Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Liverpool University Press Arabs in Israel
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£100.00
Liverpool University Press Constructing Collective Identities & Shaping
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£100.00
Liverpool University Press Jews of the Channel Islands and the Rule of Law,
Book SynopsisA book examining the treatment of the Jews living in the Channel Islands during German Occupation.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Names which we believe are of Jewish origin'; Anti-Semitism and the Rule of Law, 1940-1945; Registration; The Jew as Legal Subject; The Third Order; Anti-Semitism and the Rule of Law, 1940-1945; The Discourse of Legalised Evil; Aryanisation in Jersey; Orange the Jew Hunter?; Bureaucracy and the Hunt for Jews in Jersey; The Cases of Hedy Bercu and Erica Richardson; Legalised Anti-Semitism Continued, 1941-1945; The Jews; Moral Duty and Ethical Obligation, 1940-1945; Resistance or Moral Failure; The Eighth Order; Law, Memory and the Holocaust in the Channel Islands; History and Mythology; Reconstructing Public Memory and the Rule of Law; Conclusion: Legal Memory/Legal Amnesia; The Fate of the Jews of the Channel Islands.
£100.00
Liverpool University Press Tirso de Molina: Marta the Divine
Book SynopsisTirso de Molina's Marta the Divine (c. 1614-15) is a spirited comedy about an ingenious young woman who fakes religious piety in order to avoid an arranged marriage imposed upon her by her father. Marta's false religiosity becomes a cover for sneaking her boyfriend into her house and, to all intents and purposes, having a sexual relationship with him without her credulous father suspecting a thing. The stakes involved in this risky gambit are particularly high because her boyfriend, Felipe, is also the man who has killed her brother. In this fast-moving play that celebrates the victory of youth over age, of love over revenge, little is held sacred, as circumstances spiral to the point of outrageousness. Not surprisingly, Marta has been a controversial play over the years, condemned for immorality and salaciousness by some, championed as an anticlerical tract by others. Readers and audience members over the years have puzzled as to what Tirso wants us to make of the title character and her behaviour. Is she a cautionary example, a sly hypocrite, whom we are to hold at a critical distance? Or she is a sympathetic comic heroine, even a proto-feminist, whose cause we are to embrace? No matter one's perspective, Marta is memorable because of the audaciousness and resourcefulness of the title character. Marta is a great stage creation, and the plot Tirso builds around this trickster has the feel of the archetypal, transcending the time and place of its creation. At the same time, Marta is a surprisingly comprehensive satire of the Spanish empire of its day. Through a variety of subtle touches, Tirso paints a picture of an imperial capital plagued by avarice and hypocrisy. The play has some puzzling elements or 'problems' from a technical point of view, but the irresistible force of its comic energy has appealed to readers and audiences for nearly 400 years. This edition presents the play for the first time ever in English translation. The translation is accompanied by the Spanish text, translators' note and a substantial introduction.
£27.09
Liverpool University Press The Poem of Fernan Gonzalez
Book SynopsisFernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against a detailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account of the life and achievements of Fernan Gonzalez. The political situation of the time in which the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history' it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of a pre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sources employed by the poet in constructing the poem.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of the county of Castile after 932 as depicted in the Poema de Fernán González Map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1252 From the Islamic invasion to the reign of Alfonso X: a chronology The dynasty of the counts of Castile in the early tenth century The rulers of Castile (House of Burgundy): 1126-1284 Illustrations Introduction 1. The tale of Fernán González (i) The figure of Fernán González: the intertwining of fact and legend (ii) The manuscript of the Poema de Fernán González and evidence of its missing content (iii) The account of the hero’s deeds in the Poema de Fernán González and its relationship with historical fact (iv) The epic,‘popular’ and ‘learned’ (v) The Poema de Fernán González and epic tradition 2. Inventing the past: a tenth-century hero in a thirteenth-century context (i) The recovery of Christian Spain, the rise of the kingdom of León and the emergence of the county of Castile (ii) The career and achievements of Fernán González (iii) After Fernán González: the age of al-Mansur, conflict among the Christian kingdoms and their eventual supremacy over the Muslims (iv) The twelfth century: the re-emergence of Navarre and rivalry between Castile and León (v) The Plantagenets, the Castilian monarchy and an age of triumph (vi) The Castilian court: a centre of learning and literary creation (vii) The invention of a historical tradition (viii) The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and its part in the development of a tradition (ix) The reign of Alfonso X, the crisis of 1253-1255 and the African crusade: the background to the composition of the Poema de Fernán González 3. Men of learning and juglares: the art of the mester de clerecía and the use of stylistic features associated with oral poetry (i) The Libro de Alexandre and the mester de clerecía (ii) Elements of oral narrative poetry incorporated in the work of the clerecía poets: direct speech, direct address and features of the spoken language (iii) Other features of oral-formulaic style:‘epic’ epithets, ‘pair phrases’ and ‘physical expressions’ (iv) The Poema de Fernán González and the world of learning (v) The construction of the Poema: features of folk narrative? (vi) The creation of the Poema: drawing together the materials 4. Kingship and the social order, conquest and crusade: the themes of the Poema de Fernán González (i) The portrait of the hero (ii) Sancha: a heroine in a masculine world of conflict (iii) Castile and the Castilians: a chosen people (iv) The Crown of Castile under Alfonso X: king and state, loyalty and treachery (v) Fernán González: a model and inspiration for a thirteenth-century monarch in a time of conflict (vi) Castile and León (vii) Christianity and Islam: the ruler’s duty (viii) Interpreting the Poema (ix) Binding the poem together: the image of the hunt 5. Note on the Spanish text 6. The translation Select bibliography The POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ: text, translation and notes
£109.50
Liverpool University Press The Poem of Fernan Gonzalez
Book SynopsisFernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against a detailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account of the life and achievements of Fernan Gonzalez. The political situation of the time in which the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history' it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of a pre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sources employed by the poet in constructing the poem.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of the county of Castile after 932 as depicted in the Poema de Fernán González Map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1252 From the Islamic invasion to the reign of Alfonso X: a chronology The dynasty of the counts of Castile in the early tenth century The rulers of Castile (House of Burgundy): 1126-1284 Illustrations Introduction 1. The tale of Fernán González (i) The figure of Fernán González: the intertwining of fact and legend (ii) The manuscript of the Poema de Fernán González and evidence of its missing content (iii) The account of the hero’s deeds in the Poema de Fernán González and its relationship with historical fact (iv) The epic,‘popular’ and ‘learned’ (v) The Poema de Fernán González and epic tradition 2. Inventing the past: a tenth-century hero in a thirteenth-century context (i) The recovery of Christian Spain, the rise of the kingdom of León and the emergence of the county of Castile (ii) The career and achievements of Fernán González (iii) After Fernán González: the age of al-Mansur, conflict among the Christian kingdoms and their eventual supremacy over the Muslims (iv) The twelfth century: the re-emergence of Navarre and rivalry between Castile and León (v) The Plantagenets, the Castilian monarchy and an age of triumph (vi) The Castilian court: a centre of learning and literary creation (vii) The invention of a historical tradition (viii) The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and its part in the development of a tradition (ix) The reign of Alfonso X, the crisis of 1253-1255 and the African crusade: the background to the composition of the Poema de Fernán González 3. Men of learning and juglares: the art of the mester de clerecía and the use of stylistic features associated with oral poetry (i) The Libro de Alexandre and the mester de clerecía (ii) Elements of oral narrative poetry incorporated in the work of the clerecía poets: direct speech, direct address and features of the spoken language (iii) Other features of oral-formulaic style:‘epic’ epithets, ‘pair phrases’ and ‘physical expressions’ (iv) The Poema de Fernán González and the world of learning (v) The construction of the Poema: features of folk narrative? (vi) The creation of the Poema: drawing together the materials 4. Kingship and the social order, conquest and crusade: the themes of the Poema de Fernán González (i) The portrait of the hero (ii) Sancha: a heroine in a masculine world of conflict (iii) Castile and the Castilians: a chosen people (iv) The Crown of Castile under Alfonso X: king and state, loyalty and treachery (v) Fernán González: a model and inspiration for a thirteenth-century monarch in a time of conflict (vi) Castile and León (vii) Christianity and Islam: the ruler’s duty (viii) Interpreting the Poema (ix) Binding the poem together: the image of the hunt 5. Note on the Spanish text 6. The translation Select bibliography The POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ: text, translation and notes
£29.99
Liverpool University Press Miguel de Unamuno: An Anthology of his Poetry
Book SynopsisMiguel de Unamuno, one of Spain's foremost literary figures, is better known for his essays and novels than for his poetry. Yet it was as a poet that he wished to be remembered and it is in his poems that he reveals the most intimate and sensitive part of his complex personality. To truly get to know Unamuno as creator it is necessary to read his poetry. This anthology of 50 poems, though modest in comparison to his large poetic output, offers the reader some of his most characteristic poems, with an English version prepared by a well-known Unamuno scholar. The English renderings are sufficiently free to allow for the use of rhyme and regular metre, but strive to capture Unamuno's highly personal way of looking at our human circumstance and destiny. In effect the anthology offers a way of approaching Unamuno that differs significantly from an approach via his prose works: it projects a more meditative and warm-hearted individual than the combative Unamuno of popular perception. The 50 poems, each with a short commentary relating it to Unamuno's personal circumstances and to his thought, are arranged under six headings: (1) Family and Home; (2) God and Mortality; (3) The Land; (4) Exile; (5) Language and Poetry; (6) Philosophical Meditations. The anthology thus offers a microcosm of Unamuno's poetic world and should be useful to those who have little or no knowledge of him. It provides a way of learning something about the man and the writer through a part of his production that has received less attention than it deserves and which projects a significantly different image from the widespread view we have of him. The poems are preceded by a substantial introduction which explores the importance and relevance of Unamuno's poetry, his major themes, and his style.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Unamuno's Poetic Production Poetic Themes: Home Life The Land Writing. Mortality The Translation Editions of Unamuno's Poetry Select Bibliography I FAMILY AND HOME 1 Volviendo a casa Returning Home 2 El hogar Home 3 Dulce, silencioso pensamiento Sweet, Silent Thought 4 Al nino enfermo To the Sick Child 5 En la muerte de Concha Upon the Death of Concha 6 En mi estudio In my Study 7 El nino y el muneco The Child and the Doll 8 La presencia de Concha Concha's Presence II GOD AND MORTALITY 9 Silencios vacios Empty Silence 10 Para despues de mi muerte After I Cease to Be 11 Leyendo un libro vivo de un Reading the Living Book of a amigo muerto Dead Friend 12 A la espera Waiting 13 Rios de mi vida Rivers of my Life 14 Irrequietum cor Restless Heart 15 La oracion del ateo The Atheist's Prayer
£27.96
Liverpool University Press Miguel de Unamuno: An Anthology of his Poetry
Book SynopsisMiguel de Unamuno, one of Spain's foremost literary figures, is better known for his essays and novels than for his poetry. Yet it was as a poet that he wished to be remembered and it is in his poems that he reveals the most intimate and sensitive part of his complex personality. To truly get to know Unamuno as creator it is necessary to read his poetry. This anthology of 50 poems, though modest in comparison to his large poetic output, offers the reader some of his most characteristic poems, with an English version prepared by a well-known Unamuno scholar. The English renderings are sufficiently free to allow for the use of rhyme and regular metre, but strive to capture Unamuno's highly personal way of looking at our human circumstance and destiny. In effect the anthology offers a way of approaching Unamuno that differs significantly from an approach via his prose works: it projects a more meditative and warm-hearted individual than the combative Unamuno of popular perception. The 50 poems, each with a short commentary relating it to Unamuno's personal circumstances and to his thought, are arranged under six headings: (1) Family and Home; (2) God and Mortality; (3) The Land; (4) Exile; (5) Language and Poetry; (6) Philosophical Meditations. The anthology thus offers a microcosm of Unamuno's poetic world and should be useful to those who have little or no knowledge of him. It provides a way of learning something about the man and the writer through a part of his production that has received less attention than it deserves and which projects a significantly different image from the widespread view we have of him. The poems are preceded by a substantial introduction which explores the importance and relevance of Unamuno's poetry, his major themes, and his style.Table of Contents Introduction 1 Unamuno’s Poetic Production 1 Poetic Themes 7 The Translation 18 Editions of Unamuno’s Poetry 22 Select Bibliography 24 I Family And Home 1 Volviendo a casa / Returning Home 28 2 El hogar / Home 30 3 Dulce, silencioso pensamiento / Sweet, Silent Thought 32 4 Al niño enfermo / To the Sick Child 34 5 En la muerte de Concha / Upon the Death of Concha 38 6 En mi estudio / In my Study 40 7 El niño y el muñeco / The Child and the Doll 44 8 La presencia de Concha / Concha’s Presence 46 II God And Mortality 9 Silencios vacíos / Empty Silence 52 10 Para después de mi muerte / After I Cease to Be 54 11 Leyendo un libro vivo de un amigo muerto / Reading the Living Book of a Dead Friend 60 12 A la espera / Waiting 62 13 Ríos de mi vida / Rivers of my Life 64 14 Irrequietum cor / Restless Heart 66 15 La oración del ateo / The Atheist’s Prayer 68 16 Salmo II / Psalm II 70 III The Land 17 Salamanca / Salamanca 76 18 Tierra del Tormes / Land of the Tormes 80 19 Al Tormes / To the River Tormes 82 20 La peña de Francia / The Rock of France 84 21 El lago de San Martín / The Lake at San Martín 86 22 Medina de Rioseco / Medina de Rioseco 88 23 La voz de la campana / The Voice of the Bell 90 24 Portugal (i) / Portugal (i) 92 25 Portugal (ii) / Portugal (ii) 94 IV Exile 26 Mi otro sino / My Other Fate 98 27 Olas lejanas / Distant Waves 100 28 Betancuria / Betancuria 102 29 Fuerteventura / Fuerteventura 104 30 En el exilio / In Exile 106 31 Romances fronterizos / Frontier Ballads 108 32 Orhoit gutaz / Remember Us 110 33 El cementerio de Hendaya / The Cemetery at Hendaye 114 V Language and Poetry 34 Las caras de la poesía / The Faces of Poetry 120 35 La labor del poeta / The Task of the Poet 122 36 La palabra que vibra / The Vibrant Word 124 37 La palabra cruel / The Cruel Word 126 38 La palabra símbolo / The Word as Symbol 128 39 Non omnis moriar / Not All of Me Will Die 130 40 El nombre del Hombre / The Name of Man 132 41 Los hijos de silencio / The Children of Silence 134 VI Philosophical Meditations 42 Kant y la rana / Kant and the Frog 140 43 ¿Libres? / Are we Free? 144 44 Dios y la palabra / God and the Word 146 45 Entropía / Entropy 148 46 Las agujas del reloj / The Hands of the Clock 150 47 Filosofemas / Philosophemes 152 48 La última palabra de Hamlet / Hamlet’s Last Word 154 49 Anamnesis / Reminiscence 158 Conclusion 50 La muerte es sueño / Death is a Dream 162 Commentaries on the Poems 165
£109.50
University of Westminster Press The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical
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£16.71
University of Illinois Press Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the
Book SynopsisShattering the myth of the color-blind society, the essays in Skin Deep examine skin tone stratification in America, which affects relations not only among different races and ethnic groups but also among members of individual ethnicities. Written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on race and colorism, these essays ask whether skin tone differentiation is imposed upon communities of color from the outside or is an internally-driven process aided and abetted by community members themselves. They also question whether the stratification process is the same for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. Skin Deep addresses such issues as the relationship between skin tone and self esteem, marital patterns, interracial relationships, socioeconomic attainment, and family racial identity and composition. The essays also grapple with emerging issues such as biracialism, color-blind racism, and 21st century notions of race.
£19.79
The University of Michigan Press Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata
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£20.85
The University of Michigan Press Ozu's Anti-Cinema
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£18.95
The University of Michigan Press Shugendo: Essays on the Structure of Japanese
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£21.80
The University of Michigan Press A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s
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£18.00
The University of Michigan Press Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies
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£21.80
The University of Michigan Press Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Development of the Feminist Movement
£21.80
The University of Michigan Press Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce
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£21.80
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Espacio urbano, comunicación y violencia en
Book SynopsisEl tema de la violencia es connatural a la historia de América Latina y, por lo mismo, resulta inagotable en cualquiera de sus múltiples manifestaciones materiales y simbólicas, desde los orígenes coloniales hasta la actualidad. A nivel continental, la praxis y el discurso de la violencia pueden perseguirse desde la penetración de la depredación colonizadora con que América Latina es inscrita en el desarollo cultural de Occidente hasta llegar a las más recientes y sutiles formas asumidas por la violencia de Estado, pasando por las instancias de imposición de modelos culturales y económicos que el las distintas épocas impactaron radicalmente las culturas criollas y vernáculas. América Latina ha sufrido así, históricamente, las consecuencias de una violencia fundacional, que la condenara a una posición periférica con respecto a sistemas globales cuyos centros han difundido en sus correspondientes áreas de influencia, la ‘racionalidad’ de su propia reproducción cultural, política y económica. De esta manera, la trama social que resultara de la matriz colonialista registró desde el comienzo las huellas imborrables de la violencia que se manifestara tanto a nivel racial como económico, tanto en lo referido a las políticas de género como en lo relacionado con la distribución geocultural del poder, en todos sus niveles. Las ‘dolorosas repúblicas hispanoamericanas’ de que hablara Martí se han debatido desde entonces contra las formas naturalizadas de la violencia de la exclusión y el autoritarismo, la miseria interna y la depredación imperialista, la penetración cultural las intervenciones políticas, siempre amparadas en la retórica legitimadora que las clases dominantes esgrimieran en cada caso para perpetuar su poder. El presente volúmen que compila trabajos que fueran presentados y discutidos en la Segunda Conferencia Internacional de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos que se llevara a cabo en la Universidad de Pittsburgh en marzo del año 2000, tiene como foco principal una articulación específica en torno al tema de la violencia contemporánea: la que analiza los cruces y formas específicas en que la violencia se manifiesta teniendo como escenario principal los centros urbanos de América Latina, y las modalidades a partir de las cuales el fenómeno de la violencia es recogido y re-presentado por los medios de comunicación de masas, tanto como por la cultura popular, el arte, la literatura y otras formas de discurso letras y la ‘alta cultura’. ~ The theme of violence is natural to the history of Latin America and, therefore, it is endless in any of its multiple material and symbolic manifestations, from its colonial origins to the present. At a continental level, the praxis and discourse of violence can be traced back to the spread of the colonising voracity that conditioned Latin America within the cultural development of the West, followed by the most recent and subtle forms assumed by state violence, including the instances of imposition of cultural and economic models that, at the different times, radically impacted the Creole and vernacular cultures. Thus, Latin America has historically suffered the consequences of a founding violence which condemned it to a peripheral position in relation to global systems which centres have spread in their corresponding areas of influence, the 'rationality' of their own cultural, political and economic replication. In this way, the social fabric resulting from the colonialist matrix has recorded from the beginning the indelible traces of violence that are displayed both at racial and economic levels, both in terms of gender policies and in terms of the geocultural distribution of power, at all levels. The 'painful Spanish-American republics' of which Martí spoke, have since fought against the normalisation of the violence of exclusion and authoritarianism, the internal misery and imperialistic greed, the cultural colonisation and political actions always condoned by a legitimising rhetoric that the ruling classes wielded in every instance to perpetuate their power. This volume, which compiles papers that were presented and discussed at the Second International Conference on Latin American Cultural Studies to be held at the University of Pittsburgh in March 2000, has as its main focus a specific articulation around the topic of contemporary violence: it analyses the intersections and specific ways in which violence presents itself in the urban centres of Latin America as its main scenario, and the modalities from which the phenomenon of violence is recorded and represented by the mass media, as well as popular culture, art, literature and other forms of literary discourse and 'high culture'.
£35.00
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Fronteras de la modernidad en América Latina
Book SynopsisFronteras de la modernidad designa el espacio conceptual e historizador que reuniera en el III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Culturales de la Universidad de Pittsburgh realizado en marzo de 2002, una gran diversidad de investigadores que han llegado a reformular las premisas de los estudios culturales, las humanidades y las ciencies sociales en las últimas décadas. Un rasgo particular, común en esos debates, es la articulación de estrategias de descolonización del pensamiento de la modernidad, realizada sin expulsar ese concepto del horizonte teórico. Las más innovadoras posiciones críticas reclaman hoy la independencia epistemológica de lo que se solía llamar ‘periferia’ latinoamericana, usando las metáforas frontera y margen para desarrollar proyectos teóricos situados más allá —o más acá— de las dicotomías normativas de la modernidad. Pensamiento de búsqueda que se enfrenta a las agudas crisis producidas por la avanzada globalización a través de un constance sondeo crítico de sus herramientas analíticas y hermenéuticas. El congreso realizado en Pittsburgh logró reunir a los especialistas más renombrados y originales que hoy articulan la agenda teórica de los estudios culturales y las ciencias sociales en el ámbito del latinoamericanismo internacional. El foro contó con la participación de Renato Ortiz, Nicolás Casullo, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Tulio Halperín-Donghi, Bolívar Echevarria, John Kraniauskas, Francine Masiello, Adriana Rodríguez-Pérsico, Sylvia Molloy, Javier Sanjinés, Román de la Campa, José Manuel Valenzuela, Cynthia Steele, Renato Rosaldo, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Jens Andermann, Carlos Pereda, Enrique Dussel, Ernesto Laclau, Jesús Martín-Barbero, Diana Taylor, Carlos Monsiváis y Michael Taussig. El presente volúmen reúne los aportes de estos investigadores como contribución a los debates actuales, insertando en éstos propuestas provocadoras y profundas llamadas a influir de manera certera en la agenda teórica de las próximas décadas. ~ At the III International Congress of Cultural Studies of the University of Pittsburgh held in March 2002, Fronteras de la modernidad designated the conceptual and historicizing space that brought together a great diversity of researchers who reformulated the premises of cultural studies, humanities and social sciences in recent decades. A particular feature, common in these debates, is the articulation of strategies for the decolonization of thought in the modernidad (modern world), carried out while keeping this concept within the theoretical horizon. The most innovative critical positions today claim the epistemological independence of what used to be called the Latin American 'periphery', using the border and margin metaphors to develop theoretical projects located beyond —or closer to— the normative dichotomies of modernity. This line of inquiry faces the acute crises produced by advanced globalization through a constant critical survey of its analytical and hermeneutical tools. The congress held in Pittsburgh brought together the most renowned and original specialists who articulate the theoretical agenda of cultural studies and social sciences in the field of international Latin Americanism today. The forum included the participation of Renato Ortiz, Nicolás Casullo, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Tulio Halperín-Donghi, Bolívar Echevarria, John Kraniauskas, Francine Masiello, Adriana Rodríguez-Pérsico, Sylvia Molloy, Javier Sanjinés, Román de la Campa, José Manuel Valenzuela, Cynthia Steele, Renato Rosaldo, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Jens Andermann, Carlos Pereda, Enrique Dussel, Ernesto Laclau, Jesús Martín-Barbero, Diana Taylor, Carlos Monsiváis and Michael Taussig. This volume brings together the input of these researchers as a contribution to current debates, inserting into them provocative proposals which bound to strongly influence the theoretical agenda of the coming decades.
£35.00
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales
Book SynopsisLos estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en los programas de español y portugués en Estados Unidos los realizan profesores de diferentes generaciones, orígenes nacionales y momento de ingreso al sistema universitario. Proceden de múltiples tradiciones intelectuales y teóricas, los motivan múltiples preocupaciones estéticas y sociales. En Estados Unidos son incitados simultáneamente por las problemáticas locales y las latinoamericanas. ¿Qué balance logran como para apelar al interés de un estudiantado estadounidense crecientemente transnacionalizado, a la vez manteniendo la aspiración de que el conocimiento que produzcan también contribuya a las culturas latinoamericanas? ¿Tienen conciencia de la manera con que las generaciones anteriores enfrentaron estas cuestiones? ¿Qué relación hay con su práctica presente? Esta edición busca no sólo esbozar una memoria histórica sino también potenciar discusiones para animar proyecciones futuras, en un momento de colapso de tantas de las utopías que antes dinamizaron los estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas. ~ Latin American literary/cultural studies in Spanish and Portuguese programs in the United States are conducted by faculty members from different generations, different national origins, and varying times of entering the university system. They come from multiple intellectual and theoretical traditions and are motivated by multiple aesthetic and social concerns. In the United States they are prompted simultaneously by local and Latin American issues. What balance do they strike in order to appeal to the interest of an increasingly transnational US student body, while maintaining the hope that works they produce will also contribute to Latin American cultures? Are they aware of the way previous generations dealt with these issues? And how does it relate to their current practices? This edition seeks not only to outline a historical memory but also to foster discussions that encourage future creation of work at a time when so many of the utopias that previously energised Latin American literary/cultural studies are collapsing.
£43.30
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana México visto desde la literatura de su frontera
Book SynopsisEste estudio no busca enfatizar un “nosotros versus ellos” sino que explora la complejidad de las cuestiones que afectan el estado de las relaciones entre los mexicanos de la frontera norte y su centro, o entre México y los Estados Unidos. No se limita a revelar la existencia de afinidades y divergencias entre los individuos de la frontera, los chicanos, los latinos de EE.UU. y México, sino que busca ejemplificar el grado en que se manifiestan tales diferencias y similitudes en la diáspora mexicana, su literatura y su cultura. ~ This study does not seek to emphasize ‘us versus them’ but rather explore the complexity of the issues that affect the state of relations between Mexicans on the northern border and its center, or between Mexico and the United States. It is not limited to revealing the existence of affinities and divergences between individuals from the border, Chicanos, Latinos from the US and Mexico, but seeks to exemplify the degree to which such differences and similarities are manifested in the Mexican diaspora, its literature and culture.
£35.00
Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies Being in North Korea
Book SynopsisIn 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits later, Being in North Korea tells the story of his experiences helping set up and run Choson Exchange, a non-profit that teaches North Koreans about entrepreneurship and economic policy.Abrahamian was provided a unique vantage into life in North Korea that belies stereotypes rampant in the media, revealing instead North Koreans as individuals ranging from true believers in the system to cynics wishing the Stalinist experiment would just end; from introverts to bubbly chatterboxes, optimists to pessimists. He sees a North Korea that is changing, invalidating some assumptions held in the West, but perhaps reinforcing others.Amid his stories of coping with the North Korean system, of the foreigners who frequent Pyongyang, and of everyday relationships, Abrahamian explores the challenges of teaching the inherently political subject of economics in a system where everyone must self-regulate their own minds; he looks at the role of women in the North Korean economy, and their exclusion from leadership; and he discusses how information is restricted, propaganda is distributed and internalized, and even how Pyongyang’s nominally illicit property market functions. Along with these stories, he interweaves the historical events that have led to today’s North Korea.Drawing on the breadth of the author’s in-country experience, Being in North Korea combines the intellectual rigor of a scholar with a writing style that will appeal to a general audience. Through the personal elements of a memoir that provide insights into North Korean society, readers will come away with a more realistic picture of the country and its people, and a better idea of what the future may hold for the nation.
£17.06
Documentary Media LLC Revolution to Evolution: The Story of the Office
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£33.36
Cornell University Press Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader
Book SynopsisTosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka.
£999.99
University of Guam Press A Marianas Mosaic: Signs and Shifts in
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£68.00
Stephen F. Austin State University Press As Good As Mango
Book SynopsisAs Good as Mango is a journey told in the sensual language of blues and jazz. It moves from the landscape of colonial Africa into the colonial American South, and into the present. The hauntings of the past come alive with echoes of unclaimed history. The poems in this collection simultaneously affirm and inspect black identity - and identity in general. These are the poems of the bitter/sweet taste on the tongues of exiles searching for home.
£14.36
2Leaf Press The Beiging of America – Personal Narratives
Book SynopsisTHE BEIGING OF AMERICA, BEING MIXED RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, takes on "race matters" and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States. Edited by mixed-race scholars Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, this collection consists of 39 poets, writers, teachers, professors, artists and activists, whose personal narratives articulate the complexities of interracial life. THE BEIGING OF AMERICA was prompted by cultural critic/scholar Hua Hsu, who contemplated the changing face and race of U.S. demographics in his 2009 The Atlantic article provocatively titled "The End of White America." In it, Hsu acknowledged "steadily ascending rates of interracial marriage" that undergirded assertions about the "beiging of America." THE BEIGING OF AMERICA is an absorbing and thought-provoking collection of stories that explore racial identity, alienation, with people often forced to choose between races and cultures in their search for self-identity. While underscoring the complexity of the mixed-race experience, these unadorned voices offer a genuine, poignant, enlightening and empowering message to all readers.
£19.00
University of Nevada Press Possible Paradises: Basque Emigration to Latin America
Book SynopsisFrom Columbus's first voyage to "the Indies" in 1492, Basques participated in Spain's American enterprise. Supported by centuries of experience as mariners, shipbuilders, traders, miners, and ironworkers; encouraged toward emigration by restrictive inheritance laws and a land-poor territory; and conditioned by a culture that prized hard work and social solidarity, the Basques were poised to play a significant role in the exploration and development of the New World. The first Basques arrived with Columbus, and well into the twentieth century they continued to arrive seeking livelihood and refuge.Possible Paradises, José Manuel Azcona Pastor's engaging and meticulously researched study of Basque emigration to the Americas, is a path breaking work of monumental importance. Ranging over the entire former Spanish American empire from Tierra del Fuego to the U.S. Southwest and covering over five centuries of history, Azcona examines the roles and fates of the Basques who came to the New World. He also studies the impact of the New World on the Basque Country, from the importance in the modern Basque diet of such American foodstuffs as corn and beans to the encouragement given to traditional Basque industries by the colonizers' demand for ships and iron tools. He considers the role of Basques in the Spanish imperial expeditions of exploration and conquest; their participation in transatlantic commerce and communication.The Basque diaspora, although worldwide in dimension, has had its greatest presence and importance in the Americas. Azcona's pioneering study views the Basque presence in the New World through the broadest possible lens, linking Basque communities and activities from Argentina to the North American West.Foreword by William A. Douglass. Translation by Roland Vazquez.Trade ReviewAzcona Pastor gives an excellent and anecdotally detailed description of the activities of Basque individuals in the colonization period of Latin America....This publication will be especially useful to students of history and a must-read for beginning specialists in Basque involvement in Latin America."" - Journal of Contemporary European Studies""Azcona Pastor's use of archival and contemporary published materials lends fascinating detail to the narrative."" - The International History Review
£29.21
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Paris in America – A Deaf Nanticoke Shoemaker and
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£27.00
University of Cincinnati Press Across the Color Line – Reporting 25 Years in
Book SynopsisAcross the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati presents newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte’s stories published in The Cincinnati Enquirer over a twenty-five-year period beginning in 1993. With hard-won insights gained from years of community reporting, Curnutte describes experiences of African-Americans living in Cincinnati through individual and neighborhood profiles, explorations of community institutions, historical perspectives, and issue stories. The anthology tells a sweeping narrative of a city suffering and maturing through turn-of-the-century racial growing pains and increased racial sophistication and diversity. These stories are complimented by excerpts from Curnutte’s personal journal, providing his reflection on his role as a white man and reporter making the intentional decision to work and live across the color line.
£25.65
University of Cincinnati Press Surviving the Americas – Garifuna Persistence
Book SynopsisThe Garifuna are a Central American, Afro-Indigenous people descended from shipwrecked West Africans and local Indigenous groups on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. For over two centuries, the Garifuna have experienced oppression, exile, and continued diaspora that has stretched their communities to Honduras, Belize, and beyond. However, little has been written about the experiences of the Garifuna in Nicaragua, a community of about 5,000 who live primarily on the Caribbean coast of the country. In Surviving the Americas, Serena Cosgrove, José Idiáquez, Leonard Joseph Bent, and Andrew Gorvetzian shed light on what it means to be Garifuna today, particularly in Nicaragua. Their research includes over nine months of fieldwork in Garifuna communities in the Pearl Lagoon on the southern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and in New York City. The resulting ethnography illustrates the unique social issues of the Nicaraguan Garifuna and how their culture, traditions, and reverence for their ancestors continues to persist.Trade ReviewSurviving the Americas is a vivid and intimate account of the Nicaraguan Garifuna. The activist commitments and collaborative nature of the work as well as its decolonial lens provide keen insights into the persistence of this under-acknowledged Afro-Indigenous community in the Garifuna and African Diasporas. * Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics, Michigan State University *Beautifully written… contextualized, and nice integration of academic sources and Garifuna voices. * Sarah England, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Soka University of America *Ethnographically rich! Surviving the Americas intervenes to decolonize Garifuna ethnography by attending to critical discussions of indigeneity, intersectionality, and resilience. * Keri Vacanti Brondo, Professor of Anthropology, University of Memphis *"Surviving the Americas is a welcome addition to the literature on Garifuna and Indigenous and Afro descendant Central America. Garifuna in Nicaragua have received little attention in the literature, and the book helps us understand both the diversity of Garifuna communities in Central America and the social and political conditions confronting Garifuna in different nation-states. It is well suited to course adaption in introductory or advanced courses in anthropology, Indigenous studies, or Central American studies. Clearly written and accessible to non-specialists, it provides a compelling account of cultural persistence under neocolonial structures that produce displacement, highlighting how 'those routes that so often take people away from communities while allowing exogenous forces in can also prove to be sources of new hope for resilience.'" * New West Indian Guide *
£31.00
University of Cincinnati Press Jim Crow Sociology – The Black and Southern Roots
Book SynopsisJim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology is an extraordinary new volume that examines the origin, development, and significance of Black Sociology through the accomplishments of early African American sociologists at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) such as Atlanta University, Tuskegee Institute, Fisk University, and Howard University. Black Sociology is a concept that weaponizes the discipline for that which is “right and good” and prioritizes scholar-activist inspired research directed at impacting real world conditions of African Americans. Guided by this approach, this book debunks the idea that the sociology practiced by early African Americans does not exemplify scholarly excellence. Instead, Earl Wright demonstrates that Tuskegee Institute, under the leadership of Booker T. Washington, established the first applied program of rural sociology. Fisk University, first under the guidance of George Edmund Haynes then Charles S. Johnson, developed one of the earliest and most impactful programs of applied urban sociology. Wright extends our understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Atlanta Sociological Laboratory with an articulation of the contributions of women to the first American school of sociology. Jim Crow Sociology forces contemporary scholars to grapple with who are and who are not included in the disciplinary canon. Specifically, this book forces us to ask why early African American sociologists and HBCUs are not canonized. What makes this book most consequential is that it provides evidence supporting the proposition that sociology began in earnest in the United States as a Black and southern enterprise.
£38.00
University of Nevada Press Home Away From Home: A History Of Basque
Book SynopsisIn this meticulously researched study of Basque boardinghouses in the United States, Jeronima Echeverria offers a compelling history of the institution that most deeply shaped Basque immigrant life and served as the center of Basque communities throughout the West. She weaves into her narrative the stories of the boarding house owners and operators and the ways they made their establishments a home away from home for their fellow compatriots, as well as the stories of the young Basques who left the security of their beloved homeland to find work in the United States.
£28.46
West Virginia University Press The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
£74.25
West Virginia University Press The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in
Book SynopsisA personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky's coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William Turner. Turner reconstructs Black life in the company towns in and around Harlan County during coal's final postwar boom years, which built toward an enduring bust as the children of Black miners, like the author, left the region in search of better opportunities.The Harlan Renaissance invites readers into what might be an unfamiliar Appalachia: one studded by large and vibrant Black communities, where families took the pulse of the nation through magazines like Jet and Ebony and through the news that traveled within Black churches, schools, and restaurants. Difficult choices for the future were made as parents considered the unpredictable nature of Appalachia's economic realities alongside the unpredictable nature of a national movement toward civil rights.Unfolding through layers of sociological insight and oral history, The Harlan Renaissance centers the sympathetic perspectives and critical eye of a master narrator of Black life.Table of Contents Foreword by Loyal Jones Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Alex Haley—The Taproot 2. Between Alex Haley, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ed Cabbell, and the Affrilachian Poets 3. Black Mountain Mantrips and Woman Trips 4. What's in a Name? 5. Black Folk Done Lost Their Stuff 6. The Common Narrative of Black Appalachian Coal-Camp Families 7. Blacks Moving between Central Alabama and Central Appalachia 8. Close-Knit Central Appalachian Coal-Camp Black Communities 9. On Trash-Talking and Signifying along Looney Creek 10. In a Coal Mine, Everybody Is Black; Outside, Not So Much 11. School Integration Was Worse than a Kick in the Head by an Alabama Mule 12. The Principal of the White School Became a Lifelong Friend 13. Not Bad for Some Colored Kids from Harlan County, Kentucky 14. King Coal Leaves the Throne 15. The Graying of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club 16. Meditating on the Future at the Mountaintop Notes Index
£21.56
University of North Texas Press Fiestas in Laredo Volume 30: Matachines,
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£25.20
Rutgers University Press A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the
Book SynopsisA Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumented Mexican population in New York City since September 11, 2001. Inspired by a dialogue between the landmark works of Paul Gilroy and Gloria Anzaldúa, it develops a new analytic framework, the Atlantic Borderlands, which bridges Mexican diasporic experiences in New York City and the black diaspora, not as a comparison but in recognition that colonialism, interracial and interethnic contact through trade, migration, and slavery are connected via capitalist economies and technological developments. This book is based on ten years of fieldwork in New York City, with members of a vibrant community of young Mexican migrants who coexist and interact with people from all over the world. It focuses on youth culture including hip hop, graffiti, muralism, labor activism, arts entrepreneurship and collective making. Trade Review“A Mexican State of Mind presents a refreshing look into the creative voices emerging from Mexican New York where these unique experiences are shaping our new imaginaries of young Mexican immigrants.” -- José Higuera López * Deputy Director, Mexican Studies Institute at The City University of New York *"This is the book we have been waiting to fully understand the textured lives of the fastest growing group at the heart of New York City’s Latinization and exactly what we need to expand notions of art, creativity and creative work. Castillo-Planas challenges the reduction of migrants to laborers and workers in the national imaginary by exploring their creative lives, dreams and aspirations and their counterculture and artistic endeavors that are not only shaping Mexican art worlds, but also those of New York City and beyond. The result is a beautiful and inspiring book about the generative power of art in the lives of Mexicans, migrants, Latinxs and all New Yorkers." -- Arlene Dávila * author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City *"A MexicanState of Mind is the most innovative, and one of the most brilliant books on immigration I have read in the last ten years. Based on field work and personal relationships with young Mexican musicians and visual artists, buttressed by meticulous research on Mexican migration to the US, the author replaces common images of Mexican immigrants as passive, silent, and easily victimized with powerful portraits of Mexican youth in New York City as makers of their own history who transform challenging circumstances and create vibrant spaces through the arts. Like the greatest works in my own field, African American History, A Mexican State of Mind rescues the agency of a marginalized and stigmatized group by allowing their voices to be heard and the institutions they create, some of them underground, to be seen and understood." -- Mark Naison * author of Communists in Harlem During the Depression, White Boy: A Memoir and Before the Fires *"Combatting the Erasure of Mexican Immigrants in New York," by Beth Harpaz https://sum.cuny.edu/combatting-the-erasure-of-mexican-immigrants-in-new-york-city/ * SUM *"A Mexican State of Mind is a book for enthusiasts of Mexican studies, Latinx studies, as well as migration studies. The book is also of value to cultural historians, scholars of music and the visual arts." * Gotham Center Blog *Table of ContentsContents Preface: A Mexican State of Mind: Mexican Migrant Creativity in New York City Note on the Text Introduction: Mexican Manzana: The Next Great Migration Part I The Container: It’s the Intermediary That Fucks You 1 “Sólo Queremos el Respeto”: Racialization of Labor in the New York Restaurant Industry 2 Hermandad, Arte y Rebeldía: Art Collectives and Entrepreneurship in Mexican New York Part II The Atlantic Borderlands: “Un movimiento joven, pero con mucho corazón” 3 “Yo Soy Hip Hop”: Mexicanidad and Authenticity in Mexican New York 4 "Dejamos una huella”: Graffiti and Space Claiming in a New Borderlands Epilogue: Hauntings and Nightmares: The Visible Border and the Invisible Migrant in a Trump Era Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£27.20
Rutgers University Press A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the
Book SynopsisA Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumented Mexican population in New York City since September 11, 2001. Inspired by a dialogue between the landmark works of Paul Gilroy and Gloria Anzaldúa, it develops a new analytic framework, the Atlantic Borderlands, which bridges Mexican diasporic experiences in New York City and the black diaspora, not as a comparison but in recognition that colonialism, interracial and interethnic contact through trade, migration, and slavery are connected via capitalist economies and technological developments. This book is based on ten years of fieldwork in New York City, with members of a vibrant community of young Mexican migrants who coexist and interact with people from all over the world. It focuses on youth culture including hip hop, graffiti, muralism, labor activism, arts entrepreneurship and collective making. Trade Review“A Mexican State of Mind presents a refreshing look into the creative voices emerging from Mexican New York where these unique experiences are shaping our new imaginaries of young Mexican immigrants.” -- José Higuera López * Deputy Director, Mexican Studies Institute at The City University of New York *"This is the book we have been waiting to fully understand the textured lives of the fastest growing group at the heart of New York City’s Latinization and exactly what we need to expand notions of art, creativity and creative work. Castillo-Planas challenges the reduction of migrants to laborers and workers in the national imaginary by exploring their creative lives, dreams and aspirations and their counterculture and artistic endeavors that are not only shaping Mexican art worlds, but also those of New York City and beyond. The result is a beautiful and inspiring book about the generative power of art in the lives of Mexicans, migrants, Latinxs and all New Yorkers." -- Arlene Dávila * author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City *"A MexicanState of Mind is the most innovative, and one of the most brilliant books on immigration I have read in the last ten years. Based on field work and personal relationships with young Mexican musicians and visual artists, buttressed by meticulous research on Mexican migration to the US, the author replaces common images of Mexican immigrants as passive, silent, and easily victimized with powerful portraits of Mexican youth in New York City as makers of their own history who transform challenging circumstances and create vibrant spaces through the arts. Like the greatest works in my own field, African American History, A Mexican State of Mind rescues the agency of a marginalized and stigmatized group by allowing their voices to be heard and the institutions they create, some of them underground, to be seen and understood." -- Mark Naison * author of Communists in Harlem During the Depression, White Boy: A Memoir and Before the Fires *"Combatting the Erasure of Mexican Immigrants in New York," by Beth Harpaz https://sum.cuny.edu/combatting-the-erasure-of-mexican-immigrants-in-new-york-city/ * SUM *"A Mexican State of Mind is a book for enthusiasts of Mexican studies, Latinx studies, as well as migration studies. The book is also of value to cultural historians, scholars of music and the visual arts." * Gotham Center Blog *Table of ContentsContents Preface: A Mexican State of Mind: Mexican Migrant Creativity in New York City Note on the Text Introduction: Mexican Manzana: The Next Great Migration Part I The Container: It’s the Intermediary That Fucks You 1 “Sólo Queremos el Respeto”: Racialization of Labor in the New York Restaurant Industry 2 Hermandad, Arte y Rebeldía: Art Collectives and Entrepreneurship in Mexican New York Part II The Atlantic Borderlands: “Un movimiento joven, pero con mucho corazón” 3 “Yo Soy Hip Hop”: Mexicanidad and Authenticity in Mexican New York 4 "Dejamos una huella”: Graffiti and Space Claiming in a New Borderlands Epilogue: Hauntings and Nightmares: The Visible Border and the Invisible Migrant in a Trump Era Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£55.25
Rutgers University Press At Translation's Edge
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and education among others. For the contributors to this volume, translation is understood in its most expansive, transdisciplinary sense: translation as exchange, migration, and mobility, including cross-cultural communication and media circulation. Whether exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or silent film intertitles, this volume brings together the work of scholars aiming to address the edges of Translation Studies while engaging with major and minor languages, colonial and post-colonial studies, feminism and disability studies, and theories of globalization and empire.Trade Review"Readers tired of nervous calls for clear disciplinary borders around Translation Studies will rejoice at this book, written half by translation scholars living on various knife edges of the discipline, half by people the editors call 'disciplinary neighbors, commuters, for whom questions raised in and by translation serve to queer, as it were, their professional working terrain.' Call me fractious, or fractal, but it’s always seemed to me that we all live at the edge of translation, always, and shouldn’t pretend otherwise." -- Douglas Robinson * author of Critical Translation Studies *"At Translation’s Edge is an exciting, innovative and engaging volume which demonstrates the truly subversive potential of translation in the contemporary moment. Ranging across languages, historical periods and technologies, At Translation’s Edge shows how time and again translation disrupts normative thinking about language, writing and politics. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about the democratic future of our multilingual planet." -- Michael Cronin * author of Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: At Translation’s Edge - Nataša Ďurovičová and Patrice PetroPart I Translation’s Disciplines Chapter 1 The Eventfulness of Translation: Temporality, Difference, and Competing Universals - Lydia H. Liu Chapter 2 The Translation of Process - John Cayley Chapter 3 Who’s It For: Towards a Rhetoric of Translation - Russell Scott ValentinoPart II Translation at the Limits of Nation-State Chapter 4 Translation and Image: On the Schematism of Co-figuration - Naoki Sakai Chapter 5 Bute Droma-Many Roads: Romani Resilience and Translation in Contact with the World - Deborah Folaron Chapter 6 Ezhi-gikendamang Aanikanootamang Anishinaabemowin: Anishinaabe Translation Studies - Margaret A. Noodin Chapter 7 “If you Could Only Understand My Language”: Counterfeit Script, Make-believe Translation, and the Actor-Spectator Complicity in The Toll of the Sea (1922), Mr. Wu (1927) and Hollywood Party (1937) - Yiman WangPart III Translation’s Practices & Politics Chapter 8 Perspectives on the History of Translation in Latin America - Martha Pulido (Lorena Terando, Trans.) Chapter 9 From Interpreting to Colloquial Translations: Tools Indispensible to Literary Creation - Olga Behar (Lorena Terando, Trans.) Chapter 10 Language, Policy, and Dis/ability in Senegal, West Africa - Elizabeth R. Drame Chapter 11 The Translator in the Text - Suzanne Jill Levine Notes on Contributors Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin
Book SynopsisThis is the first book that examines how “ethnic spectacle” in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural Cold War at three historic junctures: the Korean War in 1950, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the statehood of Hawaii in 1959. As a means to strengthen U.S. internationalism and in an effort to combat the growing influence of communism, television variety shows, such as The Xavier Cugat Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Chevy Show, were envisioned as early forms of global television. Beyond the Black and White TV examines the intimate moments of cultural interactions between the white hosts and the ethnic guests to illustrate U.S. aspirations for global power through the medium of television. These depictions of racial harmony aimed to shape a new perception of the United States as an exemplary nation of democracy, equality, and globalism.Trade Review"Fascinating, compelling, and important, Beyond the Black and White TV demonstrates how government objectives were married with the goals of television productions to display migration, integration, and global imagination in order to control discourses of race and nation.This work reframes television history through the lens of variety shows by engaging with race from an industry perspective, informing readers how race factored into the production of genre and national identity." -- L.S. Kim * associate professor, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz *"Benjamin M. Han illuminates the secret history of the American variety show, deftly revealing the cosmopolitan roots of a familiar TV format. A major contribution to the cultural history of the Cold War." -- Christina Klein * author of Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema *"Beyond the Black and White TV makes a convincing and timely argument that the history of Asian and Latin American media representation is the history of anticommunism [and] serves as a warning to critically examine such media representation as more than merely evidence of America’s racial liberalism but also as an instrument for its political interests." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"The Cold War has been studied by many, but this is the first book that does so by looking at how the “ethnic spectacle” helped the United States in winning the cultural Cold War." * Journal of Popular Culture *"This book illustrates the process by which various races coexist to construct a state and how television programs are used to form national identity… Readers tired of examining the Cold War only in the context of international politics will enjoy understanding the conflict through various experiences of racial diversity and ambiguity." -- Wonjung Min * Asian Communication Research *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Narratives of Integration: Ethnic Spectacle and Las Vegas 2 Narratives of Exchange: Asian/ American Performers after the Korean War 3 Narratives of Partnership: Latin American Entertainers in the Post-Cuban Revolution 4 Narratives of Co-Existence: Pacific Islanders and the Statehood of Hawaii’i Epilogue Epilogue Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical
Book SynopsisWinner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers—Aryans—from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines—drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of “modern scholarship.” This volume is the second in a three-part series concerned with the competition between two historical models for the origins of Greek civilization. Volume II is concerned with the archaeological and documentary evidence for contacts between Egypt and the Levant on the one hand, and the Aegean on the other, during the Bronze Age from c. 34000 BC to c. 1100 BC. These approaches are supplemented by information from later Greek myths, legends, religious cults, and language. The author concludes that contact between the two regions was far more extensive and influential than is generally believed. In the introduction to this volume, Bernal also responds to some reviews and criticism of Volume I of Black Athena. Trade Review"Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history." -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa, Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * Newsweek *Table of Contents\Preface and Acknowledgements Transcription and Phonetics Chronological Tables Introduction Intrinsic reasons for preferring the Revised Ancient Model to the Aryan one Some theoretical considerations A summary of the argument Chapter I Crete before the palaces, 7000–2100 bc The ‘diffusionist’ and ‘isolationist’ debate Crete before the 21st century bc Cretan religion in the Early Bronze Age Conclusion Chapter II Egypt’s influence on Boiotia and the peloponnese in the 3rd millennium, I The cultic, mythical and legendary evidence Semelē and Alkmēnē Athena and Athens in Boiotia: The cults of Athena Itōnia and Athena Alalkomena Nēit, the controller of water The battles between Nēit and Seth, Athena and Poseidon Poseidon / Seth Nēit / Athena and Nephthys / Erinys Herakles Conclusion Chapter III Egypt’s influence on Boiotia and the peloponnese in the 3rd millennium, II The archaeological evidence Spartan archaeology: the tomb of Alkmēnē The tomb of Amphion and Zēthos The draining of the Kopais Granaries Irrigation and settlement in the Argolid Drainage and irrigation in Arkadia Parallels between Boiotian and Arkadian place names Social and political structures in Early Helladic Greece Other archaeological traces of Old Kingdom Egypt in the Aegean The end of Early Bronze Age ‘high’ civilization Conclusion Chapter IV The Old Palace Period in Crete and the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, 2100 to 1730 bc Early Minoan III – the Prepalatial Period Lead and spirals The Cretan palaces Crètan writing systems Cultic symbols in Early Palatial Crete Possible Anatolian origins of the bull cult Thunder and sex: Min, Pan and Bwäzä Min and Minos The case against Egyptian influence Mont and Rhadamanthys The survival of the bull cult — Cretan conservatism Conclusion Chapter V Sesōstris, I The archaeological and documentary evidence for the Greek accounts of his conquest The discovery of the Mit Rahina inscription The significance of the inscription as evidence for an Egyptian empire in Asia during the Middle Kingdom Senwosre and Sesōstris The real and the fantastic in the Sesōstris stories Middle Kingdom Egypt’s military capability The background Archaeological evidence for the campaigns Was Sesōstris the destroyer? Sesōstris in Thrace and Scythia? Sesōstris in Colchis? The evidence for Sesōstris’ ‘conquests’ from the Mit Rahina inscription Conclusion Chapter VI Sesōstris, II The cultic, mythical and legendary evidence The Egyptian tradition The traditions of the Levant and Anatolia Thrace and Scythia Colchis: an Egyptian colony? Mesopotamia and Iran The Greek legends of Memnōn and his conquests of Anatolia The case for an Egyptian conquest of Troy c. 1900 bc Sesōstris / Senwosre and Amenemḥ’s conquests: a summary of the evidence Chapter VII The Thera eruption: from the Aegean to China The controversy over dating The eruption re-dated The implications of the re-dating Thera and Kalliste Volcanic allusions in the Exodus story Membliaros and the pall of darkness The myth of Atlantis The Hekla eruption in Iceland China: the historiographical impact The world-wide impact of the Thera eruption Conclusion Chapter VIII The Hyksos The chronology of the 13th Dynasty: chaos in Egypt The chronology of the 15th Dynasty: the beginnings of Hyksos rule The Hyksos capital at Tell el Daba’a The 400-year stela and the Temple of Seth A chronological summary Who were the Hyksos? Different views on the origin and the arrival of the Hyksos The Hyksos as a multinational corporation Horses and chariots: Hurrians and Aryans Hurrians and Hyksos Hyksos material culture The Hyksos and the biblical captivity or sojourn in Egypt Conclusion Chapter IX Crete, Thera and the birth of Mycenaean culture in the i8th and 17th centuries bc A Hyksos invasion? The Cretan new palaces The weapons of Crete in MMIII The flying gallop, the sphinx and the griffin Was there a Hyksos invasion of Crete c. 1730 bc? The Hyksos in Thera? The origins of Mycenaean civilization The Aryanist Model of invasion Between Aryan and Ancient: Frank Stubbings Conclusion: a revision of the Ancient Model Chapter X Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Levantine contacts with the Aegean The documentary evidence Egyptian place names referring to the Aegean The etymology of Danaan Documentary evidence for Egyptian relations with the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age Accuracy and hybridism in Egyptian inscriptions and tomb paintings Why did Cretan princes bring tribute to Egypt? Dating the Mycenaean domination of Crete Crete and Mycenaean missions to Egypt The statue base of Amenōphis III Contacts between Egypt and the Aegean in the late 18th and 19th Dynasties A summary of the evidence from Egyptian documents and paintings Mesopotamian and Ugaritic documents Aegean documents Conclusion Chapter XI Egyptian and Levantine contacts with the Aegean, 1550–1250 bc The archaeological evidence Late Mycenaean Greece The relative isolation of the Aegean 1550–1470 bc Egyptian expansion from c. 1520 to 1420 Pelops and the Achaians: evidence from Anatolia Pelops ‘the crown prince’? The Achaians and the Danaans Archaeological traces of the Achaians Mycenaeans and Hittites Ugarit and Cyprus Mycenaean expansion and the conquests of Tuthmōsis III The merchants of the Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age? The Kaş shipwreck: the sailors The Egyptian Thebes and Mycenae, 1420–1370 bc The foundation deposit plaques The vocabulary of trade The decline of Egyptian influence on the Aegean 1370–1220 bc Phi and Psi figurines and smiting gods Canaanite jars Ivory Conclusion Chapter XII The heroic end to the heroic age The fall of Thebes, Troy and Mycenae 1250–1150 bc Cylinder seals The Boiotian Thebes and the Phoenicians’ arrival Ancient chronographies Kadmos and the alphabet Kadmos and Danaos: Hyksos rulers Problems in the writing of Linear B The treasure of the Kadmeion The Kassite connection The destruction of Thebes A brief survey of Trojan history The date of the Trojan War Thebes and Troy The collapse of Mycenaean civilization Conclusion Conclusion Maps and Charts Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical
Book SynopsisWinner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers—Aryans—from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of ancient Greece. Bernal shows how nearly 40 percent of the Greek vocabulary has been plausibly derived from two Afroasiatic languages – Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic. He also reveals how these derivations are not limited to matters of trade, but extended to the sophisticated language of politics, religion, and philosophy. This evidence, according to Bernal, greatly strengthens the hypothesis that in Greece an Indo-European-speaking population was culturally dominated by Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic speakers. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this volume caps a thoughtful rewriting of history that has been stirring academic and political controversy since the publication of the first volume.Trade ReviewMartin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history. -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa,Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * New Republic *Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments Transcriptions and Phonetics Maps and Charts INTRODUCTION The previous volumes and their reception “Classics has been misunderstood” Anathema from a G.O.M. Outline of Volume 3 Chapter 1 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND THE IMAGE OF ANCIENT GREEK Nineteenth-century romantic linguistics: The tree and the family Saussure and the twentieth-century epigones of nineteenth-century Indo-European studies Ramification or interlacing Chapter 2 THE “NOSTRATIC” AND “EUROASIATIC” HYPERAND SUPER-FAMILIES Nostratic and Eurasiatic Archaeological evidence for the origin of Nostratic and Euroasiatic Gordon Childe and Colin Renfrew Language and genetics Conclusion Chapter 3 AFROASIATIC, EGYPTIAN AND SEMITIC The origins of African languages and the development of agriculture in Africa The origins and spread of Afroasiatic Conclusion Chapter 4 THE ORIGINS OF INDO-HITTITE AND INDOEUROPEAN AND THEIR CONTACTS WITH OTHER LANGUAGES The origins and diffusion of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European Loans from other languages into PIH Development of an Indo-European gender system based on sex Conclusion Chapter 5 THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 1, PHONOLOGY Greek: Result of a linguistic shift or of language contact? The elements of the Greek linguistic amalgam The phonologies of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European Phonological developments from PIE to Greek Conclusion Chapter 6 THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 2, MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTICAL DEVELOPMENTS Morphology Syntax Summary on syntactical changes Conclusion Chapter 7 THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 3, LEXICON Introduction The study of lexical borrowings Ancient Greeks’ sense of lexical borrowing Loans from Afroasiatic into Greek and into Albanian or Armenian Conclusion Chapter 8 PHONETIC DEVELOPMENTS IN EGYPTIAN, WEST SEMITIC AND GREEK OVER THE LAST THREE MILLENNIA BCE, AS REFLECTED IN LEXICAL BORROWINGS Introduction Semitic Egyptian Conclusion Chapter 9 GREEK BORROWINGS FROM EGYPTIAN PREFIXES, INCLUDING THE DEFINITE ARTICLES Introduction Greek Borrowings from Egyptian definite article prefixes The Egyptian word pr “house, temple, palace” R- “entry” or local prefix (R)dˆt, “causal prefix” Greek borrowings from Egyptian verbs beginning with dˆ(t)- Conclusion Chapter 10 MAJOR EGYPTIAN TERMS IN GREEK: PART 1 1. Ntr/KÅ 2. OEnΔ 3. M(w)dw, mu'qo" 4. SbÅ 5. Dr, R-dr, drw 6. ÷Mwr,MÅOEt, Moi'ra, Meivromai and MmÅOEt, Ma 7. Ôpr Conclusion Chapter 11 MAJOR EGYPTIAN TERMS IN GREEK: PART 2 nfr (w)/ms nfr/ms Conclusion CONTENTS Chapter 12 SIXTEEN MINOR ROOTS Introduction CONCLUSION Chapter 13 SEMITIC SIBILANTS Introduction Loans of sibilants from Canaanite into Greek Lateral fricatives Sheltered /s/ sC /s/ before consonants Conclusion Chapter 14 MORE SEMITIC LOANS INTO GREEK Introduction Conclusion Chapter 15 SOME EGYPTIAN AND SEMITIC SEMANTIC CLUSTERS IN GREEK Nature and agriculture Cooking Medicine Conclusion Chapter 16 SEMANTIC CLUSTERS: WARFARE, HUNTING AND SHIPPING Weapons, warfare and hunting Shipping Chapter 17 SEMANTIC CLUSTERS: SOCIETY, POLITICS, LAW AND ABSTRACTION Introduction Society Politics Law and order Abstraction Chapter 18 RELIGIOUS TERMINOLOGY Structures Personnel Cult objects Rituals Sacrifices Incense, flowers, scents Aura Mysteries Conclusion Chapter 19 DIVINE NAMES: GODS, MYTHICAL CREATURES, HEROES Introduction: Gods Ôpr, “become” Ôprr, Apollo, Askle\pios, Python and Delphi Apollo the “Aryan” Was Apollo a sun god before the fifth century? Twins, Apollo and Artemis Other Olympians Zeus Nsw Other gods Herodotos’ non-Egyptian divine names Demigods Mythical creatures Some heroes Conclusion Chapter 20 GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES AND PLACE-NAMES Introduction Natural features City names Conclusion Chapter 21 SPARTA Introduction Sparta: *sper and SpÅt Anubis, Hermes and Sparta “Late” borrowings and Lykurgos Lakonian terminology Egyptian? Sparta and death Spartans and Jews Chapter 22 ATHENA AND ATHENS Introduction Summary of the chapter Armor and equipment Athena and her victims Athens as a colony from Sais? Summary of the cultic evidence Etymology of names H˘t ntr (nt) Nt Athe\na(ia) Conclusion CONCLUSION Notes Glossary Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies Letter Correspondences Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Chinatown Film Culture: The Appearance of Cinema
Book SynopsisChinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Working with materials previously left in the margins of grand narratives of history, Kim K. Fahlstedt uncovers the complexity of a local entertainment culture that offered spaces where marginalized Chinese Americans experienced and participated in local iterations of modernity. At the same time, this space also fostered a powerful Orientalist aesthetic that would eventually be exported to Hollywood by San Francisco showmen such as Sid Grauman. Instead of primarily focusing on the screen-spectator relationship, Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street to inside the movie theater. By highlighting San Francisco and Chinatown as featured participants rather than bit players, Chinatown Film Culture provides an historical account from the margins, alternative to the more dominant narratives of U.S. film history.Trade Review"Chinatown Film Culture is an impressive and exhaustively researched history of early film exhibition practices and filmgoing culture in San Francisco's Chinatown. It is a remarkable contribution to film history!" -- Philippa Gates * author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film *"Original and compelling, Chinatown Film Culture fills a significant gap in cinema history. Drawing on fascinating and highly illustrative primary sources, Kim K. Fahlstedt explores the place of Asian American communities in the emergence of cinematic modernity in the United States." -- Zhang Zhen * editor of The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction Part I: Early Film in San Francisco 1. Bold Visions and Frontier Conditions – The Emergence of Film in San Francisco 2. “If I Had the Power to Do So I Would Destroy Them with My Own Hands” – Film and Politics in Post-Quake San Francisco Part II: Chinatown Exhibition and Movie Theaters 3. “The Most Cosmopolitan City in the World” – Chinese San Francisco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 4. “Eyes Darting Around, Spirit Dashing About” – Mapping Chinatown Film Culture, 1906 – 1915 5. The Chinesque Aesthetic -Orientalist Stereotypes in Post-Quake Film Culture Part III: Chinese American Audiences 6. “Where the People Aren’t All American” – Chinatown Audiences and Spectators 7. Chinatown Modernity – Revolutions and Movie Theaters 8. Trajectories and Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
£30.40
Rutgers University Press To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women's Activism
Book SynopsisTo Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political, economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the Sandinista state’s co-optation of multicultural discourse and growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new forms of “multicultural dispossession.” This concept describes the ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal practices and policies that undermine black political demands and weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims of these activists against the state. Trade Review"This is a very important and well-written book that will be attractive for scholars and students of race, gender, political activism, and citizenship in Latin America. Courtney Morris' work is essential for understanding the politics of authoritarianism and resistance in present-day Nicaragua." -- Karen Kampwirth * author of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba *"Morris has written a profoundly brilliant, sophisticated, and nuanced critique of mestizo nationalism. This book is a gift for anyone who cares about feminist organizing, ending anti-Black racism, and understanding contemporary authoritarianism, state violence, and mestizo hegemony in Nicaragua. It is also anthropology at its best, seeking to right the wrongs in the historical record by centering Black women’s struggles for autonomy and self-determination on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast." -- Victoria González-Rivera * author of Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 *"This is a very important and well-written book that will be attractive for scholars and students of race, gender, political activism, and citizenship in Latin America. Courtney Morris' work is essential for understanding the politics of authoritarianism and resistance in present-day Nicaragua." -- Karen Kampwirth * author of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba *"Morris has written a profoundly brilliant, sophisticated, and nuanced critique of mestizo nationalism. This book is a gift for anyone who cares about feminist organizing, ending anti-Black racism, and understanding contemporary authoritarianism, state violence, and mestizo hegemony in Nicaragua. It is also anthropology at its best, seeking to right the wrongs in the historical record by centering Black women’s struggles for autonomy and self-determination on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast." -- Victoria González-Rivera * author of Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 *Table of ContentsPreface: An Unexpected Uprising? Introduction: Black Women’s Activism in Dangerous Times Part I: Genealogies 1 Grand Dames, Garveyites, and Obeah Women: State Violence, Regional Radicalisms, and Unruly Femininities in the Mosquitia 2 Entre el Rojo y Negro: Black Women’s Social Memory and the Sandinista Revolution Part II: Multicultural Dispossession 3 Cruise Ships, Call Centers, and Chamba: Managing Autonomy and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Era 4 Dangerous Locations: Black Suffering, Mestizo Victimhood, and the Geography of Blame in the Struggle for Land Rights Part III: Resisting State Violence 5 “See how de blood dey run”: Sexual Violence, Silence, and the Politics of Intimate Solidarity 6 From Autonomy to Autocracy: Development, Multicultural Dispossession, and the Authoritarian Turn Conclusion: Transition in Saeculae Saeculorum Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
Book SynopsisFeatured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show In 1993, Prince infamously changed his name to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this was only one of a long string of self-reinventions orchestrated by Prince as he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, of authenticity and artifice, or of black music and white music. Revealing how he continually subverted cultural expectations, I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director. It shows how, by blending elements of R&B, rock, and new wave into an extremely videogenic package, Prince was able to overcome the color barrier that kept black artists off of MTV. Yet even at his greatest crossover success, he still worked hard to retain his credibility among black music fans. In this way, Adilifu Nama suggests, Prince was able to assert a distinctly black political sensibility while still being perceived as a unique musical genius whose appeal transcended racial boundaries. Trade Review“Adilifu Nama’s work is a sharp, incisive, and fresh take on the life and career of Prince Rogers Nelson. He seamlessly weaves in a critical yet thoughtful analysis of the intersections of race, masculinity, and sexuality while simultaneously chronicling the evolution of Prince’s music. For the Prince fan, it is a must read.” -- Matthew Oware * author of I Got Something to Say: Gender, Race, and Social Consciousness in Rap Music *"Dr. Nama explores the life of Prince through the lens of racial politics and the American music industry to illuminate the ways that Prince acted as a racial 'shape shifter.' This book will make you think, make you laugh and make you critically reflect on the constant shifting gendered and racial attitudes American society continues to grapple with." -- Sheena Howard * author of Encyclopedia of Black Comics *"A must for Prince fans and for readers interested in his impact on the music industry, pop culture, and race and gender theory." * Library Journal *"A must for cultural studies practitioners, especially those who analyze the work of iconic figures." * Cercles *Table of ContentsIntroduction Incognegro On the Black Hand Side Enfant Terrible Cherry Bomb Chaos and Crossroads Don’t Call it a Comeback… Dearly Beloved: An Epitaph Acknowledgements Notes Index
£23.79
Rutgers University Press I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
Book SynopsisFeatured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show In 1993, Prince infamously changed his name to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this was only one of a long string of self-reinventions orchestrated by Prince as he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, of authenticity and artifice, or of black music and white music. Revealing how he continually subverted cultural expectations, I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director. It shows how, by blending elements of R&B, rock, and new wave into an extremely videogenic package, Prince was able to overcome the color barrier that kept black artists off of MTV. Yet even at his greatest crossover success, he still worked hard to retain his credibility among black music fans. In this way, Adilifu Nama suggests, Prince was able to assert a distinctly black political sensibility while still being perceived as a unique musical genius whose appeal transcended racial boundaries. Trade Review“Adilifu Nama’s work is a sharp, incisive, and fresh take on the life and career of Prince Rogers Nelson. He seamlessly weaves in a critical yet thoughtful analysis of the intersections of race, masculinity, and sexuality while simultaneously chronicling the evolution of Prince’s music. For the Prince fan, it is a must read.” -- Matthew Oware * author of I Got Something to Say: Gender, Race, and Social Consciousness in Rap Music *"Dr. Nama explores the life of Prince through the lens of racial politics and the American music industry to illuminate the ways that Prince acted as a racial 'shape shifter.' This book will make you think, make you laugh and make you critically reflect on the constant shifting gendered and racial attitudes American society continues to grapple with." -- Sheena Howard * author of Encyclopedia of Black Comics *"A must for Prince fans and for readers interested in his impact on the music industry, pop culture, and race and gender theory." * Library Journal *"A must for cultural studies practitioners, especially those who analyze the work of iconic figures." * Cercles *Table of ContentsIntroduction Incognegro On the Black Hand Side Enfant Terrible Cherry Bomb Chaos and Crossroads Don’t Call it a Comeback… Dearly Beloved: An Epitaph Acknowledgements Notes Index
£56.00
Rutgers University Press East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte
Book SynopsisEast of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives—stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars. Trade Review"Richly layered and movingly felt, East of East is a collaborative history of a seemingly ordinary place revealed as a crossroads of the local and the global. A remarkable interleaving of scholarship and the intimacy of memory." -- D.J. Waldie * author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir *"East of East makes several important interventions. First, it is part of an exciting movement to reclaim the histories and geographies of cities from the bottom up. Second, it focuses on a vital but completely overlooked part of LA history - El Monte. Essential reading for all those interested in southern California." -- Laura Pulido * co-Author of, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles *"Welcoming Boom’s New Editorial Team" mention of East of East https://boomcalifornia.com/2019/08/07/welcoming-booms-new-editorial-team/ * Boom California *"Who owns history? New book reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s pioneer past," Greater LA hosted by Steve Chiotakis https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/lausd-police-el-monte/sgv-el-monte-history-book * "Greater LA," KCRW *“East of East digs up the dirt of greater El Monte to find what is left of ‘us’ — for the authors and contributors born and raised there, and for the Indigenous, immigrant, multiracial, multicultural and transnational communities brought to vivid life in these pages. It writes ‘us’ back into the narratives that erased us and writes new ones to remind us that white pioneer settlers are just part of the story, not the center of it.” * KCET.org *"San Gabriel Mission fire provokes deep, conflicting reactions," by Gustavo Arellano https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-13/san-gabriel-mission-fire-morning-mass * Los Angeles Times *"For 100 Years, El Monte Has Celebrated a Blatant Historical Falsehood. Why? A Southern California City Has a Rich, Multi-Ethnic Past That Its Foundational Myth Erases," by Romeo Guzmán https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/08/19/el-monte-end-of-the-santa-fe-trail-true-history/ideas/essay/ * Zócalo Public Square *"The editors of East of East see deeper truths. Greater El Monte, it turns out, is the setting for a story as rich and tangled as the flora that still covers the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, a patch of parkland that lies, relatively unspoiled, in the watershed the El Montes call home." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"How Authors Are Reaching Book Lovers in the Age of COVID-19," by Teena Apeles https://www.kcet.org/shows/southland-sessions/how-authors-are-reaching-book-lovers-in-the-age-of-covid-19 * KCET.org *"Your history-buff friends all want this magical book for Christmas." * The Press-Enterprise *"Best of all, East of East is both chronicle and challenge to all of us: Know your local history, document it and spread its gospel to the world, no matter how seemingly small." * Los Angeles Times *"Combining creative nonfiction, oral history, and traditional scholarship, the various writings here reclaim the histories and geographies of the urban fringe these writers call 'east of east.' What makes this area so significant is that it’s been a point of 'contact between farmworkers, punks, white supremacists, suburbanites, Zumba dancers, and civil rights activists.'” * L.A. Taco *"Scholars and regular people will find something to enjoy in East of East. Tourists and Locals alike will have a refreshingly informed understanding next time they go cruising through the streets of Aztlán and find themselves on Durfee in El Monte, remembering novelist Salvador Plascencia’s description of Durfee Avenue. What a great gift, or textbook. East of East is scholarship done right. Órale to the publishers and especially lead editors Romeo Guzmán and Carribean Fragoza." * La Bloga *"The 10 best California books of 2020: Featuring 32 essays by writers including Alex Espinoza, Salvador Plascencia and Fragoza, this anthology seeks to restore the 'silenced histories' of El Monte, the small working-class city in eastern Los Angeles County, while also re-imagining its future as a community in its own right. 'The future will not happen in the cities or the suburbs,' the editors write, 'but in the middle, and El Monte and South El Monte have always been in the middle.'" * Los Angeles Times, The 10 best California books of 2020 *"It can and should be an inspiration for likeminded collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects seeking to redress the many wrongs of exclusive historical memory. As stated in the epilogue, localized areas like greater El Monte are often active in national and transnational operations of many kinds 'in broader networks of trade, work, kinship, culture and migration.' This book provides a solid grounding in better understanding these interrelationships, even as 'the rest of its stories have yet to be told.'" * The Public Historian *"A tale of two cities: El Monte’s battle to preserve its Latinx history," by Erik Adams * University Times *"Ethnic Studies Comes Into The Classroom And Onto The Streets," by Julia Barajas * LAist *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Burn the Wagon: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El MonteRomeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft Part I Origins and Departures1 The Tongva PeopleAurelie Roy2 Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the LandscapeMaria John3 From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico FamilyRyan Reft4 Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth Century El MonteKaren Wilson and Dan Lynch Part II Social and Political Movements 5 Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte’s White Supremacy MovementsDaniel Cady6 Ricardo Flores Magón and Anarchist Movement in El MonteYesenia Barragan and Mark Bray7 Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933Melquiades Fernandez8 Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El MonteRachel Newman9 City of Achievement: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976Nick Juravich10 La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano MovementJuan Herrera11 Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano MovementCarribean Fragoza12 American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe FactoryAdam Goodman13 Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El MonteAlex Sayf Cummings Part IIINature and the Built Environment14 Hicks Camp: A Mexican BarrioDaniel Morales15 Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los AngelesDaniel Medina16 From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte Subsistence HomesteadingRyan Reft17 A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater SGVAndre Kobayashi Deckrow18 Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and DisplacementDavid Reid19 Transportational El Monte, From the Red Car to the FreewayRyan Reft20 The Starlite Swap MeetJennifer Renteria Part IVPopular Culture21 El Monte’s Wild Past: A History of Gay’s Lion FarmMichael Weller22 Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe’s Charmed Life on the AirJude Webre23 El Monte’s Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee PierceTroy Andreas Araiza Kokinis24 The Punk and the SeamstressApolonio Morales25 A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar ShackStacy I. Macías26 All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty-ShakingCarribean Fragoza Part V Literary Cartographies27 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986Michael Jaime-Becerra28 Train versus Pedestrian on Valley BoulevardAlex Espinoza29 Epiphany Catholic ChurchToni Margarita Plummer30 Rush StreetCarribean Fragoza31 Durfee AvenueSalvador PlascenciaEpilogue: East of East: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel ValleyWendy Cheng AcknowledgmentsSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Rutgers University Press Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel "different, mixed up, upside down." Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration details how Somali gendered identities are contested, negotiated, and (re)produced within a framework of religious and politico-national discourses, finding that the most significant catalysts for challenging and changing harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis. Described as “an important and urgent monograph," this book will be a key text relevant to scholars of migration, transnational families, personal life, and gender. Written in a beautiful and accessible style, the book voices the participants with respect and compassion, and is also recommended for scholars of qualitative social research methods. Trade Review"Attentively observed and provocatively argued, this book explores the dynamic inter-relationship between culture, religion, ethnicity, and gender, and how migration remakes people’s understandings of their relationships. It is not only brilliant but beautiful too, capturing the creativity in struggles to craft places in the world. Truly inspirational reading." -- Bridget Anderson * co-editor of Citizenship and Its Others *“In this sensitively-described and expertly analysed ethnography of marriage among Somalis in Bristol, Natasha Carver shows how migration has unsettled Somali cultural norms of womanhood and masculinity. Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration is an exemplary transnational sociology of how identities are constituted." -- Seán McLoughlin * co-editor of Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities *"An exciting insight into marriage, gender, and refugee migration." * Weekendavisen *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Transcription Symbols Series Foreword by Péter Berta 1: Introduction 2: Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About 3: Atrocity Stories about Divorce 4: Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown 5: Being Responsible: Providing for the Family 6: Doing Responsibility: Caring for the Family 7: Somalinimo: An Existential Crisis? 8: Regendering Somaliness in the British Context 9: Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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