Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton MistryThis study the first of its kind situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to produce his distinctive postcolonial fictions.

comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideology and practice of official French republicanism

Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising

” the poet gives voice to a desperate laborer

It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe

the distinct fan groups drawn in by the books and films

A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is essential reading for all students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products

historians of fashion and those interested in theories of warfare and military science

Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975

The volume is rounded out with in-depth reviews of nearly fifty key films – The Hour of the Furnaces

Collectively the authors possess some two hundred years of shared experience in the field

student and popular readership

theologians and scientists have sought to demystify our extraordinary sense-making capabilities and how their attempts are of little help in explaining the intelligibility of the world