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Precarious Passages

Author : Tuire Valkeakari
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813072449

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Precarious Passages by Tuire Valkeakari Pdf

Precarious Passages unites literature written by members of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as simply "African American," "Black Canadian," "Black British," or "postcolonial African Caribbean," this book takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustains a sense of a wider African diasporic community in the Western world. Tuire Valkeakari analyzes the writing of Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Hill, and other contemporary novelists of African descent. She shows how their novels connect with each other and with defining moments in the transatlantic experience, most notably the Middle Passage and enslavement. The lives of their characters are marked by migration and displacement. Their protagonists yearn to experience fulfilling human connection in a place they can call home. Portraying strategies of survival, adaptation, and resistance across the limitless varieties of life experiences in the diaspora, these novelists continually reimagine what it means to share a Black diasporic identity.

Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East

Author : Ruth Breeze,Sarali Gintsburg,Mike Baynham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350274556

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Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East by Ruth Breeze,Sarali Gintsburg,Mike Baynham Pdf

Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal aspects of their experiences. In doing so, the authors examine a wide range of accounts of journeys to host countries and memories (or recreations) of “home”. The spaces that migrants occupy (or not) in their new country; the spaces and times they share with local populations; and different conceptions of space and time across generations are also investigated, as are how feelings surrounding space and time are manifested within these different narratives and their affective-discursive practices. Taking both a traditional, linear view of migration as well as a multilinear, multimodal approach, the book presents an in-depth investigation into the ways in which people inhabit multiple real and digital spaces.

An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament

Author : Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108066051

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An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament by Samuel Prideaux Tregelles Pdf

This 1854 account of Tregelles's methods in producing his important edition of the Greek New Testament still informs textual criticism.

The Passage of Literature

Author : Christopher GoGwilt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190454050

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The Passage of Literature by Christopher GoGwilt Pdf

Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction with one another. The Passage of Literature unites the three in a bracing comparative study that breaks away from traditional conceptions of modernism, going beyond temporal periodization and the entrenched Anglo-American framework that undergirds current scholarship. This study nimbly traces a trio of distinct yet interrelated modernist genealogies. English modernism as exemplified by Conrad's Malay trilogy is productively paired with the hallmark work of Indonesian modernism, Pramoedya's Buru quartet. The two novel sequences, penned years apart, narrate overlapping histories of imperialism in the Dutch East Indies, and both make opera central for understanding the cultural dynamic of colonial power. Creole modernism--defined not only by the linguistic diversity of the Caribbean but also by an alternative vision of literary history--provides a transnational context for reading Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea, each novel mapped in relation to the colonial English and postcolonial Indonesian coordinates of Conrad's The Shadow-Line and Pramoedya's This Earth of Mankind. All three modernisms-English, Creole, and Indonesian-converge in a discussion of the Indonesian figure of the nyai, a concubine or house servant, who represents the traumatic core of transnational modernism. Throughout the study, Pramoedya's extraordinary effort to reconstruct the lost record of Indonesia's emergence as a nation provides a model for reading each fragmentary passage of literature as part of an ongoing process of decolonizing tradition. Drawing on translated and un-translated works of fiction and nonfiction, GoGwilt effectively reexamines the roots of Anglophone modernist studies, thereby laying out the imperatives of a new postcolonial philology even as he resituates European modernism within the literary, linguistic, and historical context of decolonization.

Catalonia's Human Towers

Author : Mariann Vaczi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253067173

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Catalonia's Human Towers by Mariann Vaczi Pdf

The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children gather in Catalan squares to create breathtaking edifices through a feat of collective athleticism. The result is a great spectacle of effort and overcoming, tension and release. Catalonia's Human Towers is an ethnographic look at the thriving castells practice--a symbol of Catalan cultural heritage and identity amid debates around national autonomy and secession from Spain. While the main function of building castells is to grow community through a low-cost, intergenerational, and inclusive leisure activity, Mariann Vaczi reveals how this unique sport also provides a social base, image, and vocabulary for the independence movement. Highlighting the intersection of folklore, performance, and sport, Catalonia's Human Towers captures the subtle processes by which the body becomes politicized and ideology becomes embodied, with all the desires, risks and precarities of collective constructions.

Precarious Life

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763038

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Precarious Life by Judith Butler Pdf

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

Chambers's Encyclopædia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:B2927671

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Chambers's Encyclopædia

Author : Ephraim Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN518W

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Chambers's Encyclopædia by Ephraim Chambers Pdf

Enchiridion Theologicum; or, a Manual, for the use of Students in Divinity

Author : John RANDOLPH (successively Bishop of Oxford, of Bangor, and of London.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022800986

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Enchiridion Theologicum; or, a Manual, for the use of Students in Divinity by John RANDOLPH (successively Bishop of Oxford, of Bangor, and of London.) Pdf

Gone with the Wind

Author : Margaret Mitchell
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 1730 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000065060

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Pdf

Gone With the Wind, a 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. Gone with the Wind is often placed in the literary subgenre of the historical romance novel. The epic romance tale set in and around Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War has remained a bestseller, even before the equally popular film starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh was made in 1939. The novel has also been described as an early classic of the erotic historical genre, because it is thought to contain some degree of pornography. The novel tells of archetypal Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara as she grows from a young woman into maturity against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Like many of the early 20th century Southern writers, Mitchell portrays an idyllic image of the antebellum South. While it can be legitimately criticized for its insensitivity to the treatment of African Americans who were enslaved, Mitchell's novel demonstrates how the South was decimated by the Civil War and continued to suffer under the Northern-sanctioned Restoration.

From Education to Work

Author : Walter R. Heinz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521594197

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From Education to Work by Walter R. Heinz Pdf

This book contains empirical studies of school-to-work transitions from several Western countries.

Gone with the Wind

Author : Margaret Mitchell
Publisher : Everyman Paperbacks
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Georgia
ISBN : 0380001098

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Pdf

After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.