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Black Sisyphus

Author : John Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781389834950
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Black Sisyphus written by John Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Black Sisyphus" is the debut collection of poetry by the philosopher-poet John Gillespie Jr. that gets to the heart of black existence. By weaving together the poetic and the autobiographical "Black Sisyphus" gives breadth and lyric to the experience of anti-black violence, love, depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, dread, and redemption. The book is divided into five sections that, in the spirit of Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, pushes the boundaries of the genre of poetry, biography, and mythography in order to give the birth to the figure of "Black Sisyphus."

Black Existential Freedom

Author : Nathalie Etoke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153815708X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Black Existential Freedom written by Nathalie Etoke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of slavery, colonization, subjugation, gratuitous violence, and the denial of basic human rights to people of African descent has led Afro-Pessimists to look at black existence through the lens of white supremacy and anti-blackness. Against this trend, Black Existential Freedom argues that Blackness is not inherently synonymous with victimhood. Rather, it is inextricable from existential freedom and the struggle for political liberation. This book presents an existential analysis of continental and diasporic African experiences through critical interpretations of music, film, and fiction that portray what it means to be human— to persevere in the tension between life and physical, psychological, and social death—for the sake of freedom. With its transdisciplinary perspective and convergence of Africana existential philosophy, African-American Studies, Afro-French Studies, Diaspora Studies, and African studies, this book is not concerned with disciplinary boundaries or certain appropriations of European metaphysics that are committed to a reading of black “non-being.” Black Existential Freedom explores the continuities and discontinuities of black existence and the manifestations and the meanings of blackness within different countries, time periods, and social and political contexts. Etoke's book empowers the reader to understand and process the complexities of racialized identity in a globalized contemporary society. Ultimately, it is an ode to human survival and freedom.

Canadian Literature

Author : K. Balachandran
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176257534
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Literature written by K. Balachandran and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040001610
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature written by Michael Y. Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Albert Camus. Ever puzzling and always refusing to be pinned down, this book does not attempt to define absurdist literature, but attempts to examine its major and minor players. As such, the field is indirectly defined by examining its constituent writers. Not only investigating the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd,” this volume wades deeply into absurdist fiction and absurdist poetry, expanding much of our previous sense of what constitutes absurdist literature. Furthermore, long overdue, approximately one-third of the book is devoted to marginalized writers: black, Latin/x, female, LGBTQ+, and non-Western voices.

The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307827828
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.

Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World

Author : J. Noel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620817
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World written by J. Noel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the study of Black Religion within the modern temporal and historical structures in the Atlantic World. It describes how black people and Black Religion made a phenomenological appearance in modernity simultaneously and were signified in the identity formation of whites and their religion.

Complicities

Author : Mark Sanders
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384221
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Complicities written by Mark Sanders and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complicities explores the complicated—even contradictory—position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking at the work of a number of key figures—both supporters and opponents of apartheid. Sanders gives detailed analyses of widely divergent thinkers: Afrikaner nationalist poet N. P. van Wyk Louw, Drum writer Bloke Modisane, Xhosa novelist A. C. Jordan, Afrikaner dissident Breyten Breytenbach, and Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Drawing on theorists including Derrida, Sartre, and Fanon, and paying particular attention to the linguistic intricacy of the literary and political texts considered, Sanders shows how complicity emerges as a predicament for intellectuals across the ideological and social spectrum. Through discussions of the colonial intellectuals Olive Schreiner and Sol T. Plaatje and of post-apartheid feminist critiques of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Complicities reveals how sexual difference joins with race to further complicate issues of collusion. Complicities sheds new light on the history and literature of twentieth-century South Africa as it weighs into debates about the role of the intellectual in public life.

Black Mirror and Philosophy

Author : David Kyle Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111957823X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Black Mirror and Philosophy written by David Kyle Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical look at the twisted, high-tech near-future of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror, offering a glimpse of the darkest reflections of the human condition in digital technology Black Mirror―the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern society—shows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control.In Black Mirror and Philosophy, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and existential dimensions of Charlie Brooker’s sinister stories. The collection reflects Black Mirror’s anthology structure by pairing a chapter with every episode in the show’s five seasons—including an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure analysis of Bandersnatch—and concludes with general essays that explore the series’ broader themes. Chapters address questions about artificial intelligence, virtual reality, surveillance, privacy, love, death, criminal behavior, and politics, including: Have we given social media too much power over our lives? Could heaven really, one day, be a place on Earth? Should criminal justice and punishment be crowdsourced? What rights should a “cookie” have? Immersive, engaging, and experimental, Black Mirror and Philosophy navigates the intellectual landscape of Brooker’s morality plays for the modern world, where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular

Author : Kristin Roth-Ey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350302805
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular written by Kristin Roth-Ey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces. These ordinary spaces are examined to understand how they were conceived, constructed, shaped and reshaped by people over time. Many are physical places of encounter, while others are more abstract, embodying ideological goals. In exploring these spaces the contributors show how the Second and Third World actors understood them and connected them to ideas such as gender and space, the space of the nation, of the modern and of the self. Essentially, it seeks to unravel how these spaces between Second and Third Worlds worked, and what, if anything, was distinctive and consequential about them. Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War explores the ways in which these Second and Third World actors collaborated and clashed in these everyday spaces, and brings these multi-faceted, multi-actor histories to a vital centre ground.

The Children of Sisyphus

Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Children of Sisyphus written by Orlando Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insects Abroad

Author : J. Wood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368838598
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Insects Abroad written by J. Wood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Insects Abroad

Author : John George Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Insects Abroad written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insects Abroad

Author : Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insects Abroad written by Wood and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sword translation

Author : Zhang Wei
Publisher : Devneybooks
ISBN 13 : 1304492656
Total Pages : 2048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sword translation written by Zhang Wei and published by Devneybooks. This book was released on with total page 2048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to your continuous support, Sword Translates the World today. Although the results are far from enough, as long as they are constantly improving, it means that the efforts of Ice Eagle have not been in vain!

Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide

Author : Martin Munro
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802070699
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide written by Martin Munro and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. The present volume seeks to serve as an introduction to the work and universe of this unique and capital writer to an English-language readership. The essays in the collection are organized along three major axes: contextual articles, placing Charles’ work within the larger Haitian literary landscape, punctual articles, addressing specific themes in a selection of Charles’ books, and author testimonials, attesting to Charles’ work’s importance both to his contemporaries and to a new generation of writers. With the ongoing republication of Charles’ work by Mémoire d’encrier in Montreal, and the increasing interest in the author, the proposed volume is timely and necessary, and is in large part a critical accompaniment to the republishing programme. Described by Dany Laferrière as “most brilliant Haitian author of his generation,” Charles has until recently remained largely unread and little understood. As the various chapters in the volume show, Charles is an author for now, and the collection will accompany readers seeking strikingly original insights on issues such as race, migration, and exile, and the role of the author and literature in times of crisis.

Sisyphus's Boulder

Author : Eric Dietrich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027251961
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Sisyphus's Boulder written by Eric Dietrich and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever being explained. Consequently, philosophical debates over materialism and dualism are a waste of time. Scientific explanations of consciousness fare no better. Scientists do study consciousness, and such investigations will continue to grow and advance. However, none of them will ever reveal what consciousness is. In addition, given the centrality of consciousness in philosophy, Dietrich and Hardcastle claim that philosophy itself needs to change. That the central problems of philosophy persist is actually a profound epistemic fact about humans. Philosophy, then, is a limit to what humans can understand. (Series A)

Multiple Lenses

Author : David Divine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807583
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Multiple Lenses written by David Divine and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and obstacles awaiting to be overcome, of identified Black people of African descent resident in Canada. Black Canadian Studies revolves around the agency of Black people as the subject of investigation. Their stories, their interpretations, their pride, their independence, their self determination, their challenges, their triumphs, their shortfalls and sense of freedom and justice, are at the forefront of investigation. Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada is an essential introduction to an understanding of the experience of Black people in Canada over a four hundred year period. Through the lenses of history, law, literature, film, music, Black community organizations, media, sports, Black spirituality, party politics, labour markets, education and lived experience, renowned commentators explore through Canadian eyes, how Black people in Canada have identified themselves, and been identified over this period. What factors influenced that process? Black people in Canada are not part of "imagined communities" but real people with visceral connections, flesh and blood, striving to build lives under often unimaginable hardships. This book is dedicated to such Black people and their allies who, together, have fashioned meaning and hope in an often hostile environment.