The Society Of Reluctant Dreamers
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The Society Of Reluctant Dreamers
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Author : José Eduardo Agualusa
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-08-29
The Society Of Reluctant Dreamers written by José Eduardo Agualusa and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with Fiction categories.
While swimming in the clear blue waters of the Rainbow Hotel, Daniel Benchimol finds a waterproof camera, floating seemingly lost in the sea. He goes on to discover that the camera belongs to Moira, a Mozambican artist famous for a series of photos depicting her own dreams. On seeing the images, Daniel realises that Moira is also the mysterious woman whom he has been dreaming about repeatedly. The two meet, and Daniel becomes involved in a unusual dream experiment with a Brazilian neuroscientist, who's working with Moira on a machine to film and photograph people’s dreams. Meanwhile, Daniel’s daughter Karinguiri, one of Angola’s young dreamers, is arrested along with six friends for staging a protest during a presidential press conference in Luanda. The group go on hunger strike, attracting worldwide press attention, showing the power of young people when they raise their voices against the regime. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers is a surreal, vivid novel about the slipperiness of truth and reality, art versus dictatorship, courage versus fear, change and the old order, amidst the politics of Angola's tumultuous past, present and future.
Literary Fictions Of The Contemporary Art System
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Author : Carlos Garrido Castellano
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-29
Literary Fictions Of The Contemporary Art System written by Carlos Garrido Castellano and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination. The project positions the contemporary art novel as the most suitable place to understand how the economisation of cultural labour is affecting writers and artists alike. The authors examined in this book, including José Saramago, Rita Indiana Hernández, María Gainza, Mayra Santos Febres and Ondjaki (amongst others) explore the contradictions of the art market, the dynamics of art education, the multifaceted activity of curators and socially engaged artists in relation to broader debates on the role of culture in the configuration of socioeconomic dynamics. The book maps a new trend within contemporary literature that taps into the visual art system to reassess the role of literature in critical ways.
The Oracle Of Night
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Author : Sidarta Ribeiro
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2021-08-17
The Oracle Of Night written by Sidarta Ribeiro and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Science categories.
A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and their essential role in the formation of who we are and the world we have made. "A resounding case for the mystery, beauty and cognitive importance of dreams." —The New York Times What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon. An investigation on a grand scale, it encompasses literature, anthropology, religion, and science, articulating the essential place dreams occupy in human culture and how they functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave paintings—where Sidarta Ribeiro locates a key to humankind’s first dreams and how they contributed to our capacity to perceive past and future and our ability to conceive of the existence of souls and spirits—to today’s cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry, and psychology have made into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning. He explains what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of memory and the transformation of memory in recall. And he makes clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been elucidated by contemporary research. Accessible, authoritative, and fascinating, The Oracle of Night gives us a wholly new way to understand this most basic of human experiences.
The Living And The Rest
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Author : José Eduardo Agualusa
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-08-31
The Living And The Rest written by José Eduardo Agualusa and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-31 with Fiction categories.
A dark literary comedy about an island literary festival that goes horribly - apocalyptically - wrong. By the winner of the Dublin Literary Award. "The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised . . . Ingenious" Irish Times Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first festival guests arrive, the coast is hit by a cyclone. The island is spared, but the bridge to the mainland is left impassable, and telephone and internet connections are severed. The islanders - and the writers who have come for the festival - are cut off from the outside world. Left to their own devices, the authors forge new bonds and make the best of a situation that gets stranger each day. Some believe they're in an intermediate realm, a kind of limbo, and some have no choice but to write, as the boundaries between reality and fiction, past and future, and life and death begin to blur. Where do we go when it's all over? Perhaps to a small island. This is a novel about the nature of life and of time, and the extraordinary power of imagination and the written word, capable of creating anything and regenerating everything. Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Assimilation
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Author : Catherine S. Ramírez
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08
Assimilation written by Catherine S. Ramírez and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Social Science categories.
For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media outlets. Noting society’s many exclusions and erasures, scholars in the second half of the twentieth century persuasively argued that only some social groups assimilate. Others, they pointed out, are subject to racialization. In this bold, discipline-traversing cultural history, Catherine Ramírez develops an entirely different account of assimilation. Weaving together the legacies of US settler colonialism, slavery, and border control, Ramírez challenges the assumption that racialization and assimilation are separate and incompatible processes. In fascinating chapters with subjects that range from nineteenth century boarding schools to the contemporary artwork of undocumented immigrants, this book decouples immigration and assimilation and probes the gap between assimilation and citizenship. It shows that assimilation is not just a process of absorption and becoming more alike. Rather, assimilation is a process of racialization and subordination and of power and inequality.
The Dreamers
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Author : Herbert Kaufman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
The Dreamers written by Herbert Kaufman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with categories.
Fricas Literatura E Contemporaneidade
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Author : Rita Chaves
language : pt-BR
Publisher: eManuscrito
Release Date : 2022-08-17
Fricas Literatura E Contemporaneidade written by Rita Chaves and has been published by eManuscrito this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Os textos reunidos são desdobramentos de comunicações que integraram as sessões do VI Colóquio Internacional Áfricas, Literatura e Contemporaneidade, realizado na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo em 2019. Composto por resultados de trabalhos em andamento, desenvolvidos em sua maioria por estudantes vinculados a Programas de Pós-Graduação, o volume constitui uma amostragem dos caminhos que vêm sendo percorridos no domínio das Literaturas Africanas entre nós. Fruto de um esforço coletivo de investimento nas discussões que o presente reclama, os artigos, na sua diversidade, inclusive pela opção transdisciplinar que caracteriza os estudos africanos, ressaltam os laços entre História e memória e a sua centralidade na vida literária. Com foco nessa relação, eles alimentam também o debate à volta de narrativas autoritárias empenhadas na diluição de presenças fundamentais na formação de nossa sociedade e na exclusão de referências decisivas para a leitura de dilemas da contemporaneidade. Na busca de novas formas de pensar o passado e o presente, o compromisso com um diálogo aberto e com a aproximação entre a universidade e a sociedade motivou o exercício da reflexão como um ato de resistência nesses tempos de convite ao desalento.
Dreamers
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Author : Gary L. Sturm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Dreamers written by Gary L. Sturm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
The Monfort Plan
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Author : Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-03-18
The Monfort Plan written by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-18 with Business & Economics categories.
The Monfort Plan is a five-year, forward looking plan to eradicate extreme poverty from the developing world, and details how microfinance has made a difference to developing countries. This book proposes a new institution based in the developing world with the potential to provide a basic, free, and universal service in the areas of water, sanitation, healthcare, and education to the extreme poor worldwide. The provision will be subject to a certain degree of conditionality in areas ranging from corruption to legal environment. The new institution will be established in a new international territory based within a specific country in Subsaharan Africa and will emerge in 2015. In The Monfort Plan author Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort engineers and designs a solution to lessen the burden of poverty. In order to do so he relies on the social sciences to bring about innovation and forward looking economic policies and financial instruments in the context of a paradigm shift. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to policymaking that combines a range of fields in the social sciences, looking at the history behind the Marshall Plan, the formation of the European Union, and the Bretton Woods Institutions, in order to determine how a Marshall Plan for Africa-and the creation of New Institutions in the developing world-could work. We live a moment of crisis in which creative policymaking might prove useful when proposing outcomes for a revitalized framework for capitalism to thrive and better serve the world. Walks you through the technicalities of the new architecture of capitalism in a straightforward manner Provides a holistic view of how microfinance combined with the right economic policies and financial instruments could help change the world for the poor Contains sweeping and detailed recommendations on how to build a new capitalist paradigm that helps elevate the poor and improve the human condition Incorporating commentary from some of the top minds in the field of microfinance, this book puts the method of microfinance in perspective.
The Dreamers
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Author : John Kendrick Bangs
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-07
The Dreamers written by John Kendrick Bangs and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with Fiction categories.
The Dreamers: A Club