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Written in 1954 and published in 1981, this fascinating study
remains authoritative as an account of a body of opinion about
women's nature and role that was in vogue in America during the
first half-century after independence. Combining intellectual and
social history, this work was one of numerous attempts being made
at the time to add depth to American social history dealing with
women and women's experiences before feminism. The author explores
British sources of American thought as well, presenting an early
comparative history, and offers a focus on religion to show how
processes of change to ideas about women occurred.
It's not easy to seem cool when the whole class knows you wear superhero underwear and your mom still kisses you goodbye at the bus stop. But Robbie York has a plan. 1) Get rid of the name Robbie. 2) Get jeans. 3)Avoid bullies like Bo Haney. If only it were that simple!
Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the
field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in
critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the
aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.
Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals,
this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial
studies, including sections on:
- new directions and growth areas from performance and
autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism
- new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory,
ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial
spaces
- new theoretical directions such as globalization,
fundamentalism, terror and theories of a ~affecta (TM).
Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making
this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an
invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.
Written in 1954 and published in 1981, this fascinating study
remains authoritative as an account of a body of opinion about
women s nature and role that was in vogue in America during the
first half-century after independence. Combining intellectual and
social history, this work was one of numerous attempts being made
at the time to add depth to American social history dealing with
women and women s experiences before feminism. The author explores
British sources of American thought as well, presenting an early
comparative history, and offers a focus on religion to show how
processes of change to ideas about women occurred.
Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an
influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic
diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding
new transnational and transcultural critical frameworks of such
syncretic writing, the contributors collectively examine how the
varied and diverse body of Asian Australian literary work
intervenes into contemporary representational politics and culture.
The book questions, for instance, the ideology of Australian
multiculturalism; the core/periphery hierarchy; the perpetuation of
Orientalist attitudes and stereotypes; and white Australian claims
to belong as seen in its myths of cultural authenticity and
authority. Ranging in critical analyses from the historic first
Chinese-Australian novel to contemporary award winning Sri Lankan,
Bangladeshi and Filipino Australian novels, the book provides an
inside view of the ways in which Asian Australian literary work is
reshaping Australian mainstream literature, politics and culture,
and in the wider context, the world literary scene. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing.
Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the
field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in
critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the
aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.
Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals,
this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial
studies, including sections on:
- new directions and growth areas from performance and
autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism
- new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory,
ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial
spaces
- new theoretical directions such as globalization,
fundamentalism, terror and theories of a ~affecta (TM).
Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making
this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an
invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive
resource for students and scholars working in this vital
interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and
development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship,
presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that
explores new directions. It also includes seminal essays that have
been selected specifically for this collection, as well as one
brand new paper. The volume presents: introductions to each section
that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary, and
theoretical contexts; essays grouped by key subject areas including
religion, nation, citizenship, home and belonging, visual culture,
and digital diasporas; writings by major figures including Robin
Cohen, Homi K. Bhabha, Avtar Brah, Pnina Werbner, Floya Anthias,
James Clifford, Paul Gilroy, and Salman Rushdie. The Routledge
Diaspora Studies Reader is a field-defining volume that presents an
illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to
diaspora.
Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an
influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic
diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding
new transnational and transcultural critical frameworks of such
syncretic writing, the contributors collectively examine how the
varied and diverse body of Asian Australian literary work
intervenes into contemporary representational politics and culture.
The book questions, for instance, the ideology of Australian
multiculturalism; the core/periphery hierarchy; the perpetuation of
Orientalist attitudes and stereotypes; and white Australian claims
to belong as seen in its myths of cultural authenticity and
authority. Ranging in critical analyses from the historic first
Chinese-Australian novel to contemporary award winning Sri Lankan,
Bangladeshi and Filipino Australian novels, the book provides an
inside view of the ways in which Asian Australian literary work is
reshaping Australian mainstream literature, politics and culture,
and in the wider context, the world literary scene. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Postcolonial Writing.
Cotton Mather called them "the hidden ones." Although historians of
religion occasionally refer to the fact that women have always
constituted a majority of churchgoers, until recently none of them
have investigated the historical implications of the situation or v
the role of woman in the church. But the focus of church history
has been moving toward a broader awareness, from studying religious
institutions and their pastors to studying the people--the
laity--and the nature of religious experience. This book explores
the many common elements of this experience for women in church and
temple, regardless of their differences in faith.
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive
resource for students and scholars working in this vital
interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and
development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship,
presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that
explores new directions. It also includes seminal essays that have
been selected specifically for this collection, as well as one
brand new paper. The volume presents: introductions to each section
that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary, and
theoretical contexts; essays grouped by key subject areas including
religion, nation, citizenship, home and belonging, visual culture,
and digital diasporas; writings by major figures including Robin
Cohen, Homi K. Bhabha, Avtar Brah, Pnina Werbner, Floya Anthias,
James Clifford, Paul Gilroy, and Salman Rushdie. The Routledge
Diaspora Studies Reader is a field-defining volume that presents an
illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to
diaspora.
Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study
and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using
the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy
which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the
dramatic illusion. She argues that distancing, as a function of
metatheatre, creates a balanced theatrical experience and
environment in terms of the emotive and cognitive levels of
reception of a particular performance. Anwar's book is the first
in-depth study of the concept of metatheatre with reference to
Nigerian drama including Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's
Horseman (1975) and King Baabu (2002), Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971)
and Hopes of the Living Dead (1988), Femi Osofisan's The Chattering
and the Song (1977) and Women of Owu (2006), Esiaba Irobi's Hangmen
Also Die (1989), and Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's A Play That Was Never to
Be (1998). The perspectives of Bertolt Brecht (1936), Thomas J
Scheff (1963), and other theoreticians of dramatic distancing and
metatheatre are used in the analyses and, where required,
challenged through appropriate contextual and theoretical
adjustments. The book is the first attempt to illustrate how
Brechtian approach to the display and generation of emotions can be
revised through Scheff's model of emotional balance.
From the earliest weaves uncovered by archaeologists to today s
machine-produced, scientifically advanced fabrics, textiles have
had a profound influence on civilization. As technologies change
and world economics influence the direction that fashion and
textiles take, it is vital that both skills and our textile
vocabulary should be kept alive. This encyclopaedia is a definitive
reference guide to all the major types of fabric in circulation
today, from abbot cloth to zibeline. In clear and engaging
language, the author describes and illustrates more than 600 of the
most important examples, from classic tweeds to state-of-the-art
nano fabrics. Each entry includes a brief definition, informative
notes on structure, and a list of uses. More than 700 color
illustrations show a fabric s weave, texture, and other defining
characteristics at a glance, and helpful diagrams demonstrate the
structure of the most important types of textiles. The book
concentrates on textiles in current use, but it also covers obscure
or obsolete terms that one might come across and that might still
have something to teach today s designers, manufacturers, and
textile historians. Each entry is carefully cross-referenced, and
the book includes an extensive glossary and bibliography.
From New National to World English Literature offers a personal
perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that
began with decolonisation, continued with the assertion of African,
West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved
through postcolonial to world or international English literature.
Bruce King's extensive Introduction discusses the personalities,
writers, issues, and contexts of what he considers the most
important change in culture since Modernism. The Introduction also
explains the forty-five essays and reviews he has selected from his
publications to illustrate the development, stages, and major
national literatures, authors, and themes. Special attention is
given to Nigerian, West Indian, Australian, Indian, and Pakistani
literature. Topics and issues include: "Derry" Jeffares organising
Commonwealth and Anglo-Irish studies, the emergence and aesthetics
of African literature, the question of the existence of a "Nigerian
literature", the place of the new universities in decolonising
culture, the influence of the Rockefeller Foundation, the
contrasting models of American and Irish literatures, ethnicity as
response , the changing nature of exile and diasporas, the role of
Jewish writers, minorities, Muslim objections to free speech, The
Satanic Verses controversy, traditionalism versus modernism, the
dangers of cultural assertion, and the relationships between
nationalism and internationalism. Authors discussed include Chinua
Achebe, Ahmed Ali, Margaret Atwood, David Dabydeen, K N Daruwalla,
Nissim Ezekiel, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Almagir Hashmi, Attia Hosain, A
D Hope, Adil Jussawalla, Arun Kolatkar, Hanif Kureishi, Dom Moraes,
Frank Moorhouse, V S Naipaul, Abioseh Nicol, Gabriel Okara, Mike
Phillips, Mordechai Richler, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, Garth St
Omer, Kamila Shamsie, Randolph Stow, Jeet Thayil, and Derek
Walcott.
This is a critical comparative study of contemporary world
literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or
return) in literary theory. It considers the shape and development
of the ethical engagement of the novels of Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda
Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and JM
Coetzee, exploring the overlaps and divergences between
Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics as they are brought to
bear on literature. The characters' recognitions and emotional
responses in these texts are integral to the unfolding of their
ethical concerns, and the ethics thus explored is often marked by
the complexity and impurity characteristic of the tragic. A view of
recognition is advanced that shifts it from the more usual
political understanding in the field towards seeing it as a formal
device used to unfold an ethical knowledge peculiar to fictional
narrative, and particularly suitable for the concerns of world
literature authors in its interconnection of the universal and the
particular -- a binary that has been crucial in post-colonialism
and remains important for the wider field of world literature. The
analysis unfolds with a focus on three broad ethical themes --
religion, the memory of violence, and the human-eliciting the
novelists' contributions to these debates through the investigation
of the functioning of moments of recognition in their novels.
The quirky art of quilling--using strips of paper that have been
rolled, shaped, and glued on edge to create decorative designs--is
explored in this informative handbook. Combining the expertise of
four quilling experts, crafters will learn how to create quilled
wild flowers and fun, three-dimensional characters, how to scale
down to make incredible miniatures, and how to create quilled
borders and motifs to decorate papercraft or other projects. Full
details on the materials and tools needed for the projects,
photographic walkthroughs of the techniques utilized to complete
them, and templates are also included.
Dan Davin a Rhodes scholar, and for many years and one of New
Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story was born in
Invercargill, New Zealand in 1914. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers
together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his
experiences while growing up in an Irish-New Zealand farming family
in early twentieth-century Southland. Comic, haunting, compelling,
poetic, lyrical, and entertaining, these stories have a regional
flavor quite unlike any other body of work in New Zealand
literature. They insightfully capture the character of an
idiosyncratic rural community its post-British social relationships
and tribulations with a flair equal to such other New Zealand
writers as Sargeson, Frame, Middleton, or Marshall. The Gorse
Blooms Pale is a rare treasure in the landscape of
twentieth-century New Zealand literature.
The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that
global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major
metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not
always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within
minority genres such as the short story. Katherine Mansfield is a
supreme example of a writer who is positioned between a number of
different borders and boundaries: between modernism and
postcolonialism; between the short story and other genres (like the
novella or poetry, or non-fiction, such as letters, diaries,
reviews, and translations); between Europe and New Zealand. In
pointing to the global production and dissemination of short
stories, and in particular the growing reception of Mansfields work
worldwide since her death in 1923, the volume shows how literary
modernism can be read in a myriad of ways in terms of the
contemporary category of new World Literature.
Includes a literary reflection on Mansfield's work by award-winning
novelist Ali Smith. Katherine Mansfield: New Directions brings
together leading international scholars to explore and celebrate
the modernist short fiction writer, Katherine Mansfield.
Reassessing Mansfield's life, work and reputation in the light of
new research in literary modernism the book maps new directions for
future Mansfield studies in the twenty-first century. Drawing on
current work from postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, affect
studies, book, periodical and manuscript studies, and
auto/biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life
and art as well as new archival discoveries, this is an essential
contribution to our deepening understanding of a central modernist
figure.
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