http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28396 Electronic copies of Literature and Languages books. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:07:58 GMT 2026-10-03T16:07:58Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31491 Title: The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business Author(s): Squires, Claire; Driscoll, Beth Abstract: The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this book, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017-2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The book argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the book are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing. Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31491 2020-09-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30961 Title: The Frankfurt Kabuff Author(s): Squiscoll, Blaire Abstract: After a difficult winter, Beatrice Deft is on vacation in Frankfurt during European Autumn, staying at the Hessischer Hof enjoying the quiet of cosmopolitan Germany. When violence breaks out at the stands of far-right publishers across the road at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beatrice tells herself it isn’t her problem. But now police patrol the aisles with guns and batons, and queues form at security bag checks, and an old friend begs for her help. There she meets Caspian, the very hot policeman with a baton, and finds herself wondering, What is the secret of the Kabuff? Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30961 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30680 Title: Fictions of African Dictatorship: Cultural Representations of Postcolonial Power Editor(s): Grayson, Hannah; Baker, Charlotte Abstract: Fictions of Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, all of which examine the relationship between the fictional and the political. Among the questions the contributors ask: what are the implications of reading a novel for its historical content or accuracy? How does the dictator novel interrogate ideas of veracity? How is power performed and ridiculed? How do different writers reflect on questions of authority in the postcolony and what are the effects on their stories and modes of narration? This volume untangles some of the intricate workings of dictatorial power in the postcolony, through twelve close readings of works of fiction. It interrogates the intersections between real and literary space, exploring censorship, political critique and creative resistance. Insights into a wide range of lesser known texts and contexts make this volume an original and insightful contribution to scholarship on representations of dictatorship. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30680 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28412 Title: Una Gramática Colonial del Quichua del Ecuador: Transcripción e interpretación de un manuscrito del Archivo Histórico Nacional de Colombia Editor(s): Dedenbach-Salazar, Sabine Abstract: First paragraph: En 1984 don Augusto Gómez, ahora Director del Archivo Histórico Nacional de Colombia, tuvo la gentileza de proporcionarme en Quito una fotocopia de una gramática colonial que se conserva en aquel repositorio, intitulada Arte de la Lengua Jeneral del Cusca llamada Quichua. Otras preocupaciones me prohibían ocuparme debidamente del texto, pero en 1988 lo mostré a Sabine DedenbachSalazar, quien se encontraba en St. Andrews siguiendo un curso de Aymara con el profesor Juan de Dios Yapita. A ella le dí una copia, y fue para mi muy grato recibir en 1992 el resultado de su trabajo. Fri, 01 Jan 1993 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28412 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z