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1909-, Bacon Francis, and Sutherland Graham Vivian 1903-, eds. Bacon and Sutherland: Patterns of affinity in British culture of the 1940s. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005.
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Petrantoni, Giuseppe. Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-507-0.
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The impact of the Hellenization in the Ancient Near East resulted in a notable presence of Greek koiné language and culture and in the interaction between Greek and Nabataean that conducted inhabitants to engrave inscriptions in public spaces using one of the two languages or both. In this questionably ‘diglossic’ situation, a significant number of Nabataean-Greek inscriptions emerged, showing that the koin was employed by the Nabataeans as a sign of Hellenistic cultural affinity. This book offers a linguistic and philological analysis of fifty-one Nabataean-Greek epigraphic evidences existing in northern Arabia, Near East and Aegean Sea, dating from the first century BCE to the third-fourth century CE. This collection is an analysis of the linguistic contact between Nabataean and Greek in the light of the modalities of social, religious and linguistic exchanges. In addition, the investigation of onomastics (mainly the Nabataean names transcribed in Greek script) might allow us to know more about the Nabataean phonological system.
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Löwy, Michael. Redemption and utopia: Jewish libertarian thought in Central Europe : a study in effective affinity. London: Athlone Press, 1992.
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Löwy, Michael. Redemption and Utopia: Jewish libertarian thought in Central Europe : a study in elective affinity. London: Athlone Press, 1992.
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Löwy, Michael. Redemption and utopia: Jewish libertarian thought in Central Europe : a study in elective affinity. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1992.
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Meli, Marco, ed. Le norme stabilite e infrante. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-777-1.
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Le norme stabilite e infrante. Saggi italo-tedeschi in prospettiva linguistica, letteraria e interculturale raccoglie saggi di carattere linguistico-letterario che analizzano aspetti della scrittura di autori quali Vasari e Goethe, forme di comunicazione moderna, e aspetti teorici e normativi del linguaggio. Altri saggi si concentrano sull’opera di autori italiani del Novecento (Pirandello e Atzeni), indagandone la dimensione dell’intertestualità e polifonia dei linguaggi. Vengono inoltre studiati il rapporto tra poesia concreta e poesia visiva, nonché la tecnica espressiva del linguaggio in ambito cinematografico. Il volume si chiude con un’analisi delle caratteristiche della politica culturale di entrambi i paesi, illuminandone affinità e divergenze.
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Lombardi, Sara, ed. Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-893-4.
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La raccolta delle Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo rilegge il percorso culturale e poetico dell’autrice alla luce delle affinità con gli scrittori cattolici fiorentini, del legame con la terra dell’originario Mugello, della formazione di anglista, del lavoro critico, della costante fedeltà alla poesia (dagli esordi poetici con La sabbia e l’angelo nel 1946, fino all’ultima prova, Anelli del tempo del 1993). Il volume raccoglie le lettere che tra il 1968 e il 1989 la Guidacci scrisse a Machiedo, poeta, traduttore e insigne italianista croato, a cui la legavano comuni interessi culturali e una profonda amicizia. Il carteggio, riccamente annotato, consente di chiarire la genesi delle opere e permette il recupero di testi poetici difficilmente reperibili in Italia.
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Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale. O'Reilly Media, 2016.
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Smith, Abraham. The Bible in African American Culture. Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258849.013.12.
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The chapter explores the motivations for the use of the Christian Bible in distinctive temporal arcs within African American culture. Initially, the chapter acknowledges the oddity of an African American affinity with the Bible because that Bible was deployed to support the enslavement and perpetual exploitation of African descendants in the British colonies that later became the United States. Then, it articulates three reasons for the aforementioned affinity: the availability of the Bible (especially the King James Bible) to provide a language world for personal and collective expression; the versatility or pliability of the Bible in the imagination of African Americans as they repeatedly and creatively read their own identities through the struggles of the characters of the Bible; and the perceived persuasiveness of the Bible in some of the heated debates with which the larger US public has been engaged since its inception.
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Roberts, Lee M., and Joanne Miyang Cho. Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea: Affinity in Culture and Politics Since the 1880s. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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Who Is My Neighbor?: Social Affinity in a Modern World (Suny Series in the Sociology of Culture). State University of New York Press, 1999.
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Hodges, Bert H. Conformity and Divergence in Interactions, Groups, and Culture. Edited by Stephen G. Harkins, Kipling D. Williams, and Jerry Burger. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859870.013.3.
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Humans have a natural affinity for conformity and coordination that is essential to culture, to groups, and to dialogical relationships. It is equally true that the dynamics of relationships, groups, and culture depend on tendencies to diverge, to differentiate, and to dissent. Evidence from anthropology, as well as social, developmental, and cognitive psychology, reveals remarkably convergent accounts of the complex interplay of divergence and convergence in an array of contexts. Conversational alignment, synchrony, mimicry, imitation, majority-minority dynamics, dissent, trust, intra- and cross-cultural diversity, social learning, and the formation and development of cultures all reveal complex patterns of selectivity and fidelity that continue to surprise researchers. The general pattern is one illustrated by young children: They are most willing to be guided by those who tell the truth and those who care about others. Issues of convergence and divergence are fundamental social phenomena, and they deserve fresh attention.
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Vela-McConnell, James A. Who Is My Neighbor?: Social Affinity in a Modern World (S U N Y Series in the Sociology of Culture). State University of New York Press, 1999.
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Division, Akzo Coatings, Hanselaar Marcelle, De Westenholz Caroline, Rabobank Nederland, and Netherlands Ministry of Culture, eds. Links of affinity: Dutch contemporary art in Britain : an exhibition sponsored by Rabobank Nederland, Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Akzo Coatings Division. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1989.
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Peretti, Daniel. Superman in Myth and Folklore. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496814586.001.0001.
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Many artists draw upon folklore to craft films, music, literature, and other elements of popular culture. This book examines how the opposite phenomenon occurs: the use of popular culture in the expressive culture called folklore. Superman is an ideal focus for such as study because of his ubiquity. Though Superman is under the control of a corporation, fans nonetheless have developed a sense of ownership of him, often because of an affinity they feel toward him. Early chapters of this book explore the varieties of this affinity as experienced by individuals and as understood through interviews. Later chapters delve into specific events, such as the Superman Celebration in Illinois, and other modes of expression such as humor, personal narrative, and myth. Superman in Myth and Folklore explores the idea that a fictional character can be foundationally important in morality through fieldwork and interviews. In other words, fans use Superman to think through complex issues in their personal lives, and this book explores how. Despite the focus on fieldwork, there is some attention to the extant literature on Superman, ranging from educational works on science to psychology and history. There is also attention to the mythical aspects of Superman, with analyses of the character through several theories such as structuralism and functionalism. By examining jokes, festival, costuming, and narrative, this book explores the impact a fictional character can have.
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Struthers, David M. The World in a City. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042478.001.0001.
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This book examines interracial labor and radical organizing in Los Angeles, California, and the United States/Mexico borderlands between 1900 and 1930. Domestic and transnational migration to Los Angeles—including from Europe, Asia, and Mexico—created one of the most racially diverse regions in the United States. Uneven regional economic development drove continued labor mobility for many working-class residents. The book documents a thread of working-class culture in which interracial solidarities formed to oppose capitalism, racism, and often the state itself. These solidarities flourished most frequently among workers with the most precarious employment and living situations, fueled by the ideals advanced in anarchism, socialist internationalism, the syndicalism of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM). This book uses the anarchist notion of affinity to frame its understanding of interracial organizing as the mobility of workers often made coalitions and solidarities short lived. Affinity frames the individual cooperative actions that shaped the social practices of resistance often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. This approach maintains focus on the continuity of organizing practices while tracing changing solidarities, associations, and organizations that formed and dissolved through struggle, repression, and factionalism. The radical practices that germinated in and near Los Angeles produced some of the broadest examples of interracial cooperation in U.S. history.
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Ainspan, Nathan D., and Kristin N. Saboe, eds. Military Veteran Employment. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190642983.001.0001.
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Companies that can hire and retain military veterans will have a strong competitive advantage over their competitors that lack this capability. This book will help business leaders obtain that advantage. The chapters in this book draw from the research and findings from Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychology and Human Resources (HR) research to describe how to find, communicate with, recruit, develop, lead, and retain military veterans and their family members as civilian employees. Unlike other books on this topic that lack evidence-based content, this book draws upon science, research, and best practices to provide guidance organizations can implement to drive their success. Topics in this book include sourcing, communications, and recruiting military veterans and their spouses; reviewing résumés to extract cross-corporate competencies; branding your organization to successfully appeal to this population; understanding and challenging your misconceptions of the military and doing the same with veterans’ misperceptions of civilian employment; addressing culture mismatches between civilian and military cultures and improving cultural communication and understanding; improving person-job-organization fit for veterans and military family members to retain them in their jobs; providing culturally sensitive mentoring and leadership; understanding the training veterans receive and their personality traits and culture—and how these can benefit your organization; hiring and retaining wounded warriors and veterans with disabilities; creating and utilizing veteran mentoring programs and affinity groups; providing effective supervision for veteran employees; supporting National Guardsmen and Reservists working as civilian employees, and retaining these employees to gain a further competitive advantage for your organization.
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Nardelli, Matilde. Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444040.001.0001.
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Michalangelo Antonioni’s 1960s films are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key texts in ushering in cinema’s ‘modern’ incarnation. Reconnecting Antonioni’s aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s to the ferment of their historical time, Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity addresses these works’ crucial, yet overlooked, affinity with the new ‘impure’ art practices that emerged in the period. At the same time, the book also offers a novel reading of the films’ dialogue with postwar pictorial abstraction. Revealing an Antonioni who embraced both mixed and mass media and reflected on them via his cinema, the book, through both an intermedial and a transnational focus, replaces auteuristic accounts of the director’s work with a new understanding of its critical significance in late-twentienth century cinema and visual culture.
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Fischer-Lichte, Erika. On the Origins of Theatre and its Link to the Past. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199651634.003.0010.
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Chapter 8, ‘On the Origins of Theatre and its Link to the Past: The Schaubühne’s Antiquity Projects of 1974 and 1980’, retraces another approach from the 1970s. Instead of explicit politicization, the Schaubühne reflected on the past’s inaccessibility and its consequences in both of its projects. Regarding Grüber’s The Bacchae (1974) the point is made that the text’s dismemberment and the creation of unrelated enigmatic images of the past reveal the impossibility of constructing an identity by referring back to this past. Peter Stein’s Oresteia (1980) reflected on the ambiguity of an old text written in a long-dead language and on the problems of how to bring it back to life again, this way creating a new form of philosophical theatre. The two projects mark the end of 200 years of the Bildungsbürgertum’s affinity with ancient Greek culture by shattering the assumptions on which this identification was founded.
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Rhodes, Neil. Pure and Common Greek in Early Tudor England. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198704102.003.0002.
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This chapter presents Greek as a new force in sixteenth-century literary culture, disturbing the old binary of elite Latin and common English. The first part explores the paradox of how Bible translation could enable Greek to be both the pure source and an agent of the common in this period, as well as the supposed affinity between Greek and English. The Protestant Greek scholar, Sir John Cheke is a key figure here. The second part of the chapter discusses the impact of Greek on the humanist renaissance represented by the work of Erasmus and More. Here the issue of how the principle of the common can work in an elite literary context is discussed with reference to Erasmus’ Adagia, Colloquies, and Encomium Moriae, and More's Utopia. Encomium Moriae in particular aims to fulfil Erasmus’ dream of reconciling classical literary values and Christian doctrine through an investment in the common.
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Kämpchen, Martin. Indo-German Exchanges in Education. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190126278.001.0001.
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Rabindranath Tagore visited Germany three times and professed a special affinity to the German people and their culture. In 1930, his final visit, the Indian poet met the German couple Paul and Edith Geheeb, who had started the Odenwaldschule in 1910. They fled from Germany (from the Hitler regime) in 1934 to Switzerland and led their new school, the Ecole D’Humanité, until their death. They followed the innovative education of the Reformpädagogik (New Education Movement) which gave maximum freedom to children to choose their education. Tagore recognized a striking similarity to his school in Santiniketan. Both educators, working in two different cultures and historical situations, came to the same basic conclusions about how education of children should be like in this modern age. The book first discusses the personalities of Paul and Edith Geheeb and offers a brief delineation of their school’s genesis. The meeting with Rabindranath Tagore and its aftermath is given special attention as it still occupies an important place in the collective memory of the Ecole d’Humanité. After a study of the pedagogical principles which guided Tagore and Geheeb, a comparative study of its similarities and dissimilarities follows. Geheeb’s two schools generated Indo-German cultural activities, especially in the field of Sanskrit studies. The schools had numerous Indian guests and Paul and Edith corresponded with several Indian personalities. Edith developed an interest in the activities of the Ramakrishna Mission. In 1953, Indira Gandhi and her sons stayed in the Ecole. In 1965–6, when Edith was 80, she visited India, especially Tagore’s Santiniketan and Belur Math, the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission.
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Leck, Ralph M. Afterword. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040009.003.0007.
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This concluding chapter discusses how underlying the choice of Ulrichs as a symbol of resistance to Prussian–Nazi politics resulted to growing popular recognition of sexual politics as a vital feature of modern history. In this vein, Minister Einem's expulsion of homosexuals from the German officer corps reveals the cultural affinity between the rise of mass armies in the nineteenth century and the construction of modern masculinity. This affinity was a core cultural–political continuity between Prussian authoritarianism and the Nazi dictatorship. Indeed, the aspect of Nazi ideology that most closely resembled the fascist archetype was its gender politics. The choice of Ulrichs as a replacement for Einem, then, symbolizes rising acknowledgment that reactionary sexual politics was the greatest moral–cultural appeal of fascist populism.
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Laboratory spawing of topsmelt, Atherinops affinis, with notes on culture and growth of larvae. [Washington, D.C: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1992.
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Laboratory spawing of topsmelt, Atherinops affinis, with notes on culture and growth of larvae. [Washington, D.C: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1992.
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Lange, Barbara Rose. Local Fusions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190245368.001.0001.
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Local Fusions: Folk Music Experiments in Central Europe at the Millennium explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. It describes how artists made new social commentary and tried new ways of working together as the political and economic atmosphere changed. The book presents case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, drawing from ethnographic research and from conversations about the arts in Central European publications. The case studies illustrate how young musicians redefined a Central European history of elevating the arts by fusing poetry, local folk music, and other vernacular music with jazz, Asian music, art music, and electronic dance music. Their projects contradicted ethnic exclusions and gender asymmetries in Central Europe’s past expressive culture and in its present far-right political movements. The case studies demonstrate how musicians had to become skilled neoliberal actors, even as they asserted female power, broadened masculinities, and declared affinity with regional minorities such as the Romani (Gypsy) people. The author contrasts the live performances and physical recordings of world music 1.0 with the peer-to-peer networks of world music 2.0, arguing that Central European musicians occupy a liminal space between the two spheres. An epilogue describes how economic shocks of the late 2000s transformed sociality, creative processes, and the market for musical experiments in Central Europe.
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Du, Jin. Impacts of the American mass media and interpersonal contacts with the Americans on the Chinese students' communicator styles and cultural affinity. 1991.
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Roe, Simon, ed. Protein Purification Techniques. Oxford University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199636747.001.0001.
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Proteins are an integral part of molecular and cellular structure and function and are probably the most purified type of biological molecule. In order to elucidate the structure and function of any protein it is first necessary to purify it. Protein purification techniques have evolved over the past ten years with improvements in equipment control, automation, and separation materials, and the introduction of new techniques such as affinity membranes and expanded beds. These developments have reduced the workload involved in protein purification, but there is still a need to consider how unit operations linked together to form a purification strategy, which can be scaled up if necessary. The two Practical Approach books on protein purification have therefore been thoroughly updated and rewritten where necessary. The core of both books is the provision of detailed practical guidelines aimed particularly at laboratory scale purification. Information on scale-up considerations is given where appropriate. The books are not comprehensive but do cover the major laboratory techniques and common sources of protein. Protein Purification Techniques focuses on unit operations and analytical techniques. It starts with an overview of purification strategy and then covers initial extraction and clarification techniques. The rest of the book concentrates on different purification methods with the emphasis being on chromatography. The final chapter considers general scale-up considerations. Protein Purification Applications describes purification strategies from common sources: mammalian cell culture, microbial cell culture, milk, animal tissue, and plant tissue. It also includes chapters on purification of inclusion bodies, fusion proteins, and purification for crystallography. A purification strategy that can produce a highly pure single protein from a crude mixture of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and cell debris to is a work of art to be admired. These books (available individually or as a set)are designed to give the laboratory worker the information needed to undertake the challenge of designing such a strategy.
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Song, Sarah. Discretionary Admissions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909222.003.0010.
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Chapter 9 explores discretionary admissions, cases in which the decision to admit prospective migrants is not morally required because their basic interests are not threatened. In such cases, what kinds of reasons should inform public deliberation about whom to exclude and include? The chapter begins by considering temporary admissions programs, asking whether they are permissible or whether all migrants must be admitted on a permanent basis. It then assesses different criteria for excluding and selecting migrants for admission. The criteria of exclusion discussed include ones based on race and ethnicity, national security concerns, public health issues, and economic impacts. The criteria of admission considered include family ties, cultural affinity, protection of vulnerable cultural groups, and economic skills.
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Davidson, Jenny. Restoration Theatre and the Novel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0026.
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This chapter explores the broad cultural transition from drama to novel during the Restoration period, which triggered one of the most productive periods in the history of the London stage. However, when it comes to the eighteenth century proper, the novel is more likely to be identified as the century's most significant and appealing popular genre. The chapter considers why the novel has largely superseded drama as the literary form to which ambitious and imaginative literary types without a strong affinity for verse writing would by default have turned their attention and energies by the middle of the eighteenth century. Something important may have been lost in the broad cultural transition from drama to novel. This chapter, however, contends that many things were preserved: that the novel was able to absorb many of the functions and techniques not just of Restoration comedy but of the theatre more generally.
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Ng, Su Fang. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777687.001.0001.
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No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. This book examines parallel traditions of the Alexander Romance in Britain and Southeast Asia, demonstrating how rival Alexanders—one Christian, the other Islamic—became central figures in their respective literatures. In the early modern age of exploration, both Britain and Southeast Asia turned to literary imitations of Alexander to imagine their own empires and international relations, defining themselves as peripheries against the Ottoman Empire’s imperial center: this shared classical inheritance became part of an intensifying cross-cultural engagement in the encounter between the two, allowing a revealing examination of their cultural convergences and imperial rivalries and a remapping of the global literary networks of the early modern world. Rather than absolute alterity or strangeness, the narrative of these parallel traditions is one of contact—familiarity and proximity, unexpected affinity and intimate strangers.
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Shamshad, Rizwana. The Refugees and the Migrants of West Bengal. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199476411.003.0004.
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According to the Census of India in 2001, the majority of the Bangladeshi migrants in India reside in West Bengal. So far there has been no anti-Bangladeshi movement like in Assam or state government initiated deportation measures like in Delhi or in West Bengal. This chapter investigates why this is the case, and it explores the factors that did not encourage the people, and the state government of West Bengal, to make Bangladeshi migration an issue. The chapter contributes to the concept ‘Bengaliness’, which is shared by the Bengalis of West Bengal and Bangladesh. What comes out clearly from the West Bengal discourse on Bangladeshi migrants is the ethno-linguistic and historical affinity of Bengalis in general with the Bangladeshis. The chapter also brings out the subtle but powerful cultural marker of Ghoti–Bangal difference that exists between the Bengalis of East and West Bengali origin.