Author: Everest Media
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN: 1669349500
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The author’s personal and professional journey leads him to Urzaiz’s Eugenia, and the eugenic project of early twentieth-century Mérida. While focused on a particular writer and his work, the reading explodes outward to take on not only the question of historical context, but the far-reaching resonance of disability and eugenic discourse across time and space. #2 The scene in question is striking for its brief but vivid physical descriptions of the characters involved, specifically the Africans, the physician, and the young Ernesto. While the history of eugenics is a history of racism, within the novel itself, eugenics functions to erase negatively perceived physical and psychological conditions. #3 The novel centers around the story of Ernesto, a young and physically ideal male, and his older, intellectually gifted partner and former teacher, Celiana. Toward the beginning of the novel, Ernesto, thanks to his physical endowments, is selected by the state to be an official reproducer of the species. #4 Eugenics and the romantic plot work in tandem with a political backdrop in which Mexico is on the brink of a potential trade war with Cuba, due to disagreements regarding the price of sugar.
Summary of Susan Antebi's Embodied Archive
Author: Everest Media
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN: 1669349500
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The author’s personal and professional journey leads him to Urzaiz’s Eugenia, and the eugenic project of early twentieth-century Mérida. While focused on a particular writer and his work, the reading explodes outward to take on not only the question of historical context, but the far-reaching resonance of disability and eugenic discourse across time and space. #2 The scene in question is striking for its brief but vivid physical descriptions of the characters involved, specifically the Africans, the physician, and the young Ernesto. While the history of eugenics is a history of racism, within the novel itself, eugenics functions to erase negatively perceived physical and psychological conditions. #3 The novel centers around the story of Ernesto, a young and physically ideal male, and his older, intellectually gifted partner and former teacher, Celiana. Toward the beginning of the novel, Ernesto, thanks to his physical endowments, is selected by the state to be an official reproducer of the species. #4 Eugenics and the romantic plot work in tandem with a political backdrop in which Mexico is on the brink of a potential trade war with Cuba, due to disagreements regarding the price of sugar.
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN: 1669349500
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The author’s personal and professional journey leads him to Urzaiz’s Eugenia, and the eugenic project of early twentieth-century Mérida. While focused on a particular writer and his work, the reading explodes outward to take on not only the question of historical context, but the far-reaching resonance of disability and eugenic discourse across time and space. #2 The scene in question is striking for its brief but vivid physical descriptions of the characters involved, specifically the Africans, the physician, and the young Ernesto. While the history of eugenics is a history of racism, within the novel itself, eugenics functions to erase negatively perceived physical and psychological conditions. #3 The novel centers around the story of Ernesto, a young and physically ideal male, and his older, intellectually gifted partner and former teacher, Celiana. Toward the beginning of the novel, Ernesto, thanks to his physical endowments, is selected by the state to be an official reproducer of the species. #4 Eugenics and the romantic plot work in tandem with a political backdrop in which Mexico is on the brink of a potential trade war with Cuba, due to disagreements regarding the price of sugar.
Embodied Archive
Author: Susan Antebi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472038508
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472038508
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period
Biocosmism
Author: Jorge Quintana Navarrete
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826506534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution. In Biocosmism, Jorge Quintana Navarrete shifts the focus to examine how a group of scientists, artists, and philosophers conceived the manifold relations of the human species with cosmological forces and nonhuman entities (animals, plants, inorganic matter, and celestial bodies, among others). Drawing from recent theoretical trends in new materialisms, biopolitics, and posthumanism, this book traces for the first time the intellectual constellation of biocosmism or biocosmic thought: the study of universal life understood as the vital vibrancy that animates everything in the cosmos from inorganic matter to living organisms to outer space. It combines both analysis of unexplored areas—such as Alfonso L. Herrera’s plasmogeny—and innovative readings of canonical texts like Vasconcelos’s La raza cósmica to examine how biocosmism produced a wide array of utopian projects and theorizations that continue to challenge anthropocentric, biopolitical frameworks.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826506534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution. In Biocosmism, Jorge Quintana Navarrete shifts the focus to examine how a group of scientists, artists, and philosophers conceived the manifold relations of the human species with cosmological forces and nonhuman entities (animals, plants, inorganic matter, and celestial bodies, among others). Drawing from recent theoretical trends in new materialisms, biopolitics, and posthumanism, this book traces for the first time the intellectual constellation of biocosmism or biocosmic thought: the study of universal life understood as the vital vibrancy that animates everything in the cosmos from inorganic matter to living organisms to outer space. It combines both analysis of unexplored areas—such as Alfonso L. Herrera’s plasmogeny—and innovative readings of canonical texts like Vasconcelos’s La raza cósmica to examine how biocosmism produced a wide array of utopian projects and theorizations that continue to challenge anthropocentric, biopolitical frameworks.
Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature
Author: Brian T. Chandler
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684485215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684485215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.
Latter-Day Saint Art
Author: Amanda K. Beardsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197632505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader seeks to fill a substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume includes twenty-two essays examining art by, for, or about Mormons, as well as over 200 high-quality color illustrations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197632505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader seeks to fill a substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume includes twenty-two essays examining art by, for, or about Mormons, as well as over 200 high-quality color illustrations.
The Matter of Disability
Author: David T. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472054112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book’s contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the “complex elaboration of difference,” rather than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process. This alternative approach to materiality sheds new light on the capacities that exist within the depictions of disability that the book examines, including Spider-Man, Of Mice and Men, and Bloodchild.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472054112
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book’s contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the “complex elaboration of difference,” rather than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process. This alternative approach to materiality sheds new light on the capacities that exist within the depictions of disability that the book examines, including Spider-Man, Of Mice and Men, and Bloodchild.
Diaphanous Bodies
Author: Jeremy Colangelo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132792
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132792
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen
Cultures of Representation
Author: Benjamin Fraser
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231850964
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries – from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodóvar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood – while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231850964
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries – from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodóvar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood – while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.
The Annenberg Collection
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393410
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations. -- From publisher.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393410
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations. -- From publisher.
The Ruined Archive
Author: Iain Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788895194387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
La quatrième de couverture indique: "How does the modern museum respond to the movement, migrations and mobilities of the modern world that exceed its practices and premises? The essays in this volume circulate in the constellation of cultural, postcolonial and museum studies to propose a series of intersecting perspectives promoting critical responses to this ongoing interrogation. Memory, the archive, and the politics of display, are unwound from their institutional moorings and allowed to drift into other, frequently non-authorised, accounts of time and space. Called upon to negotiate unplanned encounters with unsuspected actors and the obscured sides of modernity, the museum becomes an experimental space, a laboratory for a cultural democracy yet to come."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788895194387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
La quatrième de couverture indique: "How does the modern museum respond to the movement, migrations and mobilities of the modern world that exceed its practices and premises? The essays in this volume circulate in the constellation of cultural, postcolonial and museum studies to propose a series of intersecting perspectives promoting critical responses to this ongoing interrogation. Memory, the archive, and the politics of display, are unwound from their institutional moorings and allowed to drift into other, frequently non-authorised, accounts of time and space. Called upon to negotiate unplanned encounters with unsuspected actors and the obscured sides of modernity, the museum becomes an experimental space, a laboratory for a cultural democracy yet to come."