Representation And Resistance

Author : Jaspal Kaur Singh
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552382451
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representation and Resistance written by Jaspal Kaur Singh and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.

Author : European Science Foundation
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198205487
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance, Representation, and Community written by European Science Foundation and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1997 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on three key aspects of life and change as the European state developed, Peter Blickle brings together a wealth of scholarly experience from all over the continent to discuss the subject's role in State formation. Europe has undergone a remarkable process of democratization sincethe end of the Second World War, shifting the thrust of government policy away from foreign affairs and towards internal matters, and rendering social interest and conflict the driving forces in the historical process. This widespread acceptance of democracy has led to a renewed study of the historyof the estates, and a corresponding increase in debate over the concept of representation. Here the debate is taken further with an examination of the role of the city constitution, and developments in rural settlements. Inextricably linked with the advent of wide-scale representation was an increase in resistance: this book examines the geographical spread of such uprisings, and offers explanations of why revolts were so few in Northern Europe but so prevalent in the Central states. The questions of who gainedfrom the uprisings, and what they contributed to the development of the different forms of representation and community are addressed from a pan-European angle. The cities and villages of the late Middle Ages and early modern period were instrumental in building the political structure of the time. These settlements were determinative of the spirit of community, and a close inspection of these communities throws interesting light on the differences betweenpeasant and burgher morality, and how these norms and values were integrated into the legitimizing of the state. This fascinating work examines the citizen's role in European development with a theoretical and conceptual, but also practical and pragmatic approach. The discussion crosses all national boundaries, and in a Europe which is constantly evolving is a relevant and timely addition to theseries.

Author : Laura Findlay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527553256
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alienation and Resistance written by Laura Findlay and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection draws together recent work by new and emerging scholars which examines the representation of alienation and resistance in texts and images, both modern and traditional. The essays collected here incorporate both “high” and “low” culture, covering a wide range of disciplines from traditional literary sources to the more modern mediums of film and comic. Informing each of the contributions is one overriding question: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of alienation and resistance in our culture and its diverse media? The contributors to this collection find examples of both alienation and resistance everywhere, from sixteenth century drama to contemporary fiction, from American comics to Eastern European cinema, from representations of the body to the site of the body itself. In seeking out these representations of alienation and resistance, the essays begin also to probe the limits and limitations of such terms. As such, the collection as a whole offers both a broad overview of the field of play as it stands today and makes tentative suggestions as to potential paths of future inquiry.

Author : T. Sakhkhane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230349412
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spivak and Postcolonialism written by T. Sakhkhane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring, amongst other themes, representations of the other, strategies adopted to resist such representations, the issues of identity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, subaltern studies and the English language within the context of Empire, this book projects a study of post-colonialism through the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Author : Chon A. Noriega
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicanos and Film written by Chon A. Noriega and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thiven Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351778684
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegemony and Resistance written by Thiven Reddy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: An original explanation for the importance South Africans attachment to ethnic and racial group categories in everyday speech and practice. The answers emerge by presenting a history of dominant and resistance discourses as they relate to collective identity - a move which breaks with prevailing approaches to South African political history, problematises ethnic group categories and offers new ways of seeing old debates.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317588487
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Looks written by bell hooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert." As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do.

Author : Georgia Anne Persons
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412832649
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Representation written by Georgia Anne Persons and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Representation is anchored by a symposium that focuses on efforts to enhance representation of African Americans in legislative bodies under the authority of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, and on recent court challenges to the constitutionality of redistricting plans drawn under that act. The chapters constitute an extension of an ongoing and protracted, highly charged, public debate. In her introduction, Georgia A. Persons discusses how recent Supreme Court rulings, such as in Shaw v. Reno, Miller v. Johnson, and Bush v. Vera, have significantly redefined the meaning and permissible parameters of the Voting Rights Act. The articles in Race and Representation are refreshingly informative. They include case studies written by political scientists who became involved directly with events surrounding the theme of this volume. A new section, "Reflections," is introduced; it will be reserved for commentary and analysis of an issue that captures the political spirit of the times. In the inaugural contribution, J. Owens Smith reflects on the assault on liberal philosophy as a foundation for civil rights claims and offers an alternative philosophical prism for viewing and justifying such claims. This volume is essential for political scientists, African-American studies specialists, and scholars interested in law and government.

Author : Chon A. Noriega
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816622184
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicanos and Film written by Chon A. Noriega and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, Chicano and Latino representation and participation in the American film industry have been largely ignored by film scholars. Genre criticism has been particularly oblivious to the presence of Chicanos in genres that have, at times, been constructed around a Chicano or Chicana 'other'--Westerns, social problems films, and the more recent urban violence film.

Author : Martin Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783837631494
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance written by Martin Butler and published by . This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: