The Fernando Coronil Reader
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The Fernando Coronil Reader
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Author : Fernando Coronil
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
The Fernando Coronil Reader written by Fernando Coronil 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 2019-04-15 with Social Science categories.
In The Fernando Coronil Reader Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his unfinished book manuscript, "Crude Matters." Taken together, the essays highlight his deep concern with the Global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire, and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach. Presenting a cross section of Coronil's oeuvre, this volume cements his legacy as one of the most innovative critical social thinkers of his generation.
The Magical State
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Author : Fernando Coronil
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-11-10
The Magical State written by Fernando Coronil and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-10 with Business & Economics categories.
In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter and began to establish what today is South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. Endowed with the power of state oil wealth, successive presidents appeared as transcendent figures who could magically transform Venezuela into a modern nation. During the 1974-78 oil boom, dazzling development projects promised finally to effect this transformation. Yet now the state must struggle to appease its foreign creditors, counter a declining economy, and contain a discontented citizenry. In critical dialogue with contemporary social theory, Fernando Coronil examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture, and economy, recasting theories of development and highlighting the relevance of these processes for other postcolonial nations. The result is a timely and compelling historical ethnography of political power at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary reflections on modernity and the state.
Close Encounters Of Empire
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Author : Gilbert Michael Joseph
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1998
Close Encounters Of Empire written by Gilbert Michael Joseph 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 1998 with History categories.
Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.
The Cambridge Companion To Postcolonial Literary Studies
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Author : Neil Lazarus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-15
The Cambridge Companion To Postcolonial Literary Studies written by Neil Lazarus 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 2004-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
Spectacular Modernity
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Author : Lisa Blackmore
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2017-07-22
Spectacular Modernity written by Lisa Blackmore and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-22 with History categories.
In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.
Coloniality At Large
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Author : Mabel Moraña
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008
Coloniality At Large written by Mabel Moraña 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 with History categories.
A state-of-the-art anthology of postcolonial theory and practice in the Latin American context.
Language And Revolutionary Magic In The Orinoco Delta
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Author : Juan Luis Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-15
Language And Revolutionary Magic In The Orinoco Delta written by Juan Luis Rodriguez and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote, rural areas of Venezuela, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the creation of the 'magical state'. Focusing on the Waraos speakers of the Orinoco Delta, this book explores center–periphery dynamics in Venezuela through an innovative linguistic anthropological lens. Using a semiotic framework informed by concepts of 'transduction' and 'translation', this book combines ethnographic and historical evidence to analyze the ideological mediation and linguistic practices involved in managing a multi-ethnic citizenry in Venezuela. Juan Luis Rodriguez shows how indigenous populations participate in the formation and contestation of state power through daily practices and the use of different speech genres, emphasising the performative and semiotic work required to produce revolutionary subjects. Establishing the centrality of language and semiosis in the constitution of authority and political power, this book moves away from seeing revolution in solely economic or ideological terms. Through the collision between Warao and Spanish, it highlights how language ideologies can exclude or integrate indigenous populations in the public sphere and how they were transformed by Hugo Chavez' revolutionary government to promote loyalty to the regime.
The Medieval Imagination
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Author : Jacques Le Goff
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-12-15
The Medieval Imagination written by Jacques Le Goff and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-12-15 with Education categories.
To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes; and the contradictory world of dreams, marvels, devils, and wild forests. "Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation . . . he has exercised immense influence."—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books "The whole book turns on a fascinating blend of the brutally materialistic and the generously imaginative."—Tom Shippey, London Review of Books "The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work . . . demand to be experienced."—M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement
You Can Cross The Massacre On Foot
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Author : Freddy Prestol Castillo
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
You Can Cross The Massacre On Foot written by Freddy Prestol Castillo 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 2019-04-04 with Fiction categories.
In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border during the massacre, known as “The Cutting,” and documented the atrocities in real time in You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot. Written in 1937, published in Spanish in 1973, and appearing here in English for the first time, Prestol Castillo's novel is one of the few works that details the massacre's scale and scope. Conveying the horror of witnessing such inhumane violence firsthand, it is both an attempt to come to terms with personal and collective guilt and a search to understand how people can be driven to indiscriminately kill their neighbors.
The French Imperial Nation State
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Author : Gary Wilder
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-12
The French Imperial Nation State written by Gary Wilder and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with History categories.
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.