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Author : Emily Hannam
Publisher : Royal Collection Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art, Mogul Empire
ISBN : 1909741450
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, United Kingdom in June 2018.
Author : Michael Wynne-Parker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781728374659
Michael Wynne-Parker recalls the people who have graced his life while living and traveling in Russia, Ukraine, and Estonia in Eastern Encounters. The author first visited Estonia to speak at a conference in Tallinn on the subject of conservative values in contemporary society. At the time, members of parliament from the United Kingdom viewed Estonia as an independent state recently liberated from the Soviet Union. Underneath the country’s façade, however, the author discovered a seething disharmony. Over the years, he’s begun to understand the vital implications of that realization. From 2002 to 2013, the author spent most of his time in Tallinn with regular monthly visits to London. As the digital age was dawning, he took advantage of being able to conduct his business wherever he was based. Even while traveling, his activities as founder and chairman of Introcom International continued to flourish. He also wrote three books, which would have been impossible while living in London. Join the author as he celebrates the peace and tranquility of his life abroad while highlighting the numerous people who made his encounters so memorable.
Author : Shoshannah Ganz 著
Publisher : 國立臺灣大學出版中心
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789863502302
Eastern Encounters releases early Canadian women writers from a simple focus on autobiography and racial politics and interrogates their specific and sophisticated Asian influences. With a compelling reconstruction of historical context, Ganz has created perhaps the first book in a much-needed series that will revisit Canadian nationalism through the important cultural exchanges she examines. Though shaped with an Asian readership in mind, Eastern Encounters is an important work for all who wish to challenge the notion that Judeo-Christian traditions almost exclusively shaped early Canadian discourse.
Author : Melani McAlister
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520932012
Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire," considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since—to paraphrase her new preface—we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.
Author : Sabine Schülting,Sabine Lucia Müller,Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317147060
An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection focuses on the ways in which these cultural contacts were acted out on the real and metaphorical stages of theatre, literature, music, diplomacy and travel. The volume responds to the theatricalization of early modern politics, to contemporary anxieties about the tension between religious performance and belief, to the circulation of material objects in intercultural relations, and the eminent role of theatre and drama for the (re)imagination and negotiation of cultural difference. Contributors examine early modern encounters with and in the East using an innovative combination of literary and cultural theories. They stress the contingent nature of these contacts and demonstrate that they can be read as moments of potentiality in which the future of political and economic relations - as well as the players' cultural, religious and gender identities - are at stake.
Author : Fine Art Society,Lynne Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Exoticism in art
ISBN : UVA:X000646065
Author : Alex Lubin,Marwan M. Kraidy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781469628851
In the field of American studies, attention is shifting to the long history of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, especially in the aftermath of war in Iraq and in the context of recent Arab uprisings in protest against economic inequality, social discrimination, and political repression. Here, Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy curate a new collection of essays that focuses on the cultural politics of America's entanglement with the Middle East and North Africa, making a crucial intervention in the growing subfield of transnational American studies. Featuring a diverse list of contributors from the United States, the Arab world, and beyond, American Studies Encounters the Middle East analyzes Arab-American relations by looking at the War on Terror, pop culture, and the influence of the American hegemony in a time of revolution. Contributors include Christina Moreno Almeida, Ashley Dawson, Brian T. Edwards, Waleed Hazbun, Craig Jones, Osamah Khalil, Mounira Soliman, Helga Tawil-Souri, Judith E. Tucker, Adam John Waterman, and Rayya El Zein.
Author : A. Krawchuk,T. Bremer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137377388
From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.
Author : Qinna Shen,Martin Rosenstock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782383611
With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts. Thus, in recent years, Asian German Studies has emerged as a promising branch within interdisciplinary German Studies. This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.
Author : Thomas Hertel,Mogens Trolle Larsen,Kim Ryholt
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 8763543877
Globalization and cheaper travel have led to a rapid increase in cross-cultural encounters worldwide--which makes understanding problems of conflict, prejudice, interaction, and adaptation ever more important. Fortunately, we have a powerful historical example to draw on: the closely knit, yet very different cultures that inhabited and interacted in the Near East. Contributors look at the interactions of nomads, traders, religious groups, armies, and more to help answer questions about cultural encounters through both theoretical and empirical lenses. They present cases drawn from a range of fields within the overall history of the Near East, including Mesopotamian history, the rise of Islam, and the effects of Hellenism.
Author : Marcus Milwright
Publisher : Gorgias Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1463241941
"This book focuses on interactions between the Islamic world and other regions from the late eighth to the twenty-first centuries. Some chapters consider the complex relationship between Islam and the cultures of Late Antiquity in the Middle East and Mediterranean basin. The reprinted chapters in this volume have been revised and updated. Topics include relief-moulded pottery production in Raqqa, the construction of palaces in Samarra, portraiture in Arabic manuscript painting, written descriptions of patterned marble in medieval Islam, images of Muslim rulers in early Modern printed books, and the broadcast of the medical examination of Saddam Hussein. Also included are a critical introduction that considers the challenges involved in the study of cultural interactions between Islamic and non-Islamic regions, a cumulative bibliography, and a previously unpublished study of recently discovered photographs, drawings, and writings relating to the Middle East made by soldiers during and after World War I"--
Author : Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff
Publisher : Glitterati Incorporated
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : South Asia
ISBN : 9780976585176
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Author : Eric Burton,Anne Dietrich,Immanuel Harisch,Marcia Schenck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110623826
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity.
Author : Ralf Hertel,Michael Keevak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317147183
While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures can prove highly illuminating and provide valuable insights into both the specific shapes and limitations of East Asian and Western imaginations of the Other, as well as of the nature of East-West interaction. Interdisciplinary in outlook, this collection brings together the perspectives of sinology, Japanese and Korean studies, historical studies, literary studies, art history, religious studies, and performance studies. The subjects discussed are manifold and range from missionary accounts, travel reports, letters and trade documents to fictional texts as well as material objects (such as tea, chinaware, or nautical instruments) exchanged between East and West. In order to avoid a Eurocentric perspective, the collection balances approaches from the fields of English literature, Spanish studies, Neo-Latin studies, and art history with those of sinology, Japanese studies, and Korean studies. It includes an introduction mapping out the field of failures in early modern encounters between East Asia and Europe, as well as a theoretically minded essay on the lessons of failure and the ethics of cross-cultural understanding.
Author : Matthew Birchwood,Matthew Dimmock
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 9781904303411
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