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• Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent
• Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives
• Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's
• Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile
• Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru
• Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's
• Passbook Number F.
• Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless
• Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction
• Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila
• Aboulela's Translator and Minaret
• Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua
• Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and
• Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora.

• Politics / Joseph Hone
• Religion / Ian Higgins
• Bodies and gender / Liz Bellamy
• Science, empire, and observation / Gregory Lynall
• Popular fiction / J. A. Downie
• Satire / Pat Rogers
• Travel writing / Dirk F. Passmann
• Philosophical tale / Paddy Bullard
• Advertisements and authorship / Brean Hammond
• A voyage to Lilliput / Melinda Alliker Rabb
• A voyage to Brobdingnag / Nicholas Seager
• A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, &c. / Barbara M. Benedict
• A voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms / Judith Hawley
• Critical reception / Jack Lynch
• Further voyages / Daniel Cook
• Visual culture / Ruth Menzies
• Screen media / Emrys Jones.

Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in 1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style. As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire. Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back' to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.

"Keats and Scepticism explores Keats's affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats's poetry anew in the light of this affinity. It suggests Keats's links with the origin of scepticism in ancient Greece as recorded in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Scepticism. It also discusses Keats's connections with Montaigne, the most important Renaissance inheritor of Pyrrhonian scepticism, Voltaire, the Enlightenment philosophe whose sceptical ideas made an indelible impact on Keats, and Hume, the most thoroughgoing sceptic after antiquity. Other than Keats's affinitive ideas with these sceptical thinkers, this book is particularly interested in Keats's experiments with the peculiar language, forms, modes, and genres of poetry to convey the non-dogmatic philosophy. In this light, it re-reads Isabella, 'La Belle Dame sans Merci', the 1819 odes, the two Hyperions, King Stephen, and Lamia, all of which reveal Keats's self-reflexive and radical sceptical poetics in challenging poetic dogmas and conventions. This book is for Keats lovers, students, teachers, scholars, or non-academic readers who are interested in Romanticism, nineteenth-century studies, or poetry and philosophy in general. The original, accessible interdisciplinary study aims to offer the reader a fresh perspective to read Keats and appreciate the quintessential Keatsian poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

• The maternal image of God in Victorian culture: sympathy, prophecy, nature
• Faces of the Madonna in Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction: feminist justice and the matriarchal divine
• George Macdonald's fairy god mothers: romantic religion, female vocation, and maternalist communities
• Josephine Butler, esoteric Christianity and the biblical motherhood of God
• "The big good thing": Frances Hodgson Burnett's gospel of maternal optimism and Demetrian utopia
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "maternal pantheism": religion in utopian motherlands 1889-1915.

• A valuable education
• Elementary geometry
• Autopia
• The denial of death
• Neighbourhood fascism.

"This book proposes that Ballard's novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centered around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surrealist predicaments in postwar affluent Western societies, Ballard's novels reminds us of the fragile veneer of order in the familiar every day. In these moments of crisis, complacent characters are compelled to undergo a process of defamiliarisation and transformation of their understanding of the self and the body. The ability to form new relationships with the unfamiliar is imperative to survival in a hostile environment. Ballard delineates both the possibilities and obstacles of forming these relationships. In particular, the author attributes the failure to do so to the irreconcilable contradictions of late capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

• Virgin ghost on the North Korean border
• When I stopped eating Earth
• Bring down the house
• Storyteller
• Me, myself, and Mole
• The spy who writes yellow
• Confessions of an ordinary marriage
• 8 lives of a century-old trickster.

"Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the "trickster." Inspired by the story of Lee's great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster consists of eight dark and spellbinding chapters that follow this remarkable character and her family as they struggle to survive during the most turbulent times of modern Korean history. Mirinae Lee's trickster is a shapeshifter--throughout the course of these interconnected chapters she is a slave, an escape artist, a murderer, a terrorist, a spy, a lover, and a mother--a woman who must often choose the unthinkable to survive war and conquest in Korea. Her story is a beguiling, complex tale of love and survival that will keep you riveted--and speculating--until the very end thanks to Lee's brilliant talent for sleight of hand. A fascinating look at survival, trauma, and family, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is an incredible literary debut from a bright new talent."-- Publisher's website.

How do you find the courage to make your own life? Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly and absolutely for eighteen-year-old Simon Hurst, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simon's plans are blown off course, he leaves for Paris and Marianne is forced to bury her dreams of a future together. It is Marianne who tells this piercing story of first love, characterising herself as ignorant and unworthy, whilst her smart, ironic narration tellingly reveals so much more. Finding her way in 1960s Chelsea, and supported by her courageous Scottish friend, Petronella, she continues to seek the life she never stops craving. And in Paris, beneath his blithe exterior, Simon Hurst continues to nurse the secret which will alter everything.

"The poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy. act normal starts in an institution where children categorized and constructed as intellectually inferior are placed into custodial care. These poems are inquisitive, articulating the entanglements of lives across categories of difference - particularly the lives of those who as children were considered to be other or less than human. Drawing upon conversations, archival materials, court cases, legislation, transcripts, and case histories, among others, nancy davis halifax's poems destabilize categories of meaning - understanding disability and difference as "undecidability." act normal is a movement of "feelingthought," unsettling normative expectations and inviting readers to re-orient from the normative task of assuming the safety of consensual interpretation, while risking, cherishing, and performing non-indifference."-- Provided by publisher.

"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"-- Provided by publisher