Spotlights
- The Migration Factor in US History from the Civil War Era to the Present
- Nomadisms: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership
- Cricles and Lines
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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...
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Nomadisms: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership
SpotlightRead MoreThe topic of the 2023 conference was Nomadisms, a concept that provided a pro-active, large academic platform that helped rebuild lost ties, find new and strengthen the existing ones. The topic also alluded to the circumstances of the partnership communities of Canadian and Hungarian scholars, alternatively moving between Szeged and Winnipeg in the past decades but also the the exchange of ideas, projects, texts that happened between and among colleages throughout the years.
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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...
