A tale based on the author's experience as a supermodel follows the story of fifteen-year-old Jirina, a Swedish misfit who undergoes a remarkable transformation that launches her modeling career in Pa
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about ra
After the 1968 Soviet invasion brought an end to Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, the country's "normalization" regime deployed television stars against political dissidents as a part of its defense of
This book explores the development of queer Gothic fiction, contextualizing it with reference to representations of queer sexualities and genders in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic, as well a
While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged. Rising ethical concerns, the calling into question of state sovereignty, and
