Erasure

Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555970390

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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies—his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before. In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is—under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh—and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.

Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571370896

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Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555975999

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"Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym of Stagg R. Leigh. Ellison quickly finds himself with a six-figure advance from a major house, a multimillion-dollar offer for the movie rights and a monster bestseller on his hands. The money helps with a family crisis, allowing Ellison to care for his widowed mother as she drifts into the fog of Alzheimer's, but it doesn't ease the pain after his sister, a physician, is shot by right-wing fanatics for performing abortions. The dark side of wealth surfaces when both the movie mogul and talk-show host demand to meet the nonexistent Leigh, forcing Ellison to don a disguise and invent a sullen, enigmatic character to meet the demands of the market. The final indignity occurs when Ellison becomes a judge for a major book award and My Pafology (title changed to Fuck) gets nominated, forcing the author to come to terms with his perverse literary joke."--Publisher's description.

Author : New Media Caucus
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329113251

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Media-N Spring 2015 The Aesthetics of Erasure by New Media Caucus Pdf

Author : Nicole Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441140739

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Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure by Nicole Anderson Pdf

Derrida's work is controversial, its interpretation hotly contested. Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure offers a new way of thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life. The book presents the development of Derrida's thinking on ethics by demonstrating that the ethical was a focus of Derrida's work at every stage of his career. In connecting Derrida's earlier work on language with the ethics implicated in his later work on justice and responsibility, Nicole Anderson traverses literary, linguistic, philosophical and ethical interpretative movements, thus recontextualising Derrida's entire oeuvre for a contemporary readership. She explores the positive ethical implications of Derrida's work for representation and practice and asks the reader to consider how this new ethical reading of Derrida's work might be applied to concrete instances of his or her own ethical experience.

Author : Hanadi Al-Samman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815653295

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Anxiety of Erasure by Hanadi Al-Samman Pdf

Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting forgotten histories and of activating two cultural tropes: that of the maw’udah (buried female infant) and that of Shahrazad in the process of revolutionary change. She asks what it means to develop a national, gendered consciousness from diasporic locals while staying committed to the homeland. Al-Samman presents close readings of the fiction of six prominent authors whose works span over half a century and define the current status of Arab diaspora studies—Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Na‘na‘, Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi. Exploring the journeys in time and space undertaken by these women, Anxiety of Erasure shines a light on the ways in which writers remain participants in their homelands’ intellectual lives, asserting both the traumatic and the triumphant aspects of diaspora. The result is a nuanced Arab women’s poetic that celebrates rootlessness and rootedness, autonomy and belonging.

Author : Bonnie Prudden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Exercise therapy
ISBN : 9780871319838

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Pain Erasure by Bonnie Prudden Pdf

Bonnie Prudden's revolutionary breakthrough in pain relief involves trigger points -- tender areas where muscles have been damaged from falls, childhood ailments, poor posture, and the stresses of daily life. Requiring no special training or equipment, myotherapy is a natural, simple technique that can be performed in the home. Illustrated with charts, photographs, and diagrams, Bonnie Prudden's step-by-step method has been hailed by doctors and patients for its extraordinary 95 percent success rate.

Author : Vasilikie Demos,Marcia Texler Segal
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803825939

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Gender Visibility and Erasure by Vasilikie Demos,Marcia Texler Segal Pdf

Gender Visibility and Erasure offers a unique way of focusing on gender by identifying the multiple contexts in which issues of visibility, invisibility, and erasure manifest, considering who is seen and who is ignored, who has voice and who is silenced, who has agency and who is controlled.

Author : David Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Magnetic recorders and recording
ISBN : UCSD:31822021221932

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Effective Erasure of Magnetic Tapes by David Middleton Pdf

Author : Ruth Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997146702

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Female Erasure by Ruth Barrett Pdf

Female Erasure is an anthology that celebrate female embodiment while exposing the current trend of gender-identity politics as a continuation of female erasure and silencing as old as patriarchy itself.

Author : Laura Morowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000926804

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Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna by Laura Morowitz Pdf

This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-de-siècle Vienna. Each of the exhibits was large scale and ambitious, part of a broader attempt to situate Vienna as the cultural capital of the Reich, and each aimed to reshape cultural memory and rewrite history. Applying illuminating theories on memory studies, collective and public memory, and notions of "memoricide," this is the first book in English to focus on visual culture in the period when Austria was erased as a nation and incorporated into the Third Reich as "Ostmark." The organization, content and publications surrounding these three exhibits are explored in depth and set against the larger political changes and dangerous ideologies they reflect. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, cultural history, memory studies, art and politics and Holocaust studies.

Author : Salam Hawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317390053

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The Erasure of Arab Political Identity by Salam Hawa Pdf

This book explores the long history of the evolution of Arab political identity, which predates the time of the Prophet Muhammad and is characterized by tolerance, compassion, generosity, hospitality, self-control, correct behaviour, equality and consensus. The author argues that present-day struggles in many Arab countries to redefine polities and politics are related to the fact that the underlying political culture of the Arabs has been overridden for centuries by successive political regimes which have deviated from the original political culture that the Prophet adhered to. The book outlines the political culture that existed before Islam, examines how the Conquests and the rule of the early dynasties (Umayyad and Abbasid) of the Islamic world found it necessary to override it, and analyses the effect of rule by non-Arabs – successively Mamluks, Ottoman Turks and Western colonial powers. It discusses the impact of these distortions on present day politics in the Arab world, and concludes by appealing for a reawakening of, and respect for, the cultural elements underlying the origins of Arab political identity.

Author : Sarah Surface-Evans,Amanda E. Garrison,Kisha Supernant
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394198

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Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure by Sarah Surface-Evans,Amanda E. Garrison,Kisha Supernant Pdf

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501707490

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Aversion and Erasure by Carolyn J. Dean Pdf

In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Popular and scholarly attention to the Holocaust has led some observers to conclude that a "surfeit of Jewish memory" is obscuring the suffering of other peoples. Dean explores the pervasive idea that suffering and trauma in the United States and Western Europe have become central to identity, with victims competing for recognition by displaying their collective wounds.She argues that this notion has never been examined systematically even though it now possesses the force of self-evidence. It developed in nascent form after World War II, when the near-annihilation of European Jewry began to transform patriotic mourning into a slogan of "Never Again": as the Holocaust demonstrated, all people might become victims because of their ethnicity, race, gender, or sexuality—because of who they are.The recent concept that suffering is central to identity and that Jewish suffering under Nazism is iconic of modern evil has dominated public discourse since the 1980s.Dean argues that we believe that the rational contestation of grievances in democratic societies is being replaced by the proclamation of injury and the desire to be a victim. Such dramatic and yet culturally powerful assertions, however, cast suspicion on victims and define their credibility in new ways that require analysis. Dean's latest book summons anyone concerned with human rights to recognize the impact of cultural ideals of "deserving" and "undeserving" victims on those who have suffered.

Author : Bonnie Prudden
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781461663140

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Pain Erasure by Bonnie Prudden Pdf

After twenty-five years in print, this book has been a godsend for hundreds of thousands of readers. When trigger points are released (and this book teaches how it is done) relief comes immediately.