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In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the
relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the
late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the
links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western
liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe
connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the
expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract
promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within
colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are
enduring remainders of colonial processes through which "the human"
is universalized and "freed" by liberal forms, while the peoples
who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are
assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism
alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been
separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past,
examining events well documented in archives, and those matters
absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant.
Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted
national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating
our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and
ultimately, knowledge itself.
Delves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures,
considering how identities and communities are negotiated on
sporting fields Through a close examination of Asian American
sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling
bees and wrestling, the contributors reveal the intimate connection
between sport and identity formation. Sport plays a special role in
the processes of citizen-making and of the policing of national and
diasporic bodies. It is thus one key area in which Asian American
stereotypes may be challenged, negotiated, and destroyed as
athletic performances create multiple opportunities for claiming
American identities. This volume incorporates work on Pacific
Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans as well as
East Asian Americans, and explores how sports are gendered,
including examinations of Asian American men's attempts to claim
masculinity through sporting cultures as well as the "Orientalism"
evident in discussions of mixed martial arts as practiced by Asian
American female fighters. This American story illuminates how
marginalized communities perform their American-ness through
co-ethnic and co-racial sporting spaces.
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the
relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the
late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the
links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western
liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe
connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the
expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract
promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within
colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are
enduring remainders of colonial processes through which "the human"
is universalized and "freed" by liberal forms, while the peoples
who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are
assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism
alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been
separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past,
examining events well documented in archives, and those matters
absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant.
Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted
national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating
our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and
ultimately, knowledge itself.
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Two by Two (Board book)
Lisa Lowe Stauffer; Illustrated by Angelika Scudamore
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R286
R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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This playful take on Noah's Ark in a large, padded board
book-perfect for lap reading or a child's hands-features rhyming
text and joyful illustrations that will become a favorite for
bedtime, story time, or anytime. With lots to see and discover on
each page-and playful monkey antics to enjoy-children will return
to Two By Two over and over. What happens when two mischievous
monkeys get loose while inside Noah's ark? A party that soon
involves all the animals, and won't end the rain finally
stops-which Noah hopes will be soon. This playful, rhyming story is
sure to have your little ones laughing and playing along as the
monkeys start an anaconda limbo, penguins dance to buffalo bebop,
and everyone plays pin the tail on the bear. Unique animals in the
vibrant illustrations and rollicking text that will make you smile
makes Two by Two a lyrical treat for the whole family to enjoy. Two
By Two: gives your child a fun new take on the classic Noah's Ark
story is relatable to any child who has been stuck inside on a
rainy day has soft, rounded corners to ensure even the youngest
child can enjoy the story contains bright, child-friendly
illustrations meant to engage young readers' eyes and imaginations
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Asian American Sporting Cultures (Hardcover)
Stanley I Thangaraj, Constancio Arnaldo, Christina B Chin; Foreword by J. Jack Halberstam; Afterword by Lisa Lowe
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R2,302
R2,121
Discovery Miles 21 210
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Delves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures,
considering how identities and communities are negotiated on
sporting fields Through a close examination of Asian American
sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling
bees and wrestling, the contributors reveal the intimate connection
between sport and identity formation. Sport plays a special role in
the processes of citizen-making and of the policing of national and
diasporic bodies. It is thus one key area in which Asian American
stereotypes may be challenged, negotiated, and destroyed as
athletic performances create multiple opportunities for claiming
American identities. This volume incorporates work on Pacific
Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans as well as
East Asian Americans, and explores how sports are gendered,
including examinations of Asian American men's attempts to claim
masculinity through sporting cultures as well as the "Orientalism"
evident in discussions of mixed martial arts as practiced by Asian
American female fighters. This American story illuminates how
marginalized communities perform their American-ness through
co-ethnic and co-racial sporting spaces.
Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both
literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of
non-European cultures in British and French writings from the
eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the
intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu's Lettres
persanes and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and
romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in
Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's Passage to India
and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist
theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal
Tel Quel.
Both the English Civil War and the French Revolution produced in
England an outpouring of literature reflecting intense belief in
the arrival of a better world, and new philosophies of the
relationship between mind, language and cosmos. Milton, the
Metaphysicals, and Romanticism is the first book to explore the
significance of the connections between the literature of these two
periods. The volume analyses Milton's influence on Romantic writers
including Blake, Beckford, Wordsworth, Shelley, Radcliffe and
Keats, and examines the relationships between other
seventeenth-century poets - Donne, Marvell, Vaughan, Herrick,
Cowley, Rochester and Dryden - and Romantic writers. Representing a
wide range of theoretical approaches, and including original
contributions by leading British, American and Canadian scholars,
this is a provocative and challenging assessment of the
relationship between two of the richest periods of British literary
history.
Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical
framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of
Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social
practices-including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant
revolts, labor organizing, and various cultural movements-challenge
contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of
production. Reworking Marxist critique, these essays on Asia, Latin
America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe advance a new
understanding of "cultural politics" within the context of
transnational neocolonial capitalism. This perspective contributes
to an overall critique of traditional approaches to modernity,
development, and linear liberal narratives of culture, history, and
democratic institutions. It also frames a set of alternative social
practices that allows for connections to be made between feminist
politics among immigrant women in Britain, women of color in the
United States, and Muslim women in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, and
Canada; the work of subaltern studies in India, the Philippines,
and Mexico; and antiracist social movements in North and South
America, the Caribbean, and Europe. These connections displace
modes of opposition traditionally defined in relation to the modern
state and enable a rethinking of political practice in the era of
global capitalism. Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Nandi Bhatia,
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chungmoo Choi, Clara Connolly, Angela Davis,
Arturo Escobar, Grant Farred, Homa Hoodfar, Reynaldo C. Ileto,
George Lipsitz, David Lloyd, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV,
Aihwa Ong, Pragna Patel, Jose Rabasa, Maria Josefina
Saldana-Portillo, Jaqueline Urla
In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian
immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding
the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation.
Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included
in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation-state, yet,
through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been
distanced from the terrain of national culture. Lowe argues that a
national memory haunts the conception of Asian American, persisting
beyond the repeal of individual laws and sustained by U.S. wars in
Asia, in which the Asian is seen as the perpetual immigrant, as the
"foreigner-within." In Immigrant Acts, she argues that rather than
attesting to the absorption of cultural difference into the
universality of the national political sphere, the Asian
immigrant-at odds with the cultural, racial, and linguistic forms
of the nation-displaces the temporality of assimilation. Distance
from the American national culture constitutes Asian American
culture as an alternative site that produces cultural forms
materially and aesthetically in contradiction with the institutions
of citizenship and national identity. Rather than a sign of a
"failed" integration of Asians into the American cultural sphere,
this critique preserves and opens up different possibilities for
political practice and coalition across racial and national
borders. In this uniquely interdisciplinary study, Lowe examines
the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings of
immigration in relation to Asian Americans. Extending the range of
Asian American critique, Immigrant Acts will interest readers
concerned with race and ethnicity in the United States, American
cultures, immigration, and transnationalism.
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