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  1. Rainbow
    Author: Mao, Dun
    Published: [1992]; ©1992
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    With this translation of the 1929 novel Rainbow(Hong), one of China's most influential works of fiction is at last available in English.Rainbow chronicles the political and social disruptions in China during the early years of the twentieth century.... more

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    With this translation of the 1929 novel Rainbow(Hong), one of China's most influential works of fiction is at last available in English.Rainbow chronicles the political and social disruptions in China during the early years of the twentieth century. Inspired by the iconoclasm of the "May Fourth Movement," the heroine, Mei, embarks on a journey that takes her from the limitations of the traditional family to a discovery of the new, "modern" values of individualism, sexual equality, and political responsibility. The novel moves with Mei from the conservative world of China's interior provinces down the Yangtze River to Shanghai, where she discovers the turbulent political environment of China's most modern city.Mao Dun writes with the conviction of one who has lived through the events he is describing. Rainbow provides a moving introduction to the contradictions inherent in the simultaneous quest for personal freedom and national strengthening. Vividly evocative of the period in which it was written, it is equally relevant to the China of today

     

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  2. Weather Eye Open
    Poems
    Published: [2005]; ©2005
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and... more

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    The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and expiration of Being." The windmill serves as analogue to the perceiving subject, to the poet, whose consciousness, though rooted and partial, is yet always receptive to being energized, turned. Like open sails, the perceiver ushers the weather indoors, converting one motion, the wind, to another, the grinding burrstones. The poems in this collection pursue a similar transmutation through language, a staying open to its various weather (and whether) systems. For Sarah Gridley, language strikes at the "X" of experience: part presence and part absence, part spirit and part matter, part home and part homesickness, part harnessed and part wild. In the face of such weather, the stance of the poet is both rapacious and passive, searching and struck still

     

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  3. Modernizing Composition
    Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part One: The Colonial Era -- 1. Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World -- 2. Brothers of the Pure Sinhala... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part One: The Colonial Era -- 1. Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World -- 2. Brothers of the Pure Sinhala Fraternity -- 3. Wartime Romance -- Part Two: The Postcolonial Era -- 4. Divergent Standards of Excellence -- 5. For the People -- 6. Illusions to Disillusions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India's relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India

     

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  4. Modernizing Composition
    Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part One: The Colonial Era -- 1. Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World -- 2. Brothers of the Pure Sinhala... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part One: The Colonial Era -- 1. Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World -- 2. Brothers of the Pure Sinhala Fraternity -- 3. Wartime Romance -- Part Two: The Postcolonial Era -- 4. Divergent Standards of Excellence -- 5. For the People -- 6. Illusions to Disillusions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India's relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India

     

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  5. On the postcolony
    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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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780520917538
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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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  6. On the postcolony
    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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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-269

  7. Modernizing composition
    Sinhala song, poetry, and politics in twentieth-century Sri Lanka
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South... more

     

    The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India's relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India.

     

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    ISBN: 9780520967755
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    Series: South Asia across the disciplines
    Subjects: Sinhalese poetry; Songs, Sinhalese; Songs, Sinhalese; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
    Other subjects: 20th century; community; composition; contemporary; culture; modern world; music; musician; musicianship; nationalism; nationalist thought; nationalist; poetry; political; politics; pure sinhala fraternity; romance; singhala song; social studies; Sri Lanka
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  8. Earth Sound, Earth Signal
    Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David... more

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    Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, the book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s, when the composer Alvin Lucier worked with the ""natural electromagnetic sounds"" present from ""brainwaves to outer Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Thomas Watson: Natural Radio, Natural Theology; 2. Microphonic Imagination; 3. The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's Sphere Music; 4. The Aelectrosonic and Energetic Environments; 5. Inductive Radio and Whistling Currents; 6. Alvin Lucier: Brainwaves; 7. Edmond Dewan and Cybernetic Hi-Fi; 8. Alvin Lucier: Whistlers; 9. From Brainwaves to Outer Space: John Cage and Karl Jansky; 10. For More New Signals; 11. Sound of the Underground: Earthquakes, Nuclear Weaponry, and Music

     

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