Sharp Notions

Author : Marita Dachsel
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551529262
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharp Notions written by Marita Dachsel and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging anthology of personal essays from diverse voices about their relationships to the fibre arts. Sometimes, the reliability of a knit stitch, the steady rocking of a quilting needle, the solid structure of a loom, is all you have. During the pandemic, fiber arts newbies discovered and lapsed crafters rediscovered that picking up some sticks and string or a needle and thread was the perfect way to reduce stress, quell anxiety, and foster creativity, an antidote to endless hours of doom-scrolling. Chances are you or someone close to you is currently in an ecstatic relationship with yarn, thread, or fabric. As we struggle with the pressures, anxieties, and impacts of daily life, fiber arts—knitting, crocheting, embroidery, weaving, beading, sewing, quilting, textiles—can be an antidote, a mirror and a metaphor for so many of life’s challenges. Part time machine, part meditation app, the simple act of working with one’s hands instantly reduces the overwhelming scope of living to a human scale and the present moment. In this nonfiction anthology, writers and artists from different backgrounds explore their complex relationships to fiber arts and the intersection of creative practice and identity, technology, climate change, trauma, politics, chronic illness, and disability. In answer to the mainstream craft space’s tendency to centre the perspectives and careers of white women, Sharp Notions showcases Black, Indigenous, South-Asian, Chinese, and queer artists and makers and the cultural traditions of craft in diasporic communities. Accompanied by full-colour photographs throughout, these powerful essays challenge the traditional view of crafting and examine the role, purpose, joy, and necessity of craft amid the alienation of contemporary life. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Author : Cassander L. Smith
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180726
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic written by Cassander L. Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world. The term “respectability politics” refers to the way members of a minoritized population adopt the customs and manners of a dominant culture in order to gain visibility and combat negative stereotypes about their subject group. Today respectability politics can be seen in how those within and outside Black communities police the behavior of Black celebrities, critique protest movements, and celebrate accomplishments by people of African descent who break racial barriers. To study the origins of the complicated relationship between race and respectability, Cassander L. Smith shows that early American literatures reveal Black communities engaging with issues of respectability from the very beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. Concerns about character and comportment influenced the literary production of Black Atlantic communities, particularly in the long eighteenth century. Uncovering the central importance of respectability as a theme shaping the literary development of cultures throughout the early Black Atlantic, Smith illuminates the mechanics of respectability politics in a range of texts, including poetry, letters, and life writing by Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and expatriates on the west coast of Africa in Sierra Leone. Through these early Black texts, Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic considers respectability politics as a malleable strategy that has both energized and suppressed Black cultures for centuries.

Author : Sumit Sarkar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253342034
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Nationalist Frames written by Sumit Sarkar and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography—anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies—will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.

Author : Delia Graff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351876198
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vagueness written by Delia Graff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vagueness, volume XX, contains twenty-seven essays, with issues covered including: nihilism, phenomenal sorites, degrees of truth, epistemicism, higher-order vagueness, contextualism, and intuitionism. Written by leading contemporary philosophers, these essays will be of interest to researchers in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and epistemology; as well as those in natural language semantics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science more generally. A substantial introduction written by the editors provides a guide to the topic and to the essays in the volume.

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Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Frederick Partington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
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Download or read book The British Cyclopedia of Biography: Containing the Lives of Distinguished Men of All Ages and Countries, with Portraits, Residences, Autographs, and Monuments written by Charles Frederick Partington and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042024208
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Grazer Philosophische Studien written by and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sukumar Periwal
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781858660219
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notions of Nationalism written by Sukumar Periwal and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, following the end of the cold war and the relative simplicities of the bipolar confrontation, nationalism has re-emerged as a dominant force and ideology in our world. Everywhere, peoples who had been confined within the borders of countries with which they did not identify, and whose regimes they intensely disliked, have been seeking self-determination and democracy. Notions of Nationalism, as the title implies, is an open-minded exploration of a phenomenon that all of us need to understand. In this highly topical volume, a group of distinguished scholars explore various perspectives of nationalism theory, analysing and shedding light on the many differences between the forms of nationalism which make it difficult to elaborate any single, overarching theory. The contributors address various notions of nationalism from widely differing viewpoints, yet all share the basic premises that nationalism is not a self-evident phenomenon and that the need to understand it is urgent, since it is an inescapable component of contemporary identity and politics.

Author : John Selby Watson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Richard Porson written by John Selby Watson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Sheldon's Retail Trade of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: