Cultural studies Books
Autonomedia Crimes Of Culture
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Autonomedia Risk / Riesgo
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£26.09
Autonomedia Economising Culture: On the (Digital) Culture
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£13.49
Autonomedia Engineering Culture: On 'The Author as (Digital)
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£14.39
Autonomedia Walking Archives: The Soy Children
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£9.50
Seal Press Forget 'Having It All': How America Messed Up
Book SynopsisAfter filing a story for a journalism assignment only two days after giving birth, Amy Westervelt had a revelation: we treat mothers like crap in this country. From inadequate maternity leave to gender-based double standards, emotional labor to the wage gap, Westervelt became determined to understand how we got here--where "having it all" is the fabled, hollow, unreachable goal. In Forget "Having It All," Westervelt traces the roots of our modern problems back to the founding of our nation and through the changing roles of men and women since. What she discovers may be surprising: the roles of mothers have flip-flopped throughout our history (for example, leading up to the Industrial Revolution, many men were home while women worked). Using this historical backdrop, Westervelt draws out what we should replicate from our past (the origin of Mother's Day, for example, was a dedicated day for mothers to organize just as laborers had done--to take stock of their place in society and push for more), and what we must begin anew (such as incorporating working fathers into our discussions about work-life balance) as we overhaul American motherhood. Ultimately, Westervelt presents a measured, historically-backed call for workplace policies, cultural norms, and personal attitudes about motherhood that will radically improve the lives of not just working moms but everyone in our country.
£19.80
Seven Stories Press,U.S. The Black Body
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life: Durations of
Book SynopsisIs psychoanalysis a narrative of self-knowledge, or a movement of lived time and the body?Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life examines the relationship between therapy and the time of life, presenting an original and thought-provoking re-reading of psychoanalysis in relation to questions of lived time.Jan Campbell investigates the early work of Freud, Janet, Breuer and Ferenczi, linking their ideas to the philosophy of Bergson. The link between psychoanalysis and the question of time connects these early debates with current issues that are central to our global society. Questions considered include:• is the unconscious based on representation or affect?• is the Oedipal Complex hysterical?• how is therapy related to the time of our life?• what is the role of hypnosis, in relation to psychoanalytic theory and transference?• Freud conceptualised the unconscious as timeless space, but what would it mean to think of the unconscious as the very essence of psychic bodily time?This book draws on the fields of traditional psychoanalysis, philosophy, neuroscience, and trauma studies providing a valuable new perspective on familiar concepts such as identity and consciousness. It will be of interest to students across the humanities and social sciences, and practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Table of ContentsDora, Introduction. Time, Affect and the Unconscious. Hysteria and Hypnosis. Death, Life and the Double. Trauma. Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life - In an Age of Globalisation.
£109.25
MIT Press Ltd Correspondence: The Foundation of the
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£23.21
Africa World Press A Rhyme Is A Terrible Thing To Waste: Hip Hop
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£19.76
Africa World Press The Negritude Moment: Explorations in Francophone
Book SynopsisA collection of essays spanning 50 years of research on the topic of Negritude.
£25.46
Africa World Press Grandfather Of Black Studies: W.e.b. Du Bois
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£21.21
Africa World Press Carnival - Theory And Practise
Book SynopsisCelebrating Caribbean Carnival around the world.
£29.71
Africa World Press Black Aesthetics: Beauty and Culture: An
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£30.59
Africa World Press Blackness And Mestizaje In Mexico And Central
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£21.21
Africa World Press Common Ground: A Comparison of the Ideas of
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£21.21
PM Press New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic
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£17.09
PM Press Al-mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Book SynopsisAn anthology of the international writing communities' response to the 2007 Baghdad Bookshop bombings.
£18.04
Microcosm Publishing Beyond The Music: How Punks are Saving the World
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£14.39
North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living
Book SynopsisInspiring stories of 10 urbanites who decided to ?the simple life? in the rural mountains of Japan?for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese culture, and Eastern spirituality. ?Subversive in the best possible way.? ?Bill McKibben, New York Times?bestselling author The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these 10 profiles of ordinary?yet exceptional?men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, friends, delicious food, and an abundance of time. Drawing on traditional Eastern spiritual wisdom and culture, these pioneers describe the profound personal transformations they underwent as they escaped the stress, consumerism, busyness, and dependence on technology of modern life. This intimate and evocative book tells of their fulfilling lives as artists, philosophers, and farmers who rely on themselves for happiness and sustenance. By inviting readers to enter into the essence of these individuals? days, Couturier shows us how we too can bring more meaning and richness to our own lives.
£17.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Phone Booth
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy, freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication in its various forms all around the world. Through portrayals of phone booths in literature, film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion, Phone Booth offers a definitive account of an object on the cusp of obsolescence. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewAn entertaining and enlightening exploration of the cultural history of the phone booth and a lament for the loss of these spaces. * WPR: BETA *In this delightful set of mini-essays, Ariana Kelly has created a paen, rather than an elegy, in celebration of the many dimensions of the vanishing phone booth. Her text gleans images and sensations from our collective memory of the once (if briefly) ubiquitous structure. Site of superhero transformations, crimes, communications, quick changes, and other coins of the social realm, the phone booth and the kiosk served as small theaters of intimate activity in full view of the public eye, a curious combination of enclosed and exposed space. She shifts scale from the minutiae of physical observation—hanging wires and scratched glass—to the larger cultural issues of communication and longing, mixing personal experience with historical, literary, and film references throughout. * Johanna Drucker, Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *Fascinated and attuned, I was cabled into Phone Booth. Ariana Kelly replenishes the work on speculative telephony in an altogether compelling way. * Avital Ronell, University Professor in the Humanities, New York University, USA, and author of The Telephone Book *[Phone Booth] inclines us towards nostalgia, toward urgent questions of what remains when objects disappear, of re-use, and shelter. If phone booths today have receded into the interstices of our built worlds… then that freeing of the object from its use enables Arianna Kelly to tell a different story, a story about what these telephonic leftovers might become, what they now are and what they anchor. -- Julian Yates * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of Contents1. Disconnected 2. Hermit’s Hut 3. Our Speed 4. The Phantom Phone Booth 5. Say Anything 6. Fortress of Solitude 7. Significant Portals 8. A Fine and Private Place 9. Glass Case of Emotion 10. The God Booth 11. Only Connect Acknowledgements Notes Index
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Ig Publishing Everyday Something Has Tried To Kill Me And Has
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Reconciliation in Practice
Book SynopsisIn 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report designed to facilitate reconciliation between the Canadian state and Indigenous Peoples. Its call to honour treaty relationships reminds us that we are all treaty people — including immigrants and refugees living in Canada. The contributors to this volume, many of whom are themselves immigrants and refugees, take up the challenge of imagining what it means for immigrants and refugees to live as treaty people. Through essays, personal reflections and poetry, the authors explore what reconciliation is and what it means to live in relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Speaking from their personal experience — whether from the education and health care systems, through research and a community garden, or from experiences of discrimination and marginalization — contributors share their stories of what reconciliation means in practice. They write about building respectful relationships with Indigenous Peoples, respecting Indigenous Treaties, decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting, learning the role of colonized education processes, protecting our land and environment, creating food security and creating an intercultural space for social interactions. Perhaps most importantly, Reconciliation in Practice reminds us that reconciliation is an ongoing process, not an event, and that decolonizing our relationships and building new ones based on understanding and respect is empowering for all of us — Indigenous, settler, immigrant and refugee alike.Table of ContentsPreface • Contributors • Introduction • Reconciliation: Challenges and Possibilities (Ranjan Datta) • Sámi Reconciliation in Practice: A Long and Ongoing Process (Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen) • Reconciliation Through Decolonization (Colleen J. Charles) • Reconciliation: A White Settler Learning from the Land (Janet McVittie) • Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Practice and Research: A New Way Forward for the Immigrant Health Professionals (Farzana Ali) • Reconciliation Through Transnational Lenses: An Immigrant Woman’s Learning Journey (Jebunnessa Chapola) • Letter to John A. Macdonald (Chris Scribe) • Reconciliation as Ceremonial Responsibility: An Immigrant’s Story (Ranjan Datta) • Reconciliation via Building Respectful Relationships and Community Engagement in Indigenous Research (Valerie Onyinyechi Umaefulam) • Reconciliation and New Canadians (Ali Abukar) • Holes and Gray (Khodi Dill) • References • Index
£18.95
University of Regina Press Uncut
Book SynopsisUncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture
£22.79
Equinox Publishing Ltd Fabricating Origins
Book SynopsisFabricating Origins builds on a series of posts that originally appeared, in earlier forms, at the blog for Culture on the Edge. In these posts each member of the group focused on the problem of origins, examining how we repeatedly conjure up an authorized past that suits the needs of the continually changing present. Fabricating Origins presses these short studies further by inviting ten early career scholars to each work with Culture on the Edge by applying, extending, even critiquing the group, to further illustrate for readers how talk of origins in the present is so much more interesting that being preoccupied with long past origins themselves. The volume, like all books in the Working with Culture on the Edge series, is introduced and concluded by original, theoretically challenging but engaging essays. It provides a selection of ten main articles which draw on a variety of examples to make the case, followed by original commentaries on each, all of which are pithy but substantive.Although not a textbook, and while challenging for any reader unaccustomed to making the switch from origins to the discourse on origins, Fabricating Origins is especially aimed at the early career reader. The volume therefore includes an annotated set of suggested readings on how to rethink origins as the product of contemporary and always tactically useful talk and action.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Midnight in the Study of Origins Russell T. McCutcheon Buying Origins 1. Our Sofas, Ourselves Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University 2. Our Stuff, Our Stories Kat Daley Bailey, University of Georgia Techniques of Then and Now 3. When the Stakes Are High Vaia Touna, University of Alberta 4.High Stakes on the High Court Mike Graziano, Florida State University Pick a Past, Any Past 5. The Politics of Choice Craig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College 6. The Origins Games Karen de Vries, University of California, Santa Cruz Selling Identities 7. One Coffee Bean at a Time Monica Miller, Lehigh University 8. Marketing Christian Roots Steffen Fuhrding, Leibniz University We Are What We Choose to Recall 9. Remember the Ala-what-now? K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama 10. We Are What Archive Elonda Clay, Philander Smith College Constituting and Contesting the Nation 11. Patricide and the Nation Steven Ramey, University of Alabama 12. Our Disparate Fathers Alexis Glenn, Brown University Knowing When Not to Laugh 13. Searching for Chimaeras Vaia Touna 14. "A Joke's a Very Serious Thing" Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University The Good Old Days 15. The Way We Were - ? K. Merinda Simmons 16. The Way We Worked - James Dennis LoRusso, Emory University A Little Ambiguity Goes a Long Way 17. Coloring Columbus Leslie Dorrough Smith 18. Tracing the Visible and Invisible Martha L. Smith Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara A Genealogy of the Past 19. Writing a History of Origins Russell T. McCutcheon 20. Competing Christs Brad Stoddard, Florida State University Afterword Origins Today Russell T. McCutcheon
£54.00
Equinox Publishing Ltd Fabricating Identities
Book SynopsisFabricating Identities pairs early career scholars with members of Culture on the Edge, to explore how social actors identify themselves through their practices and associations. The book is arranged in a series of articles and commentaries that all press the model of seeing what we usually call identity as the result of a series of identifications-actions and circumstances that enable us to understand ourselves as related to others in specific ways. Changing relations result in changing senses of identity. With an introduction and substantive theoretical afterword, the book's brief main chapters make it an ideal conversation-starter in classes or primer for those wishing to rethink how we normally talk about identity.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Who Are You? I'm a Religious Studies ScholarK. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama2. Am I a Religious Studies Scholar?David Robertson, Independent Scholar3. Who Are You? I'm Wednesday's ChildCraig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College4. Seeing the Forest and the TreesSarah Levine, Independent Scholar5. Who Are You? I'm GreekVaia Touna, University of Alabama6. You're Greek? Well..., I'm (Northern) Irish, Kind'a...Christopher R. Cotter, Lancaster University (PhD student)7. Who Are You? I'm a MiserSteven Ramey, University of Alabama8. Contesting Labels and the Study of ReligionAnja Kirsch, University of Basel9. Who Are You? I'm a Leg CrosserRussell T. McCutcheon10. Who Am I? Merely a PlayerCandace Mixon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PhD student)11. Who Are You? I'm a FeministLeslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University12. Atheism and its ConsequencesIan Alexander Cuthbertson, Independent Scholar13. Who Are You? I'm a VegetarianSteven Ramey14. You Are What You EatSarah Dees, Independent Scholar15. Who Are You? I'm an Alabamian Russell T. McCutcheon16. Secrecy, Stories, and BoundariesEmily A. Schmidt, University of California, Santa Barbara (PhD student)17. Who Are You? I'm Vaia and I'm TounaVaia Touna18. "Naaaaaw you show me YOUR ID"Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College19. Who Are You? I'm a New Mom K. Merinda Simmons20. I'm a Soon-to-be DadJason Ellsworth, Dalhousie University (PhD student)21. Who Are You? I am/am not a McCutcheoniteCraig Martin22. I Know You Are, But What Am I?Stacie Swain, University of Ottawa (PhD student)23. Who Are You? I'm Short (... And Cute)Leslie Dorrough Smith24. I'm "Irish," Torontonian, ... French?Matt Sheedy, Independent ScholarAfterwordRussell McCutcheon
£57.00
Equinox Publishing Ltd Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley’s Roots, examining the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. More than an investigation into Alex Haley’s legacy, Identifying Roots unearths the politics of beginnings and belongings. While we all come from somewhere, this book examines the terms on which our roots can work as a tradition to embrace rather than a past to leave behind. And it investigates why some of the texts we read also seem to read us back. Identifying Roots invites readers to reimagine the way we tell stories. A provocative study that draws upon Black studies, the history of religions, and anthropology, the book underscores the social drama and dynamics that define our scriptures. Nimbly moving between the stories of Alex Haley, his characters, and the world that received them, Newton reminds us that our roots are stories of consequence.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Anthropology of Scriptures Chapter 1: Identifying with Alex Haley “Before This Anger” Chapter 2: “The Book that Changed America” Chapter 3: “The Saga of an American Family” Chapter 4: Kunta Kinte in American TV, Film, and Music Chapter 5: Root-Work in the Academic Study of Religion Conclusion: Rooting Identity
£42.75
Equinox Publishing Ltd Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley’s Roots, examining the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. More than an investigation into Alex Haley’s legacy, Identifying Roots unearths the politics of beginnings and belongings. While we all come from somewhere, this book examines the terms on which our roots can work as a tradition to embrace rather than a past to leave behind. And it investigates why some of the texts we read also seem to read us back. Identifying Roots invites readers to reimagine the way we tell stories. A provocative study that draws upon Black studies, the history of religions, and anthropology, the book underscores the social drama and dynamics that define our scriptures. Nimbly moving between the stories of Alex Haley, his characters, and the world that received them, Newton reminds us that our roots are stories of consequence.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Anthropology of Scriptures Chapter 1: Identifying with Alex Haley “Before This Anger” Chapter 2: “The Book that Changed America” Chapter 3: “The Saga of an American Family” Chapter 4: Kunta Kinte in American TV, Film, and Music Chapter 5: Root-Work in the Academic Study of Religion Conclusion: Rooting Identity
£23.70
Equinox Publishing Ltd Indigenizing Movements in Europe
Book SynopsisSince the mid-twentieth century, religious movements identifying themselves as Paganism, shamanism, native faiths and others have experimented with two forms of indigeneity. One arises from claims to be reviving or re-presenting previously hidden religious practices from ancestral or pre-Christian times. The other form of indigeneity is found in lessons learnt (directly or indirectly) from Indigenous peoples (especially Native Americans and/or Siberians). In the last decade in particular these two trends have sometimes fused in what we call "indigenizing movements". This book tests the interpretive and methodological value of this. "Indigenizing" was coined by Paul C. Johnson in a discussion of lowland South American and Caribbean religious traditions as the opposite end of a continuum from "universalizing". The continuum recognises tendencies to emphasise resonance with and relevance to local and ancestral traditions (indigenizing) and tendencies to stress universality or global engagement. These need not be dualistically opposed and are most likely to be matters of stress. Those who conceive of themselves and their cultures as maintaining and enhancing discrete ethnic, cultural or religious communities may represent one trajectory. Others not only assert that they have something to say to the rest of the world but may also seek to revise "local ancestral" traditions in the light of more global traditions. We might recognise a tension here between "Indigenous" and "World" religions but the contributors to this volume contest the value of that categorisation of what are, in reality, more dynamic and fluid realities. The chapters test a differently conceived tension: that between indigenizing and universalizing. This experimentation is propelled by examining European originated movements in which engagements with Indigenous animistic, shamanistic or "nature venerating" traditions are employed in self-conceptions and in the discourses of identity formation, maintenance and dissemination. Seven main chapters test aspects of our key theme by focusing on specific movements or phenomena. These are followed by a responsive afterword considering the effects of applying a notion coined for the critical examination of Indigenous South American and Caribbean religions to the different context of European movements. The book aims to enhance understanding and enrich debate not only about evolving European movements but also about the concept and practice of Indigeneity, indigenizing and of scholarly practices in relation to such phenomena.
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Miniature Books: The Format and Function of Tiny
Book SynopsisMiniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others through the centuries because of their unique physical features, and continue to captivate people today. The small lettering and the delicate pages, binding, and covers highlight the material form of texts and invite sensory engagement and appreciation. This volume addresses miniature books with a special focus on religious books in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The book presents various empirical contexts for how the smallest books have been produced, distributed, and used in different times and cultures and also provides theoretical reflections and comments that discuss the divergent formats and functions of books.Table of ContentsReligious Miniature Books: Introduction and Overview Kristina Myrvold and Dorina Miller Parmenter Chapter 1: Ritualizing the Size of Books James W. Watts, Syracuse University Chapter 2: On the Functions of Miniaturizing Books in Jewish Religion Marianne Schleicher, Aarhus University Chapter 3: Words in a Nutshell: Miniaturizing Texts in Early Modern England Lucy Razzall, University College London Chapter 4: Small Things of Greatest Consequence: Miniature Bibles in America Dorina Miller Parmenter Chapter 5: Diminutive Divination and the Implications of Scale: A Miniature Quranic Falnama of the Safavid Period Heather Coffey, OCAD University, Canada Chapter 6: Mite Qurans for Indian Markets: David Bryce in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Kristina Myrvold Chapter 7: Miniature Qurans in the First World War: Religious Comforts for Indian Muslim Soldiers Kristina Myrvold and Andreas Johansson, Lund University Chapter 8: Size Matters! Miniature Mushafs and the Landscape of Affordances Jonas Svensson, Linnaeus University Chapter 9: Gitamahatmya! Paratexts in Miniature Bhagavad Gitas with Special Reference to Pictures and Gender Jon Skarpeid, University of Stavanger, Norway Chapter 10: Sutras Working in Buddha’s Belly and Buddhists’ Pockets: Miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism Yohan Yoo and Woncheol Yun, both at Seoul National University
£27.50
Equinox Publishing Ltd Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and
Book SynopsisThis transdisciplinary and theoretically innovative edited volume contains seven original, research-led chapters that explore complex intersections of ritual and democracy in a wide range of contemporary, cultural and geographic contexts. The volume emerged out of a workshop held at the Open University in London, organized as part of the international research project, 'Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource' (REDO) funded by the Norwegian Research Council and led by Jone Salomonsen. The chapters document entanglements of the religious and the secular in political assembly and iconoclastic protest, of affect and belonging in pilgrimage and church ritual and politics and identity in performances of self and culture. Across the essays emerges a conception of ritual less as scripts for generating stability than as improvisational spaces and as catalysts for change.Table of ContentsIntroduction Sarah M. Pike, Jone Salomonsen and Paul-François Tremlett Part 1: Protests Chapter 1: Rituals of Resistance and the Struggle over Democracy in Turkey Agnes Czajka, The Open University Chapter 2: Making Ritual Enactments Political: Free Speech after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks Zaki Nahaboo, Birmingham City University Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Energies: The Political Agency of Things Paul François Tremlett Part 2: Publics Chapter 4: Affective Communitas and Sacred Geography: Mapping Place and Movement in Norwegian Pilgrimage Marion Grau, MF Norwegian School of Theology Chapter 5: How to Do Things with Rituals, or: Disrupting Protestant Lutheran Theology, Converting Refugees and their Appropriation of the Eucharist Gitte Buch-Hansen, University of Copenhagen Part 3: Performances Chapter 6: Dances of Self-development as a Resource for Participatory Democracy Michael Houseman, PSL Research University, France, and Marie Mazzella di Bosco, PhD Candidate, Paris Nanterre University Chapter 7: Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement Graham Harvey, The Open University
£23.70
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Art at the Table: The Lotos Club State Dinner
Book SynopsisFounded in New York City in 1870, The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary and arts clubs in the United States. Lotos became known for its tradition of honouring outstanding men and women from all walks of life with testimonial 'State Dinners', especially after it began to commemorate these occasions with unique souvenir menus designed by artists and illustrators of the day. Art at the Table is a lavishly illustrated retrospective of the Club's 150-year-old-tradition, featuring the art of the menus and the stories behind them. American culture and history are chronicled in these fetes, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Mark Twain to aviator Amelia Earhart and author Tom Wolfe.
£31.96
Verso Books First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right
Book SynopsisIt is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future. The last Labour Minister said it was a good thing if young people emigrated, to stop them 'getting under our feet'; one recent Prime Minister said that young Italians should not invest their hopes in securing a stable job, for that would be 'boring', anyway.Examining Italy's history since the end of the Cold War, Italy is the Future argues that its dismal situation should not be understood in terms of a stereotyped narrative of Italian chaos or backwardness. In a country that could once boast Europe's strongest Left, Italy today epitomises the crisis of democracy in the West.The scandals of Silvio Berlusconi's rule, the pervasive corruption of public life and sky-high youth unemployment are indicators of a particularly sick society. Yet what is also apparent is the difficulty of any new force emerging to renew Italy's institutions, as its atomised citizens lose hope in political change.What has broken apart in Italy is not just its once-mighty Left but the very bases of social solidarity. The parties of the 1990s and 2000s directly express the social demolition wrought by neoliberalism, as isolated and endangered individuals face the consequences of the crisis alone. Not this or that political party, but public life itself, is in full-scale collapseTrade ReviewIn this well-researched and engagingly written book David Broder shows how the rise of Lega and of its current leader Matteo Salvini emerged out of decades of economic stagnation, social despair and political nihilism in Italian society. And how the abject failure of the Italian Left to represent workers' interests has contributed to the success of the Lega's nativism. -- Paolo GerbaudoExpertly dissects the political and social trends that account for the League's revival since 2013. -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *No other book offers such a clear and concise analysis of just how much Italy has changed, for the worse in this neo-liberal world. -- Chris Bambery * Brave New Europe *Highly useful in understanding how politics have changed since the Second World War, and where Italy is going in the very unpredictable Europe of today. -- Nicholas Dima * Newsmax *David Broder has done us a great service with this succinct account of Italian neoliberal democracy, and he tells it well. If we see what has occurred in Italy as exceptional then we not only don't understand what has taken place, but we don't get the warning that what happens there can happen here. We have been warned. -- Chris Bambery * Counterfire *Broder unravels the mystery of how one of Europe's most stable democracies, boasting superb labour rights and a thriving manufacturing economy, became a basket case almost over night - plagued by political instability, poverty, and mass emigration. -- Robert Maisey * Tribune *Insightful -- Derek Gadd * The Article *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Stairways to Heaven: Rebuilding the British Film
Book SynopsisWhat has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a parlous state. The number of films produced in the UK was tiny. Cinema attendance had dipped to an all-time low, cinema buildings were in a state of disrepair and home video had yet to flourish. Since then, while many business challenges - especially for independent producers and distributors - remain, the industry overall has developed beyond recognition. In recent years, as British films have won Oscars, Cannes Palms and Venice Golden Lions, releases such as Love Actually, Billy Elliot, Skyfall, Paddington and the Harry Potter series have found enormous commercial as well as critical success. The UK industry has encouraged, and benefitted from, a huge amount of inward investment, much of it from the Hollywood studios, but also from the National Lottery via the UK Film Council and BFI. This book portrays the visionaries and officials who were at the helm as a digital media revolution began to reshape the industry. Through vivid accounts based on first-hand interviews of what was happening behind the scenes, film commentator and critic Geoffrey Macnab provides in-depth analysis of how and why the British film industry has risen like a phoenix from the ashes.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and
Book SynopsisThe modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic – hence the focus on calligraphy and veiled women. At a scholarly level it has been characterized as a comment on the socio-political context of the country. Viewing Iranian art as neither a commodity, nor an illustration of theory, Fereshteh Daftari approaches the modern art of Iran as a democratic space where pluralism – a range of different styles and ideas – can thrive. This art historical exploration offers new insights into Iranian art, from the late nineteenth century Qajar period, via the Saqqakhaneh movement of the 1960s and into the contemporary world. In the process the author comments on the concept of modernism in a non-Western environment and the shifting meanings of abstraction. She takes both a specific and a panoramic view of Iranian art to expose new themes such as the subversive appropriation of traditional art, whilst also tackling more perennial issues such as gender. With experience as an international curator, Daftari reviews the representations of Iranian artists outside the country and discusses the varied angles from which she has introduced the art to a Western audience. She explains how in the process she has steered clear of contentious rubrics, valorized contemporary media, and probed the complex relation between the individual and the political.Trade Review‘There is no more appropriate time to read a book as erudite and illuminating as Fereshteh Daftari’s Persia Reframed… This is a work of global importance that initiates conversations and comparisons across countries that share aesthetic projects and cultural preoccupations that are clouded, too often, by the banal politics of blindness and rage.’ -- Homi K. Bhabha, Professor of Humanities, Harvard University‘Fereshteh Daftari’s elegantly illustrated Persia Reframed brings a fresh perspective to the development and complexity of modern and contemporary art in Iran over the last seventy years.’ -- Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute 'A pioneering independent curator in her field, with long experience at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Fereshteh Daftari at last offers a scholarly and critically insightful account of the numerous currents and cross currents of modern and contemporary art in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution.’ -- Robert Storr, Professor, Yale University School of ArtTable of ContentsTable of Contents Prologue. Chapter I. Modernism(s): Contextualizing the Terms of Discussion Chapter II. Saqqakhaneh Revisited Chapter III. Tanavoli in Context Chapter IV. Abstraction to Figuration: Politics of Morphology Chapter V. The Tip of the Iceberg: Contemporary Art in Iran and Its Diaspora Chapter VI: Introducing Iranian Art Abroad: A Curatorial Perspective
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Verso Books The Future of Difference: Beyond the Toxic
Book SynopsisThe Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the logic of 'other and rule' thoroughly permeates the social and the political; our contemporary condition is increasingly premised on endless subtle hierarchical distinctions, which determine whole populations' attitudes, feelings and actions. Hark and Villa make a compelling case for the detoxification of public and political discourse, in favor of an ethical mode of living-with the world, that is, living with plurality and alterity.Trade ReviewAgainst those who would pit a feminism for white women against migrant communities and a multi-racial feminism, this brave and brilliant work of critical feminism refuses to be divided from its allies, conquered by those who would appropriate and defame feminism itself. This work is not only a model for socially engaged critique for our times, but thought set into action, mobilizing for the future of difference. -- Judith ButlerThe Future of Difference offers a powerful indictment of the ways mainstream feminism has been coopted by ethnonationalists to promote Europe's increasingly punitive border regime. Hark and Villa offer a thorough, impassioned analysis of the dire consequences of combating sexual violence without an intersectional lens. An urgent book for our times. -- Arlene Stein, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers UniversityThis is an outstanding, timely and courageous work of feminist scholarship. The book extends and renews the important writing of Stuart Hall in his 1978 Policing the Crisis. This excellent translation will ensure the book by Sabine Hark and Paula -Irene Villa will be a major contribution to multiple disciplines. -- Angela McRobbie, Professor, Goldsmiths University London and author of Feminism and the Politics of ResilienceIn this breathtaking text, two of Germany's leading feminist thinkers address some of the biggest questions of our time. In the face of unprecedented global migration, large scale anti-sexual violence movements, and a simultaneous right-wing backlash against feminism, Hark and Villa ask us to consider anew the political question of cultural difference. Based upon their in-depth analysis of the entanglements between sexism, (racist) feminism, and anti-gender ideologies in Europe and beyond over the past decade, the authors propose a "grammar of coexistence of the different" that engages in the "art of encountering others without erasing their otherness". Reading this text as I do in the midst of a global pandemic, Hark and Villa's book offers invaluable reflections on ethical coexistence at times of great global precarity. -- Dr. Susanne Luhmann
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Berghahn Books Sounds German: Popular Music in Postwar Germany
Book Synopsis For decades, Germany has been shaped and reshaped by the sounds of popular music—whether viewed as uniquely German or an ideological invader from abroad. This collected volume brings together leading figures in the field of German Studies, popular music studies, and cultural studies at large to survey the sociopolitical impact of music on conceptions of the German state and national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.Trade Review “Sounds German expands the perspective through its case studies and enriches the discourse with its background in German and cultural studies, in addition to providing a transatlantic perspective.” • Popular Music HistoryTable of Contents Introduction: Into the Music Rooms Kirkland A. Fulk Chapter 1. Licht aus–Spot an: How Schlager (ZDF 1969–1984) Beat Disco (ZDF 1971–1982) Sunka Simon Chapter 2. The Birth of Autotune and the Loop of (West) German Identity Cyrus Shahan Chapter 3. Wenn eine Band lange Zeit lebt: Pudhys, Politics, and Popularity John Littlejohn Chapter 4. DIY, im Eigenverlag: East German Tamizdat LPs Seth Howes Chapter 5. Poetry of an Alien: Black Tape, Silo Nation, and the Historiography of German Hip-Hop’s Alte Schule Kai-Uwe Werbeck Chapter 6. Death in June and the Apoliteic Specter of Neofolk in Germany Mirko M. Hall Chapter 7. Knitted Naked Suits and Shedding Skins: The Body Politics of Popfeminist Musical Performances in the Twenty-first Century Maria Stehle Chapter 8. Searching for the Young Soul Rebels: On Writing, New Wave, and the Ends of Cultural Studies Richard Langston
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Canongate Books Ltd. Could Should Might Dont
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Animal Life and the Moving Image
Book SynopsisMichael LAWRENCE is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu (2014) and co-editor of The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016). Laura McMAHON is a College Lecturer in French at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Cinema and Contact (2012) and editor of 'The Screen Animals Dossier' (Screen, 2015).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Culture
Book SynopsisSir William Smith's classic work is a treasure trove of information on all aspects of Greek and Roman life: music, customs, law, medicine, food, clothing, politics, religion, trade, etc. The contributors number some of the most distinguished scholars of their day - including Heberden, Jebb, Lindsay, Monro, Mozley and Onians. Unusually for the time, the dictionary drew fully on scholarly work from outside the British Isles. The generous citations and references to Latin and Greek texts have made it a first port of call for both students and scholars wanting to get a basic overview of a particular subject with references. The third edition is a major revision of all previous editions, with nearly 1000 additional pages, 200 new entries, and extensive revisions to virtually all the previous entries. Extensively illustrated and with a wealth of information on a wide variety of topics A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Culture, originally published as A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, represents a major landmark of Victorian scholarship that will be welcomed by all scholars and enthusiasts of the ancient world. This reissue is extremely welcome for making available again an invaluable resource of Victorian scholarship. - Bruce Gibson, Department of Classics, University of Liverpool
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Imprint Academic Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural
Book SynopsisWhy has identity become so central to judging art today? Why are some groups reluctant to defend free speech within culture? Has state support made artists poorer not richer? How does the movement for social justice influence cultural production? Why is post-modernism dominant in the art world? Why are consumers of comic books so bitterly divided?In Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism Alexander Adams examines a series of pressing issues in today''s culture: censorship, Islamism, Feminism, identity politics, historical reparations and public arts policy. Through a series of linked essays, Culture War exposes connections between seemingly unrelated events and trends in high and popular cultures. From fine art to superhero comics, from political cartoons to museum policy, certain persistent ideas underpin the most contentious issues today. Adams draws on history, philosophy, politics and cultural criticism to explain the reasoning of creators, consumers and critics and to expose some uncomfortable truths.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ultimate Adventures with Britannia:
Book SynopsisThe latest volume in Wm. Roger Louis' acclaimed "Adventures with Britannia" series takes the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, "Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" deals with a rich variety of themes - some familiar, many unexpected. The scope of this wide-ranging volume includes not only the personalities, politics and culture of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, but also the interaction between British and other societies throughout the world. The chapters embracing historical themes include Brian Harrison and Dominic Sandbrook on the 1960s and Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Churchill and the Jews. In Britannia's literary domain, Dan Jacobson assesses Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot while Margaret Macmillan asks how well Paul Scott's Raj Quartet bears up after some four decades. And in a combination of cultural, architectural and intellectual history, Bernard Wasserstein traces the decline and possible revival of the 'second city in the Empire', Glasgow. "Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" retains all the intellectual originality and accessibility that characterise the earlier volumes in this series and continues a stimulating and highly appealing tradition.Table of ContentsList of Authors Introduction Wm. Roger Louis 1 Glasgow in the 1950s Bernard Wasserstein 2 Historiographical Hazards of Sixties Britain Brian Harrison 3 Against the Permissive Society: The Backlash of the Late 1960s Dominic Sandbrook 4 Trevor-Roper’s Scotland Roy Foster 5 Chatham House and All That Roger Morgan 6 The Study of International Relations in Historical Perspective Adam Roberts 7 Balthazar Solvyns and Eighteenth-Century Calcutta Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. 8 John Frederick Lewis and Nineteenth-Century Cairo Caroline Williams 9 Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Richard Jenkyns 10 Eliot versus Hardy Dan Jacobson S5188.indb v 8/26/09 1:05:56 PM 11 Such, Such Was Eric Blair Julian Barnes 12 Drink and the Old Devil Peter Green 13 Elegy for an Empire: Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet Margaret MacMillan 14 Churchill’s Zionism Geoffrey Wheatcroft 15 Julian Amery: The Ultimate Imperial Adventurer Sue Onslow 16 Colonial Independence David Cannadine 17 The Failure of the West Indies Federation Jason Parker 18 W. K. Hancock and the Question of Race Saul Dubow 19 Historians of the British Empire, plus 100 Top Hits of Imperial History John Darwin 20 Gertrude Bell and the Creation of Iraq Shareen Brysac 21 The Aftermath of the 1958 Revolution in Iraq Roby Barrett 22 Comparing British and American 'Empires' A. G. Hopkins 23 British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2009
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cyprus and its Places of Desire: Cultures of Displacement among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees
Book SynopsisBy the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities. Charting the displaced cultures of the Greek Cypriot community in the south, and that of the Turkish communities in the north, Lisa Dikomitis provides a moving and detailed qualitative ethnography of the refugee experience in Cyprus. In her groundbreaking study, made possible by the opening of the north/south border during fieldwork, Dikomitis demonstrates how both ethnic groups are linked by their histories of displacement to a single 'place of desire', a small mountainous village located in the north of the island. By identifying the specific social and cultural meanings that the notions of home, identity, justice and suffering have come to have for both populations, Cyprus and its Places of Desire will appeal to scholars and students of Cypriot, Turkish and Greek history as well as those with an interest in the fields of anthropology, sociology and identity.Trade ReviewLisa Dikomitis has written an even-handed account of two groups of people linked by their painful histories of displacement to a single place, Larnakas tis Lapithou in Greek, Kozan in Turkish. It was difficult because she did not have the luxury of a neutral identity, as her father was once an inhabitant of the village in question, but settled in Belgium. Dr. Dikomitis initially enjoyed a fund of goodwill from her Greek Cypriot relatives, but when she made first contacts with Turkish Cypriots, their trust had to be earned the hard way. And while doing so, she risked losing the trust of her Greek Cypriot co-villagers. Fortunately, she met both challenges impressively. One of the great strengths of this book is the continuous use of apt quotations from informants, which brings life and colour into the text. In addition Lisa Dikomitis writes easily, persuasively and clearly. She has integrated ethnography with theory, but wears her learning lightly. These are unusual achievements, a significant contribution to the anthropology of Cyprus, and to the sociological understanding of forced migrations. -Professor Peter Loizos, Emeritus Professor, LSETable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Preliminary Notes A Village in Paradise Introduction: An Island in Transition Chapter One: Nothing Compares to Our Village Chapter Two: A Crack in the Border Chapter Three: Pilgrims and Tourists Chapter Four: Under One Roof Chapter Five: This is Our Village Chapter Six: Refugees and Locals Places of Desire Notes Bibliography 2 Index
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Afghan Rumour Bazaar: Secret Sub-Cultures, Hidden
Book SynopsisIronic and humorous, witty and self-deprecatory, The Afghan Rumour Bazaar reveals the quotidian absurdities of lives framed against the backdrop of a savage war. Offering daringly new perspectives on a country readers may erroneously assume they know, Nushin Arbabzadah delves into the unacknowledged but real secret sub-cultures and hidden worlds of Afghans, from underground converts to Christianity to mysterious male cross-dressers to tales of bacha-posh girlboys. Among the individuals, fables and dilemmas she confronts are 'Why are Imams Telling Us About Nail Polish?', 'Afghanistan's Rich Jewish Heritage', 'Kabul Street Style', 'The Resurgence of Afghanistan's Spiritual Bazaar', and not forgetting Malalai of Maiwand, who turned her headscarf into a banner and led a successful rebellion against the British. Arbabzadah reveals for the first time Afghans' own vibrant internal deliberations - - on sex and soap operas; conspiracy theories; drugs and diplomacy; terrorism and the Taliban; and how a long-dead soothsayer from Bulgaria accidentally shut down a newspaper. Many different Afghan sensibilities are presented in her book, yet together they offer an unvarnished, at times heartwarming, at times tragic, insight into one of the most complex and fascinating countries on earth.Trade ReviewA wry and witty narrative that's authoritative, affectionate, and at moments wonderfully absurd. With an eye for detail, and a profound sense of place, Nushin Arbabzadah's essays bring us deep inside a remarkable culture defined by its honour and humour. Afghanistan's story is best told by Afghans who live with all its incongruity and still leave us agreeing it's a country like no other. -- Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent, BBCA fresh, funny, provocative voice. Arbabzadah's candid memories and comments are a timely reminder that Afghanistan is a country, not merely a conflict. -- Jason Burke, author of On The Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World and The 9/11 Wars…invaluable and ground-breaking. For the first time, an Afghan, and a woman at that, takes Westerners into the world(s) of her countrymen and gives them an insider's guide to these people who are all too often cast in simplistic, one-dimensional terms. -- Brian Glyn Williams, Central Asian SurveyPart memoir, part journalism and part storytelling, the book is a heady ride into the craziness that is Afghan life ... [Arbabzadah's] deep affection for Afghanistan is as obvious as is her amusement about the absurdity of life there ... For a look into an often misunderstood country from a woman who is both an outsider and an insider, Afghan Rumour Bazaar is a must read. -- Jyotsna Nambiar, PostNoonNushin Arbabzadah's Afghanistan is a wonderful and terrible place, a land of heart-stopping beauty and unspeakable horrors ... The book is chaotic, and wonderfully so. Its great strength as a national portrait is that the jumble of anecdote and analysis, with serious scholarship and pithy observation and trivial detail all thrown in together, feels three-dimensional and complete. -- Cordelia Jenkins, MintAfghan Rumour Bazaar ... takes the reader deep into the Afghan culture ... The book offers an almost-irreverent, splendidly revealing take on Afghanistan. -- The Telegraph (Calcutta)Afghan Rumour Bazaar by Cambridge scholar Nushin Arbabzadah is a brilliant narrative of the often-overlooked emerging threads and subcultures in Afghanistan. -- Outlook Magazine
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che,
Book SynopsisThe global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, 'Icons of Dissent' offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.Trade Review‘Prestholdt has tackled a daunting topic, and has done so with remarkable success. 'Icons of Dissent' is a searching analysis of the impact and influence of international icons and a worthy read for scholars. Prestholdt’s work should stimulate much more scholarship on the internationalization of icons.’ -- Choice'This lucidly written book combines perspectives from several disciplines and links the analysis of markets and commerce to that of branding and political dreams. Impressive and clear, it will be of great interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology and consumer studies.' -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU'In this extraordinarily well-written and luminously crafted book, Prestholdt makes a powerful case for why four diverse icons became emblematic of worldwide popular dissent. This book is "crucially crucial" reading for anyone who wishes to understand the twentieth century.' -- Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College and author of 'The Slave Master of Trinidad''With an acute grasp of art, history, political science, and the essence of human struggle, Prestholdt adeptly explains how the iconic representations of certain personalities capture people's imagination to transcend, and often contradict, their flesh-and-blood lives.' -- Michael Casey, author of 'Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image'
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800
Book SynopsisThere has been an explosion of research into the experiences of British Muslims, but what has been conspicuous by its absence is a proper historical treatment of the phenomenon. This book aims to address this issue. The Infidel Within remains one of the most important books on the history of British Muslims.Trade Review'Striking diversity is the most distinctive feature of the Muslim community in Britain. Yet, as Ansari argues in this history of Islam in Britain, British Muslims have consistently been portrayed as denizens of a monolithic and undifferentiated world, ill at ease with modernity, secularism and democracy. Through painstaking research, and an inspired exploration of the issues of identity, Ansari sets out to dispel this absurd, but widely held, myth.'— The Independent; '[Humayun Ansari does] an excellent job of providing a historical and country-wide account which is not only descriptive but analytical. It is fluently written and easily accessible to a wide range of readers and has the potential of becoming the initial reference text for people starting research in the area as well as a required text for university courses.' — Jorgen S. Nielsen, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham
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ABC-CLIO Celtic Culture
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive reference resource on Celtic culture; an encyclopedia written by and for scholars, yet accessible to all.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland
Book SynopsisEdna Longley’s second collection of essays for Bloodaxe investigates the links between Irish literature (especially contemporary poetry), Irish culture and Irish politics. The Living Stream takes its title from Yeats’s poem ‘Easter 1916’: ‘Hearts with one purpose alone/ Through summer and winter seem/ Enchanted to a stone/ To trouble the living stream…’ By questioning the ?xed purposes of both nationalism and unionism, literature has helped to make living streams ?ow in Ireland. Edna Longley shows in particular where recent Northern Irish writing, together with the critical debates it has occasioned, ?ts into this process of change. In her introduction, which includes a hard-hitting critique of The Field Day Anthology, Edna Longley argues that it’s time for Irish literary criticism to adopt the “revisionist” approach that characterises the writing of Irish history, which would mean paying more attention to religious factors, to literary relations with Britain, and to the cultural diversity that underlies creative diversity. These ideas inform her consideration of such topics as: the historical imaginations of Northern Irish poets; Belfast in literature; Protestant writers after Irish Independence; the Thirties generation of Northern Irish writers; the in?uence of Louis MacNeice; aesthetic differences between poetry from the North and from the Republic. The book also contains a re?ection on the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising, and Edna Longley’s controversial pamphlet From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Irelands.Trade ReviewUnlike many books on modern poetry, this one has a powerful, disruptive case to make and a genuine raison d’être… a fiercely unrelenting and implacable critical intelligence at work. -- Neil Corcoran * TLS *Combative, rigorously argued, passionate essays aimed at saving poetry from the politicians. -- John Banville * Sunday Independent *Table of Contents9 Introduction: Revising ‘Irish Literature’ 69 The Rising, the Somme and Irish Memory 86 ‘A Barbarous Nook’: The Writer and Belfast 109 Progressive Bookmen: Left-wing Politics and Ulster Protestant Writers 130 ‘Defending Ireland’s Soul’: Protestant Writers and Irish Nationalism after Independence 150 ‘When Did You Last See Your Father?’ Perceptions of the Past in Northern Irish Writing 1965-1985 173 From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Irelands 196 Poetic Forms and Social Malformations 227 No More Poems About Paintings 252 The Room Where MacNeice Wrote ‘Snow’ 271 Notes 293 Acknowledgements 295 Index
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