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The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture. This title explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture. It offers a decade-by-decade discussion of the relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state.

A book-length poem that pounds the pavement of the New Jersey Turnpike, driving through America - past land-fills and wetlands and weapons labs - under the towering shadows of engines, oil, and war.

Explores the history of the park land, from its importance to Native Americans and early European settlers through the 20th century. This work relates the role of conservationists and progressives in establishing the state park, its popularity for tourism and recreation, and efforts to protect the park's resources from a variety of threats.

Presents the oral traditions, legends, speeches, myths, histories, literature, and historically significant documents of the twelve independent bands and Indian Nations of Wisconsin. This anthology introduces us to a group of voices, enhanced by many maps, photographs, and chronologies.

Demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Countee Cullen - have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca. This study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America's cultural integrity.

Reveals the play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: to sex, money, and family structure; to masculinity and social standing; to senility and partying; and to jokes, lies, and idiocy. This work includes comprehensive commentary, useful indexes, and a pronunciation guide.

The ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the world's indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust. Although the story of the St. Louis is well known, the actual fates of the passengers has slipped into hi

Recounts the events of the previous fall when the protagonist was suspected of killing Isabel Vittorio, the chair of her department and her former lover. This book dramatizes how communities can create the very climate of mistrust and paranoia that victimizes them.

After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, the author embarks on a journey with no ports of call but emotional landscapes. She invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.

Focuses on four of the most insightful British commentators on America between 1890 and 1950. This work examines the New World experiences of these commentators and the books they wrote about America. It also probes similar writings by other observers from the British Isles, including Beatrice Webb, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw.

Describes how, with homemade equipment and ideas developed from scratch, 9XM endured many struggles and became a tangible example of "the Wisconsin Idea," bringing the educational riches of the university to the state's residents. This book is based on archival materials dating back to the early twentieth century.

Combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. This work finds a balance between past and present and examines how dance practices are core identity and cultural creators.

Part travel adventure through a little-known world and part ethnography, exploring how Zapotec women earned their legendary status in a remote corner of southern Mexico. This work tackles a primal question: what would life be like if women, rather than men, had the advantage?

Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, ""The Country Girls"", award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts that allow for an appraisal of her contribution to Irish women's literary tradition while attesting to the potency of writing against patriarchal conventions.

Analyzes Stanley Kubrick's films from a variety of perspectives. This is a study of one of the controversial filmmakers of the twentieth century. It ends with three viewpoints on Kubrick's final film, ""Eyes Wide Shut"", placing it in the contexts of film history, the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and the sociology of sex and power.

Includes short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages). This work provides glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded children.

How are we to think and act constructively in the face of today's environmental and political catastrophes? Gail Stenstad finds answers in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Stenstad's writing enacts Heidegger's transformative way of thinking; and brings new insight into contemporary environmental, political, and personal issues.

A biography of the major American writer of novels and short stories - Sherwood Anderson. In the first volume of this two-volume work, the author chronicles the life of Anderson. The second volume covers Anderson's return to business pursuits, and his extensive travels in the South, touring factories.

Hannah inherits her uncle's rundown resort and heads to the northwoods to sell the business. The only interested buyer is Ingold, a mining company. Trapped in a dispute between Ingold and Uncle Hal's friends, she reluctantly operates the resort and encounters the inevitability of change, in herself and in the nostalgic landscape of the deep North.

Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution, this book tells the fascinating story of these individuals' return to canonical status during the darkest days of the Stalin era. It also features pieces on literary and cultural history, film, opera, and theater.

Offers insightful strategies addressing virtually several aspects of writing a magazine article for publication. Designed to be useful for both experienced magazine writers, and those seeking to break into the magazine-writing industry, this handbook provides a step-by-step approach taking the reader through every stage of the publication process.

In post-WWII America, stranger to her own past, Colette Inez survives a harrowing adolescence and a menacing, abusive adoptive family by defining her solace in a passion for literature. This memoir, spans two continents, a trail of discovery, and a buried secret that allowed her to reconcile her past, present and finally come of age as an artist.

Aims to challenge conventional theories of economic development, with a comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and Congo, from pre- to post-colonial times. Interweaving oral traditions, songs, and interviews, as well archival research, this tale an analysis of economic and social transformations, and a study of comparative politics.

Ivan, a young Jewish boy from Milwaukee, embarks on a journey of sexual discovery that leads him from Wisconsin to Alaska, Philadelphia, and Mexico through stints as a fishery worker, artist, and finally a hustler who learns to provide the blank canvas for other people's dreams.

Through the vodun sanctuary kept by Frances Boullet, her diary, and the novel flow tales of trading; piracy; colonization; slave life at a plantation; an Indian bride's miraculous legacy from the time of the Seminole Wars; Haitian uprisings and inter-American conflict; and murders, births, and hauntings in Reconstruction times and after.

Between 1922 and 1966 - most of the first fifty years after independence - the population of Ireland was falling, in the 1950s as rapidly as in the 1880s. This book examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others who agonized over their nation's ""slow failure.

A fiction in which Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town.

Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman. So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, and Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for Monster. This engaging and generously illustrated study explores the depiction of female prostitute characters and prostitution in world cinema, from the silent era to the present-day industry. From the woman with control over her own destiny to the woman who cannot get away from her pimp, Russell Campbell shows the diverse representations of prostitutes in film. Marked Women classifies fifteen recurrent character types and three common narratives, many of them with their roots in male fantasy. The "Happy Hooker," for example, is the liberated woman whose only goal is to give as much pleasure as she receives, while the "Avenger," a nightmare of the male imagination, represents the threat of women taking retribution for all the oppression they have suffered at the hands of men. The "Love Story," a common narrative, represents the prostitute as both heroine and anti-heroine, while "Condemned to Death" allows men to manifest, in imagination only, their hostility toward women by killing off the troubled prostitute in an act of cathartic violence. The figure of the woman whose body is available at a price has fascinated and intrigued filmmakers and filmgoers since the very beginning of cinema, but the manner of representation has also been highly conflicted and fiercely contested. Campbell explores the cinematic prostitute as a figure shaped by both reactionary thought and feminist challenges to the norm, demonstrating how the film industry itself is split by fascinating contradictions.

Robert Louis Stevenson was the author of ""Treasure Island"". This work looks, with varied critical approaches, at his literary production and unites to confer scholarly legitimacy on this writer. It says that Stevenson reinvented the ""personal essay"" and the ""walking tour essay,"" in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance.