The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia for Vivian sifts through a queer trans woman s unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire grief and delight the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entrie... Lees meer.

Fiction. Asian Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women s Studies. SMALL BEAUTY tells the story of Mei a mixed race trans woman managing the death of her cousin the ways she contorts to navigate racism and transphobia and her desire for community as she takes... Lees meer.

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian and Asian American Studies. Young Adult. FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS. A DANGEROUS TRANS GIRL S CONFABULOUS MEMOIR is the highly sensational ultra-exciting sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl pathological... Lees meer.

At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful surrealist dance through queer coming of age. A haunted young girl who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar runs away from an opp... Lees meer.

Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place language and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on th... Lees meer.

Dear Black girls all around the world this one is for you -- for us.Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every single day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna D... Lees meer.

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters who grow as tall as bu... Lees meer.

Provides insights into variation in metonymy focusing especially on changes of naming with respect to a particular concept. This title also includes case studies that delineate how both linguistic and cultural-social factors exert an influence on metonymic conceptualiz... Lees meer.

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This title elaborates one of Roman Jakobson s brilliant ideas his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes.... Lees meer.

This book will survey the broad range of Cristina Iglesias s work from its beginnings in the mid-1980s until the present. In addition to focusing on sculptures made for museum and gallery contexts it will reference Iglesias s various and much acclaimed public pieces an... Lees meer.

This study is based on Kenneth Burke s model of metonymy and Devenyi distinguishes metonymic drama structure from the metaphoric symbolic and allegorical. Kristeva s theory of the semiotic and Barker s observations on the private body to dramatic texts are applied to... Lees meer.

Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else but her father has other ideas. Ever since her twin sister Lola mysteriously vanished Poppy s father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home and perhaps also pr... Lees meer.

English lyric poetry from Wyatt to Donne falls into three consecutive stylistic phases. Tottel s Miscellany presided over the first making the lyrics of Wyatt and Surrey available for imitation by mid-century poets like Barnabe Googe George Turberville and George Gas... Lees meer.

This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book... Lees meer.