Rebel Men

Author : Pamela Hunt
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789888754052

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Rebel Men by Pamela Hunt Pdf

Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural ‘attitude’. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how, as male writers critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, they also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order? In this first full-length discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature, Pamela Hunt offers a detailed analysis of four contemporary authors in particular: Zhu Wen, Feng Tang, Xu Zechen, and Han Han. In a series of insightful readings, she explores how all four writers show the same preoccupation with the figure of the man on the edges of society. Drawing on longstanding Chinese and global models of maverick, as well as marginal masculinity, and responding to a desire to retain a measure of masculine authority, their characters all engage in forms of transgression that still rely heavily on heteronormative and patriarchal values. Rebel Men argues that masculinity, so often overlooked in literary analysis of contemporary China, continues to be renegotiated, debated, and agonized over, and is ultimately reconstructed as more powerful than before. ‘An exceptionally lucid, elegant study of masculinity in mainland Chinese fiction of the 1990s and 2000s. Both historically and theoretically informed, Rebel Men: Masculinity and Attitude in Postsocialist Chinese Literature offers a major new perspective on post-1989 Chinese counterculture.’ —Julia Lovell, Birkbeck, University of London

Author : Ted Robert Gurr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317248941

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Why Men Rebel by Ted Robert Gurr Pdf

Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its holistic, people-based understanding of the causes of political protest and rebellion. With its close eye on the politics of group identity, this book provides new insight into contemporary security challenges.

Author : William A. Penn
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813167732

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Kentucky Rebel Town by William A. Penn Pdf

On April 22, 1861, within weeks of the surrender at Fort Sumter, fresh recruits marched to the Cynthiana, Kentucky, depot -- one of the state's first volunteer companies to join the Confederate army. The soldiers boarded a waiting train as many sympathetic city and county officials cheered. A Confederate flag was raised at the Harrison County courthouse but it was taken down within six months, as the influence of pro-Southern officials diminished. However, this "pestilential little nest of treason" became a battlefield during some of the most dramatic military engagements in the state. In this fascinating book, William A. Penn provides an impressively detailed account of the military action that took place in this Kentucky region during the Civil War. Because of its political leanings and strategic position along the Kentucky Central Railroad, Harrison County became the target of multiple raids by Confederate general John Hunt Morgan. Conflict in the area culminated in the Second Battle of Cynthiana, in which Morgan's men clashed with Union troops led by Major General Stephen G. Burbridge (the "Butcher of Kentucky"), resulting in the destruction of much of the town by fire. Penn draws on dozens of period newspapers as well as personal journals, memoirs, and correspondence from citizens, slaves, soldiers, and witnesses to provide a vivid account of the war's impact on the region. Featuring new maps that clearly illustrate the combat strategies in the various engagements, Kentucky Rebel Town provides an illuminating look at divided loyalties and dissent in Union Kentucky.

Author : Richard M. McMurry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807845698

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Two Great Rebel Armies by Richard M. McMurry Pdf

Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee. His bold conclusion is that Lee's army was a better army--not just one with a better high command.

Author : Lyle Brandt
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628158403

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Rebel Gun by Lyle Brandt Pdf

The Epic Western by the Author of Vengeance Gun The hunter becomes the hunted... The Civil War is over. The American West is on the mend, but turmoil still brews south of the border. And one man 's search for peace finds him the subject of a Mexican manhunt. Matthew Price is weary of the trail, lies tired He’s tired of living by the gun—tired of finding trouble everywhere he rides. So when he recognizes the face plastered on a public execution notice in a tiny Mexican village, He's tempted to turn His back and hightail it out of town. But the man pictured is Gray Wolf, the Apache to whom he owes his life. Matt knows it's time for him to return the favor. Breaking Gray Wolf out of jail is the easy part. Soon Matt discovers that by setting free his compadre’s cellmate, he has also released the federales’ greatest threat: fierce resistance leader Cesar Zapata de León. Running with the revolutionary means that this time Matt has more than a bounty at stake. Now the price is on his head.

Author : Walter Earl Pittman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476614380

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Rebels in the Rockies by Walter Earl Pittman Pdf

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many returned to the South to fight while others remained where they were, forming a potentially disloyal population. Underground movements existed throughout the war in Colorado, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and even Idaho. Repeatedly betrayed and overwhelmed by Union forces and without communications with the South, these groups were ineffective. In southern New Mexico, Southerners, who were the majority, aligned themselves with the Confederacy. Four small companies of irregulars, one Hispanic, fought (effectively) as part of the abortive Confederate invasion force of 1861-2. The most famous of these, the "Brigands," were close in function to a modern special forces unit. In 1862 the Brigands were sent into Colorado to join up with a secret army of 600-1,000 men massing there, but were betrayed. Returning to Texas, the Brigands and the other irregulars were used for special operations in the West throughout the War; they also fought in the Louisiana-Arkansas campaigns of 1863-4.

Author : USA House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11037532

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House Documents by USA House of Representatives Pdf

Author : George Cary Eggleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN : UCLA:31158009396226

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A Rebel's Recollections by George Cary Eggleston Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : OXFORD:555036824

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The Tribune Almanac by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gardner F. Fox
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434464644

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The Rebel Wench by Gardner F. Fox Pdf

She fought for liberty in the American Civil War like a woman -- with her beauty, her brains . . . and her body!

Author : John McElroy
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664130730

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Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons (Illustrated Edition) by John McElroy Pdf

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons" is one of the best accounts about the Civil War. McElroy, the author, vividly tells his story about the time he spent as a prisoner of Andersonville and a few other Confederate prisons he was kept at. The book is full of interesting stories and amazing facts about the Confederate prison system and the way prisoners were treated in the South!

Author : Matthew Hoff
Publisher : Winged Hussar Publishing
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950423781

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Pledged as a Rebel by Matthew Hoff Pdf

A history and analysis of the rising that covers the principal players, the strategy and execution of the plan. This new history shows the Uprising from initiation to its aftermath. The uprising came during the tough times of World War I and was viewed by some as heroic and by others as treachery.

Author : Xiucheng Li,Charles Anthony Curwen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0521210828

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Taiping Rebel by Xiucheng Li,Charles Anthony Curwen Pdf

Li Hsiu-ch'eng - the Loyal Prince - was the most important military leader on the rebel side during the last years of the Taiping Rebellion in China (1851-64). The Taiping Rebellion has been called the greatest popular revolt in modern history, and it came remarkably close to toppling the Ch'ing empire some fifty years before it was finally overthrown in 1911. Captured in June 1864 by government forces, Li Hsiu-ch'eng spent the final days before his inevitable execution writing a personal account of the Rebellion and his role in it. His Deposition is the fullest narrative by a participant and an invaluable historical document. The original manuscript of the Deposition was withheld by the government commander Tseng Kuo-fan and his descendants, and a shortened, bowdlerized version prepared for publication. Li himself was considered a great revolutionary hero in China until the Cultural Revolution when he was reassessed in a major public debate of considerable political significance.

Author : J. E. Collins
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066133696

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The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief by J. E. Collins Pdf

"The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief" by J. E. Collins Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald. Riel sought to defend Métis rights and identity as the Northwest Territories came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence. This book takes his incredible life story and puts it on paper for the world to see.

Author : Tim Wendel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501774966

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Rebel Falls by Tim Wendel Pdf

With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The Civil War rages on. Sherman is marching on Atlanta, while the armies of Grant and Lee battle across Virginia. In the North, war-weariness has made Lincoln's bid for reelection seem doubtful. As the fate of the nation "conceived in Liberty" hangs in the balance, Confederate agents gather in Niagara Falls to plan one last audacious maneuver to turn the tide of the conflict. Rory Chase, a capable yet haunted young woman eager to contribute to the Union cause, accepts a mission from the Secretary of State, William Seward, to travel to Niagara Falls and prevent two rebel spies, John Yates Beall and Bennet Burley, from seizing the U.S.S. Michigan on Lake Erie and bombarding Buffalo, Cleveland, and other northern cities to sow fear and disorder ahead of the upcoming election. To succeed, Rory must gain the rebel spies' trust and, with the help of the Underground Railroad network still operating out of the elegant Cataract House hotel overlooking the Falls, foil their desperate gambit. But can she maintain the pretense of being a Confederate sympathizer long enough to unravel Beall and Burley's ingenious plot? With actual events underpinning the tumultuous story in Rebel Falls, a forgotten chapter in the history of the Civil War is revealed. Far from frontlines, Wendel's exciting, character-driven narrative about a consequential struggle in the shadow of Niagara Falls' dramatic beauty is gripping from start to finish.