All Books

Alessandro Michele revolutionized Gucci with his eclectic, gender-fluid aesthetic, blending nostalgia, pop culture and philosophy into a maximalist vision. This book explores Michele’s impact as a fashion auteur who reshaped contemporary style, identity and fashion storytelling. 

This edited collection examines portrayals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in contemporary children’s and YA literature and film, offering interdisciplinary perspectives, theoretical insights, literary overviews, and analyses of contemporary case studies.

This volume first explores the potential of machine translation of literature; goes on to explore possibilities for artificial literary creation; and finishes by assessing recent spectacular progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI) – throughout, with reference to Vladimir Nabokov’s hyperconscious literary art.

‘Aging within Transnational Families’ focuses on the often overlooked role of older people as active agents within transnational families.

This book is a concise, comprehensive resource for readers facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives―an often overwhelming task for which life rarely prepares us. It covers legal, financial, social, medical, and other aging challenges, offering abundant practical advice intertwined with engaging personal anecdotes.

This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently – for ageing without becoming old. 

A study of gender, faith and ageing among Malaysian screen workers, foregrounding Muslim women’s labour, resilience and visibility behind the screen.

The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”. 

In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultures, civilizations, and peoples.

This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.

An Afrocentric analysis revealing how African spirituality, orality, and communal values shape African American language beyond Eurocentric linguistic paradigms.