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Free Download Soviet Samizdat : Imagining a New Society
by Ann Komaromi
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1501763598 | 318 Pages | True ePUB | 4.5 MB

Free Download Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King By Emma Bridges
2015 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1474260721 | PDF | 4 MB
Hailed by Tom Holland as a ‘fascinating and compendious survey of ancient attitudes to Xerxes’ and now available in paperback, Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes’ afterlives within the ancient literary tradition and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts.This Persian king, who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks’ historical encounter with Xerxes – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to the king in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court.Emma Bridges examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus’ tragic play Persians and Herodotus’ historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes’ image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition.

Free Download Andrea S. Wiley, "Re-imagining Milk: Cultural and Biological Perspectives"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0415806569, 0415806577 | PDF | pages: 138 | 23.6 mb
Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk; biological variation in human populations; political and economic processes that inform dietary policies, nutrition education, and current trends in globalization; the utility of a biocultural approach to the study of food; the cultural construction of a commodity that is consumed by many students on a daily basis, or if not, certainly is one that students "know" they "should" consume daily.

Free Download Griselda Pollock, "Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting"
English | ISBN: 1526164175 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 35 MB
What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?

Free Download Achille Mbembe, "The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings "
English | ISBN: 1509551093 | 2023 | 308 pages | PDF | 17 MB
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Often arising in unexpected places, these new forms of life materialize in practices that draw deeply from collective memory while simultaneously assuming distinctly contemporary, even futuristic, guises.

Free Download Kori Doty, "The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary"
English | ISBN: 1772583588 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary is an edited collection that works to identify and deconstruct many of the countless binaries that operate within the realms of parenting and reproduction. Weaving poetry, speculative fiction, and autobiography, with interviews, critical analysis and research, the authors take as their starting place that there is magical potential and possibility in the ambiguous, disorienting spaces of the in-between and the beyond. The collection challenges the constructedness of binaries connected to sex, gender, sexuality, and parenting roles, as well as the cis-, hetero-, repro-, trans- and amatonormativities which pervasively circulate and inform how we think about parenting and reproductive life. The collection amplifies the voices of non-binary authors among others, and tells stories of menstruation, pregnancy, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, fertility preservation, parenthood, and activism in the face of violent binaries and reproductive injustices.

Free Download Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land by Philip Hutch , Elaine Stratford
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 236 Pages | ISBN : 9819954185 | 62 MB
This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and colony, place and migration, and people’s lives. They remain intriguing through-lines of global significance and local meaning.