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"Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American
Literature" explores the ways in which 20th-century literature has
been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor
in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in the
West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's
influence on a range of key literary texts will be examined in the
context of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed
include T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac,
Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston.
This book brings together for the first time a series of
context-rich interpretations that demonstrate the importance of
literature in this ongoing cultural change in Britain and the
United States.
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The
concept of ‘generations’ has become a widely discussed area,
with recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic revealing our
dependence on intergenerational relationships both within and
beyond the family. However, the concept can often be misunderstood,
which can fuel divisions between age groups rather than generating
solutions. This collection introduces and explores the growing
field of generational studies, providing a comprehensive overview
of its strengths and limitations. With contributions from academics
across a range of disciplines, the book showcases the concept’s
interdisciplinary potential by applying a generational lens to
fields including sociology, literature, history, psychology, media
studies and politics. Offering fresh perspectives, this original
collection is a valuable addition to the field, opening new avenues
for generational thinking.
This book offers an original critique of the billionaire founders
of US West Coast tech companies, addressing their collective power,
influence, and ideology, their group dynamics, and the role they
play in the wider sociocultural and political formations of digital
capitalism. Interrogating not only the founders' political and
economic ambitions, but also how their corporations are omnipresent
in our everyday lives, the authors provide robust evidence that a
specific kind of patriarchal power has emerged as digital
capitalism's mode of command. The 'New Patriarchs' examined over
the course of the book include: Sergey Brin and Larry Page of
Google, Elon Musk of Tesla, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg
of Facebook, and Peter Thiel. We also include Sheryl Sandberg. The
book analyses how these (mostly) men legitimate their rapidly
acquired power, tying a novel kind of socially awkward but
'visionary' masculinity to exotic forms of shareholding. Drawing on
a ten million word digital concordance, the authors intervene in
feminist debates on patriarchy, masculinity, and postfeminism,
locating the power of the founders as emanating from a specifically
racialised structure of oppression tied to imaginaries of the
American frontier, the patriarchal household, and settler
colonialism. This is an important interdisciplinary contribution
suitable for researchers and students across Digital Media, Media
and Communication, and Gender and Cultural Studies.
This book offers an original critique of the billionaire founders
of US West Coast tech companies, addressing their collective power,
influence, and ideology, their group dynamics, and the role they
play in the wider sociocultural and political formations of digital
capitalism. Interrogating not only the founders' political and
economic ambitions, but also how their corporations are omnipresent
in our everyday lives, the authors provide robust evidence that a
specific kind of patriarchal power has emerged as digital
capitalism's mode of command. The 'New Patriarchs' examined over
the course of the book include: Sergey Brin and Larry Page of
Google, Elon Musk of Tesla, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg
of Facebook, and Peter Thiel. We also include Sheryl Sandberg. The
book analyses how these (mostly) men legitimate their rapidly
acquired power, tying a novel kind of socially awkward but
'visionary' masculinity to exotic forms of shareholding. Drawing on
a ten million word digital concordance, the authors intervene in
feminist debates on patriarchy, masculinity, and postfeminism,
locating the power of the founders as emanating from a specifically
racialised structure of oppression tied to imaginaries of the
American frontier, the patriarchal household, and settler
colonialism. This is an important interdisciplinary contribution
suitable for researchers and students across Digital Media, Media
and Communication, and Gender and Cultural Studies.
Feminism and generation are live and ideologically freighted issues
that are subject to a substantial amount of media engagement. The
figure of the millennial and the baby boomer, for example,
regularly circulate in mainstream media, often accompanied by
hyperbolic and vitriolic discourses and effects of
intergenerational feminist conflict. In addition, theories of
feminist generation and waves have been, and continue to be,
extensively critiqued within feminist theory. Given the compelling
criticisms directed at these categories, we ask: why bother
examining and foregrounding issues of generation, intergeneration,
and transgeneration in feminist media studies? While remaining
skeptical of linearity and familial metaphors and of repeating
reductive, heteronormative, and racist versions of feminist
movements, we believe that the concept of generation does have
critical purchase for feminist media scholars. Indeed, precisely
because of the problematic ways in which it is used, and its
prevalence as a volatile, yet only too palpable, organizing
category, generation is in need of continual critical analysis, and
is an important tool to be used-with care and nuance-when examining
the multiple routes through which power functions in order to
marginalize, reward, and oppress. This book covers a range of media
forms: film; games; digital media; television; print media; and
practices of media production, intervention, and representation.
The contributors explore how figures at particular stages of
life-particularly the girl and the aging woman-are constructed
relationally and circulate within media, with particular attention
to sexuality. The book emphasizes exploring the ways in which the
category of generation is mobilized in order to gloss sexism,
racism, ageism, class oppression, and the effects of neoliberalism.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of Feminist Media Studies.
Feminism and generation are live and ideologically freighted issues
that are subject to a substantial amount of media engagement. The
figure of the millennial and the baby boomer, for example,
regularly circulate in mainstream media, often accompanied by
hyperbolic and vitriolic discourses and effects of
intergenerational feminist conflict. In addition, theories of
feminist generation and waves have been, and continue to be,
extensively critiqued within feminist theory. Given the compelling
criticisms directed at these categories, we ask: why bother
examining and foregrounding issues of generation, intergeneration,
and transgeneration in feminist media studies? While remaining
skeptical of linearity and familial metaphors and of repeating
reductive, heteronormative, and racist versions of feminist
movements, we believe that the concept of generation does have
critical purchase for feminist media scholars. Indeed, precisely
because of the problematic ways in which it is used, and its
prevalence as a volatile, yet only too palpable, organizing
category, generation is in need of continual critical analysis, and
is an important tool to be used-with care and nuance-when examining
the multiple routes through which power functions in order to
marginalize, reward, and oppress. This book covers a range of media
forms: film; games; digital media; television; print media; and
practices of media production, intervention, and representation.
The contributors explore how figures at particular stages of
life-particularly the girl and the aging woman-are constructed
relationally and circulate within media, with particular attention
to sexuality. The book emphasizes exploring the ways in which the
category of generation is mobilized in order to gloss sexism,
racism, ageism, class oppression, and the effects of neoliberalism.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of Feminist Media Studies.
Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American
Literature explores the ways in which 20th-century literature has
been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor
in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in the
West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's
influence on a range of key literary texts are examined in the
context of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed
include T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac,
Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston.
This book brings together for the first time a series of
context-rich interpretations that demonstrate the importance of
literature in this ongoing cultural change in Britain and the
United States.
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