Spotlights
- Cricles and Lines
- Continuities and Discontinuities in Intercultural Dialogues
- The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
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Cricles and Lines
SpotlightRead MoreThis book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin’s (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle—across planets, across identities, across the very boundaries of time—and explores the diverse implications of her protagonists’ voyages, as acts of escape, confrontation, healing, and transformation. Through close readings of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Telling, and the late stories that reflect on and challenge the traditional quest formula, it argues that Le Guin’s characters are frequently denied the possibility of return, and must...
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Continuities and Discontinuities in Intercultural Dialogues
SpotlightRead MoreContinuities and Discontinuities in Intercultural Dialogues: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership is the third volume of the partnership between the University of Manitoba and the University of Szeged. In 2026, we celebrate twenty-two years from the initiation of the Manitoba–Szeged cooperation and we are thrilled to see our partnership not only surviving but indeed thriving throughout the years. This long period of time reflects, among many other things, a significant commitment on both sides that prospers on trust, effort and conscious joint nurturing of a...
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The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
SpotlightRead MoreThis collection of studies aims to provide an overview of the intersection of migration and U.S. history—without claiming to be an exhaustive survey of this very broad field—and represents a well-researched, interesting, and detailed investigation of issues related to the correlation of migration and politics. The prevailing mode of analysis, which explores attitudes, mentalities, and how they shape the political arena, works well and represents a valid historiographical choice on the part of the author. The sections dealing with the United States within the chapter on global border...
