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Bastard Culture!

Mirko Tobias Schäfer
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Author : Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789089642561

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The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and the use of the Internet tend to romanticize emerging media practices, this book steps beyond the usual framework and analyzes user participation in the context of accompanying popular and scholarly discourse, as well as the material aspects of design, and their relation to the practices of design and appropriation.

The Anarchist Bastard

Joanna Clapps Herman
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Author : Joanna Clapps Herman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438436333

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Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category "I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place embedded with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, where the ethic of hospitality was and still is more Middle Eastern and North African than Anglo-European, and where the pageantry and ritual were more pagan Mediterranean than Western Christian. It was also a place where a stuffed monkey wearing a fedora sat and continues to sit on her grandmother's piano, and a place where, when the donkey got stubborn and wouldn't plow the field, her grandfather bit the animal in a fury. In essays filled with wry humor and affectionate yet probing insights, Herman maps and makes palpable the very particular details of this culture—its pride and its shame, its profound loyalty and its Byzantine betrayals.

The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy

Keith Dromm,Heather Salter
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Author : Keith Dromm,Heather Salter
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812698008

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The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy by Keith Dromm,Heather Salter Pdf

Collects essays that look at J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" through a philosophical approach.

Eddie's Bastard

William Kowalski
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Author : William Kowalski
Publisher : Random House
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448111367

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Eddie's Bastard by William Kowalski Pdf

Eddie's Bastard spins the warm, endearing tale of William Amos Mann IV and of the inhabitants of his eponymous small upstate New York town, Mannville. Related in flashback by the adult Billy, the story begins with him being deposited as an infant on the doorstep of his grandfather's home in a simple wicker basket with a plain two-word message pinned to his shawl reading 'Eddie's Bastard'. Eddie had been killed in Vietnam three months earlier - his father, Thomas Mann Jnr, had given up on life, having lost his only son and, he thought, his only heir. But now, suddenly, Thomas has a grandson and an heir - if not to the once-vast Mann fortune (for Thomas had recklessly squandered that in a foolhardy enterprise just after his heroic return from WWII), then at least to the long legacy of the Mann family stories, stretching back to the Civil War. Eddie's Bastard is filled with episodes of madcap adventure and resonates with the power of lifelong friendship. By turns hilarious, thrilling and heart-breaking, here is a début that stays in the mind long after the reading is over.

Beijing Bastard

Val Wang
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Author : Val Wang
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698156999

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Beijing Bastard by Val Wang Pdf

A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider’s perspective to China’s shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance troupe—until she shaved her head and became a leftist, the stuff of many teenage rebellions. But Val’s true mutiny was when she moved to China, the land her parents had fled before the Communist takeover in 1949. Val arrives in Beijing in 1998 expecting to find freedom but instead lives in the old city with her traditional relatives, who wake her at dawn with the sound of a state-run television program playing next to her cot, make a running joke of how much she eats, and monitor her every move. But outside, she soon discovers a city rebelling against its roots just as she is, struggling too to find a new, modern identity. Rickshaws make way for taxicabs, skyscrapers replace hutong courtyard houses, and Beijing prepares to make its debut on the world stage with the 2008 Olympics. And in the gritty outskirts of the city where she moves, a thriving avant-garde subculture is making art out of the chaos. Val plunges into the city’s dizzying culture and nightlife and begins shooting a documentary, about a Peking Opera family who is witnessing the death of their traditional art. Brilliantly observed and winningly told, Beijing Bastard is a compelling story of a young woman finding her place in the world and of China, as its ancient past gives way to a dazzling but uncertain future.

American Bastard

Jan Beatty
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Author : Jan Beatty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1597098787

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American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the life of being a bastard, sandblasting the myth of the "chosen baby."

Voltaire's Bastards

John Ralston Saul
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Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476718965

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Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul Pdf

Argues that blind faith in reason has resulted in problems in every phase of social life, suggests reason is an administrative method rather than a moral force, and proposes some solutions.

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

John McWhorter
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Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781592404940

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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by John McWhorter Pdf

A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax patterns, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary, maddening nature of English— and its ironic simplicity due to its role as a streamlined lingua franca during the early formation of Britain. This is the book that language aficionados worldwide have been waiting for (and no, it’s not a sin to end a sentence with a preposition).

Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture

Marcel Danesi
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Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442253124

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Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture by Marcel Danesi Pdf

The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files, the book provides more than just accessible definitions. Each of the more than 800 entries is cross-referenced with other entries to highlight points of connection, a thematic index allows readers to see common elements between disparate ideas, and more than 70 black and white photos bring entries to life.

Intellectual History of Economic Normativities

Mikkel Thorup
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Author : Mikkel Thorup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137594167

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Intellectual History of Economic Normativities by Mikkel Thorup Pdf

The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors use case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance and tax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectual history of how economic and moral issues interrelate.

Fusion of Cultures?

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489950

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Fusion of Cultures? by Anonim Pdf

The intention of this second volume of ASNEL Papers is to counter orthodox post-colonial emphases on alterity, subversion, and counter-discourse with another set of concepts: fusion, syncretism, hybridity, creolisation, cross-fertilisation, cross-cultural identity, diaspora. Topics covered include: gender and identity; syncretic aesthetics in Nigerian and South African performing arts; hyphenated identities in diasporic fiction; reversals of colonial mimicry in Ugandan fiction; cultural reflexivity in the Victorian juvenile novel; the persistence of colonial traits in Zimbabwean war fiction; syncretic strategies of resistance in African prison memoirs; indigene life-histories and intercultural authorship; neo-essentialism in post-colonial critiques of the Rushdie Affair; US multiculturalism and political praxis; creolisation in Surinam; cultural complexities in the Caribbean epic; literary representations of the Haitian Revolution. Authors treated within broader frameworks include Margaret Atwood, R.M. Ballantyne, Marie-Claire Blais. Alejo Carpentier, Roch Carrier, Aimé Césaire, Michelle Cliff, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Edouard Glissant, Andrew Hacker, Eddy L. Harris, Wilson Harris, Bessie Head, C.L.R. James, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jayanta Mahapatra, Paule Marshall, A.K. Mehrotra, Timothy Mo, Bharati Mukherjee, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Akiki Nyabongo, Eugene O'Neill, Molefe Pheto, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, Ted Trindell, and Derek Walcott. There are also poems by David Woods and Afua Cooper.

Culture and International Relations

Julie Reeves
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Author : Julie Reeves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134367191

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This book contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture.

Theory of Bastards

Audrey Schulman
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Author : Audrey Schulman
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787700024

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A new world, no longer brave. It's the near future, a time of new technologies – "bodyware" implants having replaced most past means of communication – but also of climate change and dwindling resources. Francine is a luminary in her field of evolutionary science. She joins the Foundation to study a colony of bonobo apes: remarkable animals, and the perfect creatures to certify her revolutionary feminist theory of reproduction. When the terrible, dry winds rise up and cut off the Foundation, silencing all the devices and endangering the survival of animals and humans alike, Francine and the man she has grown to love make a decision that may determine the possibility of a premature ending or a chance to start life over. A literary novel with elements of dystopia and science fiction, Theory of Bastards is an absorbing, recognizable story that will keep readers turning the pages.

Racism and Cultural Studies

E. San Juan Jr.
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Author : E. San Juan Jr.
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822383703

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Racism and Cultural Studies by E. San Juan Jr. Pdf

In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratization of power and the socialization of property. Calling U.S. nationalism the new “opium of the masses,” he argues that U.S. nationalism is where racist ideas and practices are formed, refined, and reproduced as common sense and consensus. Individual chapters engage the themes of ethnicity versus racism, gender inequality, sexuality, and the politics of identity configured with the discourse of postcoloniality and postmodernism. Questions of institutional racism, social justice, democratization, and international power relations between the center and the periphery are explored and analyzed. San Juan fashions a critique of dominant disciplinary approaches in the humanities and social sciences and contends that “the racism question” functions as a catalyst and point of departure for cultural critiques based on a radical democratic vision. He also asks urgent questions regarding globalization and the future of socialist transformation of “third world” peoples and others who face oppression. As one of the most notable cultural theorists in the United States today, San Juan presents a provocative challenge to the academy and other disciplinary institutions. His intervention will surely compel the attention of all engaged in intellectual exchanges where race/ethnicity serves as an urgent focus of concern.

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

David Bradshaw,Kevin J. H. Dettmar
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Author : David Bradshaw,Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405154673

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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture by David Bradshaw,Kevin J. H. Dettmar Pdf

The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essentialtexts and contexts of the modernist movement with the uniqueinsights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the studyof modernism. An essential resource for students and teachers of modernistliterature and culture Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the mostdistinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture,contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all thegenres of modernist writing and art Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature,from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora NealHurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Pays close attention to both British and Americanmodernism