Grounds Of Comparison

Author : Pheng Cheah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135382603
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounds of Comparison written by Pheng Cheah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years. Widely read both by social scientists and humanists, it has become an unavoidable document. For people in the humanities, Anderson is particularly interesting because he explores the rise of nationalism in connection with the rise of the novel.

Author : Pheng Cheah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135382670
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounds of Comparison written by Pheng Cheah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years. Widely read both by social scientists and humanists, it has become an unavoidable document. For people in the humanities, Anderson is particularly interesting because he explores the rise of nationalism in connection with the rise of the novel.

Author : Harry Levin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674424883
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounds for Comparison written by Harry Levin and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephane Robolin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097580
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounds of Engagement written by Stephane Robolin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part literary history, part cultural study, Grounds of Engagement examines the relationships and exchanges between black South African and African American writers who sought to create common ground throughout the antiapartheid era. Stéphane Robolin argues that the authors' geographic imaginations crucially defined their individual interactions and, ultimately, the literary traditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Subject to the tyranny of segregation, authors such as Richard Wright, Bessie Head, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michelle Cliff, and Richard Rive charted their racialized landscapes and invented freer alternative geographies. They crafted rich representations of place to challenge the stark social and spatial arrangements that framed their lives. Those representations, Robolin contends, also articulated their desires for black transnational belonging and political solidarity. The first book to examine U.S. and South African literary exchanges in spatial terms, Grounds of Engagement identifies key moments in the understudied history of black cross-cultural exchange and exposes how geography serves as an indispensable means of shaping and reshaping modern racial meaning.

Author : Natalie Melas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731980
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Difference in the World written by Natalie Melas and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted evolutionary models to place European literature at the forefront of human development. This book argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned. The point is not simply to bring more objects under comparison, but rather to examine the process of comparison. The book offers a new approach to the either/or of relativism and universalism, in which comparison is either impossible or assimilatory, by focusing instead on various forms of “incommensurability”—comparisons in which there is a ground for comparison but no basis for equivalence. Each chapter develops a particular form of such cultural comparison from readings of important novelists (Joseph Conrad, Simone Schwartz-Bart), poets (Aimé Césaire, Derek Walcott), and theorists (Edouard Glissant, Jean-Luc Nancy).

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounds of Comparison written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1726 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ... written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 926 pages
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Download or read book Public Buildings and Grounds written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Public Buildings and Grounds written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
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Download or read book Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Congress ... [April 26, 1917-February 18, 1919] written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: