Sub versions

Sub versions
Author: Ciaran Ross
Publsiher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789042028289

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From Swift's repulsive shit-flinging Yahoos to Beckett's dying but never quite dead moribunds, Irish literature has long been perceived as being synonymous with subversion and all forms of subversiveness. But what constitutes a subversive text or a subversive writer in twenty-first-century Ireland? The essays in this volume set out to redefine and rethink the subversive potential of modern Irish literature. Crossing three central genres, one common denominator running through these essays whether dealing with canonical writers like Yeats, Beckett and Flann O'Brien, or lesser known contemporary writers like Sebastian Barry or Robert McLiam Wilson, is the continual questioning of Irish identity - Irishness - going from its colonial paradigm and stereotype of the subaltern in MacGill, to its uneasy implications for gender representation in the contemporary novel and the contemporary drama. A subsidiary theme inextricably linked to the identity problematic is that of exile and its radical heritage for all Irish writing irrespective of its different genres. Sub-Versions offers a cross-cultural and trans-national response to the expanding interest in Irish and postcolonial studies by bringing together specialists from different national cultures and scholarly contexts - Ireland, Britain, France and Central Europe. The order of the essays is by genre. This study is aimed both at the general literary reader and anyone particularly interested in Irish Studies.

Subversions

Subversions
Author: Erika Block,Julie Wilkinson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1998-04-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781135299545

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In pointing to the way in which women have been historically represented (or left out altogether) and the reality of women's lives, feminist performance makes the histories, lives and desires of women visible, as this volume of plays from the 1990s aims to illustrate.

Subversions of International Order

Subversions of International Order
Author: John Borneman,Acting Chair and Professor of Anthropology John Borneman
Publsiher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791435830

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Uses ethnographic tools to analyze political disorder and its representation at the end of the Cold War.

Everyday Acts Small Subversions

Everyday Acts   Small Subversions
Author: Anndee Hochman
Publsiher: The Eighth Mountain Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0933377258

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"Anndee Hochman helps us to imagine the new possibilities for relationships, rituals and language ... and to understand that when we throw away that rule book we are not alone."--Ms.¶"A wonderful trove of experimentation and possibility."--The Women's Review of Books¶"This book is a homecoming!"--Philadelphia Daily News

Subversions of the American Century

Subversions of the American Century
Author: Adam Lifshey
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472052936

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Subversions of the American Century: Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States argues that the moment the United States became an overseas colonial power in 1898, American national identity was redefined across a global matrix. The Philippines, which the United States seized at that point from Spain and local revolutionaries, is therefore the birthplace of a new kind of America, one with a planetary reach that was, most profoundly, accompanied by resistance to that reach by local peoples. Post-1898 Filipino literature in Spanish testifies crucially to this foregrounding fact of American global power, for it is the language of that tradition that speaks directly to the reality of one empire having wrested land from another. Yet this literature is invisible in American Studies programs, Asian Studies programs, Spanish and English departments, and everywhere else. Subversions of the American Century will change that. After Subversions, students and scholars in various American Studies disciplines as well as Asian, Spanish, and Comparative Literature fields will find it necessary to revisit and revamp the basic parameters by which they approach their subjects.

The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women

The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
Author: Jane Chance
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007-08-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780230605596

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This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.

Subversions of Desire

Subversions of Desire
Author: Epifanio San Juan
Publsiher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0824811291

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"This contextualizing of the imagination reveals two dimensions in the writer's discursive strategy: the ideological function of reconciling contradictions, and the utopian drive to subvert imperialist subjection via the invention of an egalitarian, resurgent Filipino community--the fulfillment of the dream of the 1896 Revolution. Joaquin's corpus is therefore as conflicted, as torn by the same contradictions as the body politic which his art seeks to mediate."--P. [4] of cover.

Staging Subversions

Staging Subversions
Author: Kimberly Cashman
Publsiher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0820470600

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Staging Subversions: The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater defines a new type of metadrama using Le Tartuffe as its paradigm and explores the complex, ambiguous, and enlightening relationships that metadrama maintains with the social and political orders. While metadramatic scenes are most often concerned with theater itself, the performance-within-a-play adopts an important function in the play's plot, and, consequently, in the social world of the play. The performance-within-a-play is particularly associated by the classical playwrights with the family structure, with the class system, with women's social roles, and with the politics of absolutism.