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People migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A phenomenon that has real, lived effects on individuals and communities, migration also carries symbolic, ideological significance. Its depiction in literature, film, and other media powerfully shapes worldviews, identities, attitudes toward migrants, and a political
Asian Literatures addresses such subjects as gender imparity in male-dominated professions; the lives of migrant sex workers and caregivers; the fight against reproductive, family, non-partner, and intimate partner violence; and norms of shame and silence surrounding violence against women. Informed by the author's deep knowledge of literature, history, culture, law, and social conditions, this book
“An excellent and important addition to the list of MLA teaching volumes. . . . essential reading [for scholars and students in] South Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, world literatures, Anglophone literatures, postcolonial studies and gender studies.” —South Asia Research
it means to be human. Teaching World Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations. Useful to instructors of literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies, women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural
Africa (147) Michael A. Gomez Teaching the Mongols, Eurasia, and the World (163) Timothy May The Worlds of South Asia (177) Emma J. Flatt Chinese Literature and the World: The Tang, Song, and Yuan Dynasties (194) Yuanfei Wang Teaching the Malay Annals , or Southeast Asia in the World (207) Derek Heng Jewish History or History of the Jews as Global History (218) Eva Haverkamp-Rott Part III: Habitus
World Literature
Voices: Western World Literature in a Learning Community (137) Carol J. Luther Pioneering Cross-Cultural Studies and World Literature at Illinois (145) Michael Palencia-Roth Cultural Encounters in Global Contexts: World Literature as a One-Semester General Education Course (155) John Burt Foster, Jr. World Literature and the Graduate Curriculum (165) Caroline D. Eckhardt “The World’s Story”: Teaching
Poetry World Literature
Drama World Literature
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