UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Speak, bird, speak again: Palestinian Arab folktales Author: Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Literature in Translation \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respect . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Siting translation: history, post-structuralism, and the colonial context Author: Niranjana, Tejaswini 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Southeast Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwrit . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A magic still dwells: comparative religion in the postmodern age Author: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine) 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of re . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Refiguring American film genres: history and theory Author: Browne, Nick Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| Film \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer innovative ways to think about types of films, and patterns within films, in a historical context. Ch . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translation Author: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| History \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women and the war story Author: Cooke, Miriam Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Gender Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European History Publisher's Description: In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| South Asia Publisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Renard the Fox Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Transpacific displacement: ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature Author: Huang, Yunte Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Comparative Literature \| Poetry \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China Publisher's Description: Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropri . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: "Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe Author: Caton, Steven Charles 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| Folklore and Mythology \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: A. Sutzkever: selected poetry and prose Author: Sutzkever, Abraham 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nested games: rational choice in comparative politics Author: Tsebelis, George Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions. Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories Author: Bardhan, Kalpana Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories - stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical struc . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sainthood: its manifestations in world religions Author: Bond, George Doherty 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion \| Comparative Religions \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has b . . . [more] Similar Items