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Russian Memoirs Volume 1 (Hardcover): Spencer E. Roberts Russian Memoirs Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Spencer E. Roberts
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Caribbean Economy in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover): R. Palmer The Caribbean Economy in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
R. Palmer
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book examines the status of the Anglophone Caribbean economy and the options it faces as traditional preferential trade arrangements begin to disappear. Two broad options are explored: one is the transformation of primary exports into higher value-added products and the other is a shift in the economic structure toward tourism and other services. The book constructs a model of a potential Caribbean economy, described as a "travel economy." The travel economy is based on two enduring features of Caribbean life--tourism and migration.--and it is meant to provide a benchmark against which to gauge the evolution of the structure of individual economies. The main contribution of this book is a concise and methodological treatment of the issues of transition and adjustment that the Caribbean faces in an increasingly liberalized international trading system.

Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics - African Spirituality in American Cinema (Hardcover): Kameelah L. Martin Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics - African Spirituality in American Cinema (Hardcover)
Kameelah L. Martin
R2,775 Discovery Miles 27 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney's Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion as an archetype, however, has a much longer history steeped in the colonial othering of Haitian Vodou and American imperialist fantasies about so-called 'black magic'. Within this cinematic study, Martin unravels how religious autonomy impacts the identity, function, and perception of Africana women in the American popular imagination. Martin interrogates seventy-five years of American film representations of black women engaged in conjure, hoodoo, obeah, or Voodoo to discern what happens when race, gender, and African spirituality collide. She develops the framework of Voodoo aesthetics, or the inscription of African cosmologies on the black female body, as the theoretical lens through which to scrutinize black female religious performance in film. Martin places the genre of film in conversation with black feminist/womanist criticism, offering an interdisciplinary approach to film analysis. Positioning the black priestess as another iteration of Patricia Hill Collins' notion of controlling images, Martin theorizes whether film functions as a safe space for a racial and gendered embodiment in the performance of African diasporic religion. Approaching the close reading of eight signature films from a black female spectatorship, Martin works chronologically to express the trajectory of the black priestess as cinematic motif over the last century of filmmaking. Conceptually, Martin recalibrates the scholarship on black women and representation by distinctly centering black women as ritual specialists and Black Atlantic spirituality on the silver screen.

Buchenwald (Hardcover): No Contributor Buchenwald (Hardcover)
No Contributor
R2,965 Discovery Miles 29 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Libraries in the Manuscript Age (Hardcover): Nuria de Castilla, Francois Deroche, Michael Friedrich Libraries in the Manuscript Age (Hardcover)
Nuria de Castilla, Francois Deroche, Michael Friedrich
R3,666 Discovery Miles 36 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia, Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars and men of religion were clearly dedicated to collecting books and sought to protect these fragile objects against the various hazards that threatened their survival. Many of these treasured books are long gone, but there remain hosts of evidence enabling one to reconstruct the collections to which they belonged, found in ancient buildings, literary accounts, archival documentation and, most crucially, catalogues. With such material at hand or, in some cases, the manuscripts of a certain library which have come down to us, it is possible to reflect on the nature of these libraries of the past, the interests of their owners, and their role in the intellectual history of the manuscript age.

Making Strangers: Outsiders, Aliens and Foreigners (Hardcover): Abbes Maazaoui Making Strangers: Outsiders, Aliens and Foreigners (Hardcover)
Abbes Maazaoui
R1,693 Discovery Miles 16 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reframing Postcolonial Studies - Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): David D. Kim Reframing Postcolonial Studies - Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
David D. Kim
R3,894 Discovery Miles 38 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored. Thebook points urgently to the many ways in which our society must reinvent itself to enable equitable justice for all."- Robert J.C. Young, Julius Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA "Drawing on urban theory, art history, literary analysis, environmental humanities and linguistics, this book is ambitious and wide-ranging, asking us what it is to live creatively and critically with the residues of colonial appropriation and sedimentation while in open dialogue with the subjects who still live in its wake." - Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, University College London, UK This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars of different generations, the chapters interrogate how current intellectual endeavors are in contact with individual and community-based actions outside of the academy. Going beyond the perennial debates on the tension between theory and praxis or on the disparity between activism and scholarship, they examine literary texts, visual artworks, language and immigration policies, public monuments, museum exhibitions, moral dilemmas, and political movements to deepen our contemporary postcolonial action on the edge of conceptual thinking, methodological experimentation, and scholarly activism. Reframing Postcolonial Studies is the first volume whose rationale is formulated in explicitly intergenerational, future-oriented terms.

Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature - From Dario to Carpentier (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): A. Sharman Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature - From Dario to Carpentier (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
A. Sharman
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed by a 'postmodern' cultural studies as a condition of the first half of the twentieth century whose major political, philosophical and cultural assumptions the region would do well to leave behind. This book explores a corpus of Spanish-American literary texts from that 'modern' period which dramatize the constitutive dynamics of modernity, in particular the legacy of the French Revolution, the logic of nationalism, the founding of the modern city, and the awkward relationship to both Western and indigenous traditions. Its argument is that one cannot so easily take leave of modernity.

Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Hardcover, New): Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Hardcover, New)
Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren
R2,903 Discovery Miles 29 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Imperium in Imperio" (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow.
"Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs" examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on African American literature and the terms that continue to shape American political thought and culture.

New English Canaan (Hardcover): Thomas Morton New English Canaan (Hardcover)
Thomas Morton; Edited by Jack Dempsey
R1,290 Discovery Miles 12 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nbbc, Joshua - A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition (Paperback): Stephen J. Lennox Nbbc, Joshua - A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition (Paperback)
Stephen J. Lennox
R823 R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eve's Orphans - Mothers and Daughters in Medieval English Literature (Hardcover): Nikki Stiller Eve's Orphans - Mothers and Daughters in Medieval English Literature (Hardcover)
Nikki Stiller
R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Preventing Crimes, Insurgencies and Desperate Migrations from Asia and Latin America (Hardcover): Iliyasu Buhari Maijega Preventing Crimes, Insurgencies and Desperate Migrations from Asia and Latin America (Hardcover)
Iliyasu Buhari Maijega
R1,096 Discovery Miles 10 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood (Paperback): Patrick Spedding A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood (Paperback)
Patrick Spedding
R1,854 Discovery Miles 18 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is much intense critical activity from researchers interested in the 18th century and women's studies, and as a result many of Haywood's works are now coming back into print. This is a comprehensive bibliography of Haywood, that lists newly discovered work and gives the history of lost works.

A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry - Poetics, Politics, Accent (English, Hebrew, Hardcover): Miryam Segal A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry - Poetics, Politics, Accent (English, Hebrew, Hardcover)
Miryam Segal
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With scrupulous attention to landmark poetic texts and to educational and critical discourse in early 20th-century Palestine, Miryam Segal traces the emergence of a new accent to replace the Ashkenazic or European Hebrew accent in which almost all modern Hebrew poetry had been composed until the 1920s. Segal takes into account the broad historical, ideological, and political context of this shift, including the construction of a national language, culture, and literary canon; the crucial role of schools; the influence of Zionism; and the leading role played by women poets in introducing the new accent. This meticulous and sophisticated yet readable study provides surprising new insights into the emergence of modern Hebrew poetry and the revival of the Hebrew language in the Land of Israel.

Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Marco Piazza Voltaire Against the Jews, or The Limits of Toleration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Marco Piazza
R3,541 Discovery Miles 35 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book challenges Voltaire's doctrine of toleration. Can a Jew be a philosopher? And if so, at what cost? It seeks to provide an organic interpretation of Voltaire's attitude towards Jews, problematising the issue against the background of his theory of toleration. To date, no monograph entirely dedicated to this theme has been written. This book attempts to provide an answer to the crucial questions that have emerged in the past fifty years through a process of reading and analysis that starts with the publication of Des Juifs (1756), and ends with the posthumous publication of the apocryphal article 'Juifs' in the Kehl edition of the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1784).

Production of the 'Self' in the Digital Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Yasmin Ibrahim Production of the 'Self' in the Digital Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Yasmin Ibrahim
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the relationship between the self and screen in the digital age, and examines how the notion of the self is re-negotiated and curated online. The chapters examine the production of the self in postmodernity through digital platforms by employing key concepts of ubiquity, the everyday, disembodiment and mortality. It locates self-production through ubiquitous imaging of the self and our environments with and through mobile technologies and in terms of its 'embeddedness' in our everyday lives. In this innovative text, Yasmin Ibrahim explores technology's co-location on our corporeal body, our notions of domesticity and banality, our renewed relationship with the screen and our enterprise with capital as well as the role of desire in the formation of the self. The result is a richly interdisciplinary volume that seeks to examine the formation of the self online, through its renewed negotiations with personalised technologies and with the emergence of social networking sites.

Shackles of Independence - A Memoir of an Unknown Indian (Hardcover): Prasanta Sarkar Shackles of Independence - A Memoir of an Unknown Indian (Hardcover)
Prasanta Sarkar
R946 Discovery Miles 9 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gender and Sexuality in 1968 - Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination (Hardcover): L. Frazier, Deborah Cohen Gender and Sexuality in 1968 - Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination (Hardcover)
L. Frazier, Deborah Cohen
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of 1968.

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Ageing under the Union (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Chris Gilleard Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Ageing under the Union (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Chris Gilleard
R2,020 Discovery Miles 20 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland's population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908. It examines the changing demography of the country following the Famine and the impact this had on household and family structure. It explores the growing problem of late life poverty and the residualisation of the aged sick and poor in the workhouse. Despite slow improvements in many areas of life for the young and the working classes, the book argues that for the aged the union was a period of growing immiseration, brought surprisingly to an end by the unheralded introduction of the old age pension.

The Films of Ousmane Semb Ne - Discourse, Culture, and Politics (Hardcover, New): Amadou Tidiane Fofana The Films of Ousmane Semb Ne - Discourse, Culture, and Politics (Hardcover, New)
Amadou Tidiane Fofana
R2,721 Discovery Miles 27 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ousmane Sembene was a Senegalese film director, producer, and writer whom the Los Angeles Times considered one of the greatest authors of Africa. Often called the "father of African film," Sembene strongly believed that African films should be geared primarily toward educating the masses and making the philosophical quandaries and political issues contested by elites accessible to the poor and those with little to no formal education.Although Sembene's central aim was to reach African audiences and encourage a dialogue within Senegalese society, his films are also extraordinarily effective in introducing non-African audiences to many of the most intriguing cultural issues and social changes facing African people today. The films are not fast paced in the manner of many Hollywood films. Rather, they are deliberately unhurried and driven by the narrative. They show actual ways of life, social relations, and patterns of communication and consumption, and the joys and tribulations of West African people. For people who have never been to Africa, the films offer an accessible first gaze. For those who have visited or lived in an African culture, the films provide a way to explore African society and culture more profoundly. Sembene was an independent filmmaker, solely and totally responsible for the content of his films, which were inspired by the realities of daily life. This focus on microcosmic social relations and day-to-day politics is so central to Sembene art, his films breed provocative commentary on social, historical, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and gender issues relevant to Senegalese society. Because of his concern with daily Senegalese life, Sembene targeted the common people whose voices are seldom or never heard. In fact, depicting the struggles and concerns of average Senegalese people was a central preoccupation of his films, as he himself has articulated. This study examines the artistry of Sembene's films as well as the multitude of signifying elements Sembene uses in them to communicate in less direct ways with his audience. The book interprets the meaning conveyed by images through their placement and function within the films, and it contributes new insights into Sembene's interpretations of cultural practices and the meanings he ascribes to social behaviors. It examines how Sembene uses language, mise-en-scene, cinematography, and creative editing to evoke the emotions of his targeted audience. Several chapters in the volume also demonstrate how the many ironies and political economic tensions that are so characteristic of Sembene's work are best understood within the sociocultural context of each film's production. Hence, to make sense of Sembene's cinema, one must be willing to read beyond the denoted meaning of the storyline and to dig into the cultural significance of the carefully selected and manipulated codes and images.

Ada to Zembla - The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov (Hardcover): David Vernon Ada to Zembla - The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov (Hardcover)
David Vernon
R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative - Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation (Hardcover): B. Findley Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative - Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation (Hardcover)
B. Findley
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studies of women and writing frequently take historical woman authors as their starting point. Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative proposes a different approach, looking instead at the numerous fictional female characters of 13th-15th century French narrative who are portrayed as composing and performing poetry, and whose gendered literary activity links writing, singing, the body, and performance. Such figures represent a promising new area of exploration in women's literary history, one based on the texts themselves rather than the uncertain circumstances of their composition.

A History of the Chinese Language (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Hongyuan Dong A History of the Chinese Language (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Hongyuan Dong
R4,388 Discovery Miles 43 880 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A History of the Chinese Language provides a comprehensive introduction to the historical development of the Chinese language from its Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots in prehistoric times to Modern Standard Chinese. Taking a highly accessible and balanced approach, it presents a chronological survey of the various stages of the Chinese language, covering key aspects such as phonology, syntax, and semantics. The second edition presents a revised and updated version that reflects recent scholarship in Chinese historical linguistics and new developments in related disciplines. Features include: Coverage of the major historical stages in Chinese language development, such as Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, Early Modern Chinese, and Modern Standard Chinese. Treatment of core linguistic aspects of the Chinese language, including phonological changes, grammatical development, lexical evolution, vernacular writing, the Chinese writing system, and Chinese dialects. Inclusion of authentic Chinese texts throughout the book, presented within a rigorous framework of linguistic analysis to help students to build up critical and evaluative skills and acquire valuable cultural knowledge. Integration of materials from different disciplines, such as archaeology, genetics, history, and sociolinguistics, to highlight the cultural and social background of each period of the language. Written by a highly experienced instructor, A History of the Chinese Language will be an essential resource for students of Chinese language and linguistics and for anyone interested in the history and culture of China.

A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese (Paperback): Mei Ah Tan A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese (Paperback)
Mei Ah Tan
R1,300 Discovery Miles 13 000 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Ancient graphs provided to illustrate early meanings and extended meanings Reconstructed sounds given to illustrate the basis for borrowed meanings Parts of speech and syntactic components illustrated for each usage Detailed explanations of special usage and pronunciation Contextual examples to illustrate usage and show connections to contemporary culture

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