary authors from such diverse backgrounds, Collateral Damage seeks to validate and shine a light on the experiences of women by revealing the consequences of war endured by millions whose voices are rarely heard.
These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry By Latin American Women (Secret Weavers #7)
by Marjorie Agosín Isabel AllendeThis reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility of reclaiming power through language. In the work included here, we see how the common threads of courage and inventiveness can be woven into a bright tapestry of women’s voices that presents a true picture of a culture that must create its own history. Over fifty poets, including those well-known, such as Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, and Cristina Peri Rossi, and those just emerging are included. Marjorie Agos n, editor of the Secret Weavers series, is well-known as a poet, writer, and human rights activist. She is a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century: British Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797)
by Mirella AgorniTranslating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical analysis of the role played by translation in that complex redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways in which women writers managed to appropriate images of Italy and adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the 'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century. A brief survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799 provides an overview of the genres favoured by women translators, such as the moral novel, sentimental play and a type of conduct literature of a distinctively 'proto-feminist' character. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Francesco Algarotti's II Newtonianesimo per le Dame (1739) is one of the best examples of the latter kind of texts. A close reading of the English translation indicates a 'proto-feminist' exploitation of the myth of Italian women's cultural prestige. Another genre increasingly accessible to women, namely travel writing, confirms this female interest in Italy. Female travellers who visited Italy in the second half of the century, such as Hester Piozzi, observed the state of women's education through the lenses provided by Carter. Piozzi's image of Italy, a paradoxical mixture of imagination and realistic observation, became a powerful symbolic source, which enabled the fictional image of a modern, relatively egalitarian British society to take shape.
Hindi: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)
by Rama Kant AgnihotriHindi: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Hindi. Assuming no prior knowledge of Hindi grammar, this book avoids jargon and overly technical language as it takes the student through the complexities of Hindi grammar in short, readable sections. Suitable for either independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult education classes, key features include: Full examples throughout in both Devanagari and Roman script with a gloss in English Glossary of technical terms and detailed subject index Cross referencing between sections Authentic material provided in the appendix demonstrating grammar usage Hindi: An Essential Grammar will help students, in both formal and non-formal education and of all levels to read, speak and write the language with greater confidence and accuracy. The revised edition rectifies the printing errors inadvertently made in the first edition; it also further clarifies several other issues including Hindi word order flexibility, compound nouns, ergativity, pronominal usage and polite communication.
Hindi: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)
by Rama Kant AgnihotriThis text provides a reader-friendly guide to the structural patterns of modern standard Hindi. Ideal for both independent learners and classroom students alike, this book covers the essentials of Hindi grammar in readable, jargon-free sections. Key features include: sections on the speech sounds of Hindi detailed analysis of Hindi sentence structure full examples throughout.
Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India
by Éadaoin AgnewThis book is about Victorian women's representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine modes of experience, focusing on the domestic environment, household management, the family, hobbies and pastimes, romance and courtship and their busy social lives. However, this book reveals the extent to which their lives in India bore little resemblance to their lives in Britain and suggests that the acclaimed transportation of the home culture was largely an ideological construct iterated by women writers in the service of the Raj. In this way, they subverted the constraints of Victorian gender discourses and were part of a growing proto-feminism.
Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume III: Mrs A. Deane, A Tour through the Upper Provinces of Hindustan (1823); and Julia Charlotte Maitland, Letters from Madras During the Years 1836-39, by a Lady (1843) (Chawton House Library: Women’s Travel Writings)
by Éadaoin AgnewThe ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women’s travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent, they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform. This new set in the Chawton House Library Women’s Travel Writing series assembles seven of these accounts, six by British authors (Jemima Kindersley, Maria Graham, Eliza Fay, Ann Deane, Julia Maitland and Mary Sherwood) and one by an American (Harriet Newell). Their narratives – here reproduced for the first time in reset scholarly editions – were published between 1777 and 1854, and recount journeys undertaken in India, or periods of residence there, between the 1760s and the 1830s. Collectively they showcase the range of women’s interests and activities in India, and also the variety of narrative forms, voices and personae available to them as travel writers. Some stand squarely in the tradition of Enlightenment ethnography; others show the growing influence of Evangelical beliefs. But all disrupt any lingering stereotypes about women’s passivity, reticence and lack of public agency in this period, when colonial women were not yet as sequestered and debarred from cross-cultural contact as they would later be during the Raj. Their narratives are consequently a useful resource to students and researchers across multiple fields and disciplines, including women’s writing, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of women’s educational and missionary work, and Romantic-era and nineteenth-century literature. This volume includes two texts, Ann Deane, A Tour Through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan (1823) and Julia Maitland, Letters from Madras (1846).
Social Influences on Romantic Relationships
by Christopher R. AgnewHow do we choose a partner to initiate a relationship with, and what makes us stay in a given relationship over time? These questions are most often pursued by scholars with an emphasis on the internal thoughts, feelings, and motivations of individual decision-makers. Conversely, this volume highlights the importance of considering external influences on individual decision-making in close relationships. Featuring contributions from internationally renowned scholars, the volume is divided into two interrelated sections. The first section considers global and societal influences on romantic relationships and the second focuses on social network and communicative influences on romantic relationships. Taken together, this collection helps us to better understand how external factors influence the internal machinations of those involved in intimate relationships.