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The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing

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The Presence of Absence is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and ...

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 8

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Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations ...

Signs of the Great Refusal: The Coming Struggle for a Post-Work Society

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In recent years, developed countries have seen the rise of a popular literature and social media discussion concerning "the problem with work today." Since this literature tends to reflect the frustrations of the professional-managerial class ...

Voices from Nubia: Critical Essays on Contemporary Nubian Literature from Egypt

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The Nubians, the largest ethnic community in Egypt, have seen their ancestral homelands disappear beneath the waters of the Nile from the dawn of the 20th century until 1964. The massive displacement of this population ...

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