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The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found
outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories
such as personal collections, the streets, or appendages to
established collections. This volume examines the published and
unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts,
advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the
intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as
meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as
visions of new forms of equality. The print cultures examined here
are necessarily anti-institutional; they serve as a counterpoint to
the colonial archive and, relatedly, to more traditional genres and
text formats coming out of large-scale publishers. This means that
much of the primary material analyzed in this book has not been
scrutinized before. Many of these print productions articulate
collective liberation projects with origins in the grassroots. They
include debates around the shape of the postcolonial nation and the
new state formation that necessarily draw on a diverse and
contentious public sphere of opinion. Their rhetoric ranges from
the reformist to the revolutionary. Reflecting the diversity,
indeed the disorderliness, of postcolonial print cultures this book
covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia,
Africa, Europe and the Americas. Its wide-ranging essays offer a
nuanced and, taken together, a definitive (though that is not to
say comprehensive or systematic) study of a global phenomenon:
postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The
chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to
produce a postcolonialism ‘from below’, and thereby offer a
range of fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of
postcolonialism.
In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have
increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and
migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the
Northern Atlantic. Memory, migration and (de)colonisation furthers
our understanding of the lives of many of these migrants, and the
contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In
particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean
migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book
range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant
understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean
peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between
colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of
Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their
experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the
essays of academics and activists.
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Fierce Tea (Hardcover)
Jack Webb; Photographs by Jack Webb
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R475
Discovery Miles 4 750
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Fierce Tea Theory focuses on the life and work of Jaisen, a
self-proclaimed New Age performance artist from the Northeast of
England. Alone, or with his brother and friends, he instigates
artistic events -- performances which are strongly ritualistic and
extraordinarily surreal and anarchistic. Taking as his apparent
starting point the documentation of the activities of an
extraordinary and fascinating individual, Webb has developed his
approach in such a way that the subject becomes a mechanism for far
wider considerations of the nature of individual self and identity.
This second volume of a three-volume set offers concise
biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third
Reich with surnames between H and O. The set covers all branches of
service, providing a brief but scholarly overview of each
individual, including personal details and dates for all
attachments to unit, and medals awarded, offering a readily
accessible go-to reference work for all World War II researchers
and historians. In addition to the biographic information, this
volume includes detailed appendices on Reichsheer Generals and
Reichsmarine Admirals, 1921–35. These books are packed with
information on these senior officers of the Third Reich, many of
whom are little documented in the English language.
Before Charlie's Angels, Miami Vice, or NYPD Blue, there was
Dragnet. From 1951 to 1959, Jack Webb starred as Sergeant Joe
Friday in the most successful police drama in television history.
Webb ("Just the facts, ma'am") was also the creator of Dragnet, and
what made the show so revolutionary was its documentary-style
format and the fact that each episode was "ripped" from the files
of the LAPD. But 1950s television censors deemed many of the
stories in the LAPD's files too violent or sensational for the
airwaves. The Badge is Webb's collection of stories that could not
be presented on TV: untold, behind-the-scenes accounts of the Black
Dahlia murder, the Brenda Allen confessions, Stephen Nash's "thrill
murders," and Donald Bashor's "sleeping lady murders," to name just
a few. Case by case, The Badge takes readers on a spine chilling
police tour through the dark, shadowy world of Los Angeles crime.
It is a journey that, even four decades after it originally
appeared in print, no reader is likely to forget.
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Sunset Boulevard (Blu-ray disc)
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Nancy Olson, …
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R436
R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
Save R165 (38%)
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Billy Wilder directs this Oscar-winning classic exposé of the
Hollywood studio system. Struggling Hollywood writer Joe Gillis
(William Holden) is attempting to avoid his creditors when he pulls
his car into the garage of an apparently deserted mansion. He soon
discovers that it is in fact the home of Norma Desmond (Gloria
Swanson), an ageing actress who was once a star of silent films.
Desperate for money, Gillis agrees to work on a screenplay
adaptation of 'Salome' which Norma has written for her intended
comeback. Gillis then gradually becomes trapped in Norma's bizarre
fantasy world, and when he tries to leave her, she makes an attempt
at suicide. The film also features silent screen legends Cecil B.
DeMille, Buster Keaton and Erich von Stroheim in supporting roles.
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