In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature – and modes of literary thinking – as a key resource for such a task.
Pernah jatuh cinta pada seseorang yang luar biasa keren tapi selalu menganggapmu hanya sebagai adik manis yang lucu? Begitulah nasib Anya Abigail selama bertahun-tahun. Gigit jari karena William Anthony yang notabene sohib kakaknya sendiri dan juga vokalis grup band Falling Star yang beken dan keren hanya menganggapnya sebagai adik sohibnya yang harus dijaga. Tadinya Anya sudah mengubur cinta…
Questions concerning the ethical status of children, and their position and their relationships within families, have been widely debated in recent moral philosophy and biomedical ethics, as well as in pedagogic sciences and sociology. This volume is intended to contribute to these interdisciplinary debates from a very specific angle. Combining philosophical, ethical and q…
Siapa yang nggak kenal Lyla Melati? Playgirl dari Fakultas Bahasa Inggris itu terkenal dengan kecantikan dan ciri khasnya yang selalu mengenakan baju warna putih. Sifatnya yang ramah tapi cool bikin cowok-cowok penasaran dan gemar mengejarnya. Mempunyai reputasi sebagai cewek playgirl yang hobi bikin rontok hati para cowok sama sekali bukan masalah bagi Lyla. Baginya, cinta sejati itu omong kos…
Tidak mudah menjadi Kei. Vitiligo membuatnya tidak percaya diri. Warna kulitnya tidak sama dan beberapa helai rambutnya tampak keperakan. Dia sering dipandang aneh dan di-bully teman-teman. Jadi, dia memilih untuk bersahabat hanya dengan cello kesayangannya. Beruntung Kei berkenalan dengan Domi, cowok berkacamata yang kurang-lebih senasib dengannya. Dan suatu hari, mereka sepakat membuat wishl…
Kabar duka datang menghampiri Bianca. Sahabatnya, Zie, meninggal dunia. Kenyataan itu membuat Bianca harus terbang ke New Zealand. Tetapi, bukan hanya duka yang harus Bianca hadapi. Dia dihadapkan pada fakta bahwa dia kembali bertemu Levy Welsh, mantan suaminya. Tentu saja Bianca tidak bisa menghindar. Masa lalunya bersama Levy cukup buruk. Tapi sebuah ciuman yang tak disengaja mengubah keteg…
The present research intends to trace the presence of opera and reconstruct the organisa-tional system in the theatres situated along the coastline of present-day Croatia in the period immediately following the constitution of the first Diet of Dalmatia (1861) until the end of the First World War. The period is sufficiently broad to permit us to understand and define the workings of both the im…
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank r…
The coastal areas of Louisiana have been subject to extreme weather ever since the Mississippi River began to create the Delta land 7000+ years ago (Roberts 1997). The extreme weather first impacted the indigenous population that has lived here for millennia and, over the last 300+ years, multi-ethnic immigrants, refugees and enslaved peoples who settled among them (Owens 2015). Whil…
Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women in India, examining what makes living outside of marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the s…