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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all
sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese
across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and
cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface
ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in
Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention
away from questions of representation to ones concerning the
generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors
are interested primarily in texts in motion-the contradictory
motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that
such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and
travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal
points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are
transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the
bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s)
in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts
and themselves.
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all
sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese
across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and
cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface
ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in
Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention
away from questions of representation to ones concerning the
generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors
are interested primarily in texts in motion-the contradictory
motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that
such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and
travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal
points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are
transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the
bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s)
in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts
and themselves.
Gardner and MacKenzie's An Introduction to Land Law has been widely
acclaimed by students and teachers for the distinctively
informative and stimulating way in which it addresses this
challenging subject. Concise and highly readable, it covers the
main points of land law found in the syllabuses of law schools in
England and Wales. While not intended as a comprehensive textbook,
it provides both sufficient detail, and especially the illuminating
overview needed, for a real understanding, and many pointers for
those seeking more. Most of all, it stands apart from other land
law books in the model it offers of critical engagement with the
material. As the authors say in their Preface: [W]e aim not just to
state the law, but to paint its portrait, or tell its story, or
something of that kind. So we set out to offer a careful,
thoughtful, honest and critical (but not unsympathetic) appraisal,
from a number of directions, both doctrinal and contextual. Once
again, too, we present the portrait or story partly for its own
interest, but most of all so as to encourage readers to try
something similar for themselves - to reflect on the subject more,
and so understand it better, and at the same time deepen their
thinking skills in general. As well as updating the book's overall
coverage, this new edition features reworked discussions of areas
where the law has recently undergone substantial change, and also
where the authors' thoughts themselves have developed - including
ownership, easements, and rectification of the land register. As
one reader of the first edition commented, 'it shone light where
none had shone before, and lit a clear path to understanding'.
A comprehensive, stimulating introduction to trusts law, which
provides readers with a clear conceptual framework to aid
understanding of this challenging area of the law. Aimed at readers
studying trusts at an undergraduate level, it provides a succinct
and enlightening account of this area of the law.
Concise and clear, this book also identifies and discusses many
analytical perspectives, encouraging a deeper understanding of the
issues at hand. It offers an outstanding treatment of specific
areas, in particular remedial constructive trusts and trusts of
family homes. Ideal for providing a broad background to the issues
before embarking on an in-depth study of trusts, it can also be
used to help the reader to develop their understanding. For those
looking to challenge themselves, detailed footnotes highlight
further issues and point the direction for future reading.
Fully revised to take into account the Charities Act 2006, judicial
developments through case law, and recent academic work in this
area, this new edition in the renowned Clarendon Law Series offers
a well-written, careful, and insightful introduction to the law of
trusts.
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