The Silent Minaret

Author : Ishtiyaq Shukri
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770092495
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Minaret written by Ishtiyaq Shukri and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who knew Issa Shamsuddin? Is his disappearance a matter of choice - the next step in a journey of self-imposed exile?

Author : Ishtiyaq Shukri
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Minaret written by Ishtiyaq Shukri and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daring in both form and content, this novel of belief and betrayal shuttles between two connected moments in history and two countries linked by their colonial past and globalized present. A young, missing student's friends try to reconstruct his life as they search for him, looking back to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 and to the expat communities of post–September 11 London. What emerges is a picture of a man insisting on a common humanity and finding ways to unify ideologies even as his world is being divided.

Author : William G. Welty
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648896146
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post45 Vs. The World: Literary Perspectives on the Global Contemporary written by William G. Welty and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the work done on the Post45 literary field carries an implicitly Americanist perspective. Even the name of the field suggests a certain literary history, with certain assumptions and blind spots about national spaces, identities, and histories. But what would Post45 look like when considered from outside of the United States? How do the current contours of the field exclude certain voices, either in the United States or elsewhere in the world? And how would such new perspectives shift the beginning and possible endpoint of that literary period? What new narratives of the contemporary emerge if we begin telling the story in a different year or from a different national or global perspective? This collection attempts to re-frame the discussions in Post45 by engaging with non-American writers, texts, and perspectives. Additionally, productive conversations emerge by attempting to think of canonical American writers like Mark Twain and Ishmael Reed from other national and global perspectives. The authors consider both the ways texts themselves as well as their reception histories approach and challenge our understandings of the contemporary. Ultimately, the collection interrogates prevailing narratives of history, culture, identity, and space within the Post45 field. In so doing, it re-considers the historical periodization of the field, which currently covers approximately 75 years of literary history. The resulting essays thus work towards a new intertwined narrative about what defines the contemporary and how national and global literatures fit into that moment of world history.

Author : Sean Jacobs
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608465187
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apartheid Israel written by Sean Jacobs and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.

Author : Andrea Thorpe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148544
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South African London written by Andrea Thorpe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.

Author : Jeffrey Clapp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317425847
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture written by Jeffrey Clapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. The chapters in the volume span domestic spaces and detention camps, the experience of migration and the phenomena of tourism, interpersonal exchanges and cross-cultural interventions. The volume explores the multifarious ways in which subjects, citizens, communities, and states negotiate the mutual, and potentially exclusive, desires to secure themselves and offer hospitality to others. From the individual’s telephone and data, to the threshold of the family home, to the borders of the nation, sites of securitization confound hospitality’s injunction to openness, gifting, and refuge. In demonstrating an interrelation between ongoing discussions of hospitality and the intensifying attention to security, the book engages with a range of literary, cultural, and geopolitical contexts, drawing on work from other disciplines, including philosophy, political science, and sociology. Further, it defines a new interdisciplinary area of inquiry that resonates with current academic interests in world literature, transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism.

Author : Henry Mills Alden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.

Author : Claire Chambers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137520892
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels written by Claire Chambers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and ‘sensuous geographies’ of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of a fascinating and important body of fiction by Muslim-identified authors. It is a selective literary history, exploring case-study novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain to allow in-depth critical analysis through the lens of sensory criticism. It argues that, for authors of Muslim heritage in Britain, writing the senses is often a double-edged act of protest. Some of the key authors excoriate a suppression or cover-up of non-heteronormativity and women’s rights that sometimes occurs in Muslim communities. Yet their protest is especially directed at secular culture’s ocularcentrism and at successive British governments’ efforts to surveil, control, and suppress Muslim bodies.

Author : Jane Poyner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030419371
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worlding of the South African Novel written by Jane Poyner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South African novel engages with this reality. In forms of literary experiment, the novels open up intellectual spaces shaping or contesting the idea of the “new South Africa”. The mediatising of truth at the TRC hearings, how best to deal with a spectacular yet covert past, the shaping for “unimagined communities” of an inclusive public sphere, HIV/AIDS as the preeminent site testing capitalist modernity, white anxieties about land reform, disease as environmental injustice and the fostering of an enabling restorative cultural memory: Poyner argues that through these key nodes of intellectual thought, the novels speak to recent debates on world-literature to register the “shock” of an uneven modernity produced by a capitalist world economy.

Author : Mark M. Jarzombek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470902485
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Global History of Architecture written by Mark M. Jarzombek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the First Edition "Because of its exceptionally wide perspective, even architectural historians who do not teach general survey courses are likely to enjoy and appreciate it." —Annali d'architettura "Not only does A Global History of Architecture own the territory (of world architecture), it pulls off this audacious task with panache, intelligence, and—for the most part—grace." —Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Revised and updated—the compelling history of the world's great architectural achievements Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture, Second Edition has been updated and revised throughout to reflect current scholarship. Spanning from 3,500 b.c.e. to the present, this unique guide is written by an all-star team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history. The architectural history of the world comes to life through a unified framework for interpreting and understanding architecture, supplemented by rich drawings from the renowned Frank Ching, as well as brilliant photographs. This new Second Edition: Delivers more coverage of non-Western areas, particularly Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, and Pre-Columbian America Is completely re-designed with full-color illustrations throughout Incorporates additional drawings by Professor Ching, including new maps with more information and color Meets the requirements set by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) for "non-Western" architecture in history education. Offers new connections to a companion Web site, including Google EarthTM coordinates for ease of finding sites. Architecture and art enthusiasts will find A Global History of Architecture, Second Edition perpetually at their fingertips.