Loopholes And Retreats

Author : John Cullen Gruesser,Hanna Wallinger
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825818920

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Loopholes and Retreats by John Cullen Gruesser,Hanna Wallinger Pdf

The essays in this volume explore the loopholes and retreats employed and exploited by African American polemicists, poets, novelists, slave narrators, playwrights, short story writers, essayists, editors, educators, historians, clubwomen, and autobiographers during the nineteenth century. These exciting contributions use historicist, comparative, transnational, literary historical, cultural studies, and Foucauldian perspectives to examine how apparent weakness was turned into strength, defensiveness into offensiveness, and the machinery of oppression into the keys to liberation.

Author : John Cullen Gruesser,Hanna Wallinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 3700009283

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Loopholes and Retreats by John Cullen Gruesser,Hanna Wallinger Pdf

Author : Carol J. Singley,Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791413896

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Anxious Power by Carol J. Singley,Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Pdf

This book explains the conflicting feelings of anxiety and empowerment that women, historically excluded from masculine discourse, feel when they read and write, and it analyzes narrative strategies that reveal this ambivalence. Anxious Power draws upon feminist literary theory, narrative theory, and reader-response criticism to define women's ambivalence toward language. It is the first collection to address issues of ambivalence in narrative by women, to trace those issues from the medieval period to the present, and to outline a theoretical framework for understanding them. The contributors address a broad spectrum of female literary voices ranging from familiar British and American writers (Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Willa Cather), and those less well known (Jane Barker, Caroline Lee Henz, Susan Warner, Sarah Grand, and Fanny Howe), to European, Canadian, African-American, South and Latin American, and Asian American writers (Christine de Pizan, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Margaret Atwood, Harriet Jacobs, Toni Morrison, Clarice Lispector, Sandra Cisneros, and Maxine Hong Kingston). Anxious Power considers forms of women's narrative ranging from fairy tales through romances, novels, and autobiographies, to feminist metafiction.

Author : John Cullen Gruesser
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612744

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Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction by John Cullen Gruesser Pdf

This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction (the origins of which derive in part from turn-of-the-20th-century notions about gender, race and nationality), and it concludes with a discussion of contemporary mystery series with inner-city settings that address black male and female heroism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Mottoes
ISBN : WISC:89087914099

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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carole Boyce-Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134855230

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Black Women, Writing and Identity by Carole Boyce-Davies Pdf

Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering * gender, language and the politics of location Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to broaden the discourse surrounding the representation of and by black women and women of colour. Black Women Writing and Identity represents an extraordinary achievement in this field, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : IND:30000092166523

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Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : NYPL:33433081655726

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The United Service Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevis Goodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521831687

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Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism by Kevis Goodman Pdf

Goodman traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465011742

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Vaclav Havel by John Keane Pdf

This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous events of his times. Havel's life, like that of his African counterpart Nelson Mandela, has been shaped and determined by the large political shifts of the twentieth century. Readers will taste the moments of joy, irony, farce, and misfortune through which he has lived, and realize that he has taught the world more about the powerful and the powerless, power-grabbing and power-sharing, than virtually anyone else on the world stage.

Author : Nick O'Neill,Simon Rice,Roger Douglas
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 186287414X

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Retreat from Injustice by Nick O'Neill,Simon Rice,Roger Douglas Pdf

This new edition of Retreat from Injustice has the strengths and style of its predecessor: the account of human rights in Australia is firmly grounded in historical and international contexts; the availability and limitations of rights and freedoms are clearly detailed and illustrated with cases; and a particular spotlight is placed on key current human rights issues including terrorism, indigenous issues and asylum seekers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : WISC:89090037961

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Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Baucom
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822387022

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Specters of the Atlantic by Ian Baucom Pdf

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the political and cultural archives of the black Atlantic but also to the history of modern capital and ethics. To apprehend the Zong tragedy, Baucom suggests, is not to come to terms with an isolated atrocity but to encounter a logic of violence key to the unfolding history of Atlantic modernity. Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of today’s finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literary theorists. In revealing how the Zong tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit.

Author : Ingmar Persson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199276905

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The Retreat of Reason by Ingmar Persson Pdf

One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives. The ancient Greeks typically assumed that a life led in accordance with reason, a rational life, would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Ingmar Persson's book resumes this project, which has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. But his conclusions are very different; by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to time, our identity, and our responsibility,Persson shows that the aim of living rationally conflicts not only with the aim of leading the most fulfilling life, but also with the moral aim of promoting the maximization and just distribution of fulfilment for all. Persson also argues that neither the aim of living rationally nor any of the fulfilmentaims can be rejected as less rational than any other. We thus face a dilemma of either having to enter a retreat of reason, insulated from everyday attitudes, or making reason retreat from its aspiration to be the sole controller of our attitudes.The Retreat of Reason explores three areas in which there is a conflict between the rational life and a life dedicated to maximization of fulfilment. Persson contends that living rationally requires us to give up, first, our temporal biases; secondly, our bias towards ourselves; and, thirdly, our responsibility to the extent that it involves the notion of desert and desert-entailing notions. But giving up these attitudes is so overwhelmingly hard that the effort to do so not only makesour own lives less fulfilling, but also obstructs our efficient pursuit of the moral aim of promoting a maximum of justly distributed fulfilment.Ingmar Persson brings back to philosophy the ambition of offering a broad vision of the human condition. The Retreat of Reason challenges and disturbs some of our most fundamental ideas about ourselves.

Author : Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350288249

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Small Spaces by Swati Chattopadhyay Pdf

Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people-the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities-who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this book presents eighteen short, readable chapters to explore an array of overlooked places and spaces. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism. With the focus of history so often on the large scale - global trade networks, vast regions, and architectures of power and domination - Small Spaces shows instead how we need to rethink this aura of magnitude so that our reading is not beholden such imperialist optics. With chapters which can be read separately as individual accounts of objects, spaces, and buildings, and introductions showing how this critical methodology can challenge the methods and theories of urban and architectural history, Small Spaces is a must-read for anyone wishing to decolonize disciplinary practices in the field of architectural, urban, and colonial history. Altogether, it provides a paradigm-breaking account of how to 'unlearn empire', whether in British India or elsewhere.