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Transcultural Encounters amongst Women

Gabrielle Carty,Patricia O’Byrne
Transcultural Encounters amongst Women Book PDF

Author : Gabrielle Carty,Patricia O’Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443822398

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Transcultural Encounters amongst Women by Gabrielle Carty,Patricia O’Byrne Pdf

Traditionally women have found recourse in artistic means to interrogate change and upheaval. This volume explores the experiences of women from Spain, Portugal and Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who themselves have crossed cultural boundaries or have described this experience in their literature and film. Areas investigated in this collection of essays include the experience of the exiled or the immigrant and their personal or collective response to displacement and adaptation: the transcultural potential of cyberspace for women, how patterns and styles of the fashion industry have crossed borders, how women have crossed canonical cultural boundaries in search of identity and meaning, how global cultural influences have manifested in Hispanic and Lusophone cultural practices and production by or about women, and the challenging question of whether canine writing can be considered a branch of feminist theory. Common to most of the essays are the central issues of identity, values, conflict and interconnectedness and an analysis of the patterns that result from the transcultural encounter of these aspects.

Transcultural Encounters in South-Asian American Women’s Fiction

Adriana Elena Stoican
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Author : Adriana Elena Stoican
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443883573

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Transcultural Encounters in South-Asian American Women’s Fiction by Adriana Elena Stoican Pdf

This book offers captivating insights into the interaction between the Indian and the American cultural worlds. A fascinating work of research, it illustrates an extraordinary capacity to employ the details of literary texts as significant clues in understanding the configuration of transcultural identities. The book constructs an exciting dialogue between complex theoretical notions and the vibrant fictional worlds populated by Indian, American and European characters. Its original and multi-layered approach illustrates how complex theories of culture can help the reader understand contemporary processes of migration, cultural change and gender identity that interfere with daily life.

Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders

Raquel Vega-Durán
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Author : Raquel Vega-Durán
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611487411

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Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders by Raquel Vega-Durán Pdf

Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and Africa. In the last twenty-five years, Spain has gone from being a country of net emigration to one in which immigrants make up nearly 12 percent of the population. This rapid growth has made migrants increasingly visible in both mass media and in Spanish visual and literary culture. This book examines the origins of media discourses on immigration and takes the analysis of contemporary Spanish culture as its primary framework, while also drawing insights from sociology and history. Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders introduces readers to a wide range of recent films, journals, novels, photography, paintings, and music to reconsider contemporary Spain through its varied encounters with migrants. It follows the stages of the migrant’s own journey, beginning outside Spanish territory, continuing across the border (either at the barbed-wire fences of Ceuta and Melilla or the waters of the Atlantic or the Strait of Gibraltar), and then considers what happens to migrants after they arrive and settle in Spain. Each chapter analyzes one of these stages in order to illustrate the complexity of contemporary Spanish identity. This examination of Spanish culture shows how Spain is evolving into a new space of imagination, one that can no longer be defined without the migrant—a space in which there is no unified identity but rather a new self-understanding is being born. Vega-Durán both places Spain in a larger European context and draws attention to some of the features that, from a comparative perspective, make the Spanish case interesting and often unique. She argues that Spain cannot be understood today outside the Transatlantic and Mediterranean spaces (both real and imaginary) where Spaniards and migrants meet. Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders offers a timely study of present-day Spain, and makes an original contribution to the vibrant debates about multiculturalism and nation-formation that are taking

Divine Domesticities

Hyaeweol Choi,Margaret Jolly
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Author : Hyaeweol Choi,Margaret Jolly
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925021950

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Divine Domesticities by Hyaeweol Choi,Margaret Jolly Pdf

Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest. Co-edited by two eminent scholars, this multidisciplinary volume, an outgrowth of several conferences/seminars, critically examines various encounters between western missionaries and indigenous women in the Pacific/Asia … Taken as a whole, this is a thought-provoking and an indispensable reference, not only for students of colonialism/imperialism but also for those of us who have an interest in transnational and gender history in general. The chapters are very clearly written, engaging, and remarkably accessible; the stories are compelling and the research is thorough. The illustrations are equally riveting and the bibliography is extremely useful. —Theodore Jun Yoo, History Department, University of Hawai’i The editors of this collection of papers have done an excellent job of creating a coherent set of case studies that address the diverse impacts of missionaries and Christianity on ‘domesticity’, and therefore on the women and children who were assumed to be the rightful inhabitants of that sphere … The introduction to the volume is beautifully written and sets up the rest of the volume in a comprehensive way. It explains the book’s aim to advance theoretical and methodological issues by exploring the role of missionary encounters in the development of modern domesticities; showing the agency of indigenous women in negotiating both change and continuity; and providing a wide range of case studies to show ‘breadth and complexity’ and the local and national specificities of engagements with both missionaries and modernity. My view is that all three aims are well and truly fulfilled. —Helen Lee, Head, Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne

Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India

Joanne Miyang Cho,Eric Kurlander,Douglas T McGetchin
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Author : Joanne Miyang Cho,Eric Kurlander,Douglas T McGetchin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317931645

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Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India by Joanne Miyang Cho,Eric Kurlander,Douglas T McGetchin Pdf

Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies, the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches, it includes the entire twentieth century, from the First World War and Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and Cold War era. The book first examines the ways in which nineteenth-century "Indomania" figured in the creation of both German national identity and modern German scholarship on the Orient, and it illustrates how German encounters with India in the Imperial era alternately destabilized and reinforced the orientalist, capitalist, and nationalist underpinnings of German modernity. Contributors discuss the full range of German responses to India, and South Asian perceptions of Germany against the backdrop of war and socio-political revolution, as well as the Third Reich's ambivalent perceptions of India in the context of racism, religion, and occultism. The book concludes by exploring German--Indian relations in the era of decolonization and the Cold War. Employing a diverse array of interdisciplinary approaches to understanding German--Indian encounters over the past two centuries, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Germany, India, Europe, and Asia, as well as history, political science, anthropology, philosophy, comparative literature, and religious studies.

The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa

Nuala Kenny
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Author : Nuala Kenny
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662445

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The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa by Nuala Kenny Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of the novels of prominent contemporary Spanish writer and educator Josefina Aldecoa. Josefina Aldecoa, in her treatment of themes such as a woman's place in society under and after dictatorship, mother-daughter relationships, war, and memory, confirmed her unique role as a contemporary novelist concerned with women's identity in Spain and as a writer of the mid-century generation ('los niños de la guerra'). The first volume of her trilogy, Historia de una maestra, was one of the earliest narratives of historical memory to beproduced in Spain. In this sense, Aldecoa's work anticipated new developments in gender studies, such as the intersection of feminist concerns and cultural memory. This book offers a comprehensive examination of Aldecoa's trajectory as a novelist, from La enredadera to Hermanas, centring on her primary preoccupations of gender and memory, arguing that Aldecoa's fiction offers a new, more complex understanding of women's identity than previously understood. The work combines the two dominating theoretical components of feminism and cultural memory with close textual analysis of Aldecoa's narratives. Her novels highlight the importance of the details of women's daily experiences and struggles throughout the twentieth century, a period of significant socio-political upheaval and change in Spain's history. NUALA KENNY teaches Spanish at the National University of Maynooth, Ireland.

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films

Salvador Jiménez Murguía,Alex Pinar
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Author : Salvador Jiménez Murguía,Alex Pinar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442271333

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The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films by Salvador Jiménez Murguía,Alex Pinar Pdf

Under the Franco regime (1939-1976), films produced in Spain were of poor quality, promoted the regime’s agenda, or were heavily censored. After the dictator’s death, the Spanish film industry transitioned into a new era, one in which artists were able to more freely express themselves and tackle subjects that had been previously stifled. Today, films produced in Spain are among the most highly regarded in world cinema. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films features nearly 300 entries on the written by a host of international scholars and film critics. Beginning with movies released after Franco’s death, this volume documents four decades of films, directors, actresses and actors of Spanish cinema. Offering a comprehensive survey of films, the entries address such topics as art, culture, society and politics. Each includes comprehensive production details and provides brief suggestions for further reading. Through its examination of the films of the post-Franco period, this volume offers readers valuable insights into Spanish history, politics, and culture. An indispensable guide to one of the great world cinemas, The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films will be of interest to students, academics, and the general public alike.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Martín Gaite

Joan L. Brown
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Author : Joan L. Brown
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291699

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Martín Gaite by Joan L. Brown Pdf

The career of Spain's celebrated author Carmen Martín Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco's dictatorship, and the nation's transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television and film, and books of literary and cultural analysis. The only person to win Spain's National Prize for Literature (Premio Nacional de las Letras) twice, Martín Gaite explored and blended a range of genres, from social realism to the fantastic, as she took up issues of gender, class, economics, and aesthetics in a time of political upheaval. Part 1 ("Materials") of this volume provides resources for instructors and a literary-historical chronology. The essays in part 2 ("Approaches") consider Martín Gaite's best-known novel, The Back Room (El cuarto de atrás), and other works from various perspectives: narratological, feminist, sociocultural, stylistic. In an appendix, the volume editor, who was a friend of the author, provides a new translation of Martín Gaite's only autobiographical sketch, alongside the original Spanish.

Our Fathers Fought Franco

Willy Maley
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Author : Willy Maley
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804250785

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Our Fathers Fought Franco by Willy Maley Pdf

James Maley, George Watters, Donald Renton and Archibald Williams were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men from different starting-points, ended up in the same battleground at Jarama, and then in the same prisons after capture by Franco's forces. Their remarkable story is told both in their own words and in the recollections of their sons and daughters, through a prison notebook, newspaper reports, stills cut from newsreels, interviews, anecdotes and memories, with a foreword by Daniel Gray. Our Fathers Fought Franco is a collective biography that promises to add significantly to the understanding of the motives of those who 'went because their open eyes could see no other way'.

Strategic Occidentalism

Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado
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Author : Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810137578

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Strategic Occidentalism by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado Pdf

Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol’s translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature.

Geography of Rebels Trilogy

Maria Gabriela Llansol
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Author : Maria Gabriela Llansol
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941920640

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Geography of Rebels Trilogy by Maria Gabriela Llansol Pdf

A major discovery, with echoes of Clarice Lispector, Llansol's groundbreaking linked novellas present her unique literary vision of writing as lived life, conjuring historical figures and their ideas into her world. "I live what I have written (and what I have yet to write), as posthumous work. Its longevity will outlive mine. It will have to exist by itself."

Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea

Hyaeweol Choi
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Author : Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520098695

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Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea by Hyaeweol Choi Pdf

“Pathbreaking. Approaches the transcultural and religious encounters of Korean and American women with a remarkable degree of sensitivity and nuance, as well as with judicious use of feminist and postcolonial theory. Its rich and diverse historical examples and illustrations are both engaging to read and meticulously documented.”—Namhee Lee, UCLA

Migration, Domestic Work and Affect

Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
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Author : Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136949944

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Migration, Domestic Work and Affect by Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez Pdf

Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American “undocumented migrant” domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK. The personal experiences of these women form the basis for Gutiérrez-Rodríguez’s decolonial analysis of the feminization of labor in private households and cultural analysis of domestic work as affective labor. This book will be a necessary voice in the debates on citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and migrant workers’ rights.

Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion

Kwok Pui-lan
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Author : Kwok Pui-lan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030368180

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Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion by Kwok Pui-lan Pdf

This book presents personal narratives and collective ethnography of the emergence and development of Asian and Asian American women’s scholarship in theology and religious studies. It demonstrates how the authors’ religious scholarship is based on an embodied epistemology influenced by their social locations. Contributors reflect on their understanding of their identity and how this changed over time, the contribution of Asian and Asian American women to the scholarship work that they do, and their hopes for the future of their fields of study. The volume is multireligious and intergenerational, and is divided into four parts: identities and intellectual journeys, expanding knowledge, integrating knowledge and practice, and dialogue across generations.

China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters

Kathryn Hellerstein,Lihong Song
China and Ashkenazic Jewry Transcultural Encounters Book PDF

Author : Kathryn Hellerstein,Lihong Song
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110684117

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China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters by Kathryn Hellerstein,Lihong Song Pdf

In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.