Centers And Peripheries In Romance Language Literatures In The Americas And Africa

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004691131

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Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa by Anonim Pdf

What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralization contexts and processes for poetics? Using theoretical sections and case studies, this book surveys and investigates the limits of globalization. Through explorations of the intercultural dynamics, the aesthetic contributions of former peripheries are examined in terms of the transformative nature of peripheries on centralities.

Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119058175

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A Companion to African Literatures by Olakunle George Pdf

Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202664

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The Power of the Word / La puissance du verbe by Anonim Pdf

This book is the record of a colloquium held at Churchill College, Cambridge. It pursues lines of discussion radiating out from the core theme of the power of the image (understood in its pictorial, iconic, sensory and verbal senses). Writers, scholars and artists are grouped in pairs representing the two language-cultures (English and French). Central topics covered include the manifold ways in which our readings of pictorial images old and contemporary can bridge cultures, language politics and the politics of culture, the limitless and instructive senses of the concept of the ‘word’, the relation between orality and the written text, the implications of the act of writing, history and opera, the word in theatre, the influence of the Nobel Prize.... The terms of discussion universally urbane, effortlessly wide-ranging and deeply probing. Most importantly – and a reminder of how best to ensure literate wisdom in intercultural debate – is the fact that the contributors gathered here have avoided all ‘pre-packaging’ of their reflections in the shibboleth ‘discourses' (whether Freudian, poststructuralist, postmodern or postcolonial) of our time. Contributors are: Anthony Kwame Appiah, Biyi Bandele, Jacques Chevrier, Tim Cribb, Irène d’Almeida, Casimir d’Angelo, Assia Djebar, Akin Euba, Christiane Fioupou, Lorna Goodison, Wilson Harris, Marika Hedin, Gerard Houghton, Abiola Irele, Anny King, John Kinsella, Henri Lopés, Daniel Maximin, Femi Osofisan, Niyi Osundare, Ato Quayson, Alain Ricard, Tracy Ryan, Julien Sinzogan, Alioune Sow, Wole Soyinka, George Steiner, Véronique Tadjo, Maria Tippett, Olabiyi Yaï

Author : Tatah Mentan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956764228

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Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire by Tatah Mentan Pdf

Words like colonialism and empire were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstream media as worn-out left-wing rhetoric that didnt fit reality. Not anymore! Tatah Mentan observes that a growing chorus of right-wing ideologues, with close ties to the Western administrations war-making hawks in NATO, are encouraging Washington and the rest of Europe to take pride in the expansion of their power over people and nations around the globe. Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire is written from the perspective that the scholarly lives of academics researching on Africa are changing, constantly in flux and increasingly bound to the demands of Western colonial imperialism. This existential situation has forced the continent to morph into a tool in the hands of Colonial Empire. According to Tatah Mentan, the effects of this existential situation of Africa compel serious academic scrutiny. At the same time, inquiry into the African predicament has been changing and evolving within and against the rhythms of this new normal of Colonial Empire-Old or New. The author insists that the long and bloody history of imperial conquest that began with the dawn of capitalism needs critical scholarly examination. As Marx wrote in Capital: The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moment of primitive accumulation. Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire is therefore a MUST-READ for faculty, students as well as policy makers alike in the changing dynamics of their profession, be it theoretically, methodologically, or structurally and materially.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015032009220

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Romance Languages Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015078349456

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Sociological Abstracts by Leo P. Chall Pdf

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Author : Walter Goebel,Saskia Schabio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134151592

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Beyond the Black Atlantic by Walter Goebel,Saskia Schabio Pdf

Exploring one of the hottest topics in humanities at the moment – diaspora – this controversial volume challenges prominent theoretical frameworks of Paul Gilroy to redefine and expand ideas of Black Atlantic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026420534

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CSA Political Science and Government by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karlyn Crowley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438436272

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Feminism's New Age by Karlyn Crowley Pdf

Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Crystals, Reiki, Tarot, Goddess worship—why do these New Age tokens and practices capture the imagination of so many women? How has New Age culture become even more appealing than feminism? And are the two mutually exclusive? By examining New Age practices from macrobiotics to goddess worship to Native rituals, Feminism's New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism seeks to answer these questions by examining white women's participation in this hugely popular spiritual movement. While most feminist approaches to the New Age phenomenon have simply dismissed its adherents for their politically problematic racial appropriation practices, Karyln Crowley looks honestly at the political shortcomings of New Age beliefs and practices while simultaneously reckoning with the affective, political, and cultural motivations which have prompted New Age women's individual and collective spiritualities. New Age spirituality is in fact the dynamic outgrowth of a long-standing tradition of women's social and political power expressed through religious writings, art, and public discourse, and is key to understanding contemporary women's history and religion's role in modern American culture alike. Crowley offers a new and provocative assessment of the significance of the New Age movement, seen through a feminist and critical race studies lens.

Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521281393

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The Romance Languages by Rebecca Posner Pdf

What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.

Author : University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015075668254

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Bulletin MLSA by University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172133108775

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Latinamericanist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1858 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Monographic series
ISBN : UOM:39015021462703

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Books in Series by Anonim Pdf

Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.

Author : Achim Hermann Hölter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110645033

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The Languages of World Literature by Achim Hermann Hölter Pdf

This volume opens the series of papers presented at the Vienna Congress of AILC/ICLA 2016, beginning with eight keynotes. Thirty-four further papers are dedicated to the central theme of the conference: the linguistic side of world literature, under different focal points. The volume further contains five roundtables, the papers of a workshop of the UNESCO memory of the worlds programme, a presentation of the avldigital.de platform, as well as several bibliographically enriched overviews of the special lexicography of comparative literature, up to date versions of the ICLA publications, and an example of multiple translations of a famous modern classic.

Author : Keith Hanley,Greg Kucich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317968931

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Nineteenth-Century Worlds by Keith Hanley,Greg Kucich Pdf

This volume assembles a wide range of studies that together provide—through their interdisciplinary range, international scope, and historical emphases—an original scholarly exploration of one of the most important topics in recent nineteenth-century studies: the emergence in the nineteenth century of forms of global experience that have developed more recently into rapidly expanding processes of globalization and their attendant collisions of race, religion, ethnicity, population groups, natural environments, national will and power. Emphasizing such links between global networks past and present, the essays in this volume engage with the latest work in postcolonial, cosmopolitan, and globalization theory while speaking directly to the most pressing concerns of contemporary geopolitics. Each essay examines specific cultural and historical circumstances in the formation of nineteenth-century worlds from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, political history, natural history, philosophy, the history of medicine and disease, religious studies, literary criticism, art history, and colonial studies. Detailed in their particular modes of analysis yet integrated into a collective conversation about the nineteenth century’s profound impact on our present worlds, these inquiries also explore the economic, political, and cultural determinants on nineteenth-century types of transnational experience as interweaving forces creating new material frameworks and conceptual models for comprehending major human categories—such as race, gender, subjectivity, and national identity—in global terms. As nineteenth-century global intersections differ in important ways from the shapes of globalization today, however, the essays in this volume generate new ways of understanding emergent patterns of worldwide experience in the age of imperialism and thereby stimulate fresh insights into the dynamics of global formations and conflicts today.