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Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no
Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold
Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers,
high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this
book, Amelie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class
backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the
processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social
group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity
that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook
up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's
promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an
ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard
reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and
non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting
and contingent nature of Westernness-and also its deep connection
to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a
singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities
of the global South.
Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no
Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold
Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers,
high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this
book, Amelie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class
backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the
processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social
group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity
that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook
up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's
promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an
ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard
reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and
non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting
and contingent nature of Westernness-and also its deep connection
to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a
singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities
of the global South.
The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the
Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days
after the June '67 War, Israeli forces razed the Quarter, its
narrow alleys widened and homes removed, to create the Western Wall
Plaza. With this book, Vincent Lemire offers the first history of
the Maghrebi Quarter-spanning 800 years from its founding by
Saladin in 1187 to house North African Muslim pilgrims through to
its destruction. To bring this vanished district back to life,
Lemire gathers its now-scattered documentation in the archives of
Muslim pious foundations in Jerusalem and the Red Cross in Geneva,
in Ottoman archives in Istanbul and Israeli state archives. He
engages testimonies of former residents and looks to recent
archaeological digs that have resurfaced household objects buried
during the destruction. Today, the Western Wall Plaza extends over
the former Maghrebi Quarter. It is one of the most identifiable
places in the world-yet one of the most occluded in history. In the
Shadow of the Wall offers a new point of entry to understand this
consequential place.
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Ninette of Sin Street (Paperback)
Vitalis Danon; Edited by Lia Brozgal, Sarah Abrevaya Stein; Translated by Jane Kuntz
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R627
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Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the
first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette's author,
Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis of the
Franco-Jewish organization the Alliance Israelite Universelle and
quickly adopted-and was adopted by-the local community. Ninette is
an unlikely protagonist: Compelled by poverty to work as a
prostitute, she dreams of a better life and an education for her
son. Plucky and street-wise, she enrolls her son in the local
school and the story unfolds as she narrates her life to the
school's headmaster. Ninette's account is both a classic
rags-to-riches tale and a subtle, incisive critique of French
colonialism. That Ninette's story should still prove surprising
today suggests how much we stand to learn from history, and from
the secrets of Sin Street. This volume offers the first English
translation of Danon's best-known work. A selection of his letters
and an editors' introduction and notes provide context for this
cornerstone of Judeo-Tunisian letters.
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Ninette of Sin Street (Hardcover)
Vitalis Danon; Edited by Lia Brozgal, Sarah Abrevaya Stein; Translated by Jane Kuntz
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R2,168
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Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the
first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette's author,
Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis of the
Franco-Jewish organization the Alliance Israelite Universelle and
quickly adopted-and was adopted by-the local community. Ninette is
an unlikely protagonist: Compelled by poverty to work as a
prostitute, she dreams of a better life and an education for her
son. Plucky and street-wise, she enrolls her son in the local
school and the story unfolds as she narrates her life to the
school's headmaster. Ninette's account is both a classic
rags-to-riches tale and a subtle, incisive critique of French
colonialism. That Ninette's story should still prove surprising
today suggests how much we stand to learn from history, and from
the secrets of Sin Street. This volume offers the first English
translation of Danon's best-known work. A selection of his letters
and an editors' introduction and notes provide context for this
cornerstone of Judeo-Tunisian letters.
Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began:
although Mates and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were
perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka
had little to work with. Neither of them was the least bit famous,
and they left little behind except their two orphaned children, a
handful of letters, and a passport. Persecuted as communists in
Poland, as refugees in France, and then as Jews under the Vichy
regime, Mates and Idesa lived their short lives underground. They
were overcome by the tragedies of the twentieth century: Stalinism,
the mounting dangers in Europe during the 1930s, the Second World
War, and the destruction of European Jews. Jablonka's challenge
was, as a historian, to rigorously distance himself and yet, as
family, to invest himself completely in their story. Imagined
oppositions collapsed-between scholarly research and personal
commitment, between established facts and the passion of the one
recording them, between history and the art of storytelling. To
write this book, Jablonka traveled to three continents; met the
handful of survivors of his grandparents' era, their descendants,
and some of his far-flung cousins; and investigated twenty
different archives. And in the process, he reflected on his own
family and his responsibilities to his father, the orphaned son,
and to his own children and the family wounds they all inherited. A
History of the Grandparents I Never Had cannot bring Mates and
Idesa to life, but Jablonka succeeds in bringing them, as he
soberly puts it, to light. The result is a gripping story, a
profound reflection, and an absolutely extraordinary history.
The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the
Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days
after the June '67 War, Israeli forces razed the Quarter, its
narrow alleys widened and homes removed, to create the Western Wall
Plaza. With this book, Vincent Lemire offers the first history of
the Maghrebi Quarter—spanning 800 years from its founding by
Saladin in 1187 to house North African Muslim pilgrims through to
its destruction. To bring this vanished district back to life,
Lemire gathers its now-scattered documentation in the archives of
Muslim pious foundations in Jerusalem and the Red Cross in Geneva,
in Ottoman archives in Istanbul and Israeli state archives. He
engages testimonies of former residents and looks to recent
archaeological digs that have resurfaced household objects buried
during the destruction. Today, the Western Wall Plaza extends over
the former Maghrebi Quarter. It is one of the most identifiable
places in the world—yet one of the most occluded in history. In
the Shadow of the Wall offers a new point of entry to understand
this consequential place.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. A Jewish
Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the
fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars, and
intellectuals who came of age in lands where Islam was the dominant
religion and everyday life was infused with the politics of the
French imperial project. Prompted by novelist Leïla Sebbar to
reflect on their childhoods, these writers offer literary portraits
that gesture to a universal condition while also shedding light on
the exceptional nature of certain experiences. The childhoods
captured here are undeniably Jewish, but they are also Moroccan,
Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish; each essay
thus testifies to the multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith
community into which its author was born. The present translation
makes this unique collection available to an English-speaking
public for the first time. The original version, published in
French in 2012, was awarded the Prix Haïm Zafrani, a prize given
by the Elie Wiesel Institute of Jewish Studies to a literary
project that valorizes Jewish civilization in the Muslim world.
Meddeb wages a war of interpretations in this book demonstrating
that Muslims cannot join the concert of nations unless they set
aside outmoded notions such as jihad, and realize that the feuding
among monotheisms must give way to the more important issue of what
it means to be a citizen intoday's post-religious global setting.
Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation,
located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of
Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with
secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating
"moderate" Islam, which he characterizes as thinly disguised
Wahabism, but rather an Islam inspired by the great Sufi thinkers,
whose practice of religion was not bound by doctrine.
To accomplish this, Meddeb returns to the doctrinal question of the
text as transcription of the uncreated word of God and calls upon
Muslims to distinguish between Islam's spiritual message and the
temporal, material, and historically grounded origins of its
founding scriptures. He contrasts periods of Islamic history--when
philosophers and theologians engaged in lively dialogue with other
faiths and civilizations and contributed to transmitting the
Hellenistic tradition to early modern Europe--with modern Islam's
collective amnesia of this past.
Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation,
located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of
Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with
secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating
"moderate" Islam, which he characterizes as thinly disguised
Wahabism, but rather an Islam inspired by the great Sufi thinkers,
whose practice of religion was not bound by doctrine. To accomplish
this, Meddeb returns to the doctrinal question of the text as
transcription of the uncreated word of God and calls upon Muslims
to distinguish between Islam's spiritual message and the temporal,
material, and historically grounded origins of its founding
scriptures. He contrasts periods of Islamic history-when
philosophers and theologians engaged in lively dialogue with other
faiths and civilizations and contributed to transmitting the
Hellenistic tradition to early modern Europe-with modern Islam's
collective amnesia of this past. Meddeb wages a war of
interpretations in this book, in his attempt to demonstrate that
Muslims cannot join the concert of nations unless they set aside
outmoded notions such as jihad and realize that feuding among the
monotheisms must give way to the more important issue of what it
means to be a citizen in today's postreligious global setting.
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Ring (Paperback, New)
Elisabeth Horem; Translated by Jane Kuntz
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R266
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A brokenhearted man leaves behind his familiar Europe to find
himself in a desert land equal parts dull and dreamlike, torn
between his desire to lose himself in this new country or hide away
with the pampered expatriates who reside in a green zone known as
the Ring.
The tale is simple, if grim: a disenfranchised teenage boy from the
housing projects on the outskirts of Paris rapes and murders the
manager of the supermarket where his mother works. But Gerard
Gavarry is a writer who knows how literary inventiveness can shed
new light on a serious subject, and Hoppla! tells its story three
times, in three separate sections, each in a different tone or mode
and with different sets of images and vocabularies. The first
relies on tropical images and the characters speak in a lexicon
borrowed from the coconut industry--as if the Parisian suburbs had
been transported to an exotic shore; the second is nautical in
nature; the third invokes the mythology of the centaur, and ancient
Greece butts up against modern-day France. Gavarry's bloody and
poetic narrative takes dead aim at the social, political, and
personal roots of violence, and argues for the transformative power
of fiction.
At some Parisian lost-and-found, a mysterious manuscript scribbled
onto stray bits of hotel stationary and postcards and stuffed into
an abandoned briefcase comes into the hands of an "editor," who
claims to faithfully transcribe and assemble the random texts. On
the face of it, these consist of fastidious descriptions of a
series of hotel rooms in cities around the globe, but their
world-weary writer, a certain "Olivier Rolin," is also involved in
a number of highly improbable international networks, populated by
unsavory thugs and Mata Haris in distress. Author Olivier Rolin has
dipped into his extensive travel notebooks to create this highly
inventive novel that spoofs, among others, the decaying
international espionage scene, the literary author publicity tour,
and official French culture, all against a backdrop of the queasy
alienation secreted by standard-issue hotel rooms across the globe.
The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing
an interrogation. He has committed a crime, and he must now explain
himself. But instead of letting the judge, lawyer, and psychiatrist
question him, he asks himself all the questions--and answers them.
While ranting on to the court about various topics--his family, the
museum where he works as a tour guide, and even the French
philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal--the narrator of The
Power of Flies reveals himself to be both calculating and unstable.
In this latest novel from acclaimed French writer Lydie Salvayre,
it is up to the reader to sort through his philosophical diatribe
to discover why this man turned killer.
A literary exploration into the serendipitous convergences
underpinning the writing of a novel (here, Ge rard Gavarry s
masterful Hoppla! 1 2 3), this rare and revealing glimpse into the
creative process pulls back the curtain on the composition of a
playful and self-conscious work of fiction.
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Pigeon Post (Paperback)
Dumitru Tsepeneag; Translated by Jane Kuntz
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R267
Discovery Miles 2 670
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Here is a book about a man, supposedly a writer, who tries to write
a novel, because he promised his readers he would. But he doesn't
have anything to say. He keeps erasing what he writes, and
rewriting it, without having the slightest idea where he's going
with it. Soon enough he realizes that looking out of the window,
sitting in front of his typewriter, describing anything and
everything, is not enough to write a novel. His three friends,
Edmond, Edgar, and Edouard, will aid him in his task . . . Pigeon
Post will be the second book Dalkey Archive has published by the
Romanian writer Dumitru Tsepeneag (after the critically acclaimed
Vain Art of the Fugue), and we will be publishing more of his works
in the years to come.
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Origin Unknown (Paperback)
Oliver Rohe; Edited by Jane Kuntz; Translated by Lauren Messina
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R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
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A word-crazed monologue in the mind of a man flying to his
war-torn native country for the first time in years, "Without
Origin" explores the ways a family, homeland, friendship, or even a
favorite author, can come to overwhelm one's individuality.
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