Circle of love over death

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Magdalene Redekop

"This is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothers parade across the pages of Munro's fiction, playing practical jokes, performing stunts, and dressing in thrift shop disguises that recycle vintage literary images. Paying close attention to their mimicries, Magdalene Redekop studies this parade with the aim of gaining increased understanding of Munro's evolving comic vision. As the outlines of her aesthetic are delineated, it becomes clear that it involves a new way of looking at autobiography and a new way of looking at narrative sequence"--Jacket.

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Leïla Marouane

"La mère rêve pour sa fille d{u2019}instruction et de liberté. On les lui avait promises, à elle, après l{u2019}indépendance algérienne ; elle n{u2019}a connu que les grossesses à répétition, les sévices et les répudiations d{u2019}un mari tyrannique. Mais un été, elle découvre que l{u2019}honneur de la jeune fille a été compromis. Alors la violence longtemps refoulée explose{u2026}"--Page 4 of cover.

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Carolyn Higbie

Using an inscription from the 1st century BC as the starting point, this text studies the ancient Greeks' perception of their past. Drawing on anthropological theory and archaeological and literary evidence, it explores how ancient Greeks reconstructed their past and utilised it in their present.

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Rosemary Sayigh

>Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history. > >Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps, she provides a deeply-moving, grassroots story of how the Palestinians came to be who they are today. In their own voices, Palestinians tell stories of the Nabka and their flight from their homeland. Sayigh's powerful account of Palestinians' economic marginalisation the social and psychological effects of being uprooted and the political oppression which they have faced continues to resonate today. - publisher