The Past Coming To Roost In The Present
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The Past Coming To Roost In The Present
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Author : Adrian Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-07
The Past Coming To Roost In The Present written by Adrian Knapp and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the final demise of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has undergone dramatic changes in the political, social, and economic sphere. It is not surprising that these changes have also resulted in contentious reassessments of recent history. Many contemporary South African writers have taken up the challenge and created works offering new ways of critically re-imagining the country's violent past. While André P. Brink's "Imaginings of Sand" and Zakes "Mda's Ways of Dying" constitute renegotiations of the past during the period of transition, J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace" and Phaswane Mpe's "Welcome to our Hillbrow" represent deliberations of a past that has been hampered in its change by a flawed transition. Just as history can never be taken at face value and never constitutes a finite, all-inclusive narration of the past, the 'historical accounts' provided in these texts often present a one-sided picture of history when considered only on their representational level. On the metafictional level, however, these texts often put such 'misreadings' into perspective and, in doing so, open up an otherwise monochrome reflection of South Africa's rainbow.
The Past Coming To Roost In The Present
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Author : Adrian Knapp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Past Coming To Roost In The Present written by Adrian Knapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
J M Coetzee And The Ethics Of Power
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Author : Emanuela Tegla
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-01-12
J M Coetzee And The Ethics Of Power written by Emanuela Tegla and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
In J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power, Emanuela Tegla offers an exploration of the interconnectedness between morality and individual conscience in Coetzee’s fiction, as well as a narratological analysis of important stylistic aspects, such as tense, narrative silence or the moral implications of the novels’ endings.
Fictioning Namibia As A Space Of Desire
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Author : Renzo Baas
language : en
Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Fictioning Namibia As A Space Of Desire written by Renzo Baas and has been published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Apartheid categories.
Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the ‘dream’ of this colony. As a tool of discursive worldmaking, literature has played a major role in providing a framework in which to ‘dream’ Namibia, first from outside its borders, and then from within. In Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire, Renzo Baas employs Henri Lefebvre’s city–countryside dialectic and reworks it in order to uncover how fictional texts played an integral part in the violent acquisition of a foreign territory. Through the production of myths around whiteness, German and South African authors designed a literary space in which control, destruction, and the dehumanisation of African peoples are understood as a natural order, one that is dictated by history and its linear continuation. These European texts are offset by Namibia’s first novel by an African, offering a counter-narrative to the colonial invention that was (German) South West Africa.
The Thousand And One Nights And Twentieth Century Fiction
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Author : Richard van Leeuwen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-17
The Thousand And One Nights And Twentieth Century Fiction written by Richard van Leeuwen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-17 with Reference categories.
In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a crucial influence on authors who have contributed to shaping the main literary currents in 20th-century world literature, inspiring new forms and concepts of literature and texts.
Durkheim S Ghosts
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Author : Charles Lemert
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-02-09
Durkheim S Ghosts written by Charles Lemert 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 2006-02-09 with Social Science categories.
Durkheim's Ghosts is a fascinating presentation of the tradition of social theory influenced by Emile Durkheim's thinking on the social foundations of knowledge. From Saussure and Levi-Strauss to Foucault, Bourdieu and Derrida, today's criticisms of modern politics and culture owe an important, if unacknowledged, debt to Durkheim. These engaging and innovative essays by leading sociologist Charles Lemert bring together his writings on the contributions of French social theory past and present. Rather than merely interpret the theories, Lemert uses them to explore the futures of sociology, social theory, and culture studies. Durkheim's Ghosts offers the reader original insights into Durkheim's legacy and the wider French traditions for the cultural and social sciences. Of special note is the book's new and exciting theory of culture and semiotics. Provocative, scholarly, imaginative and ambitious this book will be invaluable to anyone interested in social theory, culture, and intellectual history of modern times.
Metacinema In Contemporary Chinese Film
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Author : G. Andrew Stuckey
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-17
Metacinema In Contemporary Chinese Film written by G. Andrew Stuckey and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Depictions within a movie of either filmmaking or film watching are hardly novel, but the dramatic expansion of the reach of the metacinematic into contemporary Chinese cinemas is nothing short of remarkable. To G. Andrew Stuckey, the prevalence of metacinematic features forms the basis of a discourse on film arising from the films themselves. Such a discourse, in turn, outlines the boundaries of the possible for film in China as aesthetic or sociopolitical practice. Metacinema also draws our attention to the presence of the audience, people actively responding to a film. In elucidating the affective responses elicited by the metacinematic mode in the viewers, Stuckey argues that metacinema reflects ways of being in the world that audiences may take up for themselves. The films studied in this book are drawn across the full spectrum of Chinese films made in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the 1990s and 2000s, from award-winning conceptual art films to popular crowd pleasers, blockbusters to low-budget productions, and documentary-style social realist exposé projects to studio assembly-line investments. The recurrence of the metacinematic across this broad range of works is indicative of its relevance to Chinese films today, and the analysis of these diverse examples allows us to gauge the cultural, social, and aesthetic implications of Chinese cinemas as a whole. “Stuckey surveys a broad swath of contemporary Chinese cinema, from popular blockbusters to elite art films, around the theme of metacinema, yielding new insights into both previously neglected films and those already acknowledged as contemporary classics. The result is a fascinating dive into the growing and diversifying cinema culture of China today.” —Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota “Stuckey’s brilliant work, Metacinema in Contemporary Chinese Film, offers insightful close analyses of films by key directors from the PRC (Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Jia Zhangke, and Li Yu), Hong Kong (Peter Chan), and Taiwan (Tsai Ming-liang). This clearly written book is essential reading for scholars and students of Chinese cinemas. Stuckey’s study of genre and metacinema makes it a must-read for anyone interested in cinema.” —Michelle Bloom, University of California, Riverside
Employment Risks From Present Credit And Business Liquidity Conditions
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Employment Risks From Present Credit And Business Liquidity Conditions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Business enterprises categories.
Parliamentary Debates
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Author : New Zealand. Parliament
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with New Zealand categories.
A Scientist Speaks Out
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Author : Glenn T Seaborg
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 1996-07-29
A Scientist Speaks Out written by Glenn T Seaborg and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-29 with Science categories.
In A Scientist Speaks Out — A Personal Perspective on Science, Society, and Change, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1951) Glenn T Seaborg shares some of his thoughts and reflections on his broad interests, from the formulation of national science policy to the promise of youth. During a distinguished career in science and public service that spanned more than 50 years, he published over 500 works and maintained a public speaking schedule that included about 700 speeches on a wide variety of topics. This volume is a collection of nearly forty of his more popular speeches and articles, directed at a mostly non-scientific and non-technical audience. Since this volume is a compendium of reprints, readers will be able to share some of Seaborg's thoughts, as he originally penned them. Contents:The Future Through ScienceLearning in the World of ChangeA Scientific Society — The BeginningsScience, the Humanities, and the Federal Government — Partners in ProgressTime, Leisure, and the Computer: The Crisis of Modern TechnologyThe Positive Power of ScienceA Scientific Safari to AfricaA Journey to ChinaPreparing for the 21st CenturyThe Crisis in Pre-College Science and Math Educationand other speeches Readership: General. keywords: “Engrossing and highly readable, the articles concentrate on science education, the public understanding of science, and the future of science and technology, and also include forays into international co-operation, the 'legacy of Alfred Nobel', and personal accounts of visits to China, Africa and the Soviet Union.” Physics World