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East-West Identities

Author : Kwok B. Chan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004151699
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book East-West Identities written by Kwok B. Chan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful and seemingly getting stronger, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Contributors to this book are optimistic that the socio-cultural formations of the future, such as cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism, will be a viable option for constructing new or renewed global communities of migrants around the world. It is with these tools that migrants are best equipped to navigate the raging torrents of globalization in the new millennium of a post-postmodern era. Globalization brings with it a fear, a sense of loss and demise. It also brings with it a new sense of opportunity and hope. It is in this spirit that this book should be read.

The Girl at the Baggage Claim

Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101947829
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Girl at the Baggage Claim written by Gish Jen and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ... study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"--

East, West and Centre

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748694161
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book East, West and Centre written by Michael Gott and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinema. This book presents a comprehensive investigation of Central European cinema in the early 21st century.

Transnational Identities

Author : Richard K. Herrmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461646367
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Identities written by Richard K. Herrmann and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work explores the increasingly important phenomenon of the formation of transnational identity. Considering the ongoing relevance of the European Union, the contributors ask a series of intriguing questions: Is a European identity possible? How are the various types of European identity formed and maintained? How are these identities linked to the process of European integration? Combining a rich array of theoretical and methodological perspectives, distinguished scholars examine both the theoretical understanding of why and how transnational identities form and new empirical evidence drawn from an impressive body of primary research, including field experiments, in-depth interviews with elites, and public opinion surveys. The authors engage in a fruitful dialogue about how much a European identity exists and how much it matters as they delve into the sources of disagreement and their implications.

Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities

Author : Christian Utz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113615521X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities written by Christian Utz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of identity produced by human (and artificial) voices. The essays proceed from different angles, notably sociocultural and historical contexts, philosophical and literary aesthetics, vocal technique, analysis of vocal microstructures, text/phonetics-music-relationships, historical vocal sources or models for contemporary art and pop music, and areas of conflict between vocalization, "ethnicity," and cultural identity. They pinpoint crucial topical features that have shaped identity-discourses in art and popular musical situations since the1950s, with a special focus on the past two decades. The volume thus offers a unique compilation of texts on the human voice in a period of heightened cultural globalization by utilizing systematic methodological research and firsthand accounts on compositional practice by current Asian and Western authors.

After Unity

Author : Konrad Hugo Jarausch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810403
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book After Unity written by Konrad Hugo Jarausch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to probe this new uncertainty and to explore the consequences of unification for German politics, history and culture, political scientists, historians and literary scholars have come together in this volume to focus on the main issues of the current debate such as the shadow of the Nazi past, the threat of xenophobia, new regional tensions, persistent problems of gender relations, and the future shape of Europe.

Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity

Author : J. Andrew
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596649
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity written by J. Andrew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: what does it mean to be a European? What ideologies have shaped the political debate over the last two centuries? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a 'fortress Europe'?

Music and Liturgy, Identity and Formation

Author : Sue Whittaker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725297248
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Music and Liturgy, Identity and Formation written by Sue Whittaker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Liturgy, Identity and Formation is a one-of-a-kind book about All Saints Moda Church in Istanbul. In this book, Sue Whittaker explores the ways Dr. Turgay Ücal, the MBB founding pastor, has intuitively blended Christian faith and the local urban culture. Indigenous songs and adaptations of Reformed liturgy work together to enable worshipers to feel comfortable with Christianity. Images, customs, and gestures guide seekers into new ways to pray and live their lives. Turgay’s theologically sound approach provides a welcoming Christian home for Muslims searching to connect to Allah/God. For thirty years, the practices and strategies detailed in this book have merged to clearly present the gospel message in culturally appropriate ways. The principles of the All Saints Moda Church model of inculturation can be applied to Christian ministry among Muslims in all countries and cultures worldwide.

Humor, Satire, and Identity

Author : Jill Twark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110958147
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Humor, Satire, and Identity written by Jill Twark and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to survey the Eastern German literary trend of employing humor and satire to come to terms with experiences in the German Democratic Republic and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As sophisticated attempts to make sense of socialism’s failure and a difficult unification process, these contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, Eastern German perspective. Grounded in politics and history, ten humorous and satirical novels are analyzed for their literary aesthetics and language, cultural critiques, and socio-political insights. The texts include popular novels such as Thomas Brussig’s Helden wie wir, Ingo Schulze’s Simple Storys, and Jens Sparschuh’s Der Zimmerspringbrunnen, as well as lesser-known but equally relevant works like Schlehweins Giraffe by Bernd Schirmer and Katerfrühstück by Erich Loest. A broad spectrum of humor and satire theories is applied to probe texts from various angles and suggest multi-layered answers to the question of how these literary modes function in postwall Germany to construct a specifically Eastern German identity. Interviews the author conducted with five of the satirists are appended as primary sources and contribute to the interpretation of the texts.

The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East

Author : S. Nair-Venugopal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137009284
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East written by S. Nair-Venugopal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.

Ambiguous Memory

Author : Siobhan Kattago
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313074771
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Memory written by Siobhan Kattago and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguous Memory examines the role of memory in the building of a new national identity in reunified Germany. The author maintains that the contentious debates surrounding contemporary monumnets to the Nazi past testify to the ambiguity of German memory and the continued link of Nazism with contemporary German national identity. The book discusses how certain monuments, and the ways Germans have viewed them, contribute to the different ways Germans have dealt with the past, and how they continue to deal with it as one country. Kattago concludes that West Germans have internalized their Nazi past as a normative orientation for the democratic culture of West Germany, while East Germans have universalized Nazism and the Holocaust, transforming it into an abstraction in which the Jewish question is down played. In order to form a new collective memory, the author argues that unified Germany must contend with these conflicting views of the past, incorporating certain aspects of both views. Providing a topography of East, West, and unified German memory during the 1980s and the 1990s, this work contributes to a better understanding of contemporary national identity and society. The author shows how public debate over such issues at Ronald Reagan's visit to Bitburg, the renarration of Buchenwald as Nazi and Soviet internment camp, the Goldhagen controversy, and the Holocaust Memorial debate in Berlin contribute to the complexities surrounding the way Germans see themselves, their relationship to the past, and their future identity as a nation. In a careful analysis, the author shows how the past was used and abused by both the East and the West in the 1980s, and how these approaches merged in the 1990s. This interesting new work takes a sociological approach to the role of memory in forging a new, integrative national identity.

Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe

Author : J. Carl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230241662
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe written by J. Carl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Europe has always been a highly multilingual region but how has this been affected by the social and political transformations of the last 20 years? The German language in particular has long played a key role in processes of identification here: but what role is the relationship between German and other languages playing today in the reshaping of societies and communities in this rapidly changing region? How is this relationship articulated in discourses on language and language ideologies? How is it manifested in individual repertoires and social practices? How is it determined by social and cultural policies? How is it exploited in the construction of European identities? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book, in which individual studies explore language practices in the multilingual contact zones of central Europe and the impact of both past and present migrations. Analysing a wide range of sources from media texts to language biographies and from business meetings to salsa classes, the authors demonstrate the local effects of global processes and some of the many ways in which language figures in contemporary social change.

Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989

Author : Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134867
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989 written by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary views of the debates over and transformation of German cultural identity since unification. The events of 1989 and German unification were seismic historical moments. Although 1989 appeared to signify a healing of the war-torn history of the twentieth century, unification posed the question of German cultural identity afresh. Politicians, historians, writers, filmmakers, architects, and the wider public engaged in "memory contests" over such questions as the legitimacy of alternative biographies, West German hegemony, and the normalization of German history. This dynamic, contested, and still ongoing transformation of German cultural identity is the topic of this volume of new essays by scholars from the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Ireland. It exploresGerman cultural identity by way of a range of disciplines including history, film studies, architectural history, literary criticism, memory studies, and anthropology, avoiding a homogenized interpretation. Charting the complex and often contradictory processes of cultural identity formation, the volume reveals the varied responses that continue to accompany the project of unification. Contributors: Pertti Ahonen, Aleida Assmann, Elizabeth Boa, Peter Fritzsche, Anne Fuchs, Deniz Göktürk, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Anja K. Johannsen, Jennifer A. Jordan, Jürgen Paul, Linda Shortt, Andrew J. Webber. Anne Fuchs is Professor of German Literature at the University of St.Andrews, Scotland. Kathleen James-Chakraborty is Professor of Art History at University College Dublin, Ireland. Linda Shortt is Lecturer in German at Bangor University, Wales.

European Polyphony: Perspectives beyond East-West Confrontation

Author : Ole Waever
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349202800
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book European Polyphony: Perspectives beyond East-West Confrontation written by Ole Waever and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals with the internal socio-political changes that the traditional political structures have not been able to incorporate, the perspectives of the superpowers and surveys of the debate on European security in each of 11 states. The book begins and ends with a theoretical overview.

Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe

Author : Sebastian Rimestad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000227618
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe written by Sebastian Rimestad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the challenges the Orthodox Church is facing in the modern world. Organised along four different discursive fields, the book uses these fields to analyse the Orthodox Church in Western Europe during the twentieth century. It explores pastoral, ecclesiological, institutional and ecumenical discourses in order to present a holistic view of how the Church views itself and how it seeks to interact with other denominations. Taken together, these four fields reveal a discursive vitality outside of the traditionally Orthodox societies that is, however, only partly reabsorbed by the church hierarchs in core Orthodox regions, like Southeast Europe and Russia. The Orthodox Church is a complex and multi-faceted global reality.Therefore, this book will be a vital guide to scholars studying the Orthodox Church, ecumenism and religion in Europe, as well as those working in religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology more generally.

The Discourse of Europe

Author : Sharon Millar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227171
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of Europe written by Sharon Millar and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume we approach the question of what it is to be European by considering the way in which citizens talk about their everyday lives, as they are perceived against the background of Europe and European issues. Hence, the volume will offer insights into the rarely glimpsed micro political world of ordinary talk and explore the way in which such talk in social interaction and other spheres might help us understand what Europe means to a range of its citizens. Using a range of broadly discursive approaches we will touch on, inter alia, issues of identity, youth, borders, ethnicity, local politics, and minority languages. In the end, we suggest, it is a common sense view of pragmatic utility that centres what it is to be European, and this is something which is continually fluid and shifting within ever changing social, historical and political circumstances.

Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe

Author : John Carter Wood
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647101494
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe written by John Carter Wood and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how Christian individuals and institutions – whether Churches, church-related organisations, clergy, or lay thinkers – combined the topics of faith and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. "National identity" is understood in a broad sense that includes discourses of citizenship, narratives of cultural or linguistic belonging, or attributions of distinct, "national" characteristics. The collection addresses Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox perspectives, considers various geographical contexts, and takes into account processes of cross-national exchange and transfer. It shows how national and denominational identities were often mutually constitutive, at times leading to a strongly exclusionary stance against "other" national or religious groups. In different circumstances, religiously minded thinkers critiqued nationalism, emphasising the universalist strains of their faith, with varying degrees of success. Moreover, throughout the century, and especially since 1945, both church officials and lay Christians have had to come to terms with the relationship between their national and "European" identities and have sought to position themselves within the processes of Europeanisation. Various contexts for the negotiation of faith and nation are addressed: media debates, domestic and international political arenas, inner-denominational and ecumenical movements, church organisations, cosmopolitan intellectual networks and the ideas of individual thinkers.