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Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national
bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular
production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from
and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest
in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production,
distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final
consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions
concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of
commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to
transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but
they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the
meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a
geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers
and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties
increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical
engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect
the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between
producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each
section.
Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national
bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular
production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from
and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest
in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production,
distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final
consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions
concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of
commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to
transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but
they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the
meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a
geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers
and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties
increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical
engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect
the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between
producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each
section.
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who
celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that
fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse
as the Jesuits, who arrived inL'Empire du Milieu in the late
seventeenth century, and theTel Quel intellectuals, whose will to
political pilgrimage took them to the People's Republic in 1974.
Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of
China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel,
Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Malraux, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, and Marc Riboud. In this penetrating study, Alex
Hughes explores models of intercultural encounter between France
and China elaborated in the modern French.
The international team of contributors and consultants have provided over 700 entries offering wide-ranging coverage and crossing the traditional boundaries between disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. French culture is defined in its broadest sense and areas covered include: Economy Education Film Food and Wine Gender and Sexuality Intellectual Life Language and Identity Literature Media Music Performing Arts Politics Religion Society Visual Arts. Entries range from shorter, factual contributions to longer overview essays, and provide an essential context for anyone studying French, readers with an interest in critical theory and anyone pursuing comparative studies in European culture. To assist readers with their research a classified contents list identifies relevant entries within a particular field. The articles are extensively cross-referenced to provide links between subjects and conclude with annotated suggestions for further reading.
More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies. eBook available with sample pages: 0203003306
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who
celebrated their annee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that
fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse
as the Jesuits, who arrived in L'Empire du Milieu in the late
seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to
political pilgrimage took them to the People's Republic in 1974.
Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of
China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel,
Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Malraux, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, and Marc Riboud. In this penetrating study, Alex
Hughes explores models of intercultural encounter between France
and China elaborated in the modern French cultural arena. Locating
forms of bodily experience as critical to that encounter, she
reflects on its forms and foundations.
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Enma (Paperback)
Alex Hughes
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Orphenn is an orphan, and he was beginning to think that that was
all he would ever be. So when a strange woman who calls herself his
sister spirits him away and hurls him into another universe, he
felt absolutely overwhelmed. Family, friends, and allies await him
there-three things that were beyond an orphan's wildest dreams.
Only afterward does he find the truth about his family: that his
twin sisters began as triplets, and that the third sister, who had
murdered their parents, was leading a comeback to conquer the world
of Aleida. With their squadron, the White Herons, and Aleida's
mutant army, Orphenn and his companions must overcome his sister's
conquest and destroy her nation. But how can they destroy their own
sibling? Separate dimensions, mutants, families, bonds, turncoats,
rebellion, and betrayal-Enma is a riveting story of dreams and
gifts. In this world of cliche vampires and overused werewolves,
Hughes's world of conquest and romance is a breath of fresh air. In
her unique, dramatic style, she writes of the hardships Orphenn and
his newfound family must endure in a time of civil war, in a
universe beside our own.
This book opens up the history of twentieth-century French cinema
from the silent era to the present day by exploring the key role of
gender and sexual politics. A much-needed sequel to Berg's
bestselling Gender and German Cinema, the volume tackles such
questions as:
- What role did the female voice play when sound cinema was first
developed?
- How have film genres and movements been shaped by gender and
sexual politics?
- How does gender intersect with factors of race, class, ethnic and
national identity?
The contributors also throw into relief broad issues such as the
evolution of film in the context of 20C French social, political
and cultural history.
Bringing together original essays by French, British and American
scholars, the collection fully covers the development of French
cinema. It addresses the work of individual auteurs, the French
star system, and film genres and movements such as Dada and
Surrealism, the New Wave and the New New Wave. It also focuses on
film narratives in which issues of gender are particularly
pertinent. The volume, which features illustrations, a filmography
and bibliography, will be one of the standard handbooks in French
cultural/film studies for some time to come.
Within the domain of French literary analysis, gender criticism has
until now focused primarily on women's writing and has drawn
largely on the writings of French feminist theorists, even though
male-authored texts provide an equally revealing window through
which to analyze gender. Except by mainly male critics working
predominantly in the field of gay and queer studies, the issue of
how 'maleness' informs the construction of the self and the
creative act more broadly has been virtually ignored. Further, even
though much more work has been done on women, it can be argued that
the construction of 'femaleness' is most profitably illuminated by
an approach that allows for a comparison between the sexes.
This book starts with the premise that sex and gender are
fundamental components of the autobiographical writing of both
sexes. This is demonstrated through close readings of works by a
number of twentieth-century authors who are paired, one male with
one female. In tackling, amongst other things, colonial and
postcolonial writing, Aids writing, the question of photography and
fetishism, queer politics and culture in writings by Sartre,
Beauvoir, Gide, Duras, Guibert, Cardinal, Leduc and Doubrovsky,
this book provides an excellent model for analyzing gender and the
autobiographical act more broadly.
Winner of the R. H. Gapper Prize 2000
This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and
lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to
formalize a specifically 'gay' or 'lesbian' style or identity, the
authors seek to open up new 'homotextualities, ' understood here as
ongoing constructions and deconstructions of both homosexuality and
its environments. They investigate the work of (among others)
Violette Leduc, Tony Duvert, Renaud Camus, and Guy Hocquenghem; the
cinema of Josiane Balasko and Cyril Collard; the theoretical
writings of Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray, and Monique Wittig.
Employing a range of methods, authors re-evaluate and contest both
the literary and theoretical canon and establish new convergences
between French and Gay Studies, in particular, queer theory. This
book provides the first proper assessment of the usefulness of this
approach when dealing with a literary and cultural tradition
notoriously discreet about the very concept of a gay writer.
This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and
lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to
formalize a specifically 'gay' or 'lesbian' style or identity, the
authors seek to open up new 'homotextualities, ' understood here as
ongoing constructions and deconstructions of both homosexuality and
its environments. They investigate the work of (among others)
Violette Leduc, Tony Duvert, Renaud Camus, and Guy Hocquenghem; the
cinema of Josiane Balasko and Cyril Collard; the theoretical
writings of Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray, and Monique Wittig.
Employing a range of methods, authors re-evaluate and contest both
the literary and theoretical canon and establish new convergences
between French and Gay Studies, in particular, queer theory. This
book provides the first proper assessment of the usefulness of this
approach when dealing with a literary and cultural tradition
notoriously discreet about the very concept of a gay writer.
This fascinating study explores the pleasures and torments of love
and sexuality as depicted in the works of six important French
women writers: Rachilde, Colette, Leduc, Wittig, Cixous and Duras.
Historically, erotic literature has been dominated by male writers.
Feminist critics have argued that its central motifs of voyeurism,
sadomasochism, incest and violence to women's bodies are governed
by the unconscious fantasies and prejudices of a patriarchal
sociocultural order.
The contributors question how this sociocultural order has affected
the erotic writing of the women writers studied. They explore the
opportunities for, and constraints on, women's erotic writing in
the early to mid-twentieth century through the works of Rachilde,
Colette and Leduc. This is contrasted with the writing of prominent
contemporary authors -- Wittig, Cixous and Duras -- to reveal new
developments and diversification within the genre. The focus
throughout is on how these writers deal with erotic language and
rhetoric, their treatment of traditional themes of eroticism, and
-- most vital to recent feminist criticism and theory -- their
vision of the female body and women's sexual pleasure. The book
provides key insights into the development of women's erotic
discourse throughout this century and the diversity that
characterizes it.
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Postcolonial Economies (Hardcover)
Jane Pollard, Doctor Cheryl Mcewan, Doctor Alex Hughes; Contributions by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Wendy Larner, …
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Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of
increasing academic and political significance as questions about
the nature of globalization, transnational flows of capital and
workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume
center stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy.
Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding
how "other" cultures encounter "the west," economics-oriented
approaches within social sciences (e.g., Development Economics,
Economic Geography, and the discipline of Economics itself) have
been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by
postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been
criticized for their simplistic treatment of "the economic" and for
not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth
creation. Utilizing examples drawn from everywhere from India to
Latin America, "Postcolonial Economies" breaks new ground in
providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its
treatment of "the economic," bringing together scholars in a range
of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development
Studies, History and Women's Studies.
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Postcolonial Economies (Paperback)
Jane Pollard, Doctor Cheryl Mcewan, Doctor Alex Hughes; Contributions by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Wendy Larner, …
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R1,292
Discovery Miles 12 920
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Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of
increasing academic and political significance as questions about
the nature of globalization, transnational flows of capital and
workers, and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume
center stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy.
Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding
how "other" cultures encounter "the West," economics-oriented
approaches within social sciences (e.g., Development Economics,
Economic Geography, and the discipline of Economics itself) have
been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by
postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been
criticized for their simplistic treatment of "the economic" and for
not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth
creation. Utilizing world-wide examples drawn from India to Latin
America, "Postcolonial Economies" breaks new ground in providing a
space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment
of "the economic," bringing together scholars in a range of
disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies,
History, and Women's Studies.
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