Dark Dispatches
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Indian Modernities
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Author : Nishat Zaidi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-25
Indian Modernities written by Nishat Zaidi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through sociohistorical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.
Imagining A Postcolonial Nation
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Author : Yamini,
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Imagining A Postcolonial Nation written by Yamini, and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Literary Collections categories.
This book explores narratives of nationalism in the Hindi novel (1940s–80s), engaging with mainstream, populist, political conceptualisation of a postcolonial nation and local, cultural, often marginalised fictional parallels and alternatives to it. Analysing processes of nation-formation and nationalism(s) via experiments with the novel form and versions of realism in Hindi, conversations between the political and the cultural, rural/borders and the urban/central spaces, individual subjectivity and social structures, and the challenges Hindi novels' internal linguistic diversity poses to formalised Hindi's hegemony, Imagining a Postcolonial Nation: Hindi Novels and Forms of India (1940s–80s) traces Hindi fiction's history of postcolonial India. The multiplicity of realisms indicates significant responses to postcolonial nationalism, idealistic, critical, regional, satirical and psychological. Looking at indigenous narrative methods employed by authors to critically evolve Western ideas of the nation and novel, the book explores the simultaneous convergences and divergences between literary and political understandings of ideological, religious and linguistic nationalisms. Surveying the broad sentiments of idealism, enchantment and disenchantment with freedom and postcoloniality, it studies the possibilities of fiction embodying national history without an outright commitment to mainstream nationalism or nationalist literary canon formation. It also briefly tries to understand the repercussions of nationalism as a masculinist project and its gendered nature affecting a section of writing, novels by women authors, to present counter-narratives to both national and literary canons. Choosing a fairly broad historical timeframe, the book reveals the radical potential of narratives that have over the years been critically categorised as canonical. It reopens discussions around nationalism within novels that have been often canonised as apparently uncritically nationalist.
Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere
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Author : Robert Lopez
language : en
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Release Date : 2023-03-14
Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere written by Robert Lopez and has been published by Two Dollar Radio this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can’t quite put my finger on any of this. I’m still grappling with what I’ve lost and how I can miss something I’ve never had." Robert Lopez’s grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family’s efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations. Little is known of Sixto—he may have been a longshoreman, a painter, or a boxer, but was most likely a longshoreman—or why he originally decided to leave Puerto Rico, other than that he was a meticulously slow eater who played the standup keyboard and guitar, and enjoyed watching baseball. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brooklyn’s diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from Sixto’s remembered traits, in Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, Robert Lopez paints a compassionate portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and re-claim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure.
Portals
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Author : Thirteen O'Clock Press
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Portals written by Thirteen O'Clock Press and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with Fiction categories.
Portals, passageways, doors into infinity and who knows what else... the mere thought of escaping into something unknown or being taken into it without your knowledge or will to go there, surely that's one of the scariest things that can happen to you. So, let the clever Thirteen O'clock authors loose with a topic like Portals and the result is a collection of vastly different stories exploring the theme in many different ways. Enjoy!
The Dark Game
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Author : Paul B. Janeczko
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2012-09-11
The Dark Game written by Paul B. Janeczko and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-11 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
"A wealth of information in an engaging package." — Kirkus Reviews Ever since George Washington used them to help topple the British, spies and their networks have helped and hurt America at key moments in history. In this fascinating collection, Paul B. Janeczko probes examples from clothesline codes to surveillance satellites and cyber espionage. Colorful personalities, daring missions, the feats of the loyal, and the damage of traitors are interspersed with a look at the technological advances that continue to change the rules of gathering intelligence. Back matter includes source notes and a bibliography.
Ice
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Author : Thirteen O'Clock Press
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-02-19
Ice written by Thirteen O'Clock Press and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-19 with Fiction categories.
Ice. Beautiful in its frozen stark state, dangerous to all who battle it, lethal to those caught up in it... Thirteen O'clock Press authors have come up with a startling variety of stories featuring ice - prepare to be chilled...
Last Night
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Author : Thirteen O'clock Press
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-11-10
Last Night written by Thirteen O'clock Press and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Last night, the last night, what happened last night, wishing it were still last night... there are many ways of interpreting this particular theme and the talented Thirteen O'clock authors have done just that, with far ranging and very different stories all relating to that one thing, last night. Enjoy, whilst thinking about your last night...
Shadow Lives
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Author : Victoria Brittain
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Books
Release Date : 2013-02-06
Shadow Lives written by Victoria Brittain and has been published by Pluto Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with Law categories.
Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'. A disturbing expose of the perilous state of freedom and democracy in our society, the book reveals how a culture of intolerance and cruelty has left individuals at the mercy of the security services' unverifiable accusations and punitive punishments. Both a j'accuse and a testament to the strength and humanity of the families, Shadow Lives shows the methods of incarceration and social control being used by the British state and gives a voice to the families whose lives have been turned upside down. In doing so it raises urgent questions about civil liberties which no one can afford to ignore.
Democracy In Darkness
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Author : Katlyn Marie Carter
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Democracy In Darkness written by Katlyn Marie Carter and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Political Science categories.
How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that transparency was its very essence. In the years preceding the American and French revolutions, state secrecy came to be seen as despotic—an instrument of monarchy. But as revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrecy ever legitimate? Whether in Philadelphia or Paris, establishing popular sovereignty required navigating between an ideological imperative to eradicate secrets from the state and a practical need to limit transparency in government. The fight over this—dividing revolutionaries and vexing founders—would determine the nature of the world’s first representative democracies. Unveiling modern democracy’s surprisingly shadowy origins, Carter reshapes our understanding of how government by and for the people emerged during the Age of Revolutions.
Cloak And Dagger
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Author : Terry Austin
language : en
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Release Date : 2019-06-05
Cloak And Dagger written by Terry Austin and has been published by Marvel Entertainment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-05 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Collects Mutant Misadventures Of Cloak And Dagger #5-13, Cloak And Dagger (1990) #14-19 And Doctor Strange (1974) #78. From despair to DSpayre! With Tyrone Johnson dead and buried, a blind and grief-stricken Dagger deals with the agony of loss while the villainous Ecstasy wears Cloaks cloak! But rumors of Tys death have been greatly exaggerated does he have what it takes to reclaim his mantle? Hed better hope so, because when the Acts of Vengeance hit, our reunited duo will encounter the Avengers! Meanwhile, the evil Mr. Jip has been scheming for months and his multifaceted plans will soon come to fruition! But what does Doctor Doom have to do with it? Plus: Spider-Man and Ghost Rider help Cloak and Dagger take on Mephisto? And can our heroes cope with the demonic DSpayre, who bears shocking revelations about their origins?