Crossing Boundaries And Confounding Identity

Author : Cheryl C. D. Hughes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438492162

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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity by Cheryl C. D. Hughes Pdf

Crossing Borders and Confounding Identity advances our understanding of the diversity of Chinese women's experiences and achievements, from the Han Dynasty to the present. With a particular emphasis on literature and the arts, the chapters offer insights into the work of current Chinese women artists as well as literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of women and women's issues. Taken together, they provide new perspectives on Chinese women, their lived experiences and fictional representations, across a broad spectrum of literature, theater, film, and the visual arts. Accessible to nonspecialists and general readers, this book will also be a valuable resource for faculty who teach Asian studies courses in history and in the humanities, as well as for students in interdisciplinary Asian studies courses.

Author : Cheryl C. D. Hughes
Publisher : Suny Asian Studies Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438492154

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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity by Cheryl C. D. Hughes Pdf

"Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367443066

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Women in Transition by Anonim Pdf

"This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on "transition" in women's lives, we present research on women who have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well as emotional, sexual, cultural and linguistic boundaries"--

Author : Claudia Capancioni,Mariaconcetta Costantini,Mara Mattoscio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031407956

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Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries by Claudia Capancioni,Mariaconcetta Costantini,Mara Mattoscio Pdf

This collection of essays aims to widen the current critique on borders by examining their entanglements with constructions of identity and disciplinary categories. In particular, it calls into question established models of gender, notions of narrative genres and typological genera of borders in today’s literary, artistic, philosophical, and socio-political discourse. The chapters interrogate boundaries and boundary-crossing not only in terms of geographical frontiers and the physical acts of trespassing, but also as discursive constructs that police crossing subjects as gendered subjects, on the one hand, and identify artistic genres and academic disciplines as fixed, sealed-in ways of understanding the world, on the other. Taking inspiration from the multiple meanings of the Italian word genere (which stands for “gender”, “genre”, and “typology”/“genus” simultaneously), the volume reflects on the gendered, narrative, and typological nature of borders and border imagery, and on the significance and potentialities of crossover phenomena taking place in borderlands, in the fields of arts, literature, anthropology, sociology and philosophy.

Author : Adrienne Harris,Steven Botticelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135842963

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First Do No Harm by Adrienne Harris,Steven Botticelli Pdf

At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and subsequently affected his theory: Psychoanalysis, a healing science, could tell us much about both the drive for war and the ways to undo the trauma that war inherently breeds, but its principles could just as easily serve the enemy's desires to inculcate its own brand of "truth." Even a century later, psychoanalysis can still be used as much for the justifications of warfare and propaganda as it is for the defiance of and resistance to those same things. But it is in the investigation of the motives and methods behind these uses that psychoanalysis proves its greatest strength. To wit, this edited collection presents published and unpublished material by analysts, writers, and activists who have worked at the front lines of psychic life and war from various stances. Set at a point of tension and contradiction, they illustrate the paradoxical relation of psychoanalysis as both a site of resistance and healing and a necessary aspect of warmaking, propaganda, and militarism. In doing so, we venture from the home front - from the trauma of returning veterans to the APA's own complicity in CIA "black sites" - across international borders - from the treatment of women in Latin American dictatorships to the resistance to occupation in Palestine, from mind control to an ethics of responsibility. Throughout, a psychoanalytic sensibility deconstructs the very opposition that it inhabits, and seeks to reestablish psychoanalysis as the healing discipline it was conceived to be.

Author : Lili Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527556720

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Crossing Cultural Boundaries by Lili Hernández Pdf

To cross boundaries, to go beyond borders: an evocative idea, but what are the implications and consequences of transgression? How are boundaries challenged, redefined and overcome within the intricacies of taboos, bodies and identities? Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Taboos, Bodies and Identities brings together a range of articles that address this theme using different frameworks of interpretation. As in the case of taboo, boundaries are often internalised and may function as regulators for a society. Their existence becomes visible the moment they are violated. The essays in this book explore voluntary and accidental encounters with boundaries not only from theoretical perspectives but also from the experience of those who are part of transitions on a regular basis in their everyday lives. The notion of otherness is central to the articles in this book. The definition and interpretation of cultural others become part and parcel of the process of negotiation of bodies and identities. While ‘the other’ is marked by outward bodily signs, spaces, taboos and cultural practices, the self is empowered by resisting submission to dominant modes and descriptions. Deconstructing boundaries becomes part of the project of redefining the self. This book will appeal to academics and researchers in communications, cultural studies, sociology, health sciences, anthropology, literature, and applied linguistics.

Author : Man Xu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438463216

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Crossing the Gate by Man Xu Pdf

Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women’s life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women’s own agency in gender construction. She argues that women’s autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women’s life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called “Song-Yuan-Ming transition” from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival.

Author : David Morley,Kevin Robins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134865314

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Spaces of Identity by David Morley,Kevin Robins Pdf

Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient.

Author : Oliva Espin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135963842

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Women Crossing Boundaries by Oliva Espin Pdf

First published in 1999. This book looks at the consequences of border crossings and immigration on women and their culture and sexual orientations. Espin demonstrates how deeply sexuality, language and gender affected by this large life change with the aid of 43 biographies of adolescent and adult women.

Author : Julia Moses,Julia Woesthoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000386837

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Intimate Relationships Across Boundaries by Julia Moses,Julia Woesthoff Pdf

This collection investigates intermarriage and related relationships around the world since the eighteenth century. The contributors explore how romantic relationships challenged boundary crossings of various kinds – social, geographic, religious, ethnic. To this end, the volume considers a range of related issues: Who participated in these unions? How common were they, and in which circumstances were they practised (or banned)? Taking a global view, the book also questions some of the categories behind these relationships. For example, how did geographical boundaries – across national lines, distinctions between colonies and metropoles or metaphors of the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ – shape the treatment of intermarriage? What role have social and symbolic boundaries, such as presumed racial, religious or socio-economic divides, played? To what extent and how were those boundaries blurred in the eyes of contemporaries? Not least, how have bureaucracies and law contributed to the creation of boundaries preventing romantic unions? Romantic relationships, the contributors suggest, brought into sharp relief assumptions not only about community and culture, but also about the sanctity of the intimate sphere of love and family. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.

Author : Barbara Couture,Patti Wojahn
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607324034

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Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries by Barbara Couture,Patti Wojahn Pdf

With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. The concept of “border” calls for attention, and the authors in this collection respond by describing it, challenging it, confounding it, and, at times, erasing it. Motivating us to see anew the many lines that unite, divide, and define us, the essays in this volume highlight how discourse at borders and boundaries can create or thwart conditions for establishing identity and admitting difference. Each chapter analyzes how public discourse at the site of physical or metaphorical borders presents or confounds these conditions and, consequently, effective participation—a key criterion for a modern democracy. The settings are various, encompassing vast public spaces such as cities and areas within them; the rhetorical spaces of history books, museum displays, activist events, and media outlets; and the intimate settings of community and classroom conversations. Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries shows how rich communication can be when diverse cultures intersect and create new opportunities for human connection, even while different populations, cultures, age groups, and political parties adopt irreconcilable positions. It will be of interest to scholars in rhetoric and literacy studies and students in rhetorical analysis and public discourse. Contributors include Andrea Alden, Cori Brewster, Robert Brooke, Randolph Cauthen, Jennifer Clifton, Barbara Couture, Vanessa Cozza, Anita C. Hernández, Roberta J. Herter, Judy Holiday, Elenore Long, José A. Montelongo, Karen P. Peirce, Jonathan P. Rossing, Susan A. Schiller, Christopher Schroeder, Tricia C. Serviss, Mónica Torres, Kathryn Valentine, Victor Villanueva, and Patti Wojahn.

Author : Billie Maciunas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Lesbian feminism in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017510574

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Crossing Boundaries by Billie Maciunas Pdf

Author : Lindsey Michael Banco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136096983

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Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature by Lindsey Michael Banco Pdf

This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s. Emerging from profound mid-twentieth-century changes in how drugs and travel were imagined, the conceptual nexus discussed sheds new light on British and North American responses to sixties counterculture. With readings of Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Alex Garland, Hunter S. Thompson, and Robert Sedlack, Banco traces twin arguments, looking at the ways travel is imagined as a disciplinary force acting upon the creative, destabilizing powers of psychedelic intoxication; and exploring the ways drugs help construct travel spaces and practices as, at times, revolutionary, and at other times, neo-colonial. By following a sequence of shifting understandings of drug and travel orthodoxies, this book traverses fraught and irresistibly linked terrains from the late 1950s up to a period marked by international, postmodern tourism. As such, it helps illuminate a world where tourism is continually expanding yet constantly circumscribed, and where illegal drugs are both increasingly unregulated in the global economy and perceived more and more as crucial agents in the construction of human subjectivity.

Author : Karen Jankowsky,Carla Love
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438407784

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Other Germanies by Karen Jankowsky,Carla Love Pdf

This book introduces American audiences to Germany through the perspectives of members of various ethnic groups within the newly unified country and through the mediation of feminist scholars, documenting the artistic contributions to German cultural identity of ten women writers, filmmakers, dancers, and visual artists. The work of these artists is presented in various ways: as an opportunity for Germans to explore their own repressed identities, as a portrayal of the complex histories of cultural change which foreigners bring into Germany, as the work of piecing together a minority identity in Germany, as a portrayal of the marginalization of women in the construction of the nation, and as the interpenetration of Eastern and Western European cultures. These artists subvert the process of forming a singular cultural identity by calling into question the creation of a unified personal identity. They represent, for example, the fragmentation of identity through images of amputation, the arbitrary construction of identity through games of chance, the struggle within the writing self to resist censorship in East Germany, and the protest against a culturally imposed identity based on racial categorization. The volume's eleven articles address issues of multiculturalism, national and personal identity, and avant-garde art, and reflect on the various ways gender and culture interact in the German context.

Author : Brown, Gavin,Feigenbaum, Anna,Fabian Frenzel,Patrick McCurdy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447329411

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Protest Camps in International Context by Brown, Gavin,Feigenbaum, Anna,Fabian Frenzel,Patrick McCurdy Pdf

Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements' contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help to better understand new global forms of democracy in action.