California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream Radio playsCalifornia Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the California dream of happiness in a land of new beginnings has been maintained by suppression of disturbing realities: above all, the destruction of native peoples;
This book is the first full-length companion to the film
which also includes two essays on aspects of intertextuality in Gulf literature
the play tells the story of friar Albert and his seduction of a Venetian merchant’s wife by posing as the God Cupid
‘Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India’ analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur
The first study of how the art market developed in London and made the city the capital of the international trade in art
which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self
Using detailed case histories of the UK
the challenge of greening capitalism and addressing regional inequalities
The book examines how students who learn to write plays and work with a professional playwright in residence empower themselves and gives instructors tools for teaching the process of playwriting in a way that makes space for the student voice
films and filmmakers
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Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual
