Odious Caribbean Women And The Palpable Aesthetics Of Transgression

Author : Gladys M. Francis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498543510
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression written by Gladys M. Francis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centers on visual and literary productions of Francophone Caribbean women. It investigates their aesthetics of violence, pain, the abhorrent, and the “uglification” of the feminine to unravel what makes them transgressive and uncommodifiable. It probes the ways in which these works destroy the regimentation of the “ideal” body.

Author : Lisa Connell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666911003
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works written by Lisa Connell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisèle Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes devoted entirely to the author and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works brings together a range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisèle Pineau’s works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. As this volume ultimately demonstrates, resistance holds up a mirror to the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the past, construct the present, and build the future. It argues that Pineau’s characters open the narrative frame for reading them and move us beyond the categories of the wholly defiant or the inherently complicit. Above all, as they invite us to reimagine resistance, they expose our expectations and hopefully shift our understanding about what it means to rise and to fall in a world we seek to call our own.

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030345815
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book debbie tucker green written by Siân Adiseshiah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green. Covering the period from 2000 (Two Women) to 2017 (a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)), it offers scholars and students the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge critical debate engendered by tucker green’s innovative dramatic works for stage, television, and radio. This groundbreaking book includes contributions by a range of outstanding scholars, including black playwriting specialists, world-leading contemporary theatre scholars and some of the very best emerging researchers in the field. While always focused on the precision and detail of tucker green’s work, this book simultaneously reframes broader debates around contemporary drama and its politics, poses new questions of theatre, and provokes scholarly thinking in ways that, however obliquely, contribute to the change for which the plays agitate.

Author : Oana Panaïté
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135177901X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entre-Textes written by Oana Panaïté and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entre-Textes introduces advanced students of French to the richness of the Francophone world through literature from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The course anthology is divided into fourteen modules, each of which pairs a classical text with a modern one. Students are guided to read works from different periods of time and cultural origin and consider how these echo, complement or question each other. Through comparing and contrasting the texts, students will develop a new approach to reading literature while simultaneously reinforcing linguistic and cultural competencies. Suitable for advanced students of French and featuring texts from across the French-speaking world, Entre-Textes is an innovative course anthology with a flexible structure and versatile methodology.

Author : Fabienne Kanor
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944708
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humus written by Fabienne Kanor and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written in 1774 by the commander of a slave ship, Le Soleil. Captain Louis Mosnier recounted the loss of valuable "cargo" when fourteen African women escaped from the ship’s hold to leap overboard rather than face enslavement. Half of them drowned or were eaten by sharks. From this tragic incident, Kanor has composed a powerful, polyphonic novel in which each woman tells her own vivid story. Their disparate lives from differing cultures, conditions, and perspectives intersect through their violent mistreatment, profound sense of disorientation, and collective act of resistance. These intertwined narratives reveal the brutalizing effects of slavery, not only on the victim but also on the oppressor: the master can no more escape its dehumanizing effects than can the slave.

Author : Odile Ferly
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031321111
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronotropics written by Odile Ferly and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the chronotropics that is anticolonial, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and non-anthropocentric. This is an open access book.

Author : Valérie K. Orlando
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739194208
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining the Caribbean written by Valérie K. Orlando and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars working in different languages—Creole, French, English, Spanish—and modes of cultural production—literature, art, film, music—to suggest how best to model courses that impart the rich, vibrant, and multivalent aspects of the Caribbean in the classroom. Essays focus on discussing how best to cross languages, histories, and modes of discourse. Instead of relying on available paradigms that depend on Western ways of thinking, the essays recommend methods to develop a pan-Caribbean perspective in relation to notions of the self, uses of language, gender hierarchies, and ideas of nationhood. Contributors represent various disciplines, work in one of the several languages of the Caribbean, and offer essays that reflect different cadres of expertise.

Author : Fabricio Tocco
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793651655
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Detectives against Power written by Fabricio Tocco and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.

Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113587316X
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distinction written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.

Author : Victor K. Mendes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498595383
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portuguese Literature and the Environment written by Victor K. Mendes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia for a pristine natural or rural landscape under threat in the wake of industrialization, Portuguese literature has frequently reflected on the connection between humans and the natural world. More recently, the postcolonial turn in contemporary literature has highlighted the contrast between the environment of the former colonies and that of Portugal. Contributors to the collection examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment and have incorporated nature in their texts not only to prompt social, political or philosophical reflections on human society, but also as a way to learn from non-humans. The book is organized into three sections. The first explores the relationship between Portuguese philosophy, historiography, culture, and environmental issues. The second section discusses the link between literary texts and the environment from the Renaissance to 1900. The final section analyzes the connection between literary movements or specific authors and environmental change from 1900 to today. Scholars of literature, Latin American studies, literature, and environmental studies will find this volume especially useful.