Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders

Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders PDF Author: Vanessa Longden
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848884176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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SITUATING STRANGENESS

SITUATING STRANGENESS PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004374720
Category : Politics and culture
Languages : en
Pages :

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Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders

Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders PDF Author: Vanessa Longden
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848884176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Play of Individuals and Societies

Play of Individuals and Societies PDF Author: Lynn A. Barnett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848883277
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Transgressive Womanhood: Investigating Vamps, Witches, Whores, Serial Killers and Monsters

Transgressive Womanhood: Investigating Vamps, Witches, Whores, Serial Killers and Monsters PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848882831
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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This volume explores the theme of evil, women and the feminine, indicating both the misogynist and subversive implications of the evil woman stereotype.

Hilda

Hilda PDF Author: Marie NDiaye
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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The Global Trajectories of Queerness

The Global Trajectories of Queerness PDF Author: Ashley Tellis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004217940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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The Global Trajectories of Queerness interrogates the term “queer” by closely mapping what space the theorizing of same-sex sexualities and sexual politics in the non-West inhabits. From theoretical discussions around the epistemologies of such conceptualizations of space in the Global South, to specific ethnographies of same-sex culture, this collection hopes to forge a way of tracking the histories of race, class, caste, gender, and sexual orientation that form what is called the moment of globalization. The volume, co-edited by Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala, asks whether the societies of the Global South simply borrow and graft an internationalist (read Euro-US) language of LGBT/queer rights and identity politics, whether it is imposed on them or whether there is a productive negotiation of that language. Contributing Authors: Sruti Bala, Laia Ribera Cañénguez, Soledad Cutuli, Roderick Ferguson, Iman Ganji, Krystal Ghisyawan, Josephine Ho, Neville Hoad, Victoria Keller, Haneen Maikey, Shad Naved, Guillermo Núñez Noriega, Stella Nyanzi, Witchayanee Ocha, Julieta Paredes, Mikki Stelder, Ashley Tellis, and Wei Tingting

Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine

Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848880448
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Evil. Women. The Feminine. The relationships that bring together these three ideas form the basis for the papers gathered together in this volume. By asking how, why, when, and to what purpose these three terms are often linked serves as the starting point of interrogation for each of the authors here considered.

Villains and Heroes, or Villains as Heroes? Essays on the Relationship between Villainy and Evil

Villains and Heroes, or Villains as Heroes? Essays on the Relationship between Villainy and Evil PDF Author: Luke Seaber
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004399348
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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What constitutes a villain? How does villainy differ from evil? Do villains created for children's fiction differ from those created for adults? The villains considered in this volume come from an eclectic range of sources - from comic books to film and from novels to television serials - and a broad selection of times and places. Villains continue to raise troubling questions about the role of narrative in both fiction and real life.

The Spell of the Sensuous

The Spell of the Sensuous PDF Author: David Abram
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830551
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.

Performing National Identity

Performing National Identity PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 940120523X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances—ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to ‘cultural performances’ such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media—that cultural identity and a sense of nationhood are fashioned. National identity is not an essence one is born with but something acquired in and through performances. Particularly important here are intercultural performances and transactions, and that not only in a colonial and postcolonial dimension, where such performative aspects have already been considered, but also in inner-European transactions. ‘Englishness’ or ‘Britishness’ and Italianità, the subject of this anthology, are staged both within each culture and, more importantly, in joint performances of difference across cultural borders. Performing difference highlights differences that ‘make a difference’; it ‘draws a line’ between self and other—boundary lines that are, however, constantly being redrawn and renegotiated, and remain instable and shifting.