Intimations Of Modernity

Author : Louis A. Pérez (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469631325
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Intimations of Modernity written by Louis A. Pérez (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: To Diffuse the Light of Civilization -- CHAPTER TWO: To Advance the Course of Progress Forward -- CHAPTER THREE: The Perfection of Acting -- CHAPTER FOUR: Mellow Effulgence -- CHAPTER FIVE: Prologue to Perdition -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631318
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Intimations of Modernity written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence. Contributing to the cultural history of capitalism in Latin America, Perez argues that such creoles were cosmopolitans with powerful transnational affinities and an abiding identification with modernity. This period of Cuban history is usually viewed through a political lens, but Perez, here emphasizing the character of everyday life within the increasingly fraught colonial system, shows how moral, social, and cultural change that resulted from market forces also contributed to conditions leading to the collapse of the Spanish colonial administration. Perez highlights women's centrality in this process, showing how criollas adapted to new modes of self-representation as a means of self-fulfillment. Increasing opportunities for middle-class women's public presence and social participation was both cause and consequence of expanding consumerism and of women's challenges to prevailing gender hierarchies. Seemingly simple actions--riding a bicycle, for example, or deploying the abanico, the fan, in different ways--exposed how traditional systems of power and privilege clashed with norms of modernity and progress.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134917597
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Intimations of Postmodernity written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134917600
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Intimations of Postmodernity written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.

Author : Saurabh Dube
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928357458
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Subjects of Modernity written by Saurabh Dube and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "e;Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject's inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies."e; - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

Author : Antonio L. Rappa
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812380098
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Modernity & Consumption written by Antonio L. Rappa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an examination of modernity and consumption with a non-Marxist, modernity-Resistance-theoretical frame (mRf).

Author : Lisa Saltzman
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655169
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Trauma and Visuality in Modernity written by Lisa Saltzman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the role of trauma in modern art.

Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350275301
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The YMCA in Late Colonial India written by Harald Fischer-Tiné and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia. Focusing on interactions between American 'Y' workers and the local population, representatives of the British colonial state, and a host of international actors, it assesses their impact on the making of modern India. In turn, it shows how the knowledge and experience acquired by the Y in South Asia had a significant impact on US foreign policy, diplomacy and development programs in the region from the mid-1940s. Exploring the 'secular' projects launched by the YMCA such as new forms of sport, philanthropic efforts and educational endeavours, The YMCA in Late Colonial India addresses broader issues about the persistent role of religion in global modernization processes, the accumulation of American soft power in Asia, and the entanglement of American imperialism with other colonial empires. It provides an unusually rich case study to explore how 'global civil society' emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, how it related to the prevailing imperial world order, and how cultural specificities affected the ways in which it unfolded. Offering fresh perspectives on the historical trajectories of America's 'moral empire', Christian internationalism and the history of international organizations more broadly, this book also gives an insight into the history of South Asia during an age of colonial reformism and decolonization. It shows how international actors contributed to the shaping of South Asia's modernity at this crucial point, and left a lasting legacy in the region.

Author : Nishat Zaidi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000901750
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Indian Modernities written by Nishat Zaidi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373025
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Stuart Hall's Voice written by David Scott and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Hall’s Voice explores the ethos of style that characterized Stuart Hall’s intellectual vocation. David Scott frames the book—which he wrote as a series of letters to Hall in the wake of his death—as an evocation of friendship understood as the moral and intellectual medium in which his dialogical hermeneutic relationship with Hall’s work unfolded. In this respect, the book asks: what do we owe intellectually to the work of those whom we know well, admire, and honor? Reflecting one of the lessons of Hall’s style, the book responds: what we owe should be conceived less in terms of criticism than in terms of listening. Hall’s intellectual life was animated by voice in literal and extended senses: not only was his voice distinctive in the materiality of its sound, but his thinking and writing were fundamentally shaped by a dialogical and reciprocal practice of speaking and listening. Voice, Scott suggests, is the central axis of the ethos of Hall’s style. Against the backdrop of the consideration of the voice’s aspects, Scott specifically engages Hall’s relationship to the concepts of "contingency" and "identity," concepts that were dimensions less of a method as such than of an attuned and responsive attitude to the world. This attitude, moreover, constituted an ethical orientation of Hall’s that should be thought of as a special kind of generosity, namely a "receptive generosity," a generosity oriented as much around giving as receiving, as much around listening as speaking.