On The Other Shore

Author : Roxanne L. Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1400827493

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Journeys to the Other Shore by Roxanne L. Euben Pdf

The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.

Author : André Liebich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0674325176

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From the Other Shore by André Liebich Pdf

This book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. The Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia, functioned abroad in the West for a generation. For several years they also continued to operate underground in Soviet Russia, and succeeded in impressing their views on social democratic parties and Western thinking about the U.S.S.R.

Author : John Starosta Galante
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229571

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On the Other Shore by John Starosta Galante Pdf

On the Other Shore explores the social history of Italian communities in South America and the transnational networks in which they were situated during and after World War I. From 1915 to 1921 Italy's conflict against Austria-Hungary and its aftermath shook Italian immigrants and their children in the metropolitan areas of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and São Paulo. The war led portions of these communities to mobilize resources--patriotic support, young men who could enlist in the Italian army, goods like wool from Argentina and limes from Brazil, and lots of money--to support Italy in the face of "total war." Yet other portions of these communities simultaneously organized a strident movement against the war, inspired especially by anarchism and revolutionary socialism. Both of these factions sought to extend their influence and ambitions into the immediate postwar period. On the Other Shore demonstrates patterns of social cohesion and division within the Italian communities of South America; reconstructs varying transatlantic and inter-American networks of interaction, exchange, and mobility in an "Italian Atlantic"; interrogates how authorities in Italy viewed their South American "colonies"; and uncovers ways that Italians in Latin America balanced and blended relationships and loyalties to their countries of residence and origin. On the Other Shore's position at the intersection of Latin American history, Atlantic history, and the histories of World War I and Italian immigration thereby engages with and informs each of these subject areas in distinctive ways.

Author : Gao Xingjian
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789882378834

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The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian Pdf

Gao Xingjian is the leading Chinese dramatist of our time. He is also one of the most moving and literary writers for the contemporary stage. His plays have been performed all around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, the Ivory Coast, the United States, France, Germany and other European countries. Born and educated in China, Gao studied French literature at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute between 1957-1962. After the Cultural Revolution, he became a resident playwright at the Beijing People's Art Theatre. His works, including Bus Stop, Absolute Signal, and Wilderness Man, were trend-setting and have created many controversies and a wave of experimental drama in China. In 1987 he settled in Paris, France and continued to write in Chinese and in French. He was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1992. The present collection contains five of Gao Xingjian's most recent works: The Other Shore (1986), Between Life and Death (1991), Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), and Weekend Quartet (1995). One finds poetry, comedy as well as tragedy in the plays, which are graced by beautiful language and original imagery. Combining Zen philosophy and a modern worldview, they serve to illuminate the gritty realities of life, death, sex, loneliness, and exile, all essential concerns in Gao's understanding of the existence of modern man. The plays are also manifestations of the dramatist's idea of the tripartite actor, a process by which the actor neutralizes himself and achieves a disinterested observation of his self in performance.

Author : Hoa Pham
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781913380816

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The Other Shore by Hoa Pham Pdf

When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood is over. A delicate meditation on the nature of ghosts, belief, and how the future is shaped by the past. When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood is over. Suddenly everyone wants to exploit her new talent—her family, the Vietnamese government, and even the spirits themselves.

Author : Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0938077112

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The Heart of Understanding by Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.) Pdf

This text is regarded as the essence of Buddhist teaching, offering subtle and profound teachings on non-duality; the letting go of all preconceived notions, opinions, and attachments, and so become open to all the wonders of our life. This book features a translation and commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Author : David C. Engerman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674272415

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Modernization from the Other Shore by David C. Engerman Pdf

From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of this crucial era, David Engerman underscores the key role economic development played in America's understanding of Russia and explores its profound effects on U.S. policy. American intellectuals from George Kennan to Samuel Harper to Calvin Hoover understood Russian events in terms of national character. Many of them used stereotypes of Russian passivity, backwardness, and fatalism to explain the need for--and the costs of--Soviet economic development. These costs included devastating famines that left millions starving while the government still exported grain. This book is a stellar example of the new international history that seamlessly blends cultural and intellectual currents with policymaking and foreign relations. It offers valuable insights into the role of cultural differences and the shaping of economic policy for developing nations even today.

Author : Mitsuyo Kakuta
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015074239180

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英文版対岸の彼女 by Mitsuyo Kakuta Pdf

Story about two thirty-five year old women - one a housewife and mother, and the other an unmarried company president - and their unlikely friendship.

Author : Michael Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520275249

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The Other Shore by Michael Jackson Pdf

In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing, and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place. Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work consummates a relationship with them.

Author : Jaishree Kak Odin
Publisher : Vitasta
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015051956491

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To the Other Shore by Jaishree Kak Odin Pdf

Study on life and works of Kashmiri poetess, Laldyada, 14th century; includes selection of her verses with English translation.

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400044818

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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

Author : John Starosta Galante
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229588

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On the Other Shore by John Starosta Galante Pdf

On the Other Shore explores the social history of Italian communities in South America and the transnational networks in which they were situated during and after World War I. From 1915 to 1921 Italy’s conflict against Austria-Hungary and its aftermath shook Italian immigrants and their children in the metropolitan areas of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and São Paulo. The war led portions of these communities to mobilize resources—patriotic support, young men who could enlist in the Italian army, goods like wool from Argentina and limes from Brazil, and lots of money—to support Italy in the face of “total war.” Yet other portions of these communities simultaneously organized a strident movement against the war, inspired especially by anarchism and revolutionary socialism. Both of these factions sought to extend their influence and ambitions into the immediate postwar period. On the Other Shore demonstrates patterns of social cohesion and division within the Italian communities of South America; reconstructs varying transatlantic and inter-American networks of interaction, exchange, and mobility in an “Italian Atlantic”; interrogates how authorities in Italy viewed their South American “colonies”; and uncovers ways that Italians in Latin America balanced and blended relationships and loyalties to their countries of residence and origin. On the Other Shore’s position at the intersection of Latin American history, Atlantic history, and the histories of World War I and Italian immigration thereby engages with and informs each of these subject areas in distinctive ways.

Author : Aleksandr Herzen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015000027121

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From the Other Shore, Translated from the Russian by Moura Budberg and The Russian People and Socialism, Translated from the French by Richard Wollheim by Aleksandr Herzen Pdf

Author : Aileen Kelly,Reader in the Department of Slavonic Studies Aileen M Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300070241

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Toward Another Shore by Aileen Kelly,Reader in the Department of Slavonic Studies Aileen M Kelly Pdf

In this thought-provoking book, an internationally acclaimed scholar writes about the passion for ideology among nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian intellectuals and about the development of sophisticated critiques of ideology by a continuing minority of Russian thinkers inspired by libertarian humanism. Aileen Kelly sets the conflict between utopian and anti-utopian traditions in Russian thought within the context of the shift in European thought away from faith in universal systems and "grand narratives" of progress toward an acceptance of the role of chance and contingency in nature and history. In the current age, as we face the dilemma of how to prevent the erosion of faith in absolutes and final solutions from ending in moral nihilism, we have much to learn from the struggles, failures, and insights of Russian thinkers, Kelly says. Her essays--some of them tours de force that have appeared before as well as substantial new studies of Turgenev, Herzen, and the Signposts debate--illuminate the insights of Russian intellectuals into the social and political consequences of ideas of such seminal Western thinkers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Darwin. Russian Literature and Thought Series

Author : Antonio D'Alfonso
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0920717322

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The Other Shore by Antonio D'Alfonso Pdf

A notebook without beginning, without and end, only a flowing towards being, a growing; contradictions and explanations.