Naxos 21st Century Classics – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 3

Madhu Krishnan, Doseline Kiguru
Literary Activism in 21st-Century Africa

Drawing on case studies from Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya and Uganda, this open access book explores the ways in which literary activism operates as an essential site of self-making an…

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David Ben-Merre
O

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of "O" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more so, of writing.In poetry circles, "O" is commonly associated with apostrop…

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Nayantara Roy
The Magnificent Ruins

In this "rare feast" of a novel, a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family's ancestral home--and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy)…

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Adam Roberts
Fantasy

One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the …

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Donal Ryan
The Spinning Heart

Winner of the Irish Book Award - Finalist for the Booker PrizeA stunning new paperback edition of the author of The Queen of Dirt Island's poignant debut novel, capturing the madness, anguish, and compass…

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Jesse van Amelsvoort,
Post-National Worlds in Contemporary European Literature

Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith, and Kjell Westö, this book looks at post-national feelings of belonging in contemporary Eu…

lieferbar ab 25.6.2026.

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Anthony Passeron,
Sleeping Children

An intimate, captivating first novel that tells the story of a family in southern France whose lives are intertwined with the history of the AIDS crisis-and with the forgotten French doctors who are among…

lieferbar ab 28.4.2026.

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Modern Iranian Women's Literature

Offering analyses of women's literary production in Iran as well as the Iranian diaspora, this book moves beyond the examination of writing as an act of resistance and explores what women writers have con…

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Pam Morris,
Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class, racial and gender boundaries would suggest it is. From the inhumanity of post-Brexit Britis…

lieferbar ab 30.4.2026.

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Maria Stepanova,
The Disappearing ACT

The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M is inv…

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Svetlana Satchkova
The Undead

"[An] exquisite balance between contentment and foreboding, tranquility and chaos." ---Vogue In this gripping tale of contemporary Russia, a young filmmaker and her friends run afoul of a govern…

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Daniel Cook,
Frankenstein Retold

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings, sequels and coquels following the novel's original publication up to the 21st cent…

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Brinda J Mehta
The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critica…

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Douglas Coupland's Literature and Art

The first collection of scholarly essays about major works across fiction, non-fiction, and visual art by cult writer and artist Douglas Coupland, this book looks at Coupland's work and its interest in to…

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John Miller
Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals …

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Claire Baglin,
On the Clock

Claire Baglin's On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20-year-o…

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John Miller
Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals …

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James Scarth Gale,
Life of the Buddha

Composed in vernacular Korean by Powŏl, P'alsangnok , or Record of the Eight Marks , is an influential pre-modern fictional biography of the Buddha that chronicles the life of Śākyamuni through eight tran…

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Theory as World Literature

The first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa.What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literatu…

lieferbar ab 23.7.2026.

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Emily McAvan,
Pollution Theory

Using speculative modes like science fiction novels, film and modernist painting, this book investigates the ways that pollution has come to define every aspect of material life in the Anthropocene.Offeri…

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