Statelessness And The Making Of A Decolonial Aesthetics In U S Literature
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Statelessness And The Making Of A Decolonial Aesthetics In U S Literature
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Author : Angela Mary Naimou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Statelessness And The Making Of A Decolonial Aesthetics In U S Literature written by Angela Mary Naimou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
This dissertation explores how U.S. literature of the 1980s and 1990s recalibrates the tropes, figures, and theories of decolonization to examine the meanings of statelessness-of not being considered as a national by any State-in the post-Civil Rights, post-Cold War context. I discuss how writers Kathy Acker, Gayl Jones, Francisco Goldman, Ammiel Alcalay, and Sinan Antoon use literary techniques to reveal statelessness as part of a colonial legacy that still shapes Western social organization. This literary treatment of statelessness is integral to the aims of a decolonial aesthetic practice that reveals and then challenges the political notions that underwrite traditional aesthetic projects, as well as projects to ostensibly counter them (such as the 1960s and 70s project of redefining a Black Aesthetic). Because statelessness is the absent center to definitions of the individual, belonging, and authority, these writers also adapt their treatment of statelessness to reconceptualize the terms of literary authority, including the concept of individual authorship and of a decolonial, authorial practice. Chapter One of this dissertation is a theoretical discussion of statelessness, decoloniality, and aesthetics within the context of this project. Chapter Two explores how decolonial tropes in Goldman's 1997 novel, The Ordinary Seaman, revise literary conventions of immigration and globalization narratives. In Chapter Three, I consider how Acker's anti-conventional practice of conflation in Empire of the Senseless (1988) critically engages with ideologies of neoliberalism and national citizenship. I discuss how Acker conflates C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins with other texts of anti-colonial revolution to create a zombi(e) figure of political statelessness. The next chapter analyzes the interplay between the Sanctuary movement and a decolonization of the authorial "self" in Gayl Jones' 1999 novel, Mosquito, and in her essay on a "Third World Aesthetics." The epilogue, "Ghostwriting Iraq," extends Jones' redefinition of authorship as a feature of a decolonial practice. In it, I consider how Alcalay's book-length poem, from the warring factions (2002), and Antoon's novella, I'Jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (2007, English translation), elaborate tropes of ghostwriting and linguistic ambiguity as part of their challenge to models of sovereign authority and individual authorship.
Mulberry And Peach
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Author : Hualing Nie
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 1998
Mulberry And Peach written by Hualing Nie and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A brilliantly crafted picaresque novel, sensual, harrowing and even comic, of an Asian-American woman's exile
Understanding Statelessness
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Author : Tendayi Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-04
Understanding Statelessness written by Tendayi Bloom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-04 with Political Science categories.
Understanding Statelessness offers a comprehensive, in-depth examination of statelessness. The volume presents the theoretical, legal and political concept of statelessness through the work of leading critical thinkers in this area. They offer a critique of the existing framework through detailed and theoretically-based scrutiny of challenging contexts of statelessness in the real world and suggest ways forward. The volume is divided into three parts. The first, ‘Defining Statelessness’, features chapters exploring conceptual issues in the definition of statelessness. The second, ‘Living Statelessness’, uses case studies of statelessness contexts from States across global regions to explore the diversity of contemporary lived realities of statelessness and to interrogate standard theoretical presentations. ‘Theorising Statelessness’, the final part, approaches the theorisation of statelessness from a variety of theoretical perspectives, building upon the earlier sections. All the chapters come together to suggest a rethinking of how we approach statelessness. They raise questions and seek answers with a view to contributing to the development of a theoretical approach which can support more just policy development. Throughout the volume, readers are encouraged to connect theoretical concepts, real-world accounts and challenging analyses. The result is a rich and cohesive volume which acts as both a state-of-the-art statement on statelessness research and a call to action for future work in the field. It will be of great interest to graduates and scholars of political theory, human rights, law and international development, as well as those looking for new approaches to thinking about statelessness.
Art Activism For An Anticolonial Future
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Author : Carlos Garrido Castellano
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-10-01
Art Activism For An Anticolonial Future written by Carlos Garrido Castellano and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-01 with Art categories.
Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the acceptance of radical artistic practices by mainstream art institutions. Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that art activism has been confined to a limited spatial and temporal framework—that of Western culture and the modernist avant-garde. Assumptions about the individual creator and the belated arrival of derivative avant-garde aesthetics to the periphery have generated a narrow view of “political art” at the expense of our capacity to perceive a truly global alternative praxis. Garrido Castellano then illuminates such a praxis, focusing attention on socially engaged art from the Global South, challenging the supposed universality of Western artistic norms, and demonstrating the role of art in promoting and configuring a collective critical consciousness in postcolonial public spheres. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7166.
Solving Statelessness
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Author : Laura van Waas
language : en
Publisher: Wolf Legal Publishers
Release Date : 2017
Solving Statelessness written by Laura van Waas and has been published by Wolf Legal Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Citizenship categories.
Since the 1990s, interest in statelessness has been steadily increasing within academia, among governments, at the UN, and among civil society organizations. Research projects, mapping studies, and doctrinal discussions have helped to clarify the challenges faced, as well as what is at stake. This has led to a fresh sense of purpose in addressing the issue. Spurred on by the UNHCR-led #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024, there is a growing international movement engaged in finding solutions. Making meaningful progress towards this goal demands a new and more ambitious approach, one that moves beyond stock-taking to inspire solutions. As Volker Tuerk outlines in his introduction to this ground-breaking publication: The global debates have moved beyond the need to explain the problem and its causes and consequences. The time has come to accelerate the momentum to implement durable solutions effectively. The essays collected in this edited volume all approach statelessness from a solutions perspective, looking at what is being done, and what more can be done, to address this issue. The first part of the book has a thematic focus, exploring perspectives, tools, and techniques for solving statelessness across different countries and regions. Chapters in the second part each have a regional focus, exploring region-specific challenges, developments, and innovations set against the backdrop of the broader context of a global campaign to solve statelessness. With contributions from both scholars and practitioners, this book will be of interest to anyone engaged in studying or implementing solutions for statelessness, including researchers, government policy-makers, staff of international or regional inter-governmental bodies and UN agencies, grass-roots and international civil society organizations, legal practitioners, and advanced-level students. [Subject: Human Rights Law, Statelessness, Politics]
The Cambridge History Of The Kurds
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Author : Hamit Bozarslan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-22
The Cambridge History Of The Kurds written by Hamit Bozarslan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-22 with History categories.
The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
History On The Run
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Author : Ma Vang
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-21
History On The Run written by Ma Vang 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 2020-12-21 with Social Science categories.
During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong. Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete archives of the war made secret through redacted US state documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories.
The Wretched Of The Earth
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Author : Frantz Fanon
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
The Wretched Of The Earth written by Frantz Fanon and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Social Science categories.
The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
The Ghost Of Memory
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Author : Wilson Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-02
The Ghost Of Memory written by Wilson Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with Death categories.
I had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover. We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying? The Ghost of Memory is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-culturalities between moments of life and death. This is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a terrorist - he sees himself
Making Home S In Displacement
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Author : Luce Beeckmans
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-17
Making Home S In Displacement written by Luce Beeckmans and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-17 with Architecture categories.
Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.