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I Sing the Body Politic

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773536035
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book I Sing the Body Politic written by Peter Swirski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars, major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about American injustice at home and across the empire. The Iraq War is the most obvious catalyst for the volume, but over the course of discussions of Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, Michael Moore, Spike Lee, and war memoirs written by soldiers who served in the Gulf, contributors reflect on contemporary American history, society, and politics. Offering a detailed and devastating critique of the political order dominated by the military-industrial-congressional complex and the conservative wing of the Republican Party, I Sing the Body Politic comments on an array of social inequalities and compromised political ideals, as well as artistic resistance and large-scale movements for sociopolitical change. Contributors include David Rampton (University of Ottawa), Nicholas Ruddick (University of Regina), Gordon Slethaug (University of Southern Denmark), Peter Swirski (Hong Kong University), and Michael Zeitlin (University of British Columbia).

I Sing the Body Politic

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576282
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book I Sing the Body Politic written by Peter Swirski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics.

Whitman the Political Poet

Author : Betsy Erkkila
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195113802
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Whitman the Political Poet written by Betsy Erkkila and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erkkila's aim is to repair the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political and the poet and the history that has governed the analysis and evaluation of Whitman and his work in the past.

My Body Politic

Author : Simi Linton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472032364
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book My Body Politic written by Simi Linton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Body Politic begins in the midst of the turmoil over Vietnam and concludes with a meditation on the U.S. involvement in the current war in Iraq and the war's wounded veterans. While a memoir of the author's gradual political awakening, My Body Politic is filled with adventure, celebration, and rock and roll - Salvador Dali, James Brown, and Jimi Hendrix all make cameo appearances."--Jacket.

The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

Author : Julia Mebane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009389300
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought written by Julia Mebane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Roman writers use the metaphor of the body politic to respond to the downfall of the Republic? In this book, Julia Mebane begins with the Catilinarian Conspiracy in 63 BCE, when Cicero and Catiline proposed two rival models of statesmanship on the senate floor: the civic healer and the head of state. Over the next century, these two paradigms of authority were used to confront the establishment of sole rule in the Roman world. Tracing their Imperial afterlives allows us to see how Romans came to terms with autocracy without ever naming it as such. In identifying metaphor as an important avenue of political thought, the book makes a significant contribution to the history of ideas. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

New Body Politics

Author : Therí A. Pickens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317819500
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book New Body Politics written by Therí A. Pickens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to having social and political significance? What can the experience of corporeality offer social and political discourse? And, how does that discourse change when those bodies belong to Arab Americans and African Americans? Therí A. Pickens discusses a range of literary, cultural, and archival material where narratives emphasize embodied experience to examine how these experiences constitute Arab Americans and African Americans as social and political subjects. Pickens argues that Arab American and African American narratives rely on the body’s fragility, rather than its exceptional strength or emotion, to create urgent social and political critiques. The creators of these narratives find potential in mundane experiences such as breathing, touch, illness, pain, and death. Each chapter in this book focuses on one of these everyday embodied experiences and examines how authors mobilize that fragility to create social and political commentary. Pickens discusses how the authors' focus on quotidian experiences complicates their critiques of the nation state, domestic and international politics, exile, cultural mores, and the medical establishment. New Body Politics participates in a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation about cross-ethnic studies, American literature, and Arab American literature. Using intercultural analysis, Pickens explores issues of the body and representation that will be relevant to fields as varied as Political Science, African American Studies, Arab American Studies, and Disability Studies.

American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136723382
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History written by Peter Swirski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. It insists, in short, on its exceptionalism. American Utopia and Social Engineering sets out to correct this amnesia. It misses no opportunity to flesh out both the historical premises and the political promises behind the social policies and political events of the period. These interdisciplinary concerns provide, in turn, the framework for the analyses of works of American literature that mirror their times and mores. Novels considered include: B.F. Skinner and Walden Two (1948), easily the most scandalous utopia of the century, if not of all times; Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962), an anatomy of political disfranchisement American-style; Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace (1982), a neo-Darwinian beast fable about morality in the thermonuclear age; Walker Percy’s The Thanatos Syndrome (1986), a diagnostic novel about engineering violence out of America’s streets and minds; and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004), an alternative history of homegrown ‘soft’ fascism. With the help of the five novels and the social models outlined therein, Peter Swirski interrogates key aspects of sociobiology and behavioural psychology, voting and referenda procedures, morality and altruism, multilevel selection and proverbial wisdom, violence and chip-implant technology, and the adaptive role of emotions in our private and public lives.

An American Body-politic

Author : Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659327
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book An American Body-politic written by Bernd Herzogenrath and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history

The Body Politic

Author : William Horatio Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Body Politic written by William Horatio Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Androgynous Democracy

Author : Aaron Shaheen
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337117
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Androgynous Democracy written by Aaron Shaheen and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Androgynous Democracy examines how the notions of gender equality propounded by transcendentalists and other nineteenth-century writers were further developed and complicated by the rise of literary modernism. Aaron Shaheen specifically investigates the ways in which intellectual discussions of androgyny, once detached from earlier gonadal-based models, were used by various American authors to formulate their own paradigms of democratic national cohesion. Indeed, Henry James, Frank Norris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Crowe Ransom, Grace Lumpkin, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marita Bonner all expressed a deep fascination with androgyny—an interest that bore directly on their thoughts about some of the most prominent issues America confronted as it moved into the first decades of the twentieth century. Shaheen not only considers the work of each of these seven writers individually, but he also reveals the interconnectedness of their ideas. He shows that Henry James used the concept of androgyny to make sense of the discord between the North and the South in the years immediately following the Civil War, while Norris and Gilman used it to formulate a new model of citizenship in the wake of America’s industrial ascendancy. The author next explores the uses Ransom and Lumpkin made of androgyny in assessing the threat of radicalism once the Great Depression had weakened the country’s faith in both capitalism and religious fundamentalism. Finally, he looks at how androgyny was instrumental in the discussions of racial uplift and urban migration generated by Du Bois and Bonner. Thoroughly documented, this engrossing volume will be a valuable resource in the fields of American literary criticism, feminism and gender theory, queer theory, and politics and nationalism. Aaron Shaheen is UC Foundation Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has published articles in the Southern Literary Journal, American Literary Realism, and the Henry James Review.

Body Politics and the Fictional Double

Author : Debra Walker King
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214096
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Body Politics and the Fictional Double written by Debra Walker King and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the challenges women face when their externally defined identities and representations as bodies - their body fictions - speak louder than what they know to be their lived experience. As objects of interpretation, "female bodies" in search of health care, legal assistance, professional respect, identity confirmation, and financial security must first confront the fictionalized doubles. This volume includes reflections on women's day to day lives, as well as the cultural production (literature, MTV, film etc.) that give body fictions their powerful influence. By exploring how these fictions are manipulated politically, expressively and communally, contributors offer reinterpretations that challenge the fictional double while theorizing the discursive and performative forms that it takes.

The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

Author : M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462288
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman written by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a historical personality in the era of the American Civil War, the growth of the great cities, and the westward expansion of the United States. Always a controversial and important figure, Whitman continues to attract the admiration of poets, artists, critics, political activists, and readers around the world. Those studying his work for the first time will find this an invaluable book. Alongside close readings of the major texts, chapters on Whitman's biography, the history and culture of his time, and the critical reception of his work provide a comprehensive understanding of Whitman and of how he has become such a central figure in the American literary canon.

Bodies, Politics, and African Healing

Author : Stacey A. Langwick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222451
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Bodies, Politics, and African Healing written by Stacey A. Langwick and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics

Author : Clare Cavanagh
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300152965
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics written by Clare Cavanagh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. It also provides a comparative study of modern poetry from the perspective of the Eastern and Western sides of the Iron Curtain.

American Body Politics

Author : Felipe Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319339
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book American Body Politics written by Felipe Smith and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felipe Smith tracks the emergence of particular gender images--such as white witch, black madonna, mammy, and white lady--and their impact on early African American literature. Smith gives us a remarkable synthesis of historical readings combined with a highly original contribution to the comprehension of racial thought and literary writing.

Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response

Author : Abigail Cloud
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622737520
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response written by Abigail Cloud and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume speaks to the use of poetry in critical qualitative research and practice focused on social justice. In this collection, poetry is a response, a call to action, agitation, and a frame for future social justice work. The authors engage with poetry’s potential for connectivity, political power, and evocation through methodological, theoretical, performative, and empirical work. The poet-researchers consider questions of how poetry and Poetic Inquiry can be a response to political and social events, be used as a pedagogical tool to critique inequitable social structures, and how Poetic Inquiry speaks to our local identities and politics. The authors answer the question: “What spaces can poetry create for dialogue about critical awareness, social justice, and re-visioning of social, cultural, and political worlds?” This volume adds to the growing body of Poetic Inquiry through the demonstration of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice. We hope this collection inspires you to write and engage with political poetry to realize the power of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice.

Healing the Body Politic

Author : Erwin A. Jaffe
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Healing the Body Politic written by Erwin A. Jaffe and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American politics and government are so moribund, according to Erwin Jaffe, that serious political dialogue is a stranger in a land celebrated for freedom of expression. Healing the Body Politic examines the sources of this condition, among them the loss of connectedness (society's orientation toward mobility and its relative disinterest in place, neighborhood, and community), widespread misunderstanding of the distinction and relationship between power and violence, and a distorted image of political life and responsibility. This broad-based work examines these problems and proposes, both in theoretical and practical terms, a rethinking and rediscovery of political power and political life as the only viable solution. Drawing on a variety of fields, including traditional political theory, this work points the way to a restoration of American political life and our ability to cope once again with the problems of civil society. It will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, political theory, and American government.