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Book Portrait of a Suburbanite

    Book Details:
  • Author : Seung-Ja Choi
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-31
  • ISBN : 1942242735
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Portrait of a Suburbanite written by Seung-Ja Choi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a translation of Choi Seung-ja's 1991 anthology titled Portrait of a Suburbanite. Published in the series of "100 Prominent Korean Poets" by Mirae Press, the poems in this volume were selected from four of Choi's previous works titled, Love of This Age (1981), Merry Diary (1984), House of Memory (1989), and the subsequently published My Tomb, Green (1993). Speaking with a fierce sense of equality and independence, Choi Seung-ja's poetry battled ossified forms of language not only on the political but also the personal front. Like her male colleagues, Choi parodied and critiqued the idol of the father, but even further, she insightfully explored irreverent content to reveal the gendered constraints of the lyric form. In particular, Choi exposed the idolatrous power of the lover, the basis of exploitation and injustice at the most intimate level. On top of their political disempowerment as citizens, the private and domestic alienation of women as daughters, lovers, and wives form a deep stratum of repression. When Choi's women personae broke this long silence of compliance nurtured by the traditional lyric and voiced themselves as exploited and traumatized, yet fearless and tenacious human beings, the shock of this transgression shook the nation. In turn it demonstrate how long and how powerfully the gender constrictions had been imposed on Korean women.

Book Suburbanite

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Suburbanite written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modernism  Feminism and the Culture of Boredom

Download or read book Modernism Feminism and the Culture of Boredom written by Allison Pease and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.

Book The Demon of Noontide

Download or read book The Demon of Noontide written by Reinhard Clifford Kuhn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard claimed that the gods created man because they were bored, and Baudelaire predicted that the "delicate monster" of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn. Between these two statements lies the undefined expanse of ennui, whose manifestations in European literature form the fascinating subject of this book. Reinhard Kuhn's aim is to define the demon of noontide, to learn how writers through the ages have treated it, and to discover what it indicates about the nature of the creative act. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Domestic Cultures

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  • Author : Hollows, Joanne
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
  • Release : 2008-02-01
  • ISBN : 0335222536
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Domestic Cultures written by Hollows, Joanne and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging text challenges a range of ideas about domestic culture. It examines how the meanings of domestic life are produced across a range of discourses and practices, from architecture, lifestyle media and advertising to home decoration, cooking and watching television.

Book Popular Science

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Book The Poetics of the American Suburbs

Download or read book The Poetics of the American Suburbs written by Jo Gill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature.

Book Health and the Modern Home

Download or read book Health and the Modern Home written by Mark Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on recent scholarship, contributors expose the socio-political context in which the physical and emotional environment of "the modern home" and "family" became implicated in the maintenance of health and in the aetiology and pathogenesis of diverse psychological and physical conditions. In addition, they critically analyze the manner in which the expression and articulation of medical concerns about the domestic environment served to legitimate particular political and ideological positions.

Book The Residue of Dreams

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  • Author : Tsung-I Jao
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-07-31
  • ISBN : 1942242824
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Residue of Dreams written by Tsung-I Jao and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Silvery World and Other Stories

Download or read book Silvery World and Other Stories written by Michael J. Pettid and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in translation from the early years of the twentieth century that demonstrate the political and ideological divides that Koreans experienced during this time.

Book Don t Blame Us

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  • Author : Lily Geismer
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-31
  • ISBN : 069117623X
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Don t Blame Us written by Lily Geismer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of the population, knowledge professionals in Massachusetts and elsewhere have come to wield tremendous political leverage and power. By probing the possibilities and limitations of these suburban liberals, this rich and nuanced account shows that—far from being an exception to national trends—the suburbs of Massachusetts offer a model for understanding national political realignment and suburban politics in the second half of the twentieth century.

Book Experience Without Qualities

Download or read book Experience Without Qualities written by Elizabeth S. Goodstein and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity.

Book Suburban Life

Download or read book Suburban Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death of a Suburban Dream

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  • Author : Emily E. Straus
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014-03-10
  • ISBN : 0812209583
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Death of a Suburban Dream written by Emily E. Straus and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compton, California, is often associated in the public mind with urban America's toughest problems, including economic disinvestment, gang violence, and failing public schools. Before it became synonymous with inner-city decay, however, Compton's affordability, proximity to manufacturing jobs, and location ten miles outside downtown Los Angeles made it attractive to aspiring suburbanites seeking single-family homes and quality schools. As Compton faced challenges in the twentieth century, and as the majority population shifted from white to African American and then to Latino, the battle for control over the school district became symbolic of Compton's economic, social, and political crises. Death of a Suburban Dream explores the history of Compton from its founding in the late nineteenth century to the present, taking on three critical issues—the history of race and educational equity, the relationship between schools and place, and the complicated intersection of schooling and municipal economies—as they shaped a Los Angeles suburb experiencing economic and demographic transformation. Emily E. Straus carefully traces the roots of antagonism between two historically disenfranchised populations, blacks and Latinos, as these groups resisted municipal power sharing within a context of scarcity. Using archival research and oral histories, this complex narrative reveals how increasingly racialized poverty and violence made Compton, like other inner-ring suburbs, resemble a troubled urban center. Ultimately, the book argues that Compton's school crisis is not, at heart, a crisis of education; it is a long-term crisis of development. Avoiding simplistic dichotomies between urban and suburban, Death of a Suburban Dream broadens our understanding of the dynamics connecting residents and institutions of the suburbs, as well as the changing ethnic and political landscape in metropolitan America.

Book The Adventures of a Suburbanite  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Adventures of a Suburbanite Classic Reprint written by Ellis Parker Butler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Adventures of a Suburbanite At first, while we were really getting settled in our house, Isobel was bright and cheerful and seemed to have forgotten flats entirely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Housing Perspectives

Download or read book Housing Perspectives written by Carol S. Wedin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Magazine Subject index

Download or read book The Magazine Subject index written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the cumulation of the subject index issued in the quarterly numbers of the Bulletin of bibliography and magazine subject-index.