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This book tells the timely and much-needed story of the state's interest in supporting literary production in post-war Britain. Working with unexamined sources it charts the forgotten record of state sponsorship into conversation with Britain's transformation into a successful multicultural democracy.

"Liminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods of interregnum may not always result in complete social upheaval, but they do open the space to imagine social and political change in diverse forms. In 'Queering the Enlightenment: kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French literature', Tracy L. Rutler uncovers how numerous canonical authors of the 1730s and 1740s were imagining radically different ways of organizing the masses during the early years of Louis XV's reign. Through studies of the literature of Antoine-François Prévost, Claude Crébillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Françoise de Graffigny among others, Rutler demonstrates how the heteronormative bourgeois family's rise to dominance in late-eighteenth-century France had long been contested within the fictional worlds of many French authors. The utopian impulses guiding the fiction studied in this book distinguish these authors as some of the most brilliant political theorists of the day. Enlightenment, for these authors, means reorienting one's relation to power by reorganizing their most intimate relations. Using a practice of reading queerly, Rutler shows how these works illuminate the unparalleled potential of queer forms of kinship to dismantle the patriarchy and help us imagine what might eventually take its place."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper

1 An overview of the language, literature and culture of Brunei Darussalam -- Section I Language -- 2 An overview of the language, literature and culture of Brunei Darussalam -- 3 An overview of the language, literature and culture of Brunei Darussalam -- 4 A comparison of Malay and English texts in the Royal Brunei Muhibah magazine -- 5 On-line communication by the Brunei government in Malay and English -- 6Chinese dialects in Brunei: Shift, maintenance or loss? 6 Chinese dialects in Brunei: Shift, maintenance or loss? -- Section II Literature -- 7 Urih Pesisir: A reflection of the political history of the Sultanate of Brunei in the 19th century -- 8 Re-thinking lost subjects: Arrested intercultural identity in Muslim Burmat's Permainan Laut -- 9 Examining the imagined environments in contemporary Bruneian fiction: Developing Southeast Asian ecocriticism -- 10 Negotiating identity in Anglophone literature in Brunei -- 11 A case study of key processes experienced in an English 'A' Level literature classroom -- Section III Culture -- 12 Defining Bruneian cultural identity through contemporary artistic practice -- 13 A cultural enterprise: A study of modern Bruneian films -- 14 Deconstructing symbolism in Brunei Malay wedding customs -- 15 Local social media responses to Sharia Law in Brunei -- 16 Revisiting dominant cultural knowledge through the prism of Islam: How young Malays Islamize culture in Brunei.

The economics literature on nonprofit utilization of employees and volunteers is reviewed and synthesized. Economic motivations for volunteering and accepting volunteers are explored along with inter actions between gifts of time and of money and the economic value of volunteer labor. Also examined are factors explaining wage differ ences between the nonprofit and for-profit sectors and the differential employment of women and minorities.