Author: Sheng-mei Ma
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816637119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Asian American resistance to Orientalism -- the Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the East -- is usually assumed. And yet, as this provocative work demonstrates, in order to refute racist stereotypes they must first be evoked, and in the process the two often become entangled. Sheng-mei Ma shows how the distinguished careers of post-1960s Asian American writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Frank Chin, and David Henry Hwang reveal that while Asian American identity is constructed in reaction to Orientalism, the two cultural forces are not necessarily at odds. The vigor with which these Asian Americans revolt against Orientalism in fact tacitly acknowledges the family lineage of the two.
Author: George Frederick Shrady
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Author: New York Academy of Medicine
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446496953
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of Books Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his best essays in which his insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of today. The full (and enormous) range of his work is represented here, from the exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism - to studies of Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Churchill and Roosevelt. In these pages he encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism, historicism, Fascism, relativism, irrationalism and nationalism. His ideas are always tied to the people who conceived them, so that abstractions are brought alive. EDITED BY HENRY HARDY AND ROGER HAUSHEER AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDREW MARR
Author: Francis Parkman
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Author: Francis Parkman
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Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Author: Paul Bowman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197540333
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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"The Invention of Martial Arts examines the media history of what we now call 'martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV and other media. It argues that 'martial arts' exploded into popular consciousness entirely thanks to the work of media. Of course, the book does not deny the existence of real, material histories and non-media dimensions in martial arts practices. But it thoroughly recasts the status of such histories, combining recent myth-busting findings in historical martial arts research with important insights into the discontinuous character of history, the widespread 'invention of tradition', the orientalism and imagined geographies that animate many ideas about history, and the frequent manipulation of history for reasons of status, cultural capital, private or public power, politics, and/or financial gain. In doing so, The Invention of Martial Arts argues for the primacy of media representation as key player in the emergence and spread of martial arts. This argument overturns the dominant belief that 'real practices' are primary, while representations are secondary. The book makes its case via historical analysis of the British media history of such Eastern and Western martial arts as Bartitsu, jujutsu, judo, karate, tai chi and MMA across a range of media, from newspapers, comics and books to cartoon, film and TV series, as well as television adverts and music videos, focusing on key but often overlooked texts such as adverts for 'Hai Karate', the 1970s disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting', and many other mainstream and marginal media texts"--
Author: Francis Parkman
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Dave Hayes
Publisher: Dave Hayes
ISBN: 0645927740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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If earth was threatened, would you kill to protect it? It’s 2084 and evil Loxians seek to destroy the earth. The Protectors, an ancient alien race sworn to protect human life, team up with two human heroes. They cross the galaxies on an epic quest to save us all. Chloe Sims and Cam Ogilvy are two ordinary people, living ordinary lives. Everything changes when the secretive organisation called the Sarissa reveals itself and thrusts these two humans into an intergalactic quest to save the world. Teaming up with Alex Crofton, a Sarissa agent and Pria, Protector of the house of Jerah, Cam and Sims must learn humility and strength. Can they save the world? FREE short stories and maps at thespeculativehayes.com
Author: Eleanor Rose Ty
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086044
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies how authors and filmmakers meet the gaze of the dominant culture and respond to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies. Ty does not survey Asian Canadian and Asian America literature, but presents readings of selected texts that actively engage with issues of otherness, visibility, and identification. Many of them, she says, are in the process of working out how larger issues of representation, power, and history affect Asian North American subjectivity. Parts of the work have been published previously.
