Legenda

When did cultures in the Global South first begin to represent themselves in solidarity with one another? While empires had competed and measured themselves against each other for centuries, it was...

The diversity of Mexican Indigenous Linguistic cultures is a source of national pride. Today's speakers of the Tutunakú, or Totonac, languages are the inheritors of a tradition going back to the rise...

Carved on stone, painted on canvas, wood or porcelain, stitched on fabric, written on parchment or printed on paper, the 109 inscriptions in this unique collection preserve the surviving public...

Characteristically a-syntactic and focusing on the word and poem as object, Brazilian concrete poetry (1950s onward) creatively and often playfully performs a critique of the ways in which we...

The avant-garde in the early-twentieth century planted its flag on the ruins of the day's pieties, with religion a particularly urgent target. Movements such as Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism often...

This volume opens the world of Old Yiddish to scholars and students of Yiddish and Jewish Studies alike. It is a further step to broaden awareness that Yiddish, far from starting with the nineteenth...

In 1935, 230 writers from 38 countries converged on Paris to consider ways of countering the fascist threat to culture. Writers' Block looks beneath the surface to expose the complex wiring that...

The 12th century saw an explosion of interest in the Roman past by authors all over Europe, who were looking for historical templates they could use to model the emerging political and cultural...

From accounts of migration and stories of personal alienation, through the fragmented memories of former incarnations, to fable-like tales of half-breeds and species metamorphosis, Ying Chen's...

?mile Zola (1840-1902) has become one of the most adapted authors of all time, but while much has been made of his adaptation into cinema and theatre, television has largely been overlooked. Yet...