Author : Maryanne A. Rhett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 135007327X
Representations Of Islam In United States Comics 1880 1922
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Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922
Author : Maryanne A. Rhett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350073258
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 by Maryanne A. Rhett Pdf
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and 1922. Through cartoons, comics, editorial cartoons, serialized advertisements and other materials the book unfolds a narrative about how the Islamic world and its people were understood by the American government and its people. This “knowledge,” garnered from popular culture of the day, produced a lens through which domestic and international relationships were created and maintained. Representing a wide swath of U.S. popular culture and discourse, the reflections these artifacts offer are united in their depiction of the “Oriental” in an era that is largely assumed to have been marked by American un-interest in the region, peoples and religion. An exciting contribution to a growing field, this book resituates the U.S. within the Islamic world, using the everyday medium of comics to provide a fresh perspective on the subject.
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922
Author : Maryanne A. Rhett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350073265
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 by Maryanne A. Rhett Pdf
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and 1922. Through cartoons, comics, editorial cartoons, serialized advertisements and other materials the book unfolds a narrative about how the Islamic world and its people were understood by the American government and its people. This “knowledge,” garnered from popular culture of the day, produced a lens through which domestic and international relationships were created and maintained. Representing a wide swath of U.S. popular culture and discourse, the reflections these artifacts offer are united in their depiction of the “Oriental” in an era that is largely assumed to have been marked by American un-interest in the region, peoples and religion. An exciting contribution to a growing field, this book resituates the U.S. within the Islamic world, using the everyday medium of comics to provide a fresh perspective on the subject.
Superhero Thought Experiments
Author : Chris Gavaler,Nathaniel Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781609386559
Superhero Thought Experiments by Chris Gavaler,Nathaniel Goldberg Pdf
"What if there's an alternative universe with a different moral code? What if we are being deceived by an evil genius? Examining the deep philosophical topics addressed in superhero comics, this entertaining book reads plot lines for the complex "thought experiments" they contain and analyzes their implications as if the comic authors were philosophers. In doing so, authors Chris Gavaler and Nathaniel Goldberg--a comics expert and a philosophy scholar, respectively--find that superhero comics often depict philosophical thought experiments more fully than philosophers do, and with surprising results. For example, René Descartes briefly worries that we are being deceived by an evil genius, but Marvel Comics explores this concern--and its consequences--over decades. Similarly, in a few paragraphs philosophers Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons imagine a "moral twin earth" with deviant morality, while DC Comics dedicates multiple comics to different moral twin earths in which readers see multiple deviant moralities play out"--
Orientalism
Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867
Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.
Never Wholly Other
Author : Jerusha Tanner Lamptey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190458010
Never Wholly Other by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey Pdf
How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other? Historically, this question has provoked extensive debate among Islamic scholars about the identity, nature, and status of such religious Others. Today, this debate assumes great importance because of the widening experience of religious plurality, which prompts inquiry into convergences and divergences in belief and practice as well as controversy over the appropriate forms of interaction among different religions. The persistence of religious violence also gives rise to difficult questions about the relationship between the depiction of religious Others, and intolerance and oppression. Scholars have traditionally accounted for the coexistence of religious similarity and difference by resorting either to models that depict religions as isolated entities or models that arrange religions in a static, evaluative hierarchy. In response to the limitations of this discourse, Jerusha Tanner Lamptey constructs an alternative conceptual and hermeneutical approach that draws insights from the work of Muslim women interpreters of the Qur'an, feminist theology, and semantic analysis. She employs this approach to reevaluate, reinterpret, and reenvision the Qur'anic discourse on religious difference. Through a close reading of the Qur'anic text, she distinguishes between two forms of religious difference: hierarchical and lateral. She goes on to explore the complex relationality that exists among Qur'anic concepts of hierarchical religious difference and to articulate a new, integrated model of religious pluralism. Using an interdisciplinary approach to confront existing Islamic scholarship, Lamptey's Never Wholly Other offers a new genre of theology.
Introducing Intercultural Communication
Author : Shuang Liu,Zala Volcic,Cindy Gallois
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446259542
Introducing Intercultural Communication by Shuang Liu,Zala Volcic,Cindy Gallois Pdf
Books on intercultural communication are rarely written with an intercultural readership in mind. In contrast, this multinational team of authors has put together an introduction to communicating across cultures that uses examples and case studies from around the world. The book further covers essential new topics, including international conflict, social networking, migration, and the effects technology and mass media play in the globalization of communication. Written to be accessible for international students too, this text situates communication theory in a truly global perspective. Each chapter brings to life the links between theory and practice and between the global and the local, introducing key theories and their practical applications. Along the way, you will be supported with first-rate learning resources, including: • theory corners with concise, boxed-out digests of key theoretical concepts • case illustrations putting the main points of each chapter into context • learning objectives, discussion questions, key terms and further reading framing each chapter and stimulating further discussion • a companion website containing resources for instructors, including multiple choice questions, presentation slides, exercises and activities, and teaching notes. This book will not merely guide you to success in your studies, but will teach you to become a more critical consumer of information and understand the influence of your own culture on how you view yourself and others.
War, Politics and Superheroes
Author : Marc Di Paolo
Publisher : McFarland Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0786447184
War, Politics and Superheroes by Marc Di Paolo Pdf
Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance. This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time. Superheroes addressed include Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Superman, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, and topics covered include American wars, conflicts, and public policy. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Chinese Religiosities
Author : Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520098640
Chinese Religiosities by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang Pdf
"Extraordinarily timely and useful. As China emerges as an economic and political world power that seems to have done away with religion, in fact it is witnessing a religious revival. The thoughtful essays in this book show both the historical conflicts between state authorities and religious movements and the contemporary encounters that are shaping China's future. I am aware of no other book that covers so much ground and can be used so well as an introduction to this important field." —Peter van der Veer, University of Utrecht
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1738 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015085507328
The Publishers' Trade List Annual by Anonim Pdf
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
Author : Jitka Malečková
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004440791
“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923) by Jitka Malečková Pdf
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malečková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in other countries, including the European fascination with the Orient, images of “the Turk,” contemporary scholarship, and racial theories. The Czechs were not free from colonial ambitions either, as their attitude to Bosnia-Herzegovina demonstrates, but their viewpoint was different from that found in imperial states and among the peoples who had experienced Ottoman rule. The book convincingly shows that the Czechs mainly viewed the Turks through the lenses of nationalism and Pan-Slavism – in solidarity with the Slavs fighting against Ottoman rule.
Desiring Arabs
Author : Joseph A. Massad
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226509600
Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad Pdf
Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad’s chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture. “A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work.”—Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report “In Desiring Arabs, [Edward] Said’s disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor’s thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present.”—Financial Times
The Mandaean Book of John
Author : Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110487862
The Mandaean Book of John by Charles G. Häberl,James F. McGrath Pdf
Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.
Black Morocco
Author : Chouki El Hamel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107025776
Black Morocco by Chouki El Hamel Pdf
Chronicles the experiences, identity, agency and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Historical Abstracts
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114614998