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Mediterranean Crossings
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Author : Iain Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-16
Mediterranean Crossings written by Iain Chambers and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-16 with History categories.
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the region’s culture and history. The “Mediterranean” as a concept entered the European lexicon only in the early nineteenth century. As an object of study, it is the product of modern geographical, political, and historical classifications. Chambers contends that the region’s fundamentally fluid, hybrid nature has long been obscured by the categories and strictures imposed by European discourse and government. In evocative and erudite prose, Chambers renders the Mediterranean a mutable space, profoundly marked by the linguistic, literary, culinary, musical, and intellectual dissemination of Arab, Jewish, Turkish, and Latin cultures. He brings to light histories of Mediterranean crossings—of people, goods, melodies, thought—that are rarely part of orthodox understandings. Chambers writes in a style that reflects the fluidity of the exchanges that have formed the region; he segues between major historical events and local daily routines, backwards and forwards in time, and from one part of the Mediterranean to another. A sea of endlessly overlapping cultural and historical currents, the Mediterranean exceeds the immediate constraints of nationalism and inflexible identity. It offers scholars an opportunity to rethink the past and present and to imagine a future beyond the confines of Western humanistic thought.
The Migrant S Corner
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Author : Caterina Scarabicchi
language : en
Publisher: New Comparative Criticism
Release Date : 2023
The Migrant S Corner written by Caterina Scarabicchi and has been published by New Comparative Criticism this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Cultural pluralism categories.
The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. How have these human itineraries been represented in contemporary culture? This book considers the migrant's story as portrayed in literature, cinema, museums and festivals in Italy and France, in order to explore the widespread ethical complexities related to agency and advocacy. While typically produced in support of migrant communities, these narratives often confine the experience of displaced individuals within a Eurocentric, humanitarian discourse that is difficult to overcome. Through an interdisciplinary and postcolonial approach, the book analyses, among others, recent works by Laurent Gaudé and Emanuele Crialese, the Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration in Paris and a community festival in Lampedusa, to highlight the complexity of advocating for migrants from a European perspective.
Mediterranean Crossings
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Author : Rachida Yassine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Mediterranean Crossings written by Rachida Yassine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Mediterranean Crossings
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Author : Umberto Grassi
language : en
Publisher: Viella Editrice
Release Date : 2020-09
Mediterranean Crossings written by Umberto Grassi and has been published by Viella Editrice this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09 with History categories.
This book investigates the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the late medieval and early modern period from the perspective of sexual and gender transgressions. The first part analyses normative discourses and literary texts in the Arabic, Turkish Ottoman and Spanish worlds, highlighting continuities and fractures. The second part explores concrete interactions between Muslim and Christians, reconstructed through the study of criminal sources from the archives of the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions. The essays collected here reveal to what extent reflecting on sexual and gender non-conformity constitutes a vantage point for reconstructing the cross-cultural interactions between Christianity and Islam in the Mediterranean world. On the one hand, proscribed sexual behaviours and gendered performances opened the possibility for connections in semi-clandestine networks of sociability that would have been inconceivable in other settings. On the other, cross-religious sexual and emotional exchanges sometimes favoured processes of religious hybridisation or the development of skeptic attitudes towards institutionalised faiths.
Mediterranean Crossings North African Bearings A Taste Of Andalus In Bejaia 1250 1400
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Author : Ramzi Rouighi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Mediterranean Crossings North African Bearings A Taste Of Andalus In Bejaia 1250 1400 written by Ramzi Rouighi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Mediterranean Travels
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Author : Noreen Humble
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-02
Mediterranean Travels written by Noreen Humble and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyses the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval pilgrimages, to Venetians diplomatic missions, to an Egyptian's account of Paris in the nineteenth century, to French artistic journeys in North Africa and to contemporary narratives of privileged resettlement, death and dislocation."
Qantara
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Author : Ludovic Bender
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Qantara written by Ludovic Bender and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Ex Centric Migrations
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Author : Hakim Abderrezak
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-20
Ex Centric Migrations written by Hakim Abderrezak and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-20 with Social Science categories.
“Plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration.” —Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies Ex-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and linguistic ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) no longer systematically target France as a destination, but instead aspire toward other European countries, notably Spain and Italy. In addition, the author investigates other migratory patterns that entail the repatriation of émigrés. His analysis reveals that the films, novels, and songs of Mediterranean artists run contrary to mass media coverage and conservative political discourse, bringing a nuanced vision and expert analysis to the sensationalism and biased reportage of such events as the Mediterranean maritime tragedies. “Ex-Centric Migrations is crucial reading for scholars and students of contemporary Maghrebi, French, and Spanish literatures and cultures. It breaks new ground by encompassing the literature, film, and music of ‘return migration’ and examining the trajectories of Maghrebi migration outside France.” —H-France “Hakim Abderrezak convincingly illustrates how politically committed artistic practices serve to humanize the challenges of human migration, and in the process dramatically improves our understanding of the complex cultural, economic, political, and social realities that shape 21st-century existence.” —Dominic Thomas, author of Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism
Crossings
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Author : Federico De Romanis
language : en
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
Release Date : 2005
Crossings written by Federico De Romanis and has been published by Manohar Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with India categories.
This Book Collects And Translates Into English Some Of The Studies That Have Been Recently Published By French And Italian Scholars. It Also Includes A Specially Contributed Overview By The Eminent Indian Historian Romila Thapar That Demonstrates How Far The Ethnocentric Vision Of Indo-Roman History Has Shifted. The Intention Is To Open Up European Scholarship To Indian Scholars And Encourage The Ongoing Dialogue Betwen Scholars On Both Sides Of The Indian Ocean.
Kulturconfus O On German Brazilian Interculturalities
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Author : Anke Finger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-07-31
Kulturconfus O On German Brazilian Interculturalities written by Anke Finger and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-31 with Social Science categories.
The analyses of German and Brazilian cultures found in this book offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities and literary and cultural studies. This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day, especially how authors, artists and other intellectuals address the development of society, intervene in the construction and transformation of cultural identities, and observe the introduction of differing cultural elements in and beyond the limits of the nation. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media, and the issues they address are relevant not only for each of the scholarly disciplines involved, but also in discussions of current cultural practices in connection to all forms of media. The collection thus serves as a model for further intercultural research, since it calls into question the very terms through which we understand the relationships between cultures, as well as their products, practices, and perspectives.