Founded in 2012 by Emily Chuang. Emily Publishing mainly publishes translated fiction, non-fiction and children's picture books and starts to represent selected books from Taiwan and Japan to all over the world since 2019.
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Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
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»Wenn ich nur wüsste, wo ich meine Mutterzunge verloren habe«, fragt sich die Erzählerin in Emine Sevgi Özdamars Prosadebüt von 1990. Nach vielen Jahren in Berlin ist ihr das Türkisch, ihre erste Sprache, fremd geworden. Auf der Suche nach ihren Wurzeln verliebt sie sich in den Schriftgelehrten Ibni Abdullah, der sie in die »Großvaterzunge« Arabisch, die Sprache der »heiligen« Liebe und des Korans einführt. Und sie erzählt das Märchen vom armen türkischen Bauern, der ins ferne Deutschland gelangt und sich dort als Straßenkehrer wiederfindet – wie so viele seines Volkes, das sich in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren in die Dienstbotenkaste westdeutscher Großstädte verwandelt. Zuletzt sinkt in diesem klugen, souveränen und mit koboldhafter Ironie erzählten Buch sogar Ophelia von der Bühne ihres Heimatlandes zur Putzfrau eines deutschen Theaters hinab.
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The image many people have of depression is devastating - a chronic condition that leaves not only the sufferer but also their loved ones at a loss. Unfortunately, psychotherapies often focus on deficits rather than individual strengths and resources. Although this makes patients feel understood, there is a risk that they will become stuck in the role of victim. But what about those who seem to be functioning normally, those who masterfully hide their depression behind a smile? High-functioning depression" is often overlooked because people affected by it have good coping strategies to deal with everyday life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Michelle Hildebrandt, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, shows how high-functioning depression can be recognised and how resource-oriented therapy can help not only those affected, but also other people with depression and their relatives. This book broadens the picture of depression and creates a space of hope.
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Nest of Deheubarth was one of the most notorious women of the Middle Ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious abduction/elopements of the period and ancestress of one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Ireland, the Fitzgeralds. This volume sheds light on women, gender, imperialism and conquest in the Middle Ages. From it emerges a picture of a woman who, though remarkable, was not exceptional, representative not of a group of victims or pawns in the dramatic transformations of the high Middle Ages but powerful and decisive actors. The book examines beauty, love, sex and marriage and the interconnecting identities of Nest as wife/concubine/mistress, both at the time and in the centuries since her death, when for Welsh writers and other commentators she has proved a powerful symbol. ;
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