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Decolonize Hipsters (Paperback)
Gregory Pierrot; Edited by Bhakti Shringarpure
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Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are
notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see
one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that
ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of
mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes
and ready-made meme. But frightening as it is to imagine, for more
than a century hipsters have been lurking among us. Defined by
their appearances and the cloud of meaning attached to them-the
cool vanguard of gentrification, the personification of capitalism
with a conscience-hipsters are all looks, and these looks are a
visual timeline to America's past and present. Underlining this
timeline is the pattern of American popular culture's
love/hate/theft relationship with Black culture. Yet the pattern of
recycling has reached a chilling point: the 21st century hipster
made all possible past fads into new trends, including and
especially the old uncool. In Decolonize Hipsters, Gregory Pierrot
gives us a field guide to the phenomenon, a symptom and vanguard of
the wave of aggressive white supremacist sentiment now oozing from
around the globe.
Studies of human movement have proliferated in recent years. This
greatly expanded and thoroughly updated reference surveys the
literature on the corticospinal control of spinal cord circuits in
human subjects, showing how different circuits can be studied,
their role in normal movement and how they malfunction in disease
states. Chapters are highly illustrated and consistently organised,
reviewing, for each pathway, the experimental background,
methodology, organisation and control, role during motor tasks and
changes in patients with CNS lesions. Each chapter concludes with a
helpful resume that can be used independently of the main text to
provide practical guidance for clinical studies. The final four
chapters bring together the changes in transmission in spinal and
corticospinal pathways during movement and how they contribute to
the desired movement. This book is essential reading for research
workers and clinicians involved in the study, treatment and
rehabilitation of movement disorders.
Modern-day research on Flaubert has placed particular emphasis on
the bibliotheques de savoir ( libraries of knowledge ) integrated
into his literary work. Their status and function, however, have
not yet been fully understood. In this volume, members of the
Franco-German research group Fractal present their analyses of
Flaubert s intertextual work in the context of psychology, art,
philosophy, and religious history, illustrating its theoretical
aspects as well as its contemporary impact, both largely unnoticed
to date."
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The Returned - Season 1 (French, DVD)
Anne Consigny, Clotilde Hesmé, Guillaume Gouix, Frédéric Pierrot, Céline Sallette, …
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All eight episodes from the first series of the French supernatural drama, where the inhabitants of a mountain village are confronted by the reappearance of a number of dead people. In an Alpine village dominated by a huge dam, a confused group of men, women and children begin to mysteriously appear. Not realising that they are in fact dead, having met their end years earlier in a variety of ways, the group set about trying to reclaim their past lives.
But their arrival throws the small community into chaos as the affected families struggle to come to terms with what is happening. To make matters worse, history seems to be repeating itself, as, several years after a serial killer terrorised the small community, there is a spate of similarly gruesome murders. The episodes are: 'Camille', 'Simon', 'Julie', 'Victor', 'Serge et Toni', 'Lucy', 'Adèle' and 'La Horde'.
This volume offers contributions from leading experts in the
biology of chaetognaths, or arrow worms--voracious carnivores which
are exceptionally abundant in all the seas of the world. Until now
there has been a lack of easily accessible information on this
group, despite the fact that their vast numbers very likely render
chaetognaths of major ecological significance in marine planktonic
communities. This work is the first comprehensive survey. It deals
with all aspects of chaetognath biology, including much recent and
unpublished work. Two chapters are devoted to taxonomic
relationships, two chapters cover morphology and anatomy, four
chapters are concerned with physiology and behavior, three are
devoted to ecology, and one chapter provides detailed information
about the techniques necessary for studying the organism. The book
will interest all marine biologists and zoologists working on
plankton, along with invertebrate biologists, systematists, and
advanced students of marine biology.
In den Romanen des Frankokanadiers Jacques Poulin setzen sich die
Figuren durchgangig mit elementaren Aspekten ihrer Existenz
auseinander, wobei die Frage und Suche nach individueller, sozialer
und kultureller Identitat stets eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Auf
der Grundlage philosophischer und sozialpsychologischer
Identitatstheorien betrachtet der Band diese Selbstsuche der
Protagonisten in dem bislang kaum wissenschaftlich berucksichtigten
Spatwerk Poulins (1998-2009) mit dem Ziel, die Bedeutung innerer
Konflikte, sozialer Rollen und des kulturellen Selbstverstandnisses
hierfur zu ergrunden. Die Ergebnisse der Textanalysen werden zudem
fur einen kurzen Ausblick auf Poulins neuesten Roman L'homme de la
Saskatchewan (2011) fruchtbar gemacht.
The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the first antislavery and
anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the
creation of an independent and slavery-free nation state. The
momentousness of this thirteen-year-long war generated thousands of
pages of writing. This anthology brings together for the first time
a transnational and multilingual selection of literature about the
revolution, from the beginnings of the conflicts that resulted in
it to the end of the nineteenth century. With over two hundred
excerpts from novels, poetry, and plays published between 1787 and
1900, and depicting a wide array of characters including, Anacaona,
Makandal, Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines,
and Henry Christophe, this anthology provides the perfect classroom
text for exploring this fascinating revolution, its principal
actors, and the literature it inspired, while also providing a
vital resource for specialists in the field. This landmark volume
includes many celebrated authors-such as Alexandre Dumas, Victor
Hugo, Heinrich von Kleist, Alphonse de Lamartine, William
Wordsworth, Harriet Martineau, and William Edgar Easton-but the
editors also present here for the first time many less-well-known
fictions by writers from across western Europe and both North and
South America, as well as by nineteenth-century Haitian authors,
refuting a widely accepted perception that Haitian representations
of their revolution primarily emerged in the twentieth century.
Each excerpt is introduced by contextualizing commentary designed
to spark discussion about the ongoing legacy of slavery and
colonialism in the Americas. Ultimately, the publication of this
capacious body of literature that spans three continents offers
students, scholars, and the curious reader alike a unique glimpse
into the tremendous global impact the Haitian Revolution had on the
print culture of the Atlantic world.
With the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored Black Panther comic book series
(2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a
Nation (2016), Nate Parker's cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner
rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel's Luke Cage (2016) and
Black Panther (2018), violent black redeemers have rarely been so
present in mainstream Western culture. Yet the black avenger has
always been with us: the trope has fired the news and imaginations
of the United States and the larger Atlantic World for three
centuries. The black avenger channeled the fresh anxieties about
slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by the European
colonization project in the Americas. Even as he is portrayed as
wholly Other, a heathen and a barbarian, his values?honor, loyalty,
love?reflect his ties to the West. Yet being racially different, he
cannot belong, and his qualities in turn make him an anomaly among
black people. The black avenger is thus a liminal figure defining
racial borders. Where his body lies, lies the color line. Regularly
throughout the modern era and to this day, variations on the trope
have contributed to defining race in the Atlantic World and
thwarting the constitution of a black polity. Gregory Pierrot's The
Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture studies this cultural history,
examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print
material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical
writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger
trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S.
occupation of Haiti in 1915. Pierrot argues that this Western
archetype plays an essential role in helping exclusive, hostile
understandings of racial belonging become normalized in the
collective consciousness of Atlantic nations. His study follows
important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based
on historical and cultural contexts.
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Free Jazz/Black Power (Paperback)
Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli; Editing managed by Gregory Pierrot
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For the first time in English, the classic volume that developed a
radical new understanding of free jazz and African American
culture. 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis
Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and
political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a
testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American
music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to
defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the
Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American
culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the
early 1970s. The two offered a political and cultural history of
black presence in the United States to shed more light on the
dubious role played by jazz criticism in racial oppression. This
analysis critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies
in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown. The
authors reached radical conclusions--free jazz was a revolutionary
reaction against white domination, was the musical counterpart to
the Black Power movement, and was a music that demanded a similar
political commitment. The impact of this book is difficult to
overstate, as it made readers reconsider their response to African
American music. In some cases it changed the way musicians thought
about and played jazz. Free Jazz/ Black Power remains indispensable
to the study of the relation of American free jazz to European
audiences, critics, and artists.
Title: Journal d'un habitant de Marville au XVIIe sie cle.
Historical notes; with the text of an anonymous contemporary
chronicle.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Pierrot, Alfred; 1894.
83 p.; 8 . 9004.h.30.(8.)
As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian
Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black
Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing
nineteenth-century world opinion of this momentous event. This new
edition is the first to appear since the original publication in
1805. Rainsford, a career officer in the British army, went to
Haiti to recruit black soldiers for the British. By publishing his
observations of the prowess of black troops, and recounting his
meetings with Toussaint Louverture, Rainsford offered eyewitness
testimonial that acknowledged the intelligence and effectiveness of
the Haitian rebels. Although not an abolitionist, Rainsford
nonetheless was supportive of the independent state of Haiti, which
he argued posed no threat to British colonial interests in the West
Indies, an extremely unusual stance at the time. Rainsford's
account made an immediate impact upon publication; it was widely
reviewed, and translated twice in its first year. Paul Youngquist's
and Gregory Pierrot's critical introduction to this new edition
provides contextual and historical details, as well as new
biographical information about Rainsford. Of particular interest is
a newly discovered miniature painting of Louverture attributed to
Rainsford, which is reproduced along with the twelve engravings
that accompanied his original account.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text,
possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our
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