The Kaleidoscope of women's sounds in music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries / by Koay, Kheng K.

Table of Contents: “…Women composers and modern society -- Creativity, reception to and background of the composers -- Bold sound colors and space: Sofia Gubaidulina, Quaternion ; Joan Tower, String quartet no. 2, In memory -- Straddling classical and American vernacular idioms: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Millennium fantasy ; Libby Larsen, Four on the floor -- The cross-over and national influences: Chen Yi, Ba Yin ; Judith Weir, Distance and enchantment.…”
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Evidence of things not seen : fantastical Blackness in genre fictions / by Frederick, Rhonda D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Fourth : Multigenre : Seeing white : Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad -- 5. Fifth : Fantasy, short story : Fantastically Black woman : Nalo Hopkinson's "A Habit of Waste" -- Epilogue.…”
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Trials of Arab modernity : literary affects and the new political / by El-Ariss, Tarek

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : debating modernity -- Fantasy of the imam -- Aversion to civilization -- Staging the colonial encounter -- Majnun strikes back -- Hacking the modern -- Conclusion : writing the new political.…”
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Disability, literature, genre : representation and affect in contemporary fiction / by Cheyne, Ria

Table of Contents: “…Science Fiction -- Disability and Wonder -- Science Fiction and Wonder -- Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga -- Affective Uncertainty : Peter Watts's Rifters Trilogy -- Conclusion -- 4. Fantasy. Affirmation and Enchantment -- Disability in Fantasy -- Metanarratives and the Mega-Novel : George R.R. …”
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Remembering Africa : the rediscovery of colonialism in contemporary German literature / by Göttsche, Dirk, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…From colonial fantasies to postcolonial memory : historical and theoretical parameters -- Remembering German colonialism -- Rewriting colonialism in cross-cultural and transcultural perspective -- Remapping the history of European colonialism -- From the past to the present and back : colonial history and family history -- German (post)colonial memory in perspective.…”
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Facing it : epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature / by Killingsworth, M. Jimmie

Table of Contents: “…End of a world -- Influence and confluence: family, nature, war -- Ecology then: the lake of tears -- Dispelling dejà vu, part one -- Dispelling dejà vu, part two -- Defying apocalypse -- Apocalypse redux and the fate of sustainability -- No illusions, no fantasy, no melodrama: the legacy of Rachel Carson -- Epiphany matters -- Imagination wild and tame: the smell of money -- The presence of roadkill -- Reprise. …”
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Unmaking love : the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union / by Shelden, Ashley T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: unmaking love -- Lesbian fantasy: psychoanalysis, the legacy of modernist love, and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood -- The ends of love: amorous redemption, the passion for negativity, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Hanif Kureishi's intimacy -- Amorous time: nostalgia, temporality, and the pursuit of optimism in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- Cosmopolitan love: encountering difference in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled -- Conclusion: "any generic airport thriller": otherness, Cloud atlas, and contemporary literature.…”
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Chasing Lolita : how popular culture corrupted Nabokov's little girl all over again / by Vickers, Graham

Table of Contents: “…The real life of Dolores Haze : just the facts -- Casebooks and fantasies : Dolores Haze's oft-told tale -- A very 1950s scandal : hurricane Lolita -- Lolita in movieland 1 : little victims and little princesses -- Lolita in movieland 2 : "pedophilia is a hard sell" -- On the road : Lolita's moving prison -- Take one : how did they ever make a film of Lolita? …”
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American boarding school fiction, 1981-2021 : inclusion and scandal / by Pitofsky, Alexander H.

Table of Contents: “…Hawley's The Headmaster's Papers -- Ethan Canin's 'The Palace Thief': A Lifetime at School -- The Limits of Post-Blackness: Martha Southgate's The Fall of Rome -- Women Without Men: Carol Goodman's The Lake of Dead Languages -- 'Schools Like Ours Are Vulnerable to Criticism': Tobias Wolff's Old School -- Behind the Ivy-Armored Walls: Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep -- 'A Long-Held Academic Fantasy': The Generation Gap in Anita Shreve's Testimony -- Children of the Top 1 Percent: Amber Dermont's The Starboard Sea -- Conclusion: An Ongoing Reinvention.…”

Mad mädchen : feminism and generational conflict in recent German literature and film / by McCarthy, Margaret, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- German Feminisim in the 2000s: Brains, Bodies, and Bridges; Chapter 2 -- Lost Objects, Monsters, and Melancholia in Zöe Jenny's The Pollen Room, Alexa Hennig von Lange's Relax, and Elke Naters's Lies; Chapter 3 -- Dialogical and Borderline Selfhood in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011); Chapter 4 -- Girls Gone Wild: Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermaier, and Feminist Fantasies of '68.…”
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After the celebration : Australian fiction 1989-2007 / by Gelder, Ken, 1955-

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50 years of Rolling stone /

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Building children's worlds : the representation of modern architecture and modernity in picturebooks /

Table of Contents: “…Urban Space -- Highly Modern Ideal Homestead / Lucie Glasheen -- Architecture and Magic: Mapping the London of Children's Fantasy Fiction / Madison McLeod -- Ordinary cityscapes and architecture in Jörg Müller's picturebook oeuvre / Jörg Meibauer.…”

How to read African American literature : post-Civil Rights fiction and the task of interpretation / by Levy-Hussen, Aida, 1981-

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Antarctica in British children's literature / by Moriarty, Sinéad

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Underground modernity : urban poetics in East-Central Europe, pre- and post-1989 / by Kliems, Alfrun, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Topol Brothers' Psí vojáci Songs -- Romani and Vietnamese in Prague: Jáchym Topol Bids Farewell to the Tripolis Praga -- A Detour to Moscow: Vladimir Makanin's Underground Fantasies, or the Snare of the Subterranean -- 'Cherboslovats, Romongolians, Sweeks': Yuri Andrukhovych's Moscow as a 'Junkspace' of Cultures -- Planar Cities and Their Urban Devastation: Andrzej Stasiuk's Post-Socialist Warsaw -- Aggressive Localism: Andrzej Stasiuk and Yuri Andrukhovych as Secretaries of the Provincial -- Backstory 'Metropolis, Mass, Meat Factory': Tot Art, the Orange Alternative, and Other Chefs of the 'Semantic Porridge' -- 'It All Started in Gdańsk!'…”
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In the lurch : verbatim theater and the crisis of democratic deliberation / by Claycomb, Ryan M., 1974-

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The Novel in German since 1990. by Taberner, Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 Monika Maron's Endmoränen (End Moraines)Notes; Chapter 7 Martin Walser's Ein springender Brunnen (A Gushing Fountain); Authorial commentary -- presenting the past; Narrative perspective; 'The miracle of Wasserburg' -- realism or fantasy?; Anti-Semitism and the German-Jewish relationship; bildungsroman; The end of the novel: Johann and Wolfgang; Notes; Chapter 8 Michael Kleeberg's Ein Garten im Norden (A Garden in the North); Notes; Chapter 9 Christian Kracht's Faserland (Frayed-Land); Notes; chapter 10 Elfriede Jelinek's Gier (Greed); Gier as anti-novel.…”
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Generational shifts in contemporary German culture /

Table of Contents: “…""7: Ghostly Sisters: Feminist Legacies inS econd-Generation Perspectives on West German Terrorism Judith Kuckart's Wahl der Waffen (1990) and Kaiserstraße (2006)""; ""8: The Generation Gap: The Reappropriation of the Red Army Faction in Contemporary German Film""; ""Part 3: East German Pasts""; ""9: Post-Communist Fantasies: Generational Conflict in Eastern German Literature""; ""10: From Father, from Son: Generational Perspectives in Christoph Hein's Mama ist gegangen (2003) and Jakob Hein's Vielleicht ist es sogar schön (2004)""…”
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