Cultural studies Books
Berghahn Books Emotions in American History: An International
Book Synopsis The study of emotions has attracted anew the interest of scholars in various disciplines, igniting a lively public debate on the constructive and destructive power of emotions in society as well as within each of us. Most of the contributors to this volume do not hail from the United States but look at the nation from abroad. They explore the role of emotions in history and ask how that exploration changes what we know about national and international history, and in turn how that affects the methodological study of history. In particular they focus on emotions in American history between the 18th century and the present: in war, in social and political discourse, as well as in art and the media. In addition to case studies, the volume includes a review of their fields by senior scholars, who offer new insights regarding future research projects.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Emotions and History Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Approaches to the Study of Human Emotions Chapter 1. Emotions History in the United States: Goals, Methods and Promises Peter Stearns Chapter 2. Emotions and the History of Everyday Life Alf Lüdtke Emotions and War Chapter 3. The Corruption of Civic Virtue by Emotion: Anti-imperialist Fears in the Debate on the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) Fabian Hilfrich Chapter 4. The Mobilization of Emotions: Propaganda and Social Violence on the American Home Front During World War One Jörg Nagler Chapter 5. Hanoi Jane, Vietnam Memory, and Emotions Andreas Etges Emotions Art and the Media Chapter 6. ”Stop Them Damned Pictures...” - Political Cartoons, the Study of Emotions, and the Construction of the Anglo-American Relationship Stefanie Schneider Chapter 7. Emotions of Comparisons Perceptions of European anti-Americanism in U.S.-Magazines of the 1920s Adelheid von Saldern Chapter 8. Emotions and Nineteenth Century American Art Bettina Friedl Emotions and Society Chapter 9. A Horrifying Experience? Public Executions and the Emotional Spectator in the New Republic Jürgen Martschukat Chapter 10. Emotions, American Society, and Discourses on Sexuality Michael Hochgeschwender Chapter 11. Does Every Vote Count In America? Emotions, Elections, and the Quest for Black Political Empowerment Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson The View from the Other Side: Emotions and Psychology Chapter 12. The Fortunes of Emotion in the Science of Psychology and in the History of Emotions Horst Gundlach Index
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Berghahn Books Historical Memory in Africa: Dealing with the
Book Synopsis A vast amount of literature—both scholarly and popular—now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new insight is the importance of the future dimension of memory and hence the need to develop the ability to ‘remember with the future in mind’. Historical memory in an African context provides a rich kaleidoscope of the diverse experiences and perspectives—and yet there are recurring themes and similar conclusions, connecting it to a global dialogue to which it has much to contribute, but from which it also has much to receive.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan and Jörn Rüsen From an African Perspective Chapter 2. Social Theory and Making Sense of Africa Elisio Macamo Chapter 3. History by Word of Mouth: Linking Past and Present through Oral Memory Annekie Joubert Chapter 4. The Historical Memory and Representation of New Nations in Africa Bogumil Jewsiewicki Chapter 5. Memory, History and Historiography of Congo-Zaïre Justin Bisanswa Chapter 6. Remembering the Past, Reaching for the Future Aspects of African Historical Memory in an International Context Mamadou Diawara Chapter 7. Remembering Conflict: The Centenary Commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 as a Case Study Albert Grundlingh Chapter 8. From Public History to Private Enterprise: The Politics of Memory in the New South Africa Patrick Harries Chapter 9. Remembering with the Future in Mind Bernard Lategan From an Intercultural Perspective Chapter 10. Holocaust Experience and Historical Sense Generation – a German Perspective Jörn Rüsen Chapter 11. Ayodya, Memory, Myth: Futurising the Past – an Indian perspective Ranjan Gosh Chapter 12. Human Suffering and Forgiveness: A dialogue with Kim Dae Jung – an East-Asian perspective Han Sing-Jin Texts from the Praxis of Memory, Trauma, Forgiveness and Healing Chapter 13. Remorse, Forgiveness and Rehumanization: Stories from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Chapter 14. Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele's Experiments Eva Mozes Kor Notes on Contributors
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Berghahn Books Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities: The Urban
Book Synopsis Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon that cities must contend with in dealing with their increasingly diverse populations. The contributors examine how Russian cities are responding and through case studies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Sochi explore the ways in which different cultures are inscribed into urban spaces, when and where they are present in public space, and where and how they carve out their private spaces. Through its unique exploration of the Russian example, this volume addresses the implications of the fragmented urban landscape on cultural practices and discourses, ethnicity, lifestyles and subcultures, and economic practices, and in doing so provides important insights applicable to a global context.Trade Review “Taken together, these [contributions] reveal that cosmopolitanism’s definitions and meanings only exist in the plural, that the formation of cosmopolitan ideas and communities is inevitably contingent and place-specific, and that the forces preaching exclusion and intolerance are often at least as powerful as those promoting cultural acceptance in a rapidly globalising world. I recommend it for the insights and case studies it offers, and it would be a useful text for courses concerned with globalisation and urbanism.” · Urban Studies “The volume is a well-integrated collection of chapters, which explore new perspectives on urban life in post-Soviet Russian cities, addressing the themes of multiculturalism, socio-spatial divisions and competing claims to urban space. It will be of interest to Russian studies scholars, as well as to urban studies researchers within the disciplines of anthropology, sociology and human geography.” · Cultural Analysis "In total, this volume provides accessible, interesting and detailed empirical studies and offers compelling insights into various aspects of urban cultural diversity as related to space and spatial practices. By focusing on Russian cities and incorporating many contributions from Russian researchers, it also adds a new perspective to our understanding of this region.” · Anthropological Notebooks “[This] book makes it evident that space, place, and territory are factors to be taken seriously in any further exploration of the nation–building process, nationalism, the formation of national and urban identities, and the impact of globalization on cities. This theoretical insight, combined with the empirical analyses of numerous sites, processes, phenomena, and practices make [it] important and thought-provoking reading that needs to be considered not only for those focusing on Russia, but for Eastern Europe as well.” · Social and Cultural GeographyTable of Contents Chapter 1. Cultural Diversity Between Staging and the Everyday – Experiences from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Other Russian Cities. An Introduction Cordula Gdaniec Chapter 2. Is Chinese Space “Chinese?” New Migrants in St. Petersburg Megan Dixon Chapter 3. Contructions of the “Other”: Racialization of Migrants in Moscow and Novosibirsk Larisa Kosygina Chapter 4. Reshaping Living Space: Concepts of Home Represented by Women Migrants Working in St.Petersburg Olga Brednikova and Olga Tkach Chapter 5. African Communities in Moscow and St. Petersburg: Inclusion and Exclusion to Social Life in Russia Svetlana Boltovskaya Chapter 6. The Construction of ‘Marginality’ and ‘Normality’ – In Search of a Collective Identity Among Youth Cultural Scenes in Sochi Irina Kosterina and Ulia Andreeva Chapter 7. “You Know What Kind of Place This is, Don’t You?” An Exploration of Lesbian Spaces In Moscow Katja Sarajeva Chapter 8. Begging as Economic Practice: Urban Niches in Central St. Petersburg Maria Scattone Notes on Contributors Index
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Berghahn Books The Future of Memory
Book Synopsis Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shocking memorials in present-day Rwanda and the firsthand testimony of the victims of genocidal conflicts. The collection engages with pressing ‘real world’ issues, such as the furor around the recent 9/11 memorial, and what we really mean when we talk about ‘trauma’.Trade Review “This volume of fourteen chapters provides a solid overview of important trends in the expanding field of memory studies. The chapters are wide-ranging in focus, as befits their authors’ diverse academic disciplines.” · Journal of Interdisciplinary History “This is an innovative, well structured and balanced collection of essays which presents a survey of theories and case studies underpinning the burgeoning field of memory studies. It addresses the ‘big issues’ including witnessing, trauma, memorials, the relation between personal and public memory, and generational transmission.” · Peter Carrier, author of HOLOCAUST MONUMENTS AND NATIONAL MEMORY “This is an excellent collection of essays.” · Peter Lawson, Open University, LondonTable of Contents Preface Rick Crownshaw, Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland Chapter 1. Memory: Introduction Rick Crownshaw Chapter 2. Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute Dan Stone Chapter 3. Rwanda’s Bones Sara Guyer Chapter 4. The Imperial War Museum North Gaynor Bagnall and Antony Rowland Chapter 5. Memory and the Monument after 9/11 James E. Young Chapter 6. The Edge of Memory: Innovation, Trauma Susan Rubin Suleiman Chapter 7. Testimony: Introduction Antony Rowland Chapter 8. Reading Perpetrator Testimony Robert Eaglestone Chapter 9. Reading beyond the False Memory Jane Kilby Chapter 10. False Testimony Sue Vice Chapter 11. Reading Holocaust Poetry Matthew Boswell Chapter 12. Trauma: Introduction Jane Kilby Chapter 13. The Trauma Knot Roger Luckhurst Chapter 14. Trauma, Justice and the Political Unconscious Cathy Caruth Chapter 15. Trauma and Resistance: In the Shadow of No Towers Anne Whitehead Chapter 16. Facing Losses/Losing Guarantees: Meditation on Traumatic Ignorance Sharon Rosenberg Chapter 17. Activist Memories: Politics, Trauma, Pleasures Carrie Hamilton
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Berghahn Books Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and
Book Synopsis One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapons of sorcery looted by the police, to hidden living stones, to public works of art attacked by religious fanatics that see them as images of the Devil, former sorcerers who have become artists, writers, and philosophers. Addressing this history as a journey of objectification and appropriation, the author offers a fresh, unconventional, and illuminating look at questions of syncretism, hybridity and cultural resistance in Brazil and in the Black Atlantic in general.Trade Review “In all, this is an exciting study on a consolidated historiographic and anthropological theme such as Afro-Brazilian culture, since it does not take for granted the established truths, or the political practices and though, that both history and anthropology have set out to support in twentieth-century Brazil.” • Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire “…the impressive research and sensitive analyses… make this book an important and original contribution to the cultural history of the region. Anthropologists and historians interested in the development of Candomblé… and in the processes of objectification and appropriation of everyday practices and things as symbols of collective identity, will certainly find much of interest in Sansi’s work.” • Journal of Latin American Studies “This book… brings a new level of analytical rigor to the artistic study of African–American religious objects… Sansi’s economical prose allows him to make complex theoretical, historical, ethnographic, and aesthetic arguments succinctly. Its clarity and brevity makes it attractive for course adoption especially in African-Diaspora studies, museum studies and ‘non-western’ art history courses.” • The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology “Sansi’s book raises important questions about objectification, appropriation, syncretism, and cultural change in Brazil… the result is a lucid analysis of change over time in light of the political and social history of Brazil and the changes within Candomblé values and beliefs.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “A sensitive, well-written, fine analysis of a culture undergoing multiple transitions, without a certain future. Highly recommended.” • ChoiceTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Culture and Objectification in the Black Rome Chapter 1. ‘Making the Saint’: Spirits, Shrines and Syncretism in Candomblé Chapter 2. From Sorcery to Civilisation: The Objectification of Afro-Brazilian Culture Chapter 3. From Informants to Scholars: Appropriating Afro-Brazilian Culture Chapter 4. From Weapons of Crime to Jewels of the Crown: Candomblé in Museums Chapter 5. From the Shanties to the Mansions: Candomblé as National Heritage Chapter 6. Modern Art and Afro-Brazilian Culture in Bahia Chapter 7. Authenticity and Commodification in Afro-Brazilian Art Chapter 8. Candomblé as Public Art: The Orixás of Tororó Chapter 9. Re-appropriations of Afro-Brazilian Culture Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books New Dangerous Liaisons: Discourses on Europe and
Book Synopsis In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that includes such resources as autobiographies, love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric understanding of new possible European identities.Trade Review "This is a wonderful collection of richly textured, suggestive, and often meticulous essays that interrogate the inter-twined histories of love and European identity. Imaginative readings of diverse archives that go deep into Europe's pasts and extend sideways to her colonies and margins will make this volume indispensable to all contemporary debates on the 'meanings of Europe'. It will also speak to readers far beyond the geographical confines of the continent." · Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Luisa Passerini PART I: HISTORICIZING LOVE: POINTS DE REPÈRE/ POINTS OF REFERENCE Chapter 1. Love and Religion: Comparative Comments Jack Goody Chapter 2. The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective William M. Reddy Chapter 3. Love of State – Affection for Authority: Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European Contexts Alf Lüdtke Chapter 4. Overseas Europeans: Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar Italy Liliana Ellena Chapter 5. 'Window to Europe': Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet Subject Almira Ousmanova PART II: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LOVES Chapter 6. Love in the Time of Revolution: The Polish Poets of Café Ziemiańska Marci Shore Chapter 7. Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIII Alexis Schwarzenbach Chapter 8. 'Dear Adolf!': Locating Love in Nazi Germany Alexander C.T. Geppert Chapter 9. Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation. The 'Revista de Occidente' and the Creation of a Culture, 1923-1936 Alison Sinclair Chapter 10. Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s Jo Labanyi PART III: EUROPEAN BORDERS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN LOVE RELATIONS Chapter 11. Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of Lusotropicalism Margarida Calafate Ribeiro Chapter 12. The 'Volkskörper' in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic Sandra Mass Chapter 13. Anica Savić Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of War Svetlana Slapšak Chapter 14. Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with Islam Ruth Mas Notes on Contributors Index
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Berghahn Books Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial
Book Synopsis The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization. However, discussions of Englishness have too often been limited by insular conceptions of national literature, culture, and history, which serve to erase or marginalize the colonial and postcolonial locations in which British national identity has been articulated. This volume breaks new ground by drawing together a range of disciplinary approaches in order to resituate the relationship between British national identity and Englishness within a global framework. Ranging from the literature and history of empire to analyses of contemporary culture, postcolonial writing, political rhetoric, and postimperial memory after 9/11, this collection demonstrates that far from being parochial or self-involved, the question of Englishness offers an important avenue for thinking about the politics of national identity in our postcolonial and globalized world.Trade Review "This is an intellectually rigorous collection of essays investigating the nature of "Englishness" both within and beyond national borders… [It] offers a useful and timely intervention into analyses of the continuing significance of empire in understanding English/British identity and culture… the relationship of history to present circumstances, and the co-option of the "past" for political objectives, is a key theme… while several of its essays are grounded in the field of literature and contemporary culture, historians should not be tempted to overlook this important collection." · English Historical Review "The coherence of the volume derives from – and it is, in some respects a remarkably coherent volume – an introduction that anticipates, indeed, proves the theoretical coordinates through which the individual essays form their analyses." · College Literature "This excellent collection of essays addresses with great range and significant insight urgent questions that have long haunted and are again animating the relation of Englishness to Britishness, of nationalism to imperialism, of local cultural grammars to global political forms. In collecting the essays for the volume and in their own contributions to and introduction of it, the editors have done a superb job of reminding readers why the many paradoxes of "Englishness" are vital not only to the long history of the formal British empire but to the moment of flexible imperialism we currently inhabit. This is a timely and striking addition to the field." · Ian Baucom, Duke University.Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State Graham MacPhee & Prem Poddar PART I: NATION AND EMPIRE Chapter 1. "As White As Ours": Africa, Ireland, Imperial Panic, and the Effects of British Race Discourse Enda Duffy Chapter 2. Writing About Englishness: South Africa’s Forgotten Nationalism Vivian Bickford-Smith Chapter 3. Passports, Empire, Subjecthood Prem Poddar Chapter 4. Friends Across the Water: British Orientalists and Middle Eastern Nationalisms Geoffrey Nash Chapter 5. Under English Eyes: The Disappearance of Irishness in Conrad’s The Secret Agent Graham MacPhee PART II: POSTCOLONIAL LEGACIES Chapter 6. Brit Bomber: The Fundamentalist Trope in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and "My Son the Fanatic" Sheila Ghose Chapter 7. Crisis of Identity? Englishness, Britishness, and Whiteness Bridget Byrne Chapter 8. Conserving Purity, Labouring the Past: A Tropological Evolution of Englishness Colin Wright Chapter 9. All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York Matthew Hart Notes on Contributors Index
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Send in the Clones: A Cultural Study of the
Book SynopsisAlthough musical tributes play a significant role within contemporary culture and despite their relative longevity as a form of entertainment, little serious research has been published on the subject. This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the phenomenon of the tribute band by linking it to other types of imitative entertainment such as 'ghost', cover and parody bands. It also demonstrates the impact of a changing cultural Zeitgeist on the evolution of popular music tributes, showing how music tributes can be related to other examples of retrospection. These influences are linked to the impact of new technology in making the art of paying tribute possible, showing how certain developments have created the musical equipment and apparatus for self-promotion, marketing and communication with fans. Whilst critical opinion on this type of entertainment remains divided, the author challenges negative responses through an interrogation of critiques of imitative cultural practices within a broader historical and cultural framework. The diversity of the homage industry is highlighted and the book avoids concentrating solely on well-known tributes, looking too, at the work of those operating in the 'alternative' tribute scene. The book explores the working life of musicians involved in the 'bargain basement' end of the live music industry, using interviews and first hand observations to show the trials and tribulations of paying homage. Finally, through an examination of the audience at tribute events, fandom and associated social and psychological aspects of participation are explored.Trade Review'Some say the past is a foreign country; Georgina Gregory offers a exhaustive guidebook to the musical outlands where rock's back catalogue becomes reanimated Her spirited and insightful examination of tribute bands celebrates these critically overlooked ensembles as much more than just stand-ins for the 'real thing.' The subtle typology she elaborates furthermore illustrates the diversity of goods in the semiotic supermarket: how a sound-like need not be a look-alike; and how a tribute group can cross not only genre but gender, too.' David Sanjek, Professor of Music, University of Salford 'Georgina Gregory has shone a spotlight on the little-studied world of tribute bands and their fans. Her brightly-written book serves up a heady and original interdisciplinary potion, a mix of cultural studies, (firmly grounded) contemporary history, ethnography and other ingredients. She makes the importance of the phenomenon abundantly clear, while providing engaging portrayals of its eccentricities and explaining the difficulties encountered in bringing it in from the margins of popular music studies. Insights into the relationships between notions of the artist and the craft worker, the textual and the performative, the original and the reproduction, the artiste and the fan, heritage and memory, are transferable to related areas of cultural history and its 'uses'. This splendid, enthusiastic, articulate book deserves to be widely read and discussed, within and beyond an extensive academic constituency.' John K. Walton, IKERBASQUE, Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leoia, Bilbao, SpainTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Tribute Bands in Context 3. From 'Ghost' and Cover Bands, to Pop Parody and Tributes 4. Establishing a Typology 5. Getting Established and Maintaining a Career 6. The Value of Paying Tribute: Critical Responses 7. Fandom and Collective Participation
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Send in the Clones: A Cultural Study of the
Book SynopsisAlthough musical tributes play a significant role within contemporary culture and despite their relative longevity as a form of entertainment, little serious research has been published on the subject. This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the phenomenon of the tribute band by linking it to other types of imitative entertainment such as 'ghost', cover and parody bands. It also demonstrates the impact of a changing cultural Zeitgeist on the evolution of popular music tributes, showing how music tributes can be related to other examples of retrospection. These influences are linked to the impact of new technology in making the art of paying tribute possible, showing how certain developments have created the musical equipment and apparatus for self-promotion, marketing and communication with fans. Whilst critical opinion on this type of entertainment remains divided, the author challenges negative responses through an interrogation of critiques of imitative cultural practices within a broader historical and cultural framework. The diversity of the homage industry is highlighted and the book avoids concentrating solely on well-known tributes, looking too, at the work of those operating in the 'alternative' tribute scene. The book explores the working life of musicians involved in the 'bargain basement' end of the live music industry, using interviews and first hand observations to show the trials and tribulations of paying homage. Finally, through an examination of the audience at tribute events, fandom and associated social and psychological aspects of participation are explored.Trade Review'Some say the past is a foreign country; Georgina Gregory offers a exhaustive guidebook to the musical outlands where rock's back catalogue becomes reanimated Her spirited and insightful examination of tribute bands celebrates these critically overlooked ensembles as much more than just stand-ins for the 'real thing.' The subtle typology she elaborates furthermore illustrates the diversity of goods in the semiotic supermarket: how a sound-like need not be a look-alike; and how a tribute group can cross not only genre but gender, too.' David Sanjek, Professor of Music, University of Salford 'Georgina Gregory has shone a spotlight on the little-studied world of tribute bands and their fans. Her brightly-written book serves up a heady and original interdisciplinary potion, a mix of cultural studies, (firmly grounded) contemporary history, ethnography and other ingredients. She makes the importance of the phenomenon abundantly clear, while providing engaging portrayals of its eccentricities and explaining the difficulties encountered in bringing it in from the margins of popular music studies. Insights into the relationships between notions of the artist and the craft worker, the textual and the performative, the original and the reproduction, the artiste and the fan, heritage and memory, are transferable to related areas of cultural history and its 'uses'. This splendid, enthusiastic, articulate book deserves to be widely read and discussed, within and beyond an extensive academic constituency.' John K. Walton, IKERBASQUE, Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leoia, Bilbao, SpainTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Tribute Bands in Context 3. From 'Ghost' and Cover Bands, to Pop Parody and Tributes 4. Establishing a Typology 5. Getting Established and Maintaining a Career 6. The Value of Paying Tribute: Critical Responses 7. Fandom and Collective Participation
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University of Toronto Press Everyday Readers
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CABI Publishing Tourism and Visual Culture, Volume 1: Theories
Book SynopsisTourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.Table of Contents1: The Changing Tourist Gaze in India’s Hill Stations: Vignettes from the Early 19th Century to the Present Kathleen Baker 2: ‘Memory Tourism’ and Commodifi cation of Nostalgia Roberta Bartoletti 3: Edward Hopper: Glancing at Gaze with a Wink at Tourism Teresa Costa 4: A ‘Vice Among Tourists’? Trans-national Narratives of the Irish Landscape, 1886-1914 K.J. James 5: Decolonizing the Gaze: at Uluru (Ayers Rock) Jana-Axinja Paschen 6: Tracking the (Tourists’) Gaze: Using Technology in Visual Analysis of Identificational Strategies Sergej Stoetzer 7: Gazing at the Gallant Gurkha: Glimpsing Nepalese Society Lisa Power and Clive Baker 8: In the Eye of the Beholder? Tourism and the Activist Academic Freya Higgins-Desbiolles 9: Gazes on Levanto: a Case Study on How Local Identity Could Become Part of the Touristic Supply Stefania Antonioni, Laura Gemini and Lella Mazzoli 10: Image, Construction and Representation in Tourism Promotion and Heritage Management Elisabeth Dumont, Mikel Asensio and Manuel Mortari 11: Tourist Immersion or Tourist Gaze: the Backpacker Experience Ketwadee Buddhabhumbhitak 12: Receiving and Shaping the Tourist Appraising Gaze: the Lived Experience of Reception Work in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Gayathri (Gee) Wijesinghe and Peter Willis 13: Seeing the Sites: Tourism as Perceptual Experience James Moir 14: Goods of Desire: Visual and Other Aspects of Western Exoticism in Postcolonial Hong Kong Hilary du Cros 15: Mauritanian Guestbook: Shaping Culture while Displaying it Maria Cardeira da Silva 16: Transforming Taste(s) into Sights: Gazing and Grazing with Television’s Culinary Tourists David Dunn 17: World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time and Space Compression in Alex Cox’s Liverpool Les Roberts
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Granta Books Real England: The Battle Against The Bland
Book SynopsisWe see the signs around us every day: the chain cafés and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded. As he travels around the country meeting farmers, fishermen and the inhabitants of Chinatown, Paul Kingsnorth reports on the kind of conversations that are taking place in country pubs and corner shops across the land - while reminding us that these quintessentially English institutions may soon cease to exist.Trade ReviewMagnificent: one of the most important books I have read in a long time. Revealing, stirring and brilliantly written, it should be read by everyone in England -- Zac Goldsmith, Director, THE ECOLOGIST
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Granta Books The Big Necessity: Adventures In The World Of
Book SynopsisProduced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, hidden by euphemism, shit is rarely out in the open in 'civilized' society, but the world of waste - and the people who deal with it, work with it and in it - is a rich one.This book takes us underground to the sewers of New York and London and overground to meet the heroes of India's sanitation movement, American sewage schoolteachers, the Japanese genius at the cutting edge of toilet technology and the biosolids lobbying team. With a journalist's nose for story and a campaigner's desire for change, Rose George also addresses the politics of this under-reported social and environmental effluent, and the consequences of our reluctance to talk about it. Witty and original, The Big Necessity proves that shit doesn't have to be a dirty word.Trade Review* 'The first popular study written on the subject. And popular it deserves to be. George has the right kind of breezy serious approach needed with this universal taboo.' Daily Mail * 'A fascinating, wise, calm and scrupulously drawn portrait of the world and its waste - [this is] a seriously important book.' Simon Winchester * 'George bravely submerges herself in the tragedy and occasional comedy of global sanitation. Sludge, biogas, sewage: I ate up and wanted more! The most unforgettable book to pass through the publishing pipeline in years.' Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Bonk
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Liverpool University Press French Postmodern Masculinities: From
Book SynopsisAs traditional notions of masculinity have been put into question, there have been representational reactions to and articulations of changing masculinities in post-modern culture. Certain contemporary French cultural productions are illustrative of these changing masculinities and this book offers the first comprehensive examination of these manifestations. Acclaimed critic Lawrence Schehr uses analysis of AIDS narratives, mainstream films, popular novels, more mainstream novels, a graphic novel, and rightist polemics to explore the changing meaning of masculinity in French society. French Postmodern Masculinities will appeal to a broad range of researchers and postgraduate students working in French cultural studies, cinema, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature.Trade ReviewThis book makes a valuable contribution to French sexuality studies, and certainly deserves the attention of researchers in the field. * French Studies, Vol 66, no 3 *Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The work of Literature in an age of Queer reproduction 2 Neuromatrices and Networks 3 Topographies of Queer Popular culture 4 Perversions of the real Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press French Cycling: A Social and Cultural History
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. French Cycling: a Social and Cultural History aims to provide a balanced and detailed analytical survey of the complex leisure activity, sport, and industry that is cycling in France. Identifying key events, practices, stakeholders and institutions in the history of French cycling, the volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how cycling has been significant in French society and culture since the late Nineteenth century. Cycling as Leisure is considered through reference to the adoption of the bicycle as an instrument of tourism and emancipation by women in the 1880s, for example, or by study of the development in the 1990s of long-distance tourist cycle routes. Cycling as Sport and its attendant dimensions of amateurism/professionalism, national identity, the body and doping, and other issues is investigated through study of the history of the Tour de France, the track-racing organised at the Vélodrome d'hiver in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and other emblematic events. Cycling as Industry and economic activity is considered through an assessment of how cycling firms have contributed to technological innovation at various junctures in France's economic development. Cycling and the Media is investigated through analysis of how cyclesport has contributed to developments in the French press (in early decades) but also to new trends in television and radio coverage of sports events. Based on a very wide range of primary and secondary sources, the volume aims to present in clear language an explanation of the varied significance of cycling in France over the last hundred years.Trade ReviewReviews'The style of writing is clear and accessible to a reader new to the subject, but the multiple dimensions of this work mean that even those readers with specialist knowledge of one kind or another are likely to find much of interest.' Edward Nye'Hugh Dauncey is to be commended for taking on such an ambitious project and for the impressive range of subjects that he integrates into his engaging and informative history of French cycling in all its forms.' H-France Review'This fascinating history will be required reading not simply for sports specialists, but for anyone interested in the social and cultural manifestations of France’s most emblematic form of personal mobility.' French Studies'Dauncey ties together French cycling’s diversity of historical experiences and trends into a single, compelling volume.' Contemporary French Civilization * Contemporary French Civilization 39.1 *'Experts will acknowledge the scholarship and enthusiasts will enjoy an academic work which is both accessible and a really good read. Honoured by the French Education Ministry in 2003 with his appointment as Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques, Hugh Dauncey brilliantly continues his distinguished vocation of doing great service to French culture and this book confirms his reputation as an authority on the practice of cycling in France.' European Studies in Sports History'This book is undoubtedly the best English-language introduction to French cycling and the Tour de France. It provides a ‘quick and necessary’ overview, in the words of the author, of the discipline in France since the second half of the nineteenth century.' Patrick Gaboriau and Philippe Gaboriau, French HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. French Cycling: Issues and Themes 2. The Early Years: Cycling in Search of an Identity, 1869-1891 3. Towards Sporting Modernity: Sport as the Driver of Cycling, 1891-1902 4. The Belle Epoque and the First World War: Industry, Sport, Utility and Leisure, 1903-1918 5. Cycling between the Wars: Sport, Recreation, Ideology, 1919-1939 6. From Defeat to the New France: Sport and Society, Cycling, and Everyday Life, 1940-1959 7. Cycling's Glory Years and their Mediatization, 1960-1980 8. Cycling in Transformation: Industry, Recreation, Sport, 1980-2000 9. French Cycling in Quest of a New Identity, 2000-2011 10. A Sense of Cycling in France Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory
Book SynopsisCaribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'Trade Review'This is a very important and exciting book. Extending to the whole of the French Caribbean his previous work on the philosophical bases of the Haitian Revolution, Nesbitt has produced the first ever account of the region’s writing from a consistently philosophical, as distinct from literary or historical, standpoint.' Celia Britton'… the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophical critical treatment. … latest study will prove to be a landmark, indeed seminal, work in Caribbean Critique.' French Studies'Nesbitt’s book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives on polemical issues that inhabit our work as professors, pedagogues, and intellectuals today…' Contemporary French Civilization'Nesbitt has made an important and highly original contribution to such debates.'New West Indian Guide Reviews 'A prodigiously researched and compelling conceptualisation of francophone Caribbean critical thought.' Gabriella Rodriguez, SX SalonTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: The Caribbean Critical Imperative I. Tropical Equality: The Politics of Principle . 1 Foundations of Caribbean Critique: From Jacobinism to Black Jacobinism . 2 Victor Schoelcher, Tocqueville, and the Abolition of Slavery . 3 Aimé Césaire and the Logic of Decolonization . 4 ‘Stepping Outside the Magic Circle’: The Critical Thought of Maryse Condé . 5 Édouard Glissant: From the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-leftism II. Critique of Caribbean Violence . 6 Jacobinism, Black Jacobinism, and the Foundations of Political Violence . 7 The Baron de Vastey and the Contradictions of Scribal Critique . 8 Revolutionary Inhumanism: Fanon’s On Violence . 9 Aristide and the Politics of Democratization III. Critique of Caribbean Relation . 10 Édouard Glissant: From the Poétique de la relation to the Transcendental Analytic of Relation . 11 Césaire and Sartre: Totalization, Relation, Responsibility . 12 Militant Universality: Absolutely Postcolonial . Conclusion: Aimé Césaire: The Incandescent I, Destroyer of Worlds Appendix: Letter of Jean-François, Belair, and Biassou/ Toussaint, July 1792 Notes Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Cultured Violence: Narrative, Social Suffering,
Book SynopsisCultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The book addresses key ethical issues, normally addressed from within the discourses of law, the social sciences, and health sciences, through narrative analysis. The book draws from and juxtaposes narratives of profoundly different kinds to make its point: fictional narratives, such as the work of Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee; public testimony, such as that of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Jacob Zuma’s (the former Deputy President’s) 2006 trial on charges of rape; and personal testimony, drawn from interviews undertaken by the author over the past ten years in South Africa. These narratives are analysed in order to demonstrate the different ways in which they illuminate the cultural “state of the nation”: ways that elude descriptions of South African subjects undertaken from within discourses that have a historical tendency to ignore cultural dimensions of lived experience and their material particularity. The implications of these lived experiences of culture are underlined by the book’s focus on the violation of human rights as comprising practices that are simultaneously discursive and material. Cases of such violations, all drawn from the South African context, include humans’ use of non-human animals as instruments of violence against other humans; the constructed marginalization and vulnerability of women and children; and the practice of stigma in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.Trade ReviewRecommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice, vol. 48 No 9 *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Testifying in and to Cultures of Spectacular Violence 1. ‘Going to the Dogs’: ‘Humanity’ in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace,The Lives of Animals and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission 2. The State of/and Childhood: Engendering Adolescence in Contemporary South Africa 3. Spectral Presences: Women, Stigma, and the Performance of Alienation 4. Men ‘Not Feeling Good’: The Dilemmas of Hypermasculinity in the Era of HIV/AIDS Conclusion: Constituting Dishonour Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France
Book SynopsisFifty years after Algerian independence, the legacy of France's Algerian past, and the ongoing complexities of the Franco-Algerian relationship, remain a key preoccupation in both countries. A central role in shaping understanding of their shared past and present is played by visual culture. This study investigates how relations between France and Algeria have been represented and contested through visual means since the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. It probes the contours of colonial and postcolonial visual culture in both countries, highlighting the important roles played by still and moving images when Franco-Algerian relations are imagined. Analysing a wide range of images made on both sides of the Mediterranean – from colonial picture postcards of French Algeria to contemporary representations of postcolonial Algiers – this new book is the first to trace the circulation of, and connections between, a diverse range of images and media within this field of visual culture. It shows how the visual representation of Franco-Algerian links informs our understanding both of the lived experience of postcoloniality within Europe and the Maghreb, and of wider contemporary geopolitics.Trade ReviewContesting Views is an incisive and timely analysis of visual culture and its role in the mediation of Franco-Algerian relations, and makes a convincing case for the importance of visual image and visual forms in considering the postcoloniality of both France and Algeria. James House, University of LeedsContesting Views is a meticulously researched work, brimming with relevant references to a range of secondary literature on Franco-Algerian relations, and one which also demonstrates a welcome gendered awareness of female invisibility in many of the images discussed. This insightful and wide-ranging study recognizes the significant and, until now, underrepresented role played by the visual in informing pre- and post-colonial views of Franco-Algerian relations, and will thus appeal to both general and specialist readers with an interest in such relations, and in visual culture as a whole.Siobhan McIlvanney, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial StudiesTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship Part One. Algerian Pasts in the French Public Sphere 1. Wish We Were There: Nostalgic (Re)visions of France’s Algerian Past 2. Visions of History: Looking Back at the Algerian War 3. Out of the Shadows: The Visual Career of 17 October 1961 Part Two. Mapping Franco-Algerian Borders in Contemporary Visual Culture 4. War Child: Memory, Childhood and Algerian Pasts in Recent French Film 5. Bridging the Gap: Representations of the Mediterranean Sea 6. A Sense of Place: Envisioning Post-Colonial Space in France and Algeria Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Four Courts Press Ltd Irish Culture and Wartime Europe, 1938-48
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Four Courts Press Ltd Paris - Capital of Irish Culture: France, Ireland
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Collective Ink Love and Its Disappointment – The Meaning of
Book SynopsisWhat is life about? Love. Does love run smoothly? No. To whom does this matter? Everybody. Simply facts with enormous implications. In "Love and Its disappointment", which is rooted in common knowledge, David Brazier advances in clear and specific terms a radical and practical theory of human functioning, exploring the relationships between beauty and love, frustration and creativity, perception and healing. Essential reading for psychotherapists, this book is also full of insights for the critic of culture and society.Trade ReviewHis overall thesis that we are motivated by love, the inherent irony of existence - that as loving beings we are inevitably thwarted, and how we manage that - and how art and therapy can help us think about them, process them, inform us and occasionally heal us finds a way of saying what I have felt, in a much more incoherent way, for a long time. (Julia Samuel Metanoia Institute Tutor, Honorary Fellow of Imperial College) This time he takes on the interpersonal "dance" we call "relationship" offers new insights that seminal thinker Carl Rogers might have offered himself if he were alive today to extend his theory to meet the modern momentum of psychotherapy. (Robert Wicks Author of Riding the Dragon and The Resilient also Professor, Loyola University Maryland)
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Collective Ink Combined and Uneven Apocalypse – Luciferian
Book SynopsisFrom the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream and nightmare images of a global order gone very, very wrong. Situating itself in the defaulting financial markets of the present, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse glances back toward a messy history of zombies, car wrecks, tidal waves, extinction, trash heaps, labour, pandemics, wolves, cannibalism, and general nastiness that populate the underside of our cultural imagination. Every age may dream the end of the world to follow, but these scattered nightmare figures are a skewed refraction of the normal hell of capitalism. The apocalypse isn't something that will happen one day: it's just the slow unveiling of the catastrophe we've been living through for centuries. Against any fantasies of progress, return, or reconciliation, Williams launches a loathing critique of the bleak present and offers a graveside smile for our necessary battles to come.Trade ReviewYes, another book about zombies and the end of the world. But this is not just another book about zombies and the end of the world. Like one of the junk-suturing recusants whose philosophy he has been central to constructing, Evan Calder Williams builds something rageful and compelling and quite new out of all this fucking wreckage. (China Mieville)
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John Hunt Publishing Can The Market Speak
Book SynopsisThis books attacks the ideological foundations of capitalism, starting with the mystifications surrounding the idea of the market .
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James Currey Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources,
Book SynopsisA unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets. Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source for the reconstruction of the manners, characteristics, and worldviews of societies. While only a few hundred Kamba proverbs have ever appeared in print, thousands have circulated over time, from the monsoon exchange era of the Roman Empire through the advent of Islam, European imperialism and colonialism to independence. Today, a resurgence of interest in the form has been generated via social media, songs and vernacular radio programmes. This book provides the first, comprehensive collection of Kamba proverbs from Eastern Kenya in their original Kĩkamba language and in translation. Analysing 2,000 proverbs drawn from oral interviews, archival collections, museum artefacts and published sources, the author traces the origins of each and explores their meaning, interpretation and use. Covering a diverse range of subjects that ranges from plants, animals, birds and insects, to weather, land, the roles of men and women, cosmology, ritual and belief, healing, trade, politics and peacemaking, the book offers new insights into Kenya's rural world and the expansion of Kamba society, East African history, language and culture of vital significance for the social sciences. A valuable comparative work for societal change elsewhere in Africa and beyond, the book also suggests an innovative, alternative approach to the study of the African past.Trade ReviewThe book has many strong attributes. ... recommended for lovers of proverbs and those interested in East African history and Kamba culture. -- African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction PART II: THE NATURAL WORLD 2 Atmosphere and Biosphere 3 Wild Plants 4 Wild Game 5 Wild Birds 6 Predators and Vermin 7 Insects and their role in Kamba History 8 Amphibians and Reptiles PART III: KAMBA AT HOME 9 Farm, Hearth, and Home 10 Crops and Other Plants 11 Domesticated Animals 12 Men and Masculinity 13 Women and Motherhood 14 Children and Adulthood PART IV: KAMBA SOCIETY 15 Place names and Ethnic names 16 Beliefs, Rituals, and Cosmology 17 Wealth and Poverty 18 Cuisine and Consumption 19 Health, Healing, and the Body 20 Trade, Markets, and Industries 21 Politics, Conflict, and Peacemaking
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Granta Books Seven Days In The Art World
Book SynopsisContemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from art school to auction house, showing us how it works, and giving us a vivid sense of being there.Trade ReviewParachutes the reader into the real nitty-gritty of how it all works - openings, dealers, artists, prizes, auctions et al. Reading this book is like having your own spy in the art world -- Alan YentobA thorough insight into the contemporary art world through seven fascinating stories ... a must-have for all art buffs * Tatler *Curators and dealers provide the insider info and often the laughs, as the closed world of art is systematically demystified * Dazed and Confused *An excellent, vivid, wittily written book - the characters are tightly drawn, the events covered are important, and the aphorisms come thick and fast - I'm hoping for a second volume * The Times *Fascinating, not least because while she was researching and writing, it must have seemed like an insider's view of a world that would last forever. The book may now stand as its memorial * Art Quarterly *A coherent account that's informative and entertaining - for a casual overview of how the international art scene operates, in all its ruthless eccentric, spectacular glory, Seven Days in the Art World is hard to beat * Jewish Quarterly *
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Granta Books Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And
Book SynopsisWith their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions Said has pursued. Taken together, these essays--from the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. Said's topics are many and diverse, from the movie heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria and Cairo. He offers major reconsiderations of writers and artists such as George Orwell, Giambattista Vico, Georg Lukacs, R. P. Blackmur, E. M. Cioran, Naguib Mahfouz, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Walter Lippman, Samuel Huntington, Antonio Gramsci, and Raymond Williams. Invigorating, edifying, acutely attentive to the vying pressures of personal and historical experience, his book is a source of immeasurable intellectual delight.
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