The Infinite Longing For Home

Author : David C. L. Lim
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042016774

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The Infinite Longing for Home by David C. L. Lim Pdf

The Infinite Longing for Home is a groundbreaking study of Ben Okri's and K.S. Maniam's literary problematization of 'home' in relation to subjectivity and the nation within and beyond the context of Nigeria and Malaysia. Drawing on Lacan, Zizek, Laclau and Mouffe, and weaving through history, politics, philosophy and literature, this book critically examines the motives and means by which peoples forced to live together in a country love and hate each other, and overlook the truths about themselves, their actions and beliefs. It looks into why some embrace heterogeneity and open-endedness while others are internally compelled to over-identify passionately with their religion and race, and to posit theirs as irreducibly distinct from and superior to others'. The Infinite Longing for Home also traces through Okri's and Maniam's writings a way out of today's political aporia, a path to the re-creation of a new society humbled and unified by the recognition of its participation in flawed humanity.

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030500795

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Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia by Jon Stratton Pdf

This book examines the experience of race and ethnicity in Australia after the withering away of official multiculturalism. The first chapter looks at the formation of the Australian state, the role that multiculturalism has played, and the impact of neoliberal ideas. The second chapter takes nightclubbing in the city of Perth during the 1980s, the peak period for official multiculturalism, to exemplify how diversity and exclusion functioned in everyday life. The third chapter considers the imbrication of Christianity in the Australian socio-cultural order and its impact on the limits of multiculturalism with particular concentration on Islam and the Australian Muslim experience. Subsequent chapters discuss the exclusionary experience of various groups identified as non-white through the lens of films, popular music and television programs.

Author : R. Allen Lott
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580469869

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Brahms's A German Requiem by R. Allen Lott Pdf

Examines in detail the contexts of Brahms's masterpiece and demonstrates that, contrary to recent consensus, it was performed and received as an inherently Christian work during the composer's life.

Author : Deborah McKay
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0932511651

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Eve's Longing by Deborah McKay Pdf

Eve's Longing: The Infinite Possibilities in All Things is a story of a modern fictional saint in the making. Deborah McKay's moving yet unsentimental novel explores alarming real-life resolutions to universal complexities and offers instead of answers the seductive and dangerous experience of its captivating central character.

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313344497

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Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture [2 volumes] by Eric Martone Pdf

Blacks have played a significant part in European civilization since ancient times. This encyclopedia illuminates blacks in European history, literature, and popular culture. It emphasizes the considerable scope of black influence in, and contributions to, European culture. The first blacks arrived in Europe as slaves and later as laborers and soldiers, and black immigrants today along with others are transforming Europe into multicultural states. This indispensable set expands our knowledge of blacks in Western civilization. More than 350 essay entries introduce students and other readers to the white European response to blacks in their countries, the black experiences and impact there, and the major interactions between Europe and Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States that resulted in the settling of blacks in Europe. The range of information presented is impressive, with entries on noted European political, literary, and cultural figures of black descent from ancient times to the present, major literary works that had a substantial impact on European perceptions of blacks, black holidays and festivals, the struggle for civil equality for blacks, the role and influence of blacks in contemporary European popular culture, black immigration to Europe, black European identity, and much more. Offered as well are entries on organizations that contributed to the development of black political and social rights in Europe, representations of blacks in European art and cultural symbols, and European intellectual and scientific theories on blacks. Individual entries on Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Central Europe, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe include historical overviews of the presence and contributions of blacks and discussion of country's role in the African slave trade and abolition and its colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading accompany each entry. A chronology, resource guide, and photos complement the text.

Author : Conteh, J. Sorie
Publisher : Sierra Leonean Writers Series
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783980808484

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In Search of Sons by Conteh, J. Sorie Pdf

In this book, J. Sorie Conteh tells the universal story of the preference many societies/ cultures have for more sons than girls in the family. The story is set in the author's country, Sierra Leone, and tells the harrowing experience of a mother who tries to fulfill her husband's desire for more sons. She becomes pregnant, but eventually dies in labour in search of sons.

Author : Eva Aldea
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441109989

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Magical Realism and Deleuze by Eva Aldea Pdf

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Author : William A. Lauinger
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441100306

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Well-Being and Theism by William A. Lauinger Pdf

Examines how theories of well-being relate to ethics as well as to theism.?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131538386

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A Current Bibliography on African Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : American mail-bag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101019347416

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The American Mail-bag, Or Tales of the War by American mail-bag Pdf

Author : Matthew Kaemingk
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493430857

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Reformed Public Theology by Matthew Kaemingk Pdf

The Reformed tradition in the twenty-first century is increasingly diverse, dynamic, and deeply engaged in a wide variety of global and public issues, from the arts and business to immigration and race to poetry and politics. This book brings together the insights of a diverse group of leading Reformed thinkers--including Nicholas Wolterstorff, Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Ashford, John Witvliet, Ruben Rosario Rodriguez, and James K. A. Smith--to offer a contemporary vision of the depth and diversity of the Reformed faith and its global public impact.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226828022

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Hospitality, Volume I by Jacques Derrida Pdf

Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others. Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures, Derrida asks a series of related questions about responsibility and “the foreigner”: How do we welcome or turn away the foreigner? What does the idea of the foreigner reveal about kinship and the state, particularly in relation to friendship, citizenship, migration, asylum, assimilation, and xenophobia? Derrida approaches these questions through readings of several classical texts as well as modern texts by Heidegger, Arendt, Camus, and others. Central to his project is a rigorous distinction between conventional, finite hospitality, with its many conditions, and the aspirational idea of hospitality as something offered unconditionally to the stranger. This volume collects the first year of the seminar.

Author : Bernard Feeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Families
ISBN : OXFORD:590356298

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Home Duties and Home Difficulties by Bernard Feeney Pdf

Author : Wesley Phillips
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137487254

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Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger by Wesley Phillips Pdf

Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono.

Author : Didier Maleuvre
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520947115

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The Horizon by Didier Maleuvre Pdf

What is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reaches of human experience and explores philosophy, religion, and art to understand our struggle and fascination with limits—of life, knowledge, existence, and death. Maleuvre sweeps us through a vast cultural landscape, enabling us to experience each stopping place as the cusp of a limitless journey, whether he is discussing the works of Picasso, Gothic architecture, Beethoven, or General Relativity. If, as Aristotle said, philosophy begins in wonder, then this remarkable book shows us how wonder—the urge to know beyond the conceivable—is itself the engine of culture.