representations of the body in middle english biblical drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and the performativity of gender identity and roles, estella ciobanu argues that studying violence in drama affords insights into the cultural and social aspects of the later middle ages. the text investigates these biblical plays through the perspective of the devil and offers a unique lens that exposes medieval disquiets about christian teachings and the discourse of power. through detailed primary source analysis and multidisciplinary scholarship, ciobanu constructs a text that interrogates the significance of performance far beyond the stage.

propuestas para (re)construir una naci n explores how emilia pardo baz n (1851-1921) imagines and engenders the spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. in the aftermath of spain's colonial losses, when spain's male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, pardo baz n generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. in her plays, she manifests her ideas about spain's fin de si cle crisis, reflects on spain's place in the international arena (emphasizing the nation's civilizing mission), critiques the intoxicating power of the so-called golden legend (spain's glorious past), and sees the origin of the nation's hardship in the lack of education of its inhabitants and in the inequality between men and women.

pardo baz n's vision of spain is forward looking, and she imagines a future in which new social configurations will be possible. instead of locating her plays in an ancestral castile, she situates several of her works in her native galicia. for the author, spain's regional issues are inseparable from the country's national issues and these can all be traced back to the woman question. the playwright appeals to the spectators/readers' reason and emotions in order to let them think and feel that the problems the nation faces can all be attributed to the spanish men. for pardo baz n, spain's potential for national regeneration resides in the inner strength of women.

in cross-fire with the main male players in the literary field of her time, pardo baz n offers her critique of national decadence in plays that cleverly subvert a broad range of by then outdated theatrical conventions, and that introduce the public to new currents of theatrical innovation (ibsen, maeterlinck, d'annunzio).

propuestas offers a new perspective on the participation of female authors in the contentious debate about the spanish nation. pardo baz n's theater is an overlooked area in the author's extensive creative production, and propuestas challenges the so often repeated topic of the backwardness of the spanish stage and the alleged lack of innovation during the fin de si cle.

propuestas para (re)construir una naci n explora c mo emilia pardo baz n (1851-1921) imagina y engendra la naci n espa ola en su producci n teatral finisecular que vio la luz entre 1898 y 1909. a la zaga de la debacle de 1898, cuando la introspecci n colectiva dirige la mirada de los autores hacia la patria, pardo baz n genera una serie de propuestas teatrales para revitalizar la naci n. en sus obras, expone sus ideas sobre la crisis finisecular, reflexiona sobre el lugar de espa a en la arena internacional (enfatizando su misi n civilizadora), critica el poder embriagador de lo que llama la leyenda dorada (el glorioso pasado espa ol) y ve la causa de los males de la patria en la falta de educaci n de sus habitantes y en la desigualdad entre hombres y mujeres.

en vez de enfocarse en el ayer, pardo se imagina un futuro en el que nuevas configuraciones sociales sean posibles. en lugar de ubicar sus obras en una castilla ancestral, sit a varias de sus piezas teatrales en su galicia natal. para la autora los problemas regionales son inseparables de los nacionales y los problemas nacionales son inseparables de la cuesti n de la mujer. la dramaturga apela tanto al raciocinio como a las emociones de sus espectadores/lectores para hacerles pensar y sentir que son los hombres los que constituyen el problema nacional. para pardo baz n la clave de la regeneraci n de espa a se encuentra en la mujer.

en fuego cruzado con los jugadores m's importantes del campo de producci n cultural de su tiempo, pardo baz n ofrece su cr tica de la decadencia nacional en unas obras que reciclan una serie heterog nea de materiales por aquel entonces anticuados que la autora combina de manera inteligente con formas inesperadas que introducen al p blico a nuevas corrientes de innovaci n teatral (ibsen, maeterlinck, d'annunzio).

propuestas ofrece una nueva perspectiva de la participaci n de las autoras femeninas en el contencioso debate sobre la naci n espa ola. dentro de la extensa producci n creadora de la autora, su teatro es un terreno frecuentemente pasado por alto y propuestas desaf a el tan trillado t pico del retraso de la escena espa ola y la supuesta falta de innovaci n durante el fin de siglo.

reimagining how we understand and write about the indigenous listening experience?

hungry listening is the first book to consider listening from both indigenous and settler colonial perspectives. a critical response to what has been called the “whiteness of sound studies,” dylan robinson evaluates how decolonial practices of listening emerge from increasing awareness of our listening positionality. this, he argues, involves identifying habits of settler colonial perception and contending with settler colonialism’s “tin ear” that renders silent the epistemic foundations of indigenous song as history, law, and medicine. 

with case studies on indigenous participation in classical music, musicals, and popular music, hungry listening examines structures of inclusion that reinforce western musical values. alongside this inquiry on the unmarked terms of inclusion in performing arts organizations and compositional practice, hungry listening offers examples of “doing sovereignty” in indigenous performance art, museum exhibition, and gatherings that support an indigenous listening resurgence.

throughout the book, robinson shows how decolonial and resurgent forms of listening might be affirmed by writing otherwise about musical experience. through event scores, dialogic improvisation, and forms of poetic response and refusal, he demands a reorientation toward the act of reading as a way of listening. indigenous relationships to the life of song are here sustained in writing that finds resonance in the intersubjective experience between listener, sound, and space. 

el chavo del ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit latin america in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the americas. it is also a rare example of a cultural product that has travelled through latin america, leaving a lasting impact for several decades.

resonances of el chavo del ocho in latin american childhood, schooling, and societies analyses the phenomenon of el chavo, and its images of schooling and childhood, latin american-ness, class and experience. with contributions from scholars emerging from or based in countries including brazil, mexico, chile, puerto rico, argentina, venezuela, colombia and the us, the book combines reflections from a variety of international perspectives without attempting to compare or reach consensus on any ultimate meaning(s) of the work. the book explores themes such as images of schooling and childhood, romantization of poverty, the prevalence of non-traditional families and the bordering cynicism towards the economic structures and inequalities which, some argue, make the show transgressive and quite uniquely latin american. investigating the connection between visual culture studies and transcultural curriculum studies, this innovative title provides scholars with original new insights into conceptualizing childhood, schooling and society in latin america.

sissi's world offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the habsburg empress elisabeth of austria. it investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in european cultural history.

sissi's world explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving austrian empress, and the queen of hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist.

despite the continuing fascination with "the beloved sissi," the habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. this collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

the battle of leyte gulf was the greatest naval engagement in history. the battle was four separate actions, none of which were fought in the gulf itself, and the result was the destruction of japanese naval power in the pacific. this book is a detailed and comprehensive account of the fighting from both sides. it provides the context of the battle, most obviously in terms of japanese calculations and the search for "a fitting place to die" and "the chance to bloom as flowers of death." using japanese material never previously noted in western accounts, h. p. willmott provides new perspectives on the unfolding of the battle and very deliberately seeks to give readers a proper understanding of the importance of this battle for american naval operations in the following month. this careful interrogation of the accounts of "the last fleet action" is a significant contribution to military history.

the material and intellectual presence of egypt is at the heart of western culture, religion and art from antiquity to the present. this volume aims to provide a long term and interdisciplinary perspective on egypt and its mnemohistory, taking theories on objects and their agency as its main point of departure. the central questions the book addresses are why, from the first millennium bc onwards, things and concepts egyptian are to be found in such a great variety of places throughout european history and how we can account for their enduring impact over time. by taking a radically object-oriented perspective on this question, this book is also a major contribution to current debates on the agency of artefacts across archaeology, anthropology and art history.