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The bedroom : an intimate history
\"The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives--the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot's engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom--birth, sex, illness, death--in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.\"--From front jacket flap
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The Spaces of Violence
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in 10 contemporary American novels. James R. Giles examines 10 novels for the unique ways they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction , Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God , Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle , Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina , Don DeLillo’s End Zone , Denis Johnson’s Angels , Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer , Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers , and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho . These stories take place in settings as diverse as small towns, college campuses, suburbs, the brokerage houses and luxury apartments of Wall Street, football stadiums, Appalachian hills, and America’s no-man’s-land of Greyhound bus stations and highways. Violence, Giles finds, is mythological and ritual in many of these novels, whereas it is treated as systemic and naturalistic in others. Giles locates each of the novels he studies on a continuum from the mythological to the naturalistic and argues that they represent a fourthspace at the margins of physical, social, and psychological space, a territory at the cultural borders of the mainstream. These textual spaces are so saturated with violence that they suggest little or no potential for change and affirmation and are as degraded as the physical, social, and mental spaces out of which they emerge.A concluding chapter extends the focus of The Spaces of Violence to texts by Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Chuck Palahniuk, who treat the destructive effects of violence on family structures.
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News and Geolocated Social Media Accurately Measure Protest Size Variation
Larger protests are more likely to lead to policy changes than small ones are, but whether or not attendance estimates provided in news or generated from social media are biased is an open question. This letter closes the question: news and geolocated social media data generate accurate estimates of protest size variation. This claim is substantiated using cellphone location data from more than 10 million individuals during the 2017 United States Women’s March protests. These cellphone estimates correlate strongly with those provided in news media as well as three size estimates generated using geolocated tweets, one text-based and two based on images. Inferences about protest attendance from these estimates match others’ findings about the Women’s March.
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Writing Islands
How contemporary Cuban writers build transnational
communities
In Writing Islands , Elena Lahr-Vivaz employs methods
from archipelagic studies to analyze works of contemporary Cuban
writers on the island alongside those in exile. Offering a new lens
to explore the multiplicity of Cuban space and identity, she argues
that these writers approach their nation as part of a larger,
transnational network of islands. Introducing the term
\"arcubiélago\" to describe the spaces created by Cuban writers, both
on the ground and in print, Lahr-Vivaz illuminates how
transnational communities are forged and how they function across
space and time.
Lahr-Vivaz considers how poets, novelists, and essayists of the
1990s and 2000s built interconnected communities of readers through
blogs, state-sponsored book fairs, informal methods of book
circulation, and intertextual dialogues. Book chapters offer
in-depth analyses of the works of writers as different as Reina
María Rodríguez, known for lyrical poetry, and Zoé Valdés, known
for strident critiques of Fidel Castro. Incorporating insights from
on-site interviews in Cuba, Spain, and the United States,
Lahr-Vivaz analyzes how writers maintained connections materially,
through the distribution of works, and metaphorically, as their
texts bridge spaces separated by geopolitics.
Through a decolonizing methodology that resists limiting Cuba to
a distinct geographic space, Writing Islands investigates
the nuances of Cuban identity, the creation of alternate spaces of
identity, the potential of the Internet for artistic expression,
and the transnational bonds that join far-flung communities.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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Geography and the production of space in nineteenth-century American literature
\"In Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Hsuan L. Hsu examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces ranging from the single-family home to the globe. He focuses on authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Sarah Orne Jewett, who drew on literary tools such as rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different kinds of spaces. These authors used forms such as the regional sketch, the domestic novel, and the detective story to re-examine how local spaces and communities would change when incorporated into global economic and political networks. Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature is valuable reading for American literature scholars, and for all concerned with intersections between literature and geography\"--Provided by publisher.
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Commemorative city-texts: Spatio-temporal patterns in street names in Leipzig, East Germany and Poznań, Poland
This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparative longitudinal study on changes in the urban toponymy of Leipzig (Germany) and Poznań (Poland) over a period of 102 years. Our analysis combines memory studies, linguistic landscape (LL) research and critical toponymy with GIS visualization techniques to explore (turnovers in) naming practices across time and space. The key difference between the two localities lies in the commemorative pantheon of referents—events, people, and places inscribed as traces of a hegemonic national past—that are replaced when commemorative priorities change. Other patterns are common to both study sites. Notably, in both Poznań and Leipzig, peaks of renaming occur at the threshold of regime change, after which commemorative renaming activity subsides. We report on our findings and propose methodological guidelines for analyzing street renaming from a longitudinal, transnational, and interdisciplinary perspective. (Collective memory, critical toponymy, memoryscape, linguistic landscapes, encoding of ideology, comparative analysis of Eastern Europe, longitudinal analysis, commemoration, GIS visualization)*
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Beyond the Locked Door: Hikikomori Through a Clinical Lens
Hikikomori, first identified in Japan, refers to individuals who withdraw from society and confine themselves to their homes, often remaining isolated in their bedrooms. Those affected typically disengage from education, employment, and daily activities, leading to significant functional impairment. While initially considered a culture-bound syndrome, growing evidence in recent decades suggests that hikikomori is a global phenomenon. Individuals with this condition often come into contact with healthcare systems through legal interventions. Here, we present two cases of Portuguese males with hikikomori syndrome who have committed sexual crimes.
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