Slave Of Desire

Author : Daniel E. Beaumont
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638743
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave of Desire written by Daniel E. Beaumont and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Slave of Desire, through its analyses of various stories, reveals The 1001 Nights to be a very different sort of work, a sophisticated and subtle piece of literature that can provoke and disturb as much as it entertains and amuses.

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807898741
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire written by Trevor Burnard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910908358
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves to Desire written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Schroeder
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191538477
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves of the Passions written by Mark Schroeder and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long claimed to be the dominant conception of practical reason, the Humean theory that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires, is the basis for a range of worries about the objective prescriptivity of morality. As a result, it has come under intense attack in recent decades. A wide variety of arguments have been advanced which purport to show that it is false, or surprisingly, even that it is incoherent. Slaves of the Passions aims to set the record straight, by advancing a version of the Humean theory of reasons which withstands this sophisticated array of objections. Mark Schroeder defends a radical new view which, if correct, means that the commitments of the Humean theory have been widely misunderstood. Along the way, he raises and addresses questions about the fundamental structure of reasons, the nature of normative explanations, the aims of and challenges facing reductive views in metaethics, the weight of reasons, the nature of desire, moral epistemology, and most importantly, the relationship between agent-relational and agent-neutral reasons for action.

Author : Eli Gilic
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves to Desire written by Eli Gilic and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Baudelaire, Rasputin, Anna Karenina, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Sand, Frederic Chopin, Vincent van Gogh, Antonin Artaud, Maria Izquierdo, James Joyce, Federico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali. What awaits Anna Karenina on the other side? Can Rasputin find redemption? Does passion still flow through the veins of the lovers from Verona? Can Hamlet and Ophelia escape their fate? Is Van Gogh's loneliness a blessing or a curse? What hides behing George Sand's yearning? Can Dali dispel Lorca's fear? Eli Gilic deftly weaves fact and fiction to bring some of the world's great writers, literary characters, artists, and composers to life as they reach the heights of passion and the depths of despair in this mesmerizing erotic short story collection.

Author : Frederic Lordon
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781681619
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willing Slaves Of Capital written by Frederic Lordon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that reveals the fundamental role of affects and passions in the employment relationship, reconceptualizing capitalist exploitation as the capture and remolding of desire. A thoroughly materialist reading of Spinoza's Ethics allows Lordon to debunk all notions of individual autonomy and self-determination while simultaneously saving the ideas of political freedom and liberation from capitalist exploitation. Willing Slaves of Capital is a bold proposal to rethink capitalism and its transcendence on the basis of the contemporary experience of work.

Author : ELI. GILIC
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910908365
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves to Desire written by ELI. GILIC and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical erotic short story collection based on real and literary characters.

Author : Lisa Ze Winters
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820348961
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mulatta Concubine written by Lisa Ze Winters and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure’s centrality to the practices and production of diaspora. Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers’ narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities.

Author : Random House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099817833
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave to Her Desire written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Jordan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351962
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slave-trader's Letter-book written by Jim Jordan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans to Jekyll Island, Georgia. This book presents his "Slave-Trader's Letter-Book." These seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling, figure.