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Inscribed Identities
Author | : Joan Ramon Resina |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2019-01-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780429663895 |
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Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by Käte Hamburger and Philippe Lejeune in the 1960s and 70s articulated distinctions and similarities between fiction and the genre of personal declaration. Especially since Foucault’s seminal essay on "Self Writing," self-production through writing has become more versatile, gaining a broader range of expression, diversifying its social function, and colonizing new media of representation. For this reason, it seems appropriate to speak of life-writing as a concept that includes but is not limited to classic autobiography. Awareness of language’s performativity permits us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the space where the self is realized, or in some instances de-realized. Such texts can build identity, but they can also contest ascribed identity by producing alternative or disjointed scenarios of identification. And they not only relate to the present, but may also act upon the past by virtue of their retrospective effects in the confluence of narrator and witness.
When Victims Become Killers
Author | : Mahmood Mamdani |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691102805 |
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"Rejecting easy explanations of the genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, one of Africa's best-known intellectuals situates the tragedy in its proper context. He coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn so brutally on their neighbors. He finds answers in the nature of political identities generated during colonialism, in the failures of the nationalist revolution to transcend these identities, and in regional demographic and political currents that reach well beyond Rwanda. In so doing, Mahmood Mamdani broadens understanding of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa." "Mamdani's analysis provides a foundation for future studies of the massacre. His answers point a way out of crisis : a direction for reforming political identity in central Africa and preventing future tragedies."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue
Author | : J. Hans de Wit,Hans De Wit,Gerald West |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2008-06-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004166561 |
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Addressing an urgent and deeply felt need for more dialogue between interpreters of the Bible from radically different contexts, this book reflects in a comprehensive and existential manner on how to establish new alliances, how to learn from each other, and how to read Scripture in a manner accountable to ‘the dignity of difference.’
Kurdish Identity Discourse and New Media
Author | : J. Sheyholislami |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2011-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230119307 |
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Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates the ways Kurds, the world's largest stateless nation, use satellite television and Internet to construct their identities. This book examines the complex interrelationships between ethno-national identities, discourses, and new media. Not only offers the first study of discursive constructions of Kurdish identity in the new media, this book also the first CDA informed comparative study of the contents of the two media. The study pushes the boundaries of the growing area of studies of identity, nationalism and transnationalism, discourse studies, minority language, and digital media.
Rethinking the Monstrous
Author | : Jim Byatt |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780739195024 |
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This book examines the various ways in which British fiction since the late 1960s has addressed the marginalization of anomalous identities in an era of increasing social inclusivity, and the ways in which the category of the monstrous has been applied to various figures in society. Drawing on a diverse range of theoretical positions, from body politics to theories of domestic space, the book highlights parallels between the management of medical conditions, including locked-in syndrome, terminal illness and Down syndrome, and psychological anomalies including tendencies toward paedophilia, incest and violence toward minors. By addressing such a range of disparate identities under the banner of monstrosity, the book seeks to identify a degree of continuity between the treatment of the vilified predator and the vulnerable individual in contemporary Britain. The fictional works discussed include a number of novels that have made little impact in commercial and critical terms, yet which function as penetrating and insightful accounts of life in the margins. These works offer valuable and unique perspectives on figures in society whose stories often go unheard, and serve to outline the logic behind seemingly illogical gestures and acts.
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics
Author | : Georgina Waylen,Karen Celis,Johanna Kantola,Laurel Weldon |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 887 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780199751457 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics, and it shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies.
Forging Identities
Author | : Jane Long,Jan Gothard,Helen Brash |
Publsiher | : UWA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UVA:X006036367 |
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Brings together 11 essays (two previously published) that began as individual papers delivered to the Australian Historical Association conference in 1994. While underpinned by a broad thematic coherence around the body and the construction of identity, the contributions illustrate that there is no
Lived Religion Conversion and Recovery
Author | : Srdjan Sremac,Ines W. Jindra |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783030406820 |
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The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons, substance abuse recovery settings and domestic violence shelters. With an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conversion, the collection provides an opportunity for a better understanding of lived religion, guilt, shame, hope, forgiveness, narrative identity reconstruction, religious coping, religious conversion and spiritual transformation. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of lived religion, religious conversion, recovery, homelessness, and substance dependence.