Interesting, informative, exploratory, the book attempts to interrogate the emotion of revenge. Combining academic discourses with popular representations, it moves across cultures and countries like India, Germany, USA, Africa and Brazil.
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Vibha Singh Chauhan, Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, is a widely published critical and creative writer who works in three languages, English, Hindi and Bhojpuri. Her major research interests are non-urban cultures, translation studies, and political and legal studies. Lily Halpert-Zamir is a senior lecturer at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem, a member of its Academic Council and the head of its Centre for Womens and Gender Studies. She has published several books, four of which deal with the Holocaust, as well as dozens of articles in Hebrew and English that focus on Holocaust and gender studies.
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