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Relief after Hardship
The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days
A revisit of early texts that helped shape Middle Eastern folktales and narratives.
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The Enchanted Boot
Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.
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ISBN: 9780814349205
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ISBN: 9780814334751
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ISBN: 9780814349212
Woman Up
Invoking Feminism in Quality Television
Critically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television.
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ISBN: 9780814346556
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ISBN: 9780814346563
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ISBN: 9780814346570
Hawaii Five-O
A lively examination of the classic 1960s American crime show.
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ISBN: 9780814344323
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ISBN: 9780814344330
100 Years of the Detroit Historical Society
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and evolution of a cultural institution in Detroit.
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ISBN: 9780814348871
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ISBN: 9780814348888
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Jewish Cultural Studies
Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.
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ISBN: 9780814348284
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ISBN: 9780814338759
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ISBN: 9780814338766
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Scratching the Surface
Adventures in Storytelling
The inspiring story of one of Detroit’s most creative and prolific storytellers.
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ISBN: 9780814344743
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ISBN: 9780814344750
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures
New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.
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ISBN: 9780814345351
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ISBN: 9780814345368
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ISBN: 9780814345375
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101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.
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ISBN: 9780814347744
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ISBN: 9780814347737
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ISBN: 9780814347751
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The Burden
African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
Examines the continued emotional, economic, and cultural enslavement of African Americans in the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 9780814348314
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ISBN: 9780814345153
Greening the Black Urban Regime
The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit
Describes the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit.
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ISBN: 9780814346501
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ISBN: 9780814346518
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ISBN: 9780814346525
African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness
Employs an interdisciplinary critical approach to discuss a selected group of black-oriented films.
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ISBN: 9780814345498
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ISBN: 9780814345481
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ISBN: 9780814345504
Things People Say About Detroit
A Collection of Quotes as Told to the Nain Rouge
Detroit's fabled gnome, the Nain Rouge, shares his favorite quotes about Detroit as told to him by celebrities and noted historical figures.
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ISBN: 9780997391664
Toast of the Town
The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson
The life and times of Sunnie Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years.
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ISBN: 9780814343876
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ISBN: 9780814343883
Survival and Regeneration
Detroit’s American Indian Community
Survival and Regeneration tells the story of Detroit's significant and oft-forgotten Native American community.
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ISBN: 9780814343326
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ISBN: 9780814343333
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Brewed in Michigan
The New Golden Age of Brewing in the Great Beer State
A celebration of Michigan craft beer.
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ISBN: 9780814342107
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ISBN: 9780814342114
Mother Goose Refigured
A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales
Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.
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ISBN: 9780814338926
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ISBN: 9780814338933
Cinderella across Cultures
New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Examines the tale of Cinderella as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions.
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ISBN: 9780814341551
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ISBN: 9780814341568
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West
Brings contemporary Japanese literary and artistic fairy-tale adaptations into conversation with Euro-American feminist fairy-tale re-creation and scholarship.
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ISBN: 9780814339497
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ISBN: 9780814339503
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Erotic Infidelities
Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber
Explores the peculiar enchantments at the heart of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Carter’s commitment to imagining unforeseen possibilities for heterosexual love and desire.
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ISBN: 9780814339336
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ISBN: 9780814339343