Books in the Polygons: Cultural Diversities & Intersections series

Showing how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio provides distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, this volume also shows how it enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. It suggests that the benefits and gratifications which radio confers remain unique.

The Third Republic, known as the 'belle epoque', was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France. This book explores almost all these facets of the period, weaving them into a multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French women's history.

In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history.

Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from France's portrayal of these historical phenomena?

Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults who should know better,A" in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ninth artA" and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting, and cinema. The bande dessinee [comic strip] has its own national institutions and regularly obtains front-page coverage.