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The Cosmopolitans
Author | : Sarah Schulman |
Publsiher | : The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781558619050 |
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A “captivating, perceptive, and empathic novel of New York” told with “panache and mischievous ebullience” (Booklist, starred review). In this retelling of Balzac’s Parisian classic Cousin Bette, Sarah Shulman spins her revenge story in Mad Men–era New York City. Bette, a lonely spinster, has worked as a secretary at an ad agency for thirty years. Her only real friend is her apartment neighbor Earl, a black, gay actor with a miserable job in a meatpacking plant. Shamed and disowned by their families, both find refuge in New York and in their friendship. Everything changes when Hortense, Bette’s wealthy niece from Ohio, moves to the city to pursue her own acting career. Her arrival reminds Bette of her scandalous past and the estranged Midwestern family she left behind. When Hortense’s calculating ambitions cause a rift between Bette and Earl, Bette uses her connections in the television ad world to destroy those who have wronged her. Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan in the days before the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, The Cosmopolitans “balance[s] the hopes of an entire era on the backs of a fragile relationship. . . . Jarring and beautiful, this is a modern classic” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Indigenous Cosmopolitans
Author | : Maximilian Christian Forte |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Congresses and conventions |
ISBN | : 1433101025 |
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"Timely and original, this volume looks at indigenous peoples from the perspective of cosmopolitan theory and at cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the indigenous world. In doing so, it not only sheds new light on both, but also has something important to say about the complexities of identification in this shrinking, overheated world. Analysing ethnoqraphy from around the world, the authors demonstrate the universality of the local-indigeneity-and the particularity of the universal--cosmopolitanism. Anthropology doesn't get much better than this." --Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo; Author of Globalisation --Book Jacket.
The Boston Cosmopolitans
Author | : M. Rennella |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230611214 |
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This book traces the progression of cosmopolitanism from the private experience of a group of artists and intellectuals who lived and worked in Boston between 1865 and 1915 to finished works of monumental art that shaped public space.
We the Cosmopolitans
Author | : Lisette Josephides,Alexandra Hall |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781782382775 |
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The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with.
Early Modern Catholics Royalists and Cosmopolitans
Author | : Brian C. Lockey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317147107 |
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Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also transcended those identities. Author Brian C. Lockey argues that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with two opposing 'cosmopolitan' perspectives, one that sought to cultivate and sustain the emerging English nationalism and imperialism and another that challenged English nationhood from the perspective of those Englishmen who viewed the kingdom as one province within the larger transnational Christian commonwealth. Lockey illustrates how the latter cosmopolitan perspective, produced within two communities of exiled English subjects, separated in time by half a century, influenced fiction writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Ultimately, he shows that early modern cosmopolitans critiqued the emerging discourse of English nationhood from a traditional religious and political perspective, even as their writings eventually gave rise to later secular Enlightenment forms of cosmopolitanism.
Amazonian Cosmopolitans
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781496230249 |
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Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Author | : Jon Binnie |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0415344921 |
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Renowned editors and contributors have come together to produce one of the first books to tackle cosmopolitanism from a geographical perspective. It employs a range of approaches to provide a valuable grounded treatment.
Rooted Cosmopolitans
Author | : James Loeffler |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300235067 |
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A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remain tied together in the ongoing debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, global antisemitism, and American foreign policy. Yet the surprising connections between Zionism and the origins of international human rights are completely unknown today. In this riveting account, James Loeffler explores this controversial history through the stories of five remarkable Jewish founders of international human rights, following them from the prewar shtetls of eastern Europe to the postwar United Nations, a journey that includes the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, the founding of Amnesty International, and the UN resolution of 1975 labeling Zionism as racism. The result is a book that challenges long-held assumptions about the history of human rights and offers a startlingly new perspective on the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.