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  1. American Sensations
    Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture
    Author: Streeby, Shelley
    Published: [2002]; ©2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism... more

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    This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncovers themes and images in this "literature of sensation" that reveal the profound influence that the U.S.-Mexican War and other nineteenth-century imperial ventures throughout the Americas had on U.S. politics and culture. Streeby's analysis of this fascinating body of popular literature and mass culture broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S. history and literature. This accessible, interdisciplinary book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa May Alcott, and many other writers. Streeby also discusses antiwar articles in the labor and land reform press; ideas about Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in popular culture; and much more. Although the Civil War has traditionally been a major period marker in U.S. history and literature, Streeby proposes a major paradigm shift by using mass culture to show that the U.S.-Mexican War and other conflicts with Mexicans and Native Americans in the borderlands were fundamental in forming the complex nexus of race, gender, and class in the United States

     
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  2. Propertius in Love
    The Elegies
    Author: Propertius, Sextus
    Published: [2002]; ©2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of... more

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    These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself

     
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  3. Green Thoughts, Green Shades
    Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric
    Contributor: Bedient, Calvin (MitwirkendeR); Boland, Eavan (MitwirkendeR); Fulton, Alice (MitwirkendeR); Gregerson, Linda (MitwirkendeR); Gunn, Thom (MitwirkendeR); Hass, Robert (MitwirkendeR); Hecht, Anthony (MitwirkendeR); Logan, William (MitwirkendeR); Mchugh, Heather (MitwirkendeR); Phillips, Carl (MitwirkendeR); Post, Jonathan F. S. (MitwirkendeR); Post, Jonathan F.S. (HerausgeberIn); Sacks, Peter (MitwirkendeR); Yenser, Stephen (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: [2002]; ©2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to... more

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    Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present

     
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    Contributor: Bedient, Calvin (MitwirkendeR); Boland, Eavan (MitwirkendeR); Fulton, Alice (MitwirkendeR); Gregerson, Linda (MitwirkendeR); Gunn, Thom (MitwirkendeR); Hass, Robert (MitwirkendeR); Hecht, Anthony (MitwirkendeR); Logan, William (MitwirkendeR); Mchugh, Heather (MitwirkendeR); Phillips, Carl (MitwirkendeR); Post, Jonathan F. S. (MitwirkendeR); Post, Jonathan F.S. (HerausgeberIn); Sacks, Peter (MitwirkendeR); Yenser, Stephen (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520935716
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    Subjects: English literature; English poetry; English poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
    Other subjects: academic; anne bradstreet; ben jonson; contemporary poetry; contemporary poets; creative writers; creative writing; early modern lyric; early modern poetry; essay anthology; essay collection; john donne; literary history; literary; lyric poems; lyric poetry; margaret cavendish; mfa; milton; philip sidney; poetic form; poetics; poetry studies; scholarly; sestina; sonnet
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  4. Sleeping with the Dictionary
    Author: Mullen, Harryette
    Published: [2002]; ©2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage... more

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    Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse.Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

     
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  5. Lectura Dantis, Inferno
    A Canto-by-Canto Commentary
    Contributor: Ahern, John (MitwirkendeR); Barolini, Teodolinda (MitwirkendeR); Berk, Philip R. (MitwirkendeR); Carugati, Giuliana (MitwirkendeR); Cassata, Letterio (MitwirkendeR); Ceserani, Remo (MitwirkendeR); Cherchi, Paolo (MitwirkendeR); Cioffi, Caron Ann (MitwirkendeR); Davis, Charles T. (MitwirkendeR); Durling, Robert M. (MitwirkendeR); Ellis, Steve (MitwirkendeR); Ferrante, Joan M. (MitwirkendeR); Frongia, Eugenio N. (MitwirkendeR); Hollander, Robert (MitwirkendeR); Iannucci, Amilcare A. (MitwirkendeR); Mandelbaum, Allen (MitwirkendeR); Mandelbaum, Allen (HerausgeberIn); Mazzotta, Giuseppe (MitwirkendeR); Noakes, Susan (MitwirkendeR); Nohrnberg, James (MitwirkendeR); Oldcorn, Anthony (MitwirkendeR); Oldcorn, Anthony (HerausgeberIn); Pertile, Lino (MitwirkendeR); Pesaresi, Massimo Mandolini (MitwirkendeR); Peterson, Thomas (MitwirkendeR); Petrie, Jennifer (MitwirkendeR); Petrocchi, Giorgio (MitwirkendeR); Ross, Charles (HerausgeberIn); Russo, Vittorio (MitwirkendeR); Sanguineti, Edoardo (MitwirkendeR); Scott, John A. (MitwirkendeR); Simonelli, Maria Picchio (MitwirkendeR); Stocchi, Manlio Pastore (MitwirkendeR); Terza, Dante Della (MitwirkendeR); Triolo, Alfred A. (MitwirkendeR); Valesio, Paolo (MitwirkendeR); Wlassics, Tibor (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: [1999]; ©1999
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been... more

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    The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's Divine Comedy. Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as "exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths," and by the late James Merrill as "lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes." Charles Simic called the work "a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before."This collection of commentaries on the first part of the Comedy consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this Inferno volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar

     
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    Contributor: Ahern, John (MitwirkendeR); Barolini, Teodolinda (MitwirkendeR); Berk, Philip R. (MitwirkendeR); Carugati, Giuliana (MitwirkendeR); Cassata, Letterio (MitwirkendeR); Ceserani, Remo (MitwirkendeR); Cherchi, Paolo (MitwirkendeR); Cioffi, Caron Ann (MitwirkendeR); Davis, Charles T. (MitwirkendeR); Durling, Robert M. (MitwirkendeR); Ellis, Steve (MitwirkendeR); Ferrante, Joan M. (MitwirkendeR); Frongia, Eugenio N. (MitwirkendeR); Hollander, Robert (MitwirkendeR); Iannucci, Amilcare A. (MitwirkendeR); Mandelbaum, Allen (MitwirkendeR); Mandelbaum, Allen (HerausgeberIn); Mazzotta, Giuseppe (MitwirkendeR); Noakes, Susan (MitwirkendeR); Nohrnberg, James (MitwirkendeR); Oldcorn, Anthony (MitwirkendeR); Oldcorn, Anthony (HerausgeberIn); Pertile, Lino (MitwirkendeR); Pesaresi, Massimo Mandolini (MitwirkendeR); Peterson, Thomas (MitwirkendeR); Petrie, Jennifer (MitwirkendeR); Petrocchi, Giorgio (MitwirkendeR); Ross, Charles (HerausgeberIn); Russo, Vittorio (MitwirkendeR); Sanguineti, Edoardo (MitwirkendeR); Scott, John A. (MitwirkendeR); Simonelli, Maria Picchio (MitwirkendeR); Stocchi, Manlio Pastore (MitwirkendeR); Terza, Dante Della (MitwirkendeR); Triolo, Alfred A. (MitwirkendeR); Valesio, Paolo (MitwirkendeR); Wlassics, Tibor (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520920538
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
    Other subjects: academic; cantos; circles of hell; classic literature; cultural context; divine comedy; essay collection; famous author; famous plays; famous story; famous theatre; heaven and hell; inferno; limbo; literary analysis; literary criticism; poetics; poetry; poets; religion; scholarly; seven deadly sins; sinner; sins; social commentary; translation; underworld; verse
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (490 p.)
  6. Shakespeare's Metrical Art
    Author: Wright, George T.
    Published: [1988]; ©1988
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical... more

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    This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language

     
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  7. Erec and Enide
    Author: de Troyes, Chrétien
    Published: [1992]; ©1992
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an... more

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    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance the demands of a masculine public life—tests of courage, skill, adaptability, and mature judgment—with the equally urgent demands of the private world of love and marriage. We see his wife, Enide, develop as an exemplar of chivalry in the female, not as an Amazon, but as a brave, resolute, and wise woman. Composed ca. 1170, Erec and Enide masterfully combines elements of Celtic legend, classical and ecclesiastical learning, and French medieval culture and ideals.In choosing to write in rhymed octosyllabic couplets–Chrétien's prosodic pattern–Dorothy Gilbert has tried to reproduce what so often gets lost in prose or free verse translations: the precise and delicate meter; the rhyme, with its rich possibilities for emphasis, nuance, puns and jokes; and the "mantic power" implicit in proper names. The result will enable the scholar who cannot read Old French, the student of literature, and the general reader to gain a more sensitive and immediate understanding of the form and spirit of Chrétien's poetry, and to appreciate the more Chrétien's great contribution to European literature

     
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  8. Sappho's Lyre
    Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece
    Author: Rayor, Diane J.
    Published: [1991]; ©1991
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of... more

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    Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets—the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time.Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers.Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry

     
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  9. Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels
    A Selection of Bengali Short Stories
    Contributor: Bandyopadhyay, Manik (MitwirkendeR); Bandyopadhyay, Tarashankar (MitwirkendeR); Bardhan, Kalpana (HerausgeberIn); Devi, Mahasweia (MitwirkendeR); Devi, Mahasweta (MitwirkendeR); Hug, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Huq, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindmnath (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindranath (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: [1990]; ©1990
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories—stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society... more

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    Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories—stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical structures of privilege and class differentiation.Written over a span of roughly ninety years from the early 1890s to the late 1970s, the twenty stories in this collection represent the work of five authors. Their characters, drawn from widely varying social groups, often find themselves caught up in tumultuous political and social upheaval.The reader encounters Rabindranath Thakur's extraordinarily spirited and bold heroines; Manik Bandyopadhyay's peasants, laborers, fisherfolk, and outcastes; and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's rural underclass of snake-charmers, corpse-handlers, stick-wielders, potters, witches, and Vaishnava minstrels. Mahasweta Devi gives voice to the semi-landless tribals and untouchables effectively denied the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution; Hasan Azizul Huq depicts the plight of the impoverished of Bangladesh

     
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    Contributor: Bandyopadhyay, Manik (MitwirkendeR); Bandyopadhyay, Tarashankar (MitwirkendeR); Bardhan, Kalpana (HerausgeberIn); Devi, Mahasweia (MitwirkendeR); Devi, Mahasweta (MitwirkendeR); Hug, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Huq, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindmnath (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindranath (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780520909458
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    Series: Voices from Asia ; 1
    Subjects: Short stories, Bengali; Short stories, Bengali; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Other subjects: 19th century; 20th century; academic; asian literature; bengali literature; contemporary; domestic; eastern literature; family life; feminism; feminist history; feminist; folk stories; folk tales; folklore; international literature; literary analysis; literary; scholarly; short stories; short story anthology; short story collection; womens history; womens issues
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  10. Signing the Body Poetic
    Essays on American Sign Language Literature
    Contributor: Bahan, Ben (MitwirkendeR); Bauman, Dirksen (HerausgeberIn); Bauman, H-Dirksen L. (MitwirkendeR); Davidson, Michael (MitwirkendeR); Harmon, Kristen C. (MitwirkendeR); Krentz, Christopher B. (MitwirkendeR); Mitchell, W. J. T. (MitwirkendeR); Nelson, Jennifer L. (MitwirkendeR); Nelson, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn); Padden, Carol A. (MitwirkendeR); Peters, Cynthia (MitwirkendeR); Robinson, Carol L. (MitwirkendeR); Rose, Heidi M. (MitwirkendeR); Rose, Heidi (HerausgeberIn); Stokoe, William C. (MitwirkendeR); Wolter, Liz (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: [2006]; ©2006
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse... more

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    This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama. The DVD showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time. Together, the book and DVD provide new insight into the history, culture, and creative achievements of the deaf community while expanding the scope of the visual and performing arts, literary criticism, and comparative literature

     
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  11. Six Acres and a Third
    The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India
    Author: Senapati, Fakir Mohan
    Published: [2005]; ©2005
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati—one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages—is both a literary work and a historical document. A... more

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    This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati—one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages—is both a literary work and a historical document. A text that makes use—and deliberate misuse—of both British and Indian literary conventions, Six Acres and a Third provides a unique "view from below" of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, the novel focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as new legal arrangements emerge and new types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape. This graceful translation faithfully conveys the rare and compelling account of how the more unsavory aspects of colonialism affected life in rural India

     
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  12. Penguin Classics
    Published: 2005

    Commercial Providers ; sc "Penguin Classics is an academic publisher of authoritative editions of works of classic literature. The website includes a catalog, monthly features, book synopses, discussion boards, trivia, feature essays, and information... more

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  13. On the postcolony
    Author: Mbembe, Achille
    Published: [2001]; © 2001
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard... more

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    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays—his first book to be published in English—develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity — violence, wonder, and laughter — to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Time on the Move -- 1. Of Commandement -- 2. On Private Indirect Government -- 3. The Aesthetics of Vulgarity -- 4. The Thing and Its Doubles -- 5. Out of the World -- 6. God's Phallus -- Conclusion: The Final Manner -- Bibliography -- Index

     
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    Series: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 41
    Subjects: Postcolonialism; Power (Social sciences); Subjectivity; HISTORY / General
    Other subjects: academic; africa; africanist; anthropology; autonomy; colonial; colonialism; contemporary africa; contemporary; essay collection; interdisciplinary; literary criticism; literary theory; modern world; nativist; oppression; philosophy; political science; postcolonial studies; postcolonial theory; postcolonial; power; psychoanalysis; resistance; scholarly; subjection; subjectivity; theoretical; violence
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  14. On the postcolony
    Author: Mbembe, Achille
    Published: [2001]; © 2001
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard... more

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    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays—his first book to be published in English—develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity — violence, wonder, and laughter — to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Time on the Move -- 1. Of Commandement -- 2. On Private Indirect Government -- 3. The Aesthetics of Vulgarity -- 4. The Thing and Its Doubles -- 5. Out of the World -- 6. God's Phallus -- Conclusion: The Final Manner -- Bibliography -- Index

     
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    ISBN: 9780520917538
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    RVK Categories: MI 10000 ; NQ 8850 ; AK 18000
    Series: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 41
    Subjects: Postcolonialism; Power (Social sciences); Subjectivity; HISTORY / General
    Other subjects: academic; africa; africanist; anthropology; autonomy; colonial; colonialism; contemporary africa; contemporary; essay collection; interdisciplinary; literary criticism; literary theory; modern world; nativist; oppression; philosophy; political science; postcolonial studies; postcolonial theory; postcolonial; power; psychoanalysis; resistance; scholarly; subjection; subjectivity; theoretical; violence
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (274 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-269