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Autological Love

Author : Christopher Cox
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595407218
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Autological Love written by Christopher Cox and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Autological Love follows marginally competent writer Henry Craft as he visits the small college town of Lohnbury hoping to learn more about three popular artists hailing from Latham College and the surrounding community: a reclusive author who consistently returns to the best-seller lists in spite of critical objections, a young guitar phenom fronting the popular rock band Grim Altar, and a pseudonymous painter whose works are bringing a small fortune to a local gallery. ... Gradually Craft overcomes his complete lack of skills as an investigative journalist and learns that all three stories lead back like spokes on a wheel to the same point: a young man who died almost two decades earlier."--Sal Bott on Amazon.com

Consoling Ghosts

Author : Jean M. Langford
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452939861
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Consoling Ghosts written by Jean M. Langford and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Jean M. Langford repeatedly met with spirits: the wandering souls of the seriously ill, dangerous ghosts of those who died by violence, restless ancestors displaced from their homes. For these emigrants, the dead not only appear in memories, safely ensconced in the past, but also erupt with a physical force into the daily life and dreams of the present. Inspired by these conversations, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. At their heart, as Langford’s work reveals, emigrants’ stories are parables not of cultural difference but rather of life and death. Langford inquires how and why spirits become implicated in remembering and responding to violence, whether the bloody violence of war or the more structural violence of social marginalization and poverty. What is at stake, she asks, when spirits break out of their usual confinement as symbolic figures for history, heritage, or trauma to haunt the corridors of hospitals and funeral homes? Emigrants’ theories and stories of ghosts, Langford suggests, inherently question the metaphorical status of spirits, in the process challenging both contemporary bioethics of dying and dominant styles of mourning. Consoling Ghosts explores the possibilities opened up by a more literal existence of ghosts, from the confrontation of shades of past violence through bodily ritual to rites of mourning that unfold in acts of material care for the dead instead of memorialization. Ultimately the book invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death, conducting relationships with the dead and dying, and addressing the effects of violence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds.

Queering Kinship

Author : Han Tao
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529233283
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Queering Kinship written by Han Tao and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Guangdong, China, this book asks: what does it mean for Chinese non-heterosexual people to go against existing state regulations and societal norms to form a desirable and legible queer family? Chapters explore the various tactics queer people employ to have children and to form queer or ‘rainbow’ families. The book unpacks people’s experiences of cultivating, or losing, kinship relations through their negotiation with biological relatives, cultural conventions and state legislations. Through its analysis, the book offers a new ethnographic perspective for queer studies and anthropology of kinship.

Somali, Muslim, British

Author : Giulia Liberatore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181138
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Somali, Muslim, British written by Giulia Liberatore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somalis are one of the most chastised Muslim communities in Europe. Depicted in the news as victims of female genital mutilation, perpetrators of gang violence, or more recently, as radical Islamists, Somalis have been cast as a threat to social cohesion, national identity, and security in Britain and beyond. Somali, Muslim, British shifts attention away from these public representations to provide a detailed ethnographic study of Somali Muslim women’s engagements with religion, political discourses, and public culture in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles the aspirations of different generations of Somali women as they respond to publicly charged questions of what it means to be Muslim, Somali, and British. By challenging and reconfiguring the dominant political frameworks in which they are immersed, these women imagine new ways of being in securitized Britain. Giulia Liberatore provides a nuanced account of Islamic piety, arguing that it needs to be understood as one among many forms of striving that individuals pursue throughout their lives. Bringing new perspectives to debates about Islam and multiculturalism in Europe, this book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of religion, subjectivity, and gender.

Long Term

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021543
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Long Term written by Scott Herring and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect. They consider commitment in all its guises, particularly relationships beyond and aside from monogamous partnering. These include chosen and involuntary long-term commitments to families, friends, pets, and coworkers; to the care of others and care of self; and to financial, psychiatric, and carceral institutions. Whether considering the enduring challenges of chronic illnesses and disability, including HIV and chronic fatigue syndrome; theorizing the queer family as a scene of racialized commitment; or relating the grief and loss that comes with caring for pets, the contributors demonstrate that attending to the long term offers a fuller understanding of queer engagements with intimacy, mortality, change, dependence, and care. Contributors. Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Scott Herring, Annamarie Jagose, Amy Jamgochian, E. Patrick Johnson, Jaya Keaney, Heather Love, Sally R. Munt, Kane Race, Amy Villarejo, Lee Wallace

The Empire of Love

Author : Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822338895
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Love written by Elizabeth A. Povinelli and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes intimate relations as sites which bring into view the interplay between liberalism's contradictory ideals of freedom and constraint.

Amitav Ghosh’s Culture Chromosome

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360344
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Amitav Ghosh’s Culture Chromosome written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indian Bengali by birth, Amitav Ghosh has established himself as a major voice in what is often called world literature, addressing issues such as the post-colonial and neo-colonial predicaments, the plight of the subalterns, the origin of globalisation and capitalism, and lately ecology and migration. The volume is therefore divided according to the four domains that lie at the heart of Ghosh’s writing practice: anthropology, epistemology, ethics and space. In this volume, a number of scholars from all over the world have come together to shed new light on the works and poetics of Amitav Ghosh according to the epistemic frameworks that form the bedrock of his fiction. Contributors: Safoora Arbab, Carlotta Beretta, Lucio De Capitani, Asis De, Lenka Filipova, Letizia Garofalo, Swapna Gopinath, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Sabine Lauret-Taft, Carol Leon, Kuldeep Mathur, Fiona Moolla, Sambit Panigrahi, Madhsumita Pati, Murari Prasad, Luca Raimondi, Pabitra Kumar Rana, Ilaria Rigoli, Sneharika Roy, John Thieme, Alessandro Vescovi.

Fashioning the Modern Middle East

Author : Reina Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135224
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Fashioning the Modern Middle East written by Reina Lewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, recount the role of the visible elite body in campaigns for gender and social emancipation, dress histories concerning early nationalist women and men, and legal frameworks used by those who seek to control the movement of gendered bodies. The result is a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East. Recognising multiple modernities, multiple imperialisms and diverse regional experiences of post-colonialism, Fashioning the Modern Middle East contains a range of theoretical frameworks invaluable to students of fashion studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, photography and gender. Bringing forward new primary material and re-investigating extant sources from new perspectives, this is the essential introduction to the role of the dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East.

Routledge Handbook of African Literature

Author : Moradewun Adejunmobi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351859374
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of African Literature written by Moradewun Adejunmobi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics. Every chapter is an original research essay written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works. The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Kinship Across the Black Atlantic

Author : Gigi Adair
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789624541
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Kinship Across the Black Atlantic written by Gigi Adair and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines insights from postcolonial, queer and diaspora studies to consider the meanings of kinship in contemporary black Atlantic fiction. Diasporic displacement generates new understandings and new narratives of kinship. An analysis of kinship is thus essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Becoming Two in Love

Author : Roland J. De Vries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610975170
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Two in Love written by Roland J. De Vries and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws Soren Kierkegaard and Luce Irigaray into conversation on the nature and ethics of sexual difference. While these two initially seem like doubtful dialogue partners, the conversation between them yields a rich and compelling account of intersubjectivity between man and woman--an account that moves beyond the limited and tired debate over egalitarianism vs. complementarianism. Through engagement with Irigaray and Kierkegaard, this book develops a constructive, theological ethics of sexual difference that focuses on an epistemological and subjective gap that sets man and woman at a decisive distance from each other. They are a mystery to each other. Yet it is also an ethical framework that allows woman and man to encounter one another in ways that respect the independence, subjectivity, and becoming of each. Above all, this is a theological ethics of sexual difference that centers on Jesus Christ, who is defined as the middle term in every relationship and whose love command defines the encounter between man and woman in difference.

To Nietzsche: Dionysus, I Love You! Ariadne

Author : Claudia Crawford
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791421505
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book To Nietzsche: Dionysus, I Love You! Ariadne written by Claudia Crawford and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the possibility that Friedrich Nietzsche simulated his madness as a form of voluntary death, and thus that his madness functioned as the symbolic culmination of his philosophy. The book weaves together scholarly, mytho-poetic, literary critical, biographical, and dramatic genres not only to explore specifics of Nietzsches madness, but to question the reason/madness opposition in nineteenth and twentieth century thinking. A rational and scholarly study of this period of Nietzsches breakdownpresented through his writings, letters, and poetry in combination with relevant historical documents and other critics writingsis simultaneously disrupted and questioned by several non-traditional discourses or voices that break in on it. Thus, Ariadnes voice frames and unframes the research context and plays alongside it. Ariadnes voice is poetic, revelatory, rhapsodic, and prophetic, sounding much like Nietzsches own voice during his breakdown. Ariadnes discourse attempts to seduce through a non-rational, mytho-poetic love story which culminates in the wedding of Dionysus and Ariadne. Other non-rational discourses, critically developed and based upon the work of Nietzsche, Jean Baudrillard, and Gilles Deleuze, are given voice and work together with Ariadne to counter the usual interpretations of Nietzsches madness and of what mad discourse is. These discourses are given the names catastrophe, phantasm, and seduction. The experiment of the book is not only to offer an entirely different perspective on Nietzches madness but to offer and perform new and challenging forms of affirmative discourse.

Intimate Mobilities

Author : Christian Groes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338617
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Mobilities written by Christian Groes and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people’s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory

Author : Mark Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317180496
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory written by Mark Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discussion of gender categories and identities that have often constituted a central concern of queer theory and instead exploring the queer elements of contexts in which they are not normally apparent. Engaging with a number of apparently 'non-sexual' topics, including embodiment and fieldwork, regimes of value, gifts and commodities, diversity discourses, biological essentialisms, intersectionality, the philosophy of Bergson and Deleuze, and the representation of heterosexuality in popular culture, this book moves to discuss central concerns of contemporary anthropology, drawing on both the latest anthropological research as well as classic theories. In broadening the field of queer anthropology and opening queer theory to a number of new themes, both empirical and theoretical, Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory will appeal not only to anthropologists and queer theorists, but also to geographers and sociologists concerned with questions of ontology, materiality and gender and sexuality.

The Need to Help

Author : Liisa H. Malkki
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375362
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Need to Help written by Liisa H. Malkki and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "out there," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as well as observing Finns who volunteered from their homes through gifts of handwork. The need to help, she shows, can come from a profound neediness—the need for aid workers and volunteers to be part of the lively world and something greater than themselves, and, in the case of the elderly who knit "trauma teddies" and "aid bunnies" for "needy children," the need to fight loneliness and loss of personhood. In seriously examining aspects of humanitarian aid often dismissed as sentimental, or trivial, Malkki complicates notions of what constitutes real political work. She traces how the international is always entangled in the domestic, whether in the shape of the need to leave home or handmade gifts that are an aid to sociality and to the imagination of the world.

Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It

Author : Jack Boulton
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 390692730X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It written by Jack Boulton and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have Your Yellowcake and Eat It is a story of men, monsters and uranium in Swakopmund, a small coastal city in the west of Namibia. Founded by German settlers in the late nineteenth century, Swakopmund remains a popular holiday destination for Namibians and international visitors alike. How do young African men make their home in this peculiar town of pretty beaches and luxury hotels, a brutal colonial history and a large uranium mining industry? Are their close relations affected by global changes in the price of uranium? And how do we describe their life worlds which straddle many homes, neighbourhoods, and establishments - sometimes even existing beyond the limits of the post-colonial city? Employing a reflexive narrative and based on two year's fieldwork, Jack Boulton explores the myriad ways in which intimacy develops and manifests for men in a city defined predominantly by racialised difference and local and global forces of inequality.

Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

Author : George Baca
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845452353
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Nationalism's Bloody Terrain written by George Baca and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many scholars have argued, racism and its passions are created by and subordinated to the nation. This volume places the practices of racism at the center of analysis of so-called post-racist or multi cultural nation-states. This way, each contributor analytically treats racism and its related concepts of race, identity, culture, and naturalizing symbols of blood to highlight the manner in which governing institutions use nationalist precepts to create "races". In the end, it is racism - the actual political practices of domination - that makes "race" salient, especially in its multi-cultural and liberal-democratic form.