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Book SynopsisThis collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years.Trade Review"Both cinema and animation have served simultaneously as transnational cultural forms as well as national forums, formed by specific discourses on nationalism and modernization. In fact, in the 1910s-20s Japan, animation was not defined as distinct from cinema in terms of social regulations or production concerns. Animation, together with cinema, came under the scrutiny of public educators, censors and national ideologues. The point of intersection for these diverse concerns was the construction of national cinema for international dissemination. The attempt of Cinema Anime to dismantle the distinction between cinema and animation, national cinema and transnational visual culture, is genuinely challenging, but definitely necessary in the tension-ridden period of media globalization." -Daisuke Miyao, University of Oregon, USA 'Cinema Anime is an important and thought-provoking collection of essays by a number of the leading figures in the field. It includes some of the first scholarly work on several challenging and noteworthy anime that have not received enough academic attention up to now. With chapters that range from cross-cultural overviews to ambitious critical interventions, this volume will be of interest to a wide audience, from students to experienced scholars. Indeed, Cinema Anime should be required reading for anyone committed to anime criticism.' -Christopher Bolton, Senior Editorial Board, Mechademia "The brain is the screen," as quoted in the introduction, is an apt expression of Cinema Anime's aim to keep thinking in new ways about anime even as it gains its mindshare, to take new positions towards it even as it finds its place. Its academics know where to look within LAIN, the one show that best learned the liberating message of EVANGELION; Satoshi Kon, the most important anime director to emerge in the past decade and without, showing how film technology itself informs the narrative of anime and how contemporary installation artists draw it forth from flatland to examine our real space. Cinema Anime rephrases the question: where anime is, rather than what it is to be defined. -Carl Gustav Horn, author of Strange Colors: The Power of Japanese Animation 'This is a worthy addition to any Anime fans' library or for those who want to study the media in more depth.' - Phil Jones, SF CrowsnestTable of ContentsScreening Anime - S.T. Brown Part I: Towards a Cultural Politics of Anime "Excuse Me, Who Are You?": Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi - S.Napier The Americanization of Anime and Manga: Negotiating Popular Culture - A.Levi The Advent of Meguro Empress: Decoding the Avant-Pop Anime TAMALA 2010 - T.Takayuki Part II: Post-Human Bodies in the Animated Imaginary Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis - S.Orbaugh Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Post-Humanity - C.Silvio The Robots from Takkun's Head: Cyborg Adolescence in FLCL - B.Ruh Part III: Anime and the Limits of Cinema The First Time as Farce: Digital Animation and the Repetition of Cinema - T.Lamarre "Such is the Contrivance of the Cinematograph" Dur(anim)ation, Modernity, and Edo Culture in Tabaimo's Animated Installations - L.Monnet

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Book SynopsisThe Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit possession, and divination through dreams and visions.Trade Review"The Yoruba community in London was one of the largest African groups, already substantial when Harris began her fieldwork in 1969, and is now an established and significant ethnic minority. Her account is based on extensive participant observation, interviews, and written records kept by the church members at her request. The narrative is lively, and enriched with a number of fascinating descriptions ofAládùúrà services, and illuminating testimonies, reminiscences, and comments by the worshippers. It is clear that Harris was an excellent field worker, endowed with both resilience and empathy, and the material she presents is full and detailed. As a study of religious change, this book is important for its documentation of a substantial but neglected topic: the nature of Aládùúrà churches in Britain. Extensive and important work has been done on the Aládùúrà churches in Nigeria by Harold Turner, J. D. Y. Peel, and others, but very little on the variants found among Yoruba communities in Britain. It explores the interaction of traditional and Christian spiritual repertoires in commendable depth. As a study of the religious dimension of a particular community - Yoruba labor/educational migrants in late-twentieth century London-it is a pioneering piece of work which will find a readership in several academic disciplines." - Karin Barber, University of Birmingham, England "Deeply researched, beautifully written, and informed by a lively sympathy for its subjects, Hermione Harris's book is by far the richest study that has yet been done of an African Christian church in the Diaspora. Reaching back to the first big wave of Nigerian settlement in London over forty years ago, Harris's subtle analysis shows how indigenous Yoruba notions of spiritual power fuse with Bible interpretation to shape the life-worlds of Nigerian students and workers, and underpin the rituals of prayer and revelation that answer to their practical and existential needs. This will surely prove a benchmark study for anyone interested in the religious life of the African Diaspora for many years to come." - J. D. Y. Peel, SOAS (London) "At a time when contemporary anthropological and sociological scholarship on African Christianity has concentrated on multifaceted processes of globalizing Pentecostalism, Hermione Harris's new book is an important reminder that a fresh understanding of the so-called African Initiated (or Indpendent/Instituted) Churches (AICs) is necessary in putting African Pentecostalism in proper (global) perspective... Scholars and students of African religions/Christianities across the disciplines will find this book of much use in their work." - Asonzeh UkahTable of ContentsIntroduction 'Stars of the World': Yoruba Worker-Students in Britain 'The Cherubim and Seraphim Church, United Kingdom' From Ase to Agbara: the Concept of Spiritual Power in the Cherubim and Seraphim 'Electrical Energy': Dynamic Metaphors of Spiritual Power Experiencing Power: Possession by the Holy Spirit Revelation as Divinatory Practice 'Practical Christianity': Revelation and the Power of Prayer Epilogue: Empowerment and Yoruba Christianity

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Book SynopsisShowalter explores the integral components of hysteria and identifies the disorder as being more universal than it is stereotypically known. Instead of the assumption that hysteria largely roots from the Victorian sexual repression and is commonly a female disorder, Showalter recognises parallels with other contemporary forms of illness, demonstrating its universality. ‘This is a brave book, not only because it dares to question feminist orthodoxies, but also because it reminds us that feminism’s purpose is the investigation of truth, not the perpetuation of blame’ Erica Jong, author of Fear of FlyingTrade Review'Hystories is an exhilarating book which lobs politically incorrect cocktails in all directions . . . it is important and impressive in opening up a debate and reminding us of the psychological relevance of history' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times'Groundbreaking . . . this is undoubtedly a brave book and one which should be welcomed for generating arguments which so far have been silenced' Julie Wheelwright, Scotland on Sunday'Hystories is guaranteeed to make us take a more reflective look at the fears and demons that so rampantly haunt our fin de siècle' Lisa Appignanesi, Independent'Provocative and immensely readable . . . Showalter's gift is for lively, literate and interpretive synthesis of specialized academic scholarship, in language that bridges the popular and scholarly worlds . . . we can be thankful for a commentator as sane, courageous and clear-headed as [she]' Mark S. Micale, Times Literary Supplement'Considered and level-headed' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph'This is a brave book, not only because it dares to question feminist orthodoxies, but also because it reminds us that feminism's purpose is the investigation of truth, not the perpetuation of blame' Erica Jong

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Book Synopsis Grounded in case studies from individual objects and museum collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this truly international volume juxtaposes historical, geographical, and cross-cultural studies.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1. Networks, Agents and Objects: Frameworks for Unpacking Museum Collections by Sarah Byrne, Anne Clarke, Rodney Harrison and Robin Torrence PROCESSES AND PERSPECTIVES.- Chapter 2. 'Suitable for Decoration of Halls and Billiard Rooms': Finding Indigenous Agency in Historic Auction and Sale Catalogues by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke.- Chapter 3. Consuming Colonialism: Curio-seller's Catalogues, Souvenir Objects and Indigenous Agency in Oceania by Rodney Harrison.- Chapter 4. Plumes, Pipes and Valuable: The Papuan Artefact Trade in South-West New Guinea, 1845-1888 by Susan Davies COLLECTORS AND NATIONHOOD.- Chapter 5. Donors, Loaners, Dealers and Swappers: The Relationships behind the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum by Chris Wingfield.- Chapter 6. The Bekom Mask and the White Star: The Fate of Others’ Objects at the Musée du Quai Branly by Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine.- Chapter 7. Agency, Prestige and Politics: Dutch Collecting Abroad and Local Responses by Pieter ter Keurs COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIONS.- Chapter 8. Crafting Hopi Identities at the Museum of Northern Arizona by Kelley Hays-Gilpin.- Chapter 9. Pathways to Knowledge: Research Agency and Power Relations in the Context of Collaborations Between Museums and Source Communities by Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby.- Chapter 10. ‘Objects as Ambassadors’: Representing Nation through Museum Exhibitions by Chantal Knowles.- Chapter 11. Seats of Power and Iconographies of Identity in Ecuador by Colin McEwan and Maria-Isabel Silva INDIVIDUAL COLLECTORS, OBJECTS AND 'TYPES'.- Chapter 12. Hedley takes a Holiday: Collections from Kanak People in the Australian Museum by Jude Philp.- Chapter 13. Death, Memory and Collecting: Creating the Conditions for Ancestralisation in South London Households by Fiona Parrot.- Chapter 14. Trials and Traces: A. C. Haddon’s Agency as Museum Curator by Sarah Byrne.

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Book SynopsisThe long nineteenth century was an age of empire and empire builders, of state formation and expansion, and of colonial and imperial wars and conquest throughout most of the world. It was also an age that saw enormous changes in how people gave meaning to and made sense of the human body. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume takes up a host of topics in the cultural history of the human body, including the rise of modern medicine and debates about vaccination, the representation of sexual perversity, developments in medical technology and new conceptions of bodily perfection. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.Table of ContentsIllustrations Series Preface Introduction: Empires in Bodies; Bodies in Empires Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, USA 1 Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas Malthus Thomas Laqueur, University of California, USA and Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA 2 Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease Michael Worboys, University of Manchester, UK 3 Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science Richard C. Sha, American University, USA 4 Medical Science, Technology, and the Body Chandak Sengoopta, University of London, UK 5 Popular Beliefs and the Body: "A Nation of Good Animals" Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida, USA 6 The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire Michael Hau, Monash University, Australia 7 Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tattooing Practices Clare Anderson, University of Warwick, UK 8 Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA 9 Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College, USA 10 From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University, USA Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBolette Blaagaard is Assistant Professor of Communications at the Department of Communications and Psychology at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, and honorary visiting fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University, London. Iris van der Tuin is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Philosophy of Science in the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University, the Netherlands.Trade ReviewWhere on our bookshelves are Rosi Braidotti’s works — Spinoza, French philosophy, feminism or in a category of their own? For those of us who have followed Rosi’s nomadic pathway from analytic philosophy through currents of feminism to post-humanism, this book reminds us not just of her passionate engagement with ideas but also of the impact of her personality. The sheer breadth of her scholarship and her sympathies is mediated by her ability to inform and inspire. The essays here range over her interests and draw us in yet again to the debates close to her heart. -- Professor Christina Slade, Vice-Chancellor, Bath Spa University, UKJump, stitch, dance, embrace, repel, think, listen, play, sculpt, write, laugh, repair, resist, read and read again, talk, yearn, leap, build, compose and decompose—all of these only hint at the transformational materialist feminist practice offered to us by and with Rosi Braidotti. Her experiential nomadic ethics position us to move with, through, and for worlds that might yet be less lethal, richer, more attuned to the affectivities of fleshy difference of situated human and more-than-human subjects. The Subject of Rosi Braidotti draws me into its tissues with the same kind of verve that Braidotti herself exemplifies in her performances, writings, activisms, and bodily vitalities. Braidotti reconfigures what and whom she touches; she is a practitioner of feminist transpositions, metamorphoses, and transductions. I know because she has transformed me again and again. The many essays in this book pulsate with the energies—conceptual, political, and affectional—that Braidotti gives us. -- Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz, USARosi Braidotti has been a dynamic presence on the global philosophical stage for over three decades. The extent of her work and influence is reflected in this fine collection of essays by an international array of philosophers, historians, humanities and social science scholars, gender and feminist theorists and activists who have followed her critical and creative engagement with the question of the subject and who in these pages collectively engage the process of becoming-subject that is Rosi Braidotti. -- Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College, USAAs a writer and a person, Rosi Braidotti encountered some of the most significant intellectual forces of the late twentieth century, including feminism, poststructuralism and posthumanist thought. These encounters were always transformative in both directions, nowhere more so than in her engagements with Deleuze’s philosophy. The gust of wind that I first encountered in Paris in 1977 became a whirlwind that swept new ideas and activism across the academic landscape and continues to do so. This volume is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary life and work still underway. * Scientia Professor Paul Patton, University of New South Wales *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Prelude Introduction Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Bolette Blaagaard (Aalborg University, Denmark) Part I: The Concept of the Posthuman 1. Reflections on Ethics, Destructiveness, and Life: Rosi Braidotti and the Posthuman Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 2. Killing in a Posthuman World: The Philosophy and Practice of Critical Military History Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College, UK) 3. The Future of Scenarios: State Science Fiction Peter Galison (Harvard University, USA) 4. Living in Molecular Times Henrietta Moore (Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK) 5. Imagining Posthumanities, Enlivening Feminisms Cecilia Åsberg (Linkoping University, Sweden) 6. Transplanting Life: Bios and Zoë in Images with Imagination Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) italics 7. Disaster Feminism Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA) 8. Pro-Proteus: The Transpositional Teratology of Rosi Braidotti Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 9. Reading Rosi Braidotti: Returning to Transpositions Clare Hemmings (London School of Economics, UK) italics Interlude 10. Patterns of (Dis)appearance Natascha Unkart (independent photographer, Vienna) 11. Encountering the Nomadic Subject with a Smile Piet van de Kar (independent sculptor, Amsterdam) Part II: The Politics of the Academic 12. On Generation(s) Luisa Passerini (European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Columbia University, NY, USA) 13. Rosi Braidotti and the Affirmation of European Women’s Studies: Points of No Return Aino-Maija Hiltunen (Hilma—Network for Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland), Annamaria Tagliavini (Director of Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne, IT) and Berteke Waaldijk (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 14. For a Babyboomer Philosopher Nadia Setti (University of Paris 8, France) 15. The Subject in Question Martine Menès (L’Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ lacanien and Collège de clinique psychanalytique, Paris, France) 16. Between Two Worlds: Nomadism and the Passion of an Encounter Maria Serena Sapegno (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy) 17. Transposing NOISE and Voice Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Nina Lykke (Linköping University, Sweden) 18. Nomadic Encounters: Turning Difference Toward Dialogue Kelsey Henry (Wesleyan University, USA), Iveta Jusová(Antioch University, USA) and Joy Westerman (Knox College, USA) 19. On Farming the Liberal Arts Catharine R. Stimpson (NYU, USA) 20.… R.B. to Life Chrysanthi Nigianni (University of East London, UK) 21. Nomadic Subjects and the Feminist Archives Lisa Baraitser(Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part III: The Ethics of the Nomad 22. Nomadic Subjects and Asylum Seekers Genevieve Lloyd (University of New South Wales, Australia) 23. Translating Selves: On Polyglot Cosmopolitanism Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 24. Nomadic Theory as an Epistemology for Transnational Feminist History Chiara Bonfiglioli (University of Edinburgh, UK) 25. The Struggle for Europe Rutvica Andrijasevic (Leicester University, UK) 26. Law’s Nomadic Subjects: Towards a Micropolitics of Post-Human Rights Patrick Hanafin (Birkbeck College, UK) 27. Collaboration* Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University, USA) Postlude 28. The Untimely Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Rosi Braidotti Bibliography 1980-2013 Index

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Book SynopsisAmy Allen is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of three books, including, most recently, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2016). Mari Ruti is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of twelve books, including Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect (Bloomsbury Press, 2018).Trade ReviewThis vibrant conversation of two brilliant theorists gives readers a chance to understand why psychoanalytic theory matters for thinking about subjectivity, affect, creativity, and politics. In conversational mode, these interlocutors bring to life difficult and important concepts, exploring the tensions among psychoanalytic positions, and giving an acute sense of life to theoretical concepts. This book makes the case for thinking carefully and well about key dimensions of selfhood, relationality, psychic states, and social relations. It brings one into the living character of thought, the fecundity of dialogue, and provides a model for intellectual friendship for our times. The text speaks to the specialist and to the curious, and helps to illuminate key concepts about psychic and social life that prove to be indispensable for understanding ourselves in the world. * Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and author of The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997) *I feel like I’ve pulled up a chair to the dining room table, strewn with all the texts that Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein have ever written, where Mari Ruti and Amy Allen sit immersed in conversation, intent on discovering—and explaining with erudite ease—the common touch points of two of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. * Noelle McAfee, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, Emory University, USA *Everything you wanted to know about Melanie Klein but were legitimately afraid to ask Jacques Lacan! This extended staging of an encounter between Klein and Lacan is long overdue, a god-send and a necessity for our contemporary times. How is it that we have not put on fertile ground the two heavy weights of post-Freudian theory? The intimate exchange between Amy Allen and Mari Ruti guides us through the most difficult terrain, from alienation to paranoia and castration, from depressive anxieties to love and symbiosis. * Jamieson Webster, Psychoanalyst based in New York, USA, and author of Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (2018) *Allen and Ruti manage not only to bring into conversation two crucial theorists who had previously been regarded as being at odds with one another, they also enact in the structure of their book and the style of their discourse a new mode of engaging in critical theory: non-adversarial but differentiated, generous but rigorous. * Gail M. Newman, Harold J Henry Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Director of the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Williams College, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Subjectivity 2. Fusion 3. Anxiety 4. Affect 5. Love 6. Creativity 7. Politics Notes Index

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Book Synopsis Out-migration, driven by high unemployment and a floundering economy, has been a defining aspect of Newfoundland society for well over a century, and it reached new heights with the cod moratorium in 1992. This Newfoundland ""diaspora"" has had a profound impact on the province's literature. Many writers and scholars have referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a diaspora, but few have examined the theoretical implications of applying this contested term to a predominantly inter-provincial movement of mainly white, economically motivated migrants. The Newfoundland Diaspora argues that ""diaspora"" helpfully references the painful displacement of a group whose members continue to identify with each other and with the ""homeland."" It examines important literary works of the Newfoundland diaspora, including the poetry of E.J. Pratt, the drama of David French, the fiction of Donna Morrissey and Wayne Johnston, and the memoirs of David Macfarlane. These works are the sites of a broad inquiry into the theoretical flashpoints of affect, diasporic authenticity, nationalism, race, and ethnicity. The literature of the Newfoundland diaspora both contributes to and responds to critical movements in Canadian literature and culture, querying the place of regional, national, and ethnic affiliations in a literature drawn along the borders of the nation-state. This diaspora plays a part in defining Canada even as it looks beyond the borders of Canada as a literary community.Trade Review"Jennifer Bowering Delisle's The Newfoundland Diaspora prompts us to revise not just our conceptions of Newfoundland identity but also our understanding of the very idea of diaspora. This is a significant meditation on the shifting nature of regionalism and national identity in the age of globalization, an era of increasing migration, mobility, and deracination. At a time in which the continuous inhabitation of the same place is becoming less and less common, we need more complex and nuanced descriptions of the relationship between place, cultural identity, and collective identification, and that is what The Newfoundland Diaspora delivers." -- Herb Wyile, author of Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature (WLU Press, 2011)Canada is what social critic Avtar Brah would call a "diaspora space" region filled with transnational groups-and Delisle's book, with an excellent biography, is a brilliant precedent for studying other diasporic communities. Summing up: Highly recommended. -- B. Almon, University of Alberta -- CHOICE"Reading Delisle's astute examination of select pieces of Newfoundland literature I felt more than once the desire to throttle some of the authors and characters she is analyzing-characters who resist giving up their Newfoundland driver's license because it "was the last proof of who [they] were" or argue a "Newfoundland soul" can never be a "Canadian soul." Reading such claims I wanted to grasp these characters by the shoulders and scream into their faces, "Give it up, baby! Did you want to live down the road from mom and dad your entire life?" My own individual (and, I realize, defensive) reaction to these very personal narratives helps identify how tangly a topic Delisle has chosen to tackle in the "Newfoundalnd diaspora." She does well to present a focused, important text that is at times passionate and intimate while at other times critical and distant. The Newfoundland Diaspora is a valuable text for those choosing to understand and challenge the applicability of postcolonial theory to Canadian literature.... Delisle ... makes the wise decision to not simply answer the question, "Is there a Newfoundland diaspora" Rather she ... replies with a question of her own: "what opportunities for understanding [Newfoundland] are provided by the question?" Delisle's innovative approach produces some very strong readings of important if under-analyzed Newfoundland literature." - Paul Chafe, Ryerson University, Newfoundland QuarterlyTable of Contents The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration, by Jennifer Delisle Acknowledgements Introduction: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration Part One: Defining the Newfoundland Diaspora 1 Newfoundland and the Concept of Diaspora Part Two: Affective Responses 2 Donna Morrissey and the Search for Prairie Gold 3 ""The 'Going Home Again' Complaint"": Carl Leggo and Nostalgia for Newfoundland Part Three: Is the Newfoundlander ""Authentic"" in the Diaspora? 4 E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada 5 ""A Papier Mâché Rock"": Wayne Johnston and Rejecting Regionalism Part Four: Imagining the Newfoundland Nation 6 ""This Is Their Country Now"": David French, Confederation, and the Imagined Community 7 Writing the ""Old Lost Land"": Johnston Part Two Part Five: Postmodern Ethnicity and Memoirs from Away 8 Helen Buss / Margaret Clarke and the Negotiation of Identity 9 The ""Holdin' Ground"": David Macfarlane and the Second Generation Conclusion: Writing in Diaspora Space Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough beauty, in the pre-modern Arab world, was enjoyed and promoted almost everywhere, Islam does not possess a general theory on aesthetics or a systematic theory of the arts. This is a study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author had to search for her evidence in written statements from a wide variety of sources, such as the Qur'an, legal, religious and Sufi texts, chronicles, biographies, belle-lettres, literary criticism, and scientific, geographic and philosophical literature. The result is a compendium of references to beauty in chapters on the Religious Approach, Secular Beauty and Love, Music and Belle-Lettres, and the Visual Arts. This approach is informative and provocative. For the generalist, it provides comparative material for an understanding of the early Arab cultural context. For the specialist, it raises questions of sponsorship and purpose.

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Book SynopsisThis stimulating and timely collection examines the Taino revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the pre-Columbian Taino Indian population of Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean. The Tainos became a symbol of Puerto Rican identity in the 19th century, when local governments and intellectuals began to appropriate the Tainos for the conception of a socially and racially balanced Puerto Rican society. Modern critics now claim that the Taino heritage has been canonized through state-sponsored institutions, such as festivals, museums, and textbooks, at the expense of blacks. In the past, officials, alarmed at the black majorities on other the Caribbean Islands, tried to ""whiten"" Puerto Rican society by calling all people of color Tainos. Others complain that the Taino revival lost its fervor, evolving from an anti-colonialist movement to a mere fashionable trend.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of Cuban legends, compiled by the ronowned essayist and literary critic Salvador Bueno, brings readers the best of a time-honored tradition of storytelling in Cuba. These tales, passed on from generation to generation throughout the island, are here retold by a diverse group of prominent Cuban literary figures. Their stories embrace a broad spectrum of Cuban history from the remote past to the modern era. The book features stories of the Taino and Siboney, the island's original inhabitants, accompanied by narratives about Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions, and finally tales that are typically ""Cuban"" because they illustrate both the cohesion of the various strands - Hispanic, African, and indigenous - that define Cuban nationality and the patriotism and love of freedom exemplified in the celebrated struggles against Spanish colonialism. Cuban Legends brings to life the stories of unforgettable people and words that have survived the passage of time. They are both witty and wise, and capture the essential spirit of Cuban culture.

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Book SynopsisCapoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves, and Candomble is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and African beliefs and practices. And while there are numerous books on Candomble and kindred Afro-American religions, none of them effectively combines Candomble and Capoeira. Actually, Capoeira and Candomble are closely tied to one another. Together, they make up a coherent form of life in Brazil within the current process of globalization about which there has been much ballyhoo, eulogies, and condemnation. This study involves the author's practice of and reflections on the arts of Capoeira and Candomble; it culminates in the idea of an ""other logic,"" an alternative culture ""logic,"" about which much lip service is being paid in academic circles, with little to no concrete details. This book, consequently, is one of a kind insofar as it bears on the interdependency of two Afro-Brazilian practices while grounding them in a theoretical framework and at the same time interrelating them with topics of great concern in the initial years of a new millennium: post-colonial and diaspora studies.

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Book SynopsisDistilling the best of Native American wisdom, these short quotes are accompanied by the writings of Ohiyesa, one of the great interpreters of Native American thought, as well as the three great speeches of Chiefs Joseph, Seattle and Red jacket.

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Book SynopsisConventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today's India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwining of Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growing capitalist class. It is this "State-Temple-Corporate Complex," she claims, that now wields decisive political and economic power, and provides ideological cover for the dismantling of the Nehru-era state-dominated economy. According to this new logic, India's rapid economic growth is attributable to a special "Hindu mind," and it is what separates the nation's Hindu population from Muslims and others deemed to be "anti-modern." As a result, Hindu institutions are replacing public ones, and the Hindu "revival" itself has become big business, a major source of capital accumulation. Nanda explores the roots of this development and its possible future, as well as the struggle for secularism and socialism in the world's second-most populous country.

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Book SynopsisVirilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II.In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotringer in 1982, Virilio noted the “accidents” that inevitably arise with every technological development: from car crashes to nuclear spillage, to the extermination of space and the derealization of time wrought by instant communication. In this new and updated edition, Virilio and Lotringer consider how the omnipresent threat of the “accident”—both military and economic—has escalated. With the fall of the Soviet bloc, the balance of power between East and West based on nuclear deterrence has given way to a more diffuse multi-polar nuclear threat. Moreover, as the speed of communication has increased exponentially, “local” accidents—like the collapse of the Asian markets in the late 1980s—escalate, with the speed of contagion, into global events instantaneously. “Globalization,” Virilio argues, is the planet''s ultimate accident.Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932 to an immigrant Italian family. Trained as an urban planner, he became the director of the École Speciale d''Architecture in the wake of the 1968 rebellion. He has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident of Art (2005), both with Sylvère Lotringer and published by Semiotext(e). Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007) and other books.

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Book SynopsisA "poignant" (Boston Globe) family memoir that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgivenessHeather Sellers is face-blind—that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that describes the inability to recognize faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. The truth was revealed two decades later when Heather took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and discovered the astonishing truth about her family, herself, and living with mental illness. In this uplifting memoir, Sellers illuminates a deeper truth: that even in the most chaotic and heartbreaking of families, love may be seen and felt.

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