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Book Autodafe 3 4

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Parliament of Writers
  • Publisher : Seven Stories Press
  • Release : 2011-01-04
  • ISBN : 1609801717
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Autodafe 3 4 written by International Parliament of Writers and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUTODAFE is a collection of reports, interviews, correspondence, narratives, and stories from around the world. The review aims to be a place for debate and experimentation, a place where writers, silenced by censorship join voices with world-renowned writers. The contributors are all members of the International Parliament of Writers; the pieces are original to Autodafe. The journal's common themes are the reflection of social and political realities of the world, censorship, the interdict of language, and the effects of globablization among others.

Book Auto Da Fe

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  • Author : Elias Canetti
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 9780140022872
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Auto Da Fe written by Elias Canetti and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Age of Progress

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  • Author : Walter G. Moss
  • Publisher : Anthem Press
  • Release : 2008-05-03
  • ISBN : 1843313014
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book An Age of Progress written by Walter G. Moss and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2008-05-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling analysis of the defining social and political events of the twentieth century.

Book The Homesick Phone Book

Download or read book The Homesick Phone Book written by Cynthia Haynes and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, RSA Book Award, 2017 Terrorist attacks, war, and mass shootings by individuals occur on a daily basis all over the world. In The Homesick Phone Book, author Cynthia Haynes examines the relationship of rhetoric to such atrocities. Aiming to disrupt conventional modes of rhetoric, logic, argument, and the teaching of writing, Haynes illuminates rhetoric’s ties to horrific acts of violence and the state of perpetual conflict around the world, both in the Holocaust era and more recently. Each chapter, marked by a physical address, functions as a kind of expanded phone book entry, with a discussion of violent events at a particular location giving way to explorations of larger questions related to rhetoric and violence. At the core of the work is Haynes’s call for a writing pedagogy based on abstraction that would allow students to appeal to emotional and ethical grounds in composing arguments. Written in a lyrical style, the book weaves rhetorical theories, poetics, philosophy, works of art, and personal experience into a complex, compelling, and innovative mode of writing. Ultimately, The Homesick Phone Book demonstrates how scholars of rhetoric and writing studies can break their dependence on conventional argument and logic to discover what might be possible if we dive into and become lost within the very concepts and events that frighten and terrorize us.

Book Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East

Download or read book Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East written by Norbert Bugeja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders liminality in postcolonial thought by visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, offering a unique intervention in the understanding of threshold states within postcolonial literary studies. Challenging received perceptions of the concept, Bugeja's incisive readings situate liminal space today as a fraught form of consciousness that mediates between conditions of historical contingency and the volatile memorializing present.

Book Global Fissures

Download or read book Global Fissures written by Clara A.B. Joseph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine the tensions between two major political and intellectual structures: the global and the postcolonial, charting the ways in which such tensions are constitutive of changing power relations between the individual, the nation-state and global forces. Contributors ask how postcolonialism, with its emphasis on cultural difference and diversity, can respond to the new, neo-imperialist imperatives of globalization. Signalling the discursive grounds for debate is the fissures/fusions title, suggesting alternative categorizations of stereotypes like ‘global homogenization’ and ‘postcolonial resistance’. Interwoven are considerations of the intellectual or writer’s position today. Literary texts from a wide range of countries are analysed for their resistance to global hegemony and for representations of manipulative power structures, in order to highlight issues such as environmental loss, nationality, migrancy, and marginality. Specific topics covered include ‘westernizing’ the Indian academy, ecotourism and the new media of computer technology, the corporatization of creativity in ‘re-branding’ New Zealand (including film), and the hybrid forms of Latin American photography. Writers discussed include Chinua Achebe, Samuel Beckett, Hafid Bouazza, Bei Dao, Mahmoud Darwish, Witi Ihimaera, James Joyce, Yann Martel, Rohinton Mistry, Ellen Ombre, Michael Ondaatje, George Orwell, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and Edward Said. Different essays stress the hegemony of global networks; the technological revolution’s revitalizing of niche marketing while marginalizing postcolonial resistance; the implications of the internationalization of culture for the indigene; and the potential of cultural hybridity to collapse cultural hierarchies.

Book  Post Colonial Passages

Download or read book Post Colonial Passages written by Silvia Albertazzi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While entailing a subversive re-vision of colonial histories, geographies, and subjectivities, the (post)colonial condition has unleashed a chain of movements, relocations, and re-writings that interrogate the globalized and neoliberal society. Ethnic, “racial”, religious, gendered, and sexual identities have been called into question, and requested to (re)define, name, and re-name themselves, to find new ways to tell their stories/histories. The very term “postcolonial” has triggered well-known controversial debates: its adoption is significant of a cultural politics involving the colonial past, controversial crisis in the present, and an open perspective toward alternative futures. Confronting literature and the arts from a postcolonial perspective is a critical and political task involving theories and cultural productions crossing barriers amongst fields of knowledge. The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse yet interrelated cultural fields.

Book The World in a Grain of Sand

Download or read book The World in a Grain of Sand written by Nivedita Majumdar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories - viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial form of universalism. Through readings of texts from India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Egypt, the book shows that the fine grained engagement with culture, the mapping of ordinary lives not just as objects but subjects of their history, is embedded in much of postcolonial literature in a radical universalism - one that is rooted in local realities, but is able to unearth in them the needs, conflicts and desires that stretch across cultures and time. It is a universalism recognized by Marx and steeped in the spirit of anti-colonialism, but hostile to any whiff of exoticism.

Book Volleys of Humanity

Download or read book Volleys of Humanity written by Helene Cixous and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theorists. These 15 essays - 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time - span nearly 40 years of Cixous' writing. Here, she ranges over literature, philosophy, politics and culture in what she calls her 'autobibliography'.

Book Autodafe 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Parliament of Writers
  • Publisher : Seven Stories Press
  • Release : 2001-11-06
  • ISBN : 9781583222621
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Autodafe 2 written by International Parliament of Writers and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUTODAFE is a collection of reports, interviews, correspondence, narratives, and stories from around the world. The review aims to be a place for debate and experimentation, a place where writers, silenced by censorship join voices with world-renowned writers. The contributors are all members of the International Parliament of Writers; the pieces are original to Autodafe. The journal's common themes are the reflection of social and political realities of the world, censorship, the interdict of language, and the effects of globablization among others.

Book A History Of Russia Volume 2

Download or read book A History Of Russia Volume 2 written by Walter G. Moss and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography in this second edition to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world.

Book Imagined Empires

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  • Author : Eric Wertheimer
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780521622295
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Imagined Empires written by Eric Wertheimer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1999 study of the influence of South American culture on early American culture, in particular literature.

Book Asiatische Studien

Download or read book Asiatische Studien written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Silencing the Sea

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  • Author : Khaled Furani
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2012-08-15
  • ISBN : 0804782601
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Silencing the Sea written by Khaled Furani and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all that we see, hear, feel, and say. Poetry, the traditional repository of Arab history, has become the preeminent medium of Palestinian memory in exile. In probing poets' writings, this work investigates how struggles over poetic form can host larger struggles over authority, knowledge, language, and freedom. It reveals a very intimate and venerated world, entwining art, intellect, and politics, narrating previously untold stories of a highly stereotyped people.

Book The Spanish Inquisition

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  • Author : Joseph Pérez
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300107906
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Inquisition written by Joseph Pérez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of the Spanish Inquisition--a terrifying battle for a unified faith.

Book Verbum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book Verbum written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: