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Queer Rebels is a study of gay narrative writings published in Spain at the turn of the 20th century. The book scrutinises the ways in which the literary production of contemporary Spanish gay authors – José Luis de Juan, Luis G. Martín, Juan Gil-Albert, Juan Goytisolo, Eduardo Mendicutti, Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo – engages with homophobic and homophile discourses, as well as with the vernacular and international literary legacy. The first part revolves around the metaphor of a rebellious scribe who queers literary tradition by clandestinely weaving changes into copies of the books he makes. This subversive writing act, named 'Mazuf's gesture' after the protagonist of José Luis de Juan's This Breathing World (1999), is examined in four highly intertextual works by other writers. The second part of the book explores Luis Antonio de Villena and Álvaro Pombo, who in their different ways seek to coin their own definitions of homosexual experience in opposition both to the homophobic discourses of the past and to the homonormative regimes of the commercialised and trivialised gay culture of today. In their novels, 'Mazuf's gesture' involves playing a sophisticated queer game with readers and their expectations.

Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually, the chapters offer detailed ethnographic and historiographic studies of music's multifaceted roles in such interactions. From collaborations between Moroccan migrant and Spanish Muslim convert musicians in Granada, to the incorporation of West African sonorities and Hasidic melodies in the musical liturgy of Abu Ghosh Abbey, Jerusalem, these communities sing, play, dance, listen, and record their diverse experiences of encounter at the Mediterranean crossroads.

"Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read Tanci fiction as interrelated texts composed by three generations of members of one extended gentry family in nineteenth-century China. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read Tanci fiction as interrelated texts composed by three generations of members of one extended gentry family in nineteenth-century China" --

Governments and government agencies are frequently the subject of criticism from the public, media, and politicians, over issues of inefficiency and bureaucracy. In new research, Jan Boon, Jan Wynen and Koen Verhoest find that exposure to these criticisms and the reputational damage that they can do can lead to government agencies having more rigid bureaucracies. … Continued

A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of Dr. Robert Knox, who was desperate for anatomical subjects. Nearly two hundred years later, these scandalous murders continue to fire imagination in Scotland and beyond.

La compilación preparada por Elvira Concheiro y Víctor Hugo Pacheco que recupera los escritos de Raquel Tibol –crítica de arte y militante en México– es relevante por ser un trabajo único y de cuidadosa selección que unifica y discute su trayectoria a lo largo de más de sesenta años –período que va de 1965 a 1999-. La idea central del libro propone recuperar la obra de Tibol por el valor de su contribución a la investigación y difusión de la cultura y arte mexicano, así como por sus elaboraciones que expresaron la constancia de su postura política desde la crítica marxista y su militancia apoyando el área cultural del Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM). Se indica así que "la interacción entre espacio político y espacio cultural o artístico era para ella una danza permanente de un duelo complementario;" (Concheiro y Pacheco, 2016: 12) dentro del cual, prevaleció en todo momento la integridad de la crítica artística. Fue esta actitud la que le valió el respeto de la comunidad de artistas en México al tiempo de envolverla en una polémica constante. ; The compilation prepared by Elvira Concheiro and Víctor Hugo Pacheco that recovers the writings of Raquel Tibol - art critic and militant in Mexico - is relevant because it is a unique and carefully selected work that unifies and discusses her career over more than sixty years-period from 1965 to 1999-. The central idea of the book proposes to recover the work of Tibol for the value of its contribution to the investigation and diffusion of Mexican culture and art, as well as for its elaborations that expressed the constancy of its political position from the Marxist critique and its militancy supporting the cultural area of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM). It is indicated that "the interaction between political space and cultural or artistic space was for her a permanent dance of a complementary duel;" (Concheiro and Pacheco, 2016: 12) within which, the integrity of artistic criticism prevailed at all times . It was this attitude that earned him the respect of the community of artists in Mexico at the time of wrapping it in a constant controversy