Violent Belongings

Author : Kavita Daiya
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 159213744X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Belongings written by Kavita Daiya and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.

Author : Charles E. Cobb
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080952
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed written by Charles E. Cobb and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as “an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals how nonviolent activists and their allies kept the civil rights movement alive by bearing—and, when necessary, using—firearms. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these men and women were crucial to the movement's success, as were the weapons they carried. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the Southern Freedom Movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb offers a controversial examination of the vital role guns have played in securing American liberties.

Author : Adi Kuntsman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039115648
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figurations of Violence and Belonging written by Adi Kuntsman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical analysis of the complex relationship between violence and belonging, by exploring the ways sexual, ethnic or national belonging can work through, rather than against, violence. Based on an ethnographic study of Russian-speaking, queer immigrants in Israel/Palestine and in cyberspace, it gives an insight into the world of hate speech and fantasies of torture and sexual abuse; of tormented subjectivities and uncanny homes; of ghostly hauntings from the past and anxieties about the present and future. The author raises questions about the responsibilities of national homemaking, the complicity of queerness within violent regimes of colonialism and war, and the ambivalence of immigrant belonging at the intersection of marginality and privilege. Drawing from scholarship on migration, diaspora and race studies, feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis and studies on cyberculture, the book traces the interplay between the different forms of violence - physical and verbal, social and psychic, material and discursive - and offers novel insights into the analysis of nationalism, on-line sociality and queer migranthood.

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ISBN 13 : 9789380403021
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Beginnings written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691049645
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Redemption written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Madeline Anthes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736947746
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful, Violent Things written by Madeline Anthes and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drunk ghosts, feral mothers...riveting obsessions and unbelongings and captivities-the fragmented texts in Beautiful, Violent Things seethe and grip and fluoresce without apology. In these eleven dispatches, Madeline Anthes carefully weaves desire and estrangement, reimagines power as a woman's capacity for hollowing a man, the ability to deliver impossibilities from her misappropriated body. The speakers in this collection compose a primal song, reprise-with blood and feathers and new ferocity-the iconoclastic feminisms of Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Anthes is alive on the page, a writer to watch." - Tara Stillions Whitehead, author of Blood Histories "I know these stories by Madeline Anthes. You know them too. They are the stories we whisper to each other: Mother to daughter, sister to sister, friend to friend. They are the stories about the things we want, the things we need, the things that have broken us, the things that have tried to break us. Listen closely to the voices in these stories -- you will find someone you know in them. You might even find yourself. This is a powerful debut collection from a gifted writer. We are lucky to have it." - Cathy Ulrich, author, Ghosts of You "The narrators in Beautiful, Violent Things want powerfully. They want to be seen, want to be left alone, want to hold their baby, want to want to hold their baby-but more than anything, they want you to listen to their voices. To the way the words sound coming from their mouths in a cold and specific arrangement. I am Wendy, chrome sleek and velvet fast: breathing heat and running wild. They want you to hear what lies just behind their words: the impossible problem of desire. A problem Anthes has studied like a scholar. Let's listen to what she's found-all these alluring, dangerous voices calling out." - Tyler Barton, author of Eternal Night at the Nature Museum "The stories in Beautiful, Violent Things are alive, visceral and raw, not just in the blunt emotional honesty of their narrators-women who know what they want, who feel the twisted pull of the lives they have and the ones they've given up to be mothers and lovers-but in the prose, so very warm with poetry and song. Anthes is a writer who understands how to make the quiet moments in life roar." - Christopher Gonzalez, author of I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat

Author : Megan Corbin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469664305
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Objects written by Megan Corbin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining testimonial production in Southern Cone Latin America (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), Haunted Objects analyzes how the changed relationship between the subject and the material world influenced the way survivors narrate the stories of their detentions in the wake of the political violence of the 1970s and 80s. It explores descriptions of objects within testimonial narratives and uses these descriptions to inform an analysis of how the objects that survived the violence--items recovered by archeologists from former detention centers, the personal belongings of disappeared peoples, the prison craftwork created by political prisoners during their detention, and the bodies of the second generation children of the disappeared, all join together in memory projects in the post-dictatorship to offer "spectral testimony" about the past.

Author : Suranjana Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527557103
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal written by Suranjana Choudhury and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with diverse modes of representations of Partition violence and its consequences in a selection of Partition narratives from Bengal. Violence constitutes one of the most obvious images of this traumatic period in Indian history. Its dynamics of representation—the nature of violence, its impact on society and the individual, the forms of its socio cultural and political implanting—invariably highlight the aesthetic sensibility of its writers. The book questions if it is possible to qualify violence with all its complexities, and examines how these narratives offer a critique of historical and political engagements with violence. The experiences of suffering, pain, trauma, affliction, torture, fear and betrayal are also constituted within the structural analysis of violence.

Author : Derek Rubin
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089641440
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Multiculturalism After 9/11 written by Derek Rubin and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and rich volume charts the post-9/11 debates and practice of multiculturalism, pinpointing their political and cultural implications in the United States and Europe.

Author : Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814725244
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Will Shoot Back written by Akinyele Omowale Umoja and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking of Black Southerners about the forms of effective resistance."—Charles M. Payne, University of Chicago The notion that the civil rights movement in the southern United States was a nonviolent movement remains a dominant theme of civil rights memory and representation in popular culture. Yet in dozens of southern communities, Black people picked up arms to defend their leaders, communities, and lives. In particular, Black people relied on armed self-defense in communities where federal government officials failed to safeguard activists and supporters from the violence of racists and segregationists, who were often supported by local law enforcement. In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to the efficacy of the southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement. Intimidation and fear were central to the system of oppression in Mississippi and most of the Deep South. To overcome the system of segregation, Black people had to overcome fear to present a significant challenge to White domination. Armed self-defense was a major tool of survival in allowing some Black southern communities to maintain their integrity and existence in the face of White supremacist terror. By 1965, armed resistance, particularly self-defense, was a significant factor in the challenge of the descendants of enslaved Africans to overturning fear and intimidation and developing different political and social relationships between Black and White Mississippians. This riveting historical narrative relies upon oral history, archival material, and scholarly literature to reconstruct the use of armed resistance by Black activists and supporters in Mississippi to challenge racist terrorism, segregation, and fight for human rights and political empowerment from the early 1950s through the late 1970s. Akinyele Omowale Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University, where he teaches courses on the history of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and other social movements.