Rewriting Revolution

Author : Immanuel Kim
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824873608

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Rewriting Revolution by Immanuel Kim Pdf

North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric vestige of the Cold War, a “rogue” nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights and expanding its nuclear weapons program at the expense of a faltering economy. Even the North’s literary output is stigmatized and dismissed as mere propaganda literature praising the Great Leader. Immanuel Kim’s book confronts these stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal of literature in the North based on writings from the 1960s to the present. The state, seeking to “write revolution,” prescribes grand narratives populated with characters motivated by their political commitments to the leader, the Party, the nation, and the collective. While acknowledging these qualities, Kim argues for deeper readings. In some novels and stories, he finds, the path to becoming a revolutionary hero or heroine is no longer a simple matter of formulaic plot progression; instead it is challenged, disrupted, and questioned by individual desires, decisions, doubts, and imaginations. Fiction in the 1980s in particular exhibits refreshing story lines and deeper character development along with creative approaches to delineating women, sexuality, and the family. These changes are so striking that they have ushered in what Kim calls a Golden Age of North Korean fiction. Rewriting Revolution charts the insightful literary frontiers that critically portray individuals negotiating their political and sexual identities in a revolutionary state. In this fresh and thought-provoking analysis of North Korean fiction, Kim looks past the ostensible state propaganda to explore the dynamic literary world where individuals with human emotions reside. His book fills a major lacuna and will be of interest to literary scholars and historians of East Asia, as well as to scholars of global and comparative studies in socialist countries.

Author : Jane Gerhard
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231528795

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Desiring Revolution by Jane Gerhard Pdf

There was a moment in the 1970s when sex was what mattered most to feminists. White middle-class women viewed sex as central to both their oppression and their liberation. Young women started to speak and write about the clitoris, orgasm, and masturbation, and publishers and the news media jumped at the opportunity to disseminate their views. In Desiring Revolution, Gerhard asks why issues of sex and female pleasure came to matter so much to these "second-wave feminists." In answering this question Gerhard reveals the diverse views of sexuality within feminism and shows how the radical ideas put forward by this generation of American women was a response to attempts to define and contain female sexuality going back to the beginning of the century. Gerhard begins by showing how the "marriage experts" of the first half of the twentieth century led people to believe that female sexuality was bound up in bearing children. Ideas about normal, white, female heterosexuality began to change, however, in the 1950s and 1960s with the widely reported, and somewhat shocking, studies of Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, whose research spoke frankly about female sexual anatomy, practices, and pleasures. Gerhard then focuses on the sexual revolution between 1968 and 1975. Examining the work of Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Erica Jong, and Kate Millet, among many others, she reveals how little the diverse representatives of this movement shared other than the desire that women gain control of their own sexual destinies. Finally, Gerhard examines the divisions that opened up between anti-pornography (or "anti-sex") feminists and anti-censorship (or "pro-sex") radicals. At once erudite and refreshingly accessible, Desiring Revolution provides the first full account of the unfolding of the feminist sexual revolution.

Author : Nessa Carey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231530712

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The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey Pdf

Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable introduction to the foundations of epigenetics. Nessa Carey, a leading epigenetics researcher, connects the field's arguments to such diverse phenomena as how ants and queen bees control their colonies; why tortoiseshell cats are always female; why some plants need cold weather before they can flower; and how our bodies age and develop disease. Reaching beyond biology, epigenetics now informs work on drug addiction, the long-term effects of famine, and the physical and psychological consequences of childhood trauma. Carey concludes with a discussion of the future directions for this research and its ability to improve human health and well-being.

Author : Rufus Pollock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983033227

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The Open Revolution by Rufus Pollock Pdf

Forget everything you think you know about the digital age. It's not about privacy, surveillance, AI or blockchain-it's about ownership. Because, in a digital age, who owns information controls the future.

Author : Fathali M. Moghaddam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781009433242

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The Psychology of Revolution by Fathali M. Moghaddam Pdf

Presents a compelling analysis of the psychology of revolution for the first time since 1894.

Author : Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520365667

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Paris as Revolution by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Pdf

In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod,Elena Maria Marty-Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108835534

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Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions by Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod,Elena Maria Marty-Nelson Pdf

Reimagines fundamental property law cases to demonstrate how a feminist lens could impact the law's development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 188347907X

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Literate Women and the French Revolution of 1789 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Enríquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108475709

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Rewriting Nature by Paul Enríquez Pdf

Rewriting Nature is a cogent, riveting interdisciplinary exploration of the law, science, and policy of emerging genome-editing technology.

Author : Marie Drews,Verena Theile
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443810470

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Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History by Marie Drews,Verena Theile Pdf

Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century offers a critical valuation of literature composed by black female writers and examines their projects of reclamation, rememory, and revision. As a collection, it engages black women writers’ efforts to create more inclusive conceptualizations of community, gender, and history, conceptualizations that take into account alternate lived and written experiences as well as imagined futures. Contributors to this collection probe the realms of gender studies, postcolonialism, and post-structural theory and suggest important ways in which to explore connections between home, motherhood, and history across the multifarious narratives of African American and Afro-Caribbean experiences. Together they argue that it is through their female characters that black women writers demonstrate the tumultuous processes of deciphering home and homeland, of articulating the complexities of mothering relationships, and of locating their own personal history within local and national narratives. Essays gathered in this collection consider the works of African American women writers (Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Audre Lorde, Lalita Tademy, Lorene Cary, Octavia Butler, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sherley Anne Williams) alongside the works of black women writers from the Caribbean (Jamaica Kincaid and Gisèle Pineau), Guyana (Grace Nichols), and Cuba (María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno).

Author : Rex A. Wade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134397631

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Revolutionary Russia by Rex A. Wade Pdf

This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a coherent representation of both the events and the theories and debates that relate to them.

Author : Colin Jones,Dror Wahrman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520229673

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The Age of Cultural Revolutions by Colin Jones,Dror Wahrman Pdf

"This superb collection of essays brings together the most exciting new work in cultural and literary history. Although the authors focus on the various cultural revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the significance of their investigations extends far beyond that moment. They show how the major categories of modern social life took root in this era, but they emphasize the surprising and often paradoxical ways those developments took place. Nothing about the experience of class, gender, race, nation, sentiment or even death was pre-ordained. These essays will enable readers to take a fresh new look at the origins of modernity."—Lynn Hunt, editor of The New Cultural History and coeditor of Beyond the Cultural Turn "This is a valuable and provocative set of essays. Differing markedly in subject matter, they are linked by their intelligence and concern to re-assess early modern English and French histories, and the differences conventionally drawn between them, in the light of current work on language, class, race and gender."—Linda Colley, author of Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Author : Sirkku Aaltonen,Areeg Ibrahim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317368274

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Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre by Sirkku Aaltonen,Areeg Ibrahim Pdf

This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the ways the rewriting process has varied in different contexts and at different times. Drawing on concepts from Theatre and Performance Studies, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Diaspora Studies, scholars and practitioners from Egypt and the West enter into dialogue with one another, expanding understanding of the different fields. The articles focus on the ways theatre texts and performances change (are rewritten) when crossing borders between different worlds. The concept of rewriting is seen to include translation, transformation, and reconstruction, and the different borders may be cultural and national, between languages and dramaturgies, or borders that are present in people’s everyday lives. Essays consider how rewritings and performances cross borders from one culture, nation, country, and language to another. They also study the process of rewriting, the resulting representations of foreign plays on stage, and representations of the Egyptian revolution on stage and in Tahrir Square. This assessment of the relationship between theatre practices, exchanges, and rewritings in Egyptian theatre brings vital coverage to an undervisited area and will be of interest to developments in theatre translation and beyond.

Author : Ngoc Son Bui,Mara Malagodi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509949700

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Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 1 by Ngoc Son Bui,Mara Malagodi Pdf

This is the first in a 4-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in 19 Asian jurisdictions. Volume 1 explores the process and contents in the making of a new constitution. The book provides answers to questions on the causes, processes, substance and implantation involved in making new constitutions such as; - What are the political, social, and economic factors that drive the constitution-making? - How are constitutions made, and who makes them? - What are the substantive contents of constitution-making? - What kinds of legislation are enacted to implement constitutions? - How do courts enforce constitutions? The book considers the impact of decolonisation, globalisation and social-political dynamics which have led to the enactment of numerous independent constitutions in Asia including Vietnam (2013), Nepal (2015) and Thailand (2017). The jurisdictions covered include: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. An essential reference for those interested in Asian constitutional law.

Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139437646

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Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition by Robert Alexander Pdf

This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition in the early nineteenth century. The author argues that political struggle was not confined to the elite, and that the Restoration Liberal Opposition developed a reform tradition which was far more effective than the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and insurrection.