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Re-writing Pasts, Imagining Futures

Author : Gomia, Victor N.
Publisher : Spears Media Press
ISBN 13 : 1942876181
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Re-writing Pasts, Imagining Futures written by Gomia, Victor N. and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume focus on fiction and theatre in their traditional forms as well as in their encounters with novel and innovative forms and avenues of dissemination. As a cultural practice that emerged from a process of protest and contestation of hegemony, it is understandable that one main concern in African literature and literary criticism is the resistance against the emergence of marginalizing centers in formerly or currently marginalized societies with regard to discourses, aesthetics and media of creation. These new centers that sometimes undermine the strategic/tactical exploitation of the relative advantage procured by each medium run the risk of leading to new forms of stratification that mitigate the import of African and African diasporic literatures. The collection of essays therefore seeks to analyze the representation of pertinent socio-political and historical questions in a variety of postcolonial texts from Africa and the African diasporas, notably the Caribbean islands and the United States of America. However, far from re-writing of history in a way that cedes to conservative worldviews, creative writers and critics simultaneously attempt to chart ways forward for socially all-inclusive futures. In the context of colonial and neo-colonial legacies that seem to forestall any sense of individual and collective self-fulfillment, contributors to this volume examine the pertinence of African fiction and theatre in imagining new vistas of re-conceptualizing the postcolonial condition in ways that re-galvanize the belief in an enabling future.

Imagining Futures

Author : Carola Lentz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253060184
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Futures written by Carola Lentz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended family, like many others in the region, find themselves living increasingly farther apart and working in diverse occupations ranging from religious clergy and civil service to farming. What keeps them together as a family? In their groundbreaking work, Lentz and Lobnibe argue that shared memories, rather than only material interests, bind a family together. Imagining Futures explores the changing practices of remembering in an African family and offers a unique contribution to the growing field of memory studies, beyond the usual focus of Europe and America. Lentz and Lobnibe explore how, in an increasingly globalized, postcolonial world, memories themselves are not static accounts of past events but are actually malleable and shaped by both current concerns and imagined futures.

The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come

Author : Lauren J. Lacey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786478268
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come written by Lauren J. Lacey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look at revisionist rewritings of fairy tales and historical texts; the third and fourth focus on future-oriented narratives including dystopias and space fiction. Writers considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson, among others. The author argues that an analysis of how past and future are understood in women's fantastic fictions brings to light an "ethics of becoming" in the texts--a way of interrupting, revising and remaking problematic power structures that are tied to identity markers like class, gender and race. The book reveals how fantastic fiction can be read as narratives of disruption that enable the creation of an ethics of becoming.

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature

Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040013988
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past

Author : David A. Hogue
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606088602
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past written by David A. Hogue and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain research is opening up our understanding of not only what role the different areas of our brain play in making decisions or in recognizing the faces of those we love, but even in experiencing God. As a pastoral theologian and counselor, Hogue values and utilizes the significant resources of the brain sciences for the work of the church in guiding, healing, and challenging persons and systems informed by our current understanding of the central nervous system. His latest book, Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past, is an especially useful resource for all those persons concerned with the practical theological arts of preaching, worship, pastoral care, and counseling, as well as those interested in how our increasing knowledge of the ways in which our brains work can help us understand and tailor our spiritual and pastoral practices in the church.

Futures for the Past

Author : Kalle Pihlainen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351601970
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Futures for the Past written by Kalle Pihlainen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the challenge of new ideological emphases and subjects of study, academic history has undergone significant changes in its contents in the past half-century. Simultaneously, pressures to change have been directed at its form, particularly in the shape of calls for more socially engaged and up-to-date modes of presentation. The demand for ‘history’ in this more existential sense is equally evidenced by the rise of practical and popular uses of the past outside academic history writing. Reflecting on these shifts in the broader history culture, this collection explores the entanglements and opportunities of history and historians today, moving between questions of social and institutional self-justification, desires relating to identity and self-understanding as well as the consumption and entertainment needs of audiences. The authors find inspiration in varied traditions and media ranging from ancient philosophy and classic history writing to reality TV and Twitter. In doing so, they also present exciting futures for where history may yet go. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

The Radio and Other Stories

Author : Gil Ndi-Shang
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1942876769
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Radio and Other Stories written by Gil Ndi-Shang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery of the world. What begins as a personal narrative quickly cedes to a social archaeology, inviting the reader/listener on a homegoing journey in the backdrop of Cameroon’s tottering democratic trajectory. Modulated with poetry and music, The Radio tunes in to diaspora, home, nation, education, existence, religion as well as Mbum popular culture, showcasing creative re-appropriation and re-mixing of global trends and icons in specific communities.

China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature

Author : Duncan M. Yoon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100930027X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature by : Duncan M. Yoon

Download or read book China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature written by Duncan M. Yoon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how African writers grapple with and make meaning out of the possibilities and limitations of globalization in a multipolar world.

Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting

Author : L. Plate
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294634
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting written by L. Plate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.

Philosophy's Future

Author : Russell Blackford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119210100
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy's Future written by Russell Blackford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dialogue on its cultural value and capacity for future evolution. Offers the most up-to-date treatment of the intellectual and cultural value of contemporary philosophy from a wide range of perspectives Features contributions from distinguished philosophers such as Frank Jackson, Karen Green, Timothy Williamson, Jessica Wilson, and many others Explores the ways philosophical investigations of logic, world, mind, and moral responsibility continue to shape the empirical and theoretical sciences Considers the role of contemporary philosophy in political issues such as women’s rights, the discrimination of minorities, and public health

Nevertheless

Author : Rhonda Parrish
Publisher : EDGE-Lite
ISBN 13 : 1770531734
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Nevertheless written by Rhonda Parrish and published by EDGE-Lite. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great collection of short speculative fiction. Twenty-three authors selected by co-editors Rhonda Parrish and Greg Bechtel Nevertheless (Tesseracts Twenty-one) is a collection of optimistic speculative fiction stories, each optimistic in a slightly different way. These stories explore the optimism that drives us to seek out new worlds, that inspires us to sacrifice for others or fuels us to just keep going when everything seems lost and in so doing turn the idea upside down and inside out. One of the best reasons for doing an anthology of optimistic future this year was because no matter which side of the political or social spectrum you land on, it's been a tough year. Nevertheless we try to remain optimistic. Nevertheless, we don't give up. Nevertheless, yes, we persist. The stories in this anthology of optimistic SF are some of the darkest optimistic stories you'll ever read but, nevertheless, they are optimistic. And powerful. Featuring stories and poems by: James Bambury, Meghan Bell, Gavin Bradley, Ryan Henson Creighton, Darrel Duckworth, Dorianne Emmerton, Pat Flewwelling, Stephen Geigen-Miller, Jason M. Harley, Kate Heartfield, R. W. Hodgson, Jerri Jerreat, Jason Lane, Buzz Lanthier-Rogers, Alison McBain, Michael Milne, Fiona Moore, Ursula Pflug, Michael Reid, S. L. Saboviec, Lisa Timpf, Leslie Van Zwol, Natalia Yanchak

The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures

Author : Kristina Baudemann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000529894
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures written by Kristina Baudemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts. Asking how different Indigenous works imagine the future and how they negotiate settler colonial visions of what is to come, the chapters illustrate that the future is not an immutable entity but a malleable textual/digital product that can function as both a colonial tool and a catalyst for decolonization. Central to this study is the development of a methodology that helps unearth the signifying structures producing the future in selected works by Darcie Little Badger, Gerald Vizenor, Stephen Graham Jones, Skawennati, Danis Goulet, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Postcommodity, Kite, Jeff Barnaby, and Ryan Singer. Drawing on Jason Lewis’s "future imaginary" as the theoretical core, the book describes the various forms of textual representation and virtual simulation through which notions of Indigenous continuation are expressed in literary and new media works. Arguing that Indigenous authors and artists apply the aesthetics of the future as a strategy in their works, the volume conceptualizes its multimedia corpus as a continuously growing archive of, and for, Indigenous futures.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education

Author : tavis d. jules
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350078778
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education written by tavis d. jules and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a practical and approachable overview of central theories in comparative and international education (CIE). The chapters focus in depth on specific theoretical perspectives and seek to elucidate the histories, assumptions, and recent developments of these theories. The chapters also situate the theories within CIE, include specific case studies of theoretical application, and outline suggestions for further reading. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this is must-have reference work for anyone teaching, researching, studying, or working in CIE. The handbook includes chapters on a diverse collection of theories, including but not limited to: Structural-functionalism, Colonialism/Imperialism, Marxism, Human Capital Theory, Dependency/World Systems Theory, Post-Colonialism, Post-Socialism, Post-Foundationalism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-Institutionalism, Neo-Marxism, Policy Borrowing and Lending, Peace Theories, Human Rights, Constructivism, Racism, Gender, Queer Theory, Social Network Theory, Capabilities Theory, and Cultural Political Economy.

Narrating 9/11

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417391
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Narrating 9/11 written by John N. Duvall and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary fiction takes on 9/11, interrogating the global expansion of surveillance based on fantasies of US national security. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Narrating 9/11 challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the Bush Administration’s policies on preemptive war, extraordinary rendition, torture abroad, and the suspension of privacy rights and civil liberties at home. Building on the work of Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Donald Pease, the contributors focus on the ways in which post-9/11 narratives help make visible the fantasies that attempt to justify the ongoing state of exception and American exceptionalism. Narrating 9/11 examines a variety of contemporary narratives as they relate to the cultural construction of the neoliberal nation-state, a role that mediates the possibilities of ethnic and religious identity as well as the ability to imagine terrorism. Touching on some of the mainstays of 9/11 fiction, including Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and John Updike’s Terrorist, the book expands this particular canon by considering the work of such writers as Jess Walter, William Gibson, Lauren Groff, Ken Kalfus, Ian McEwan, Philip Roth, John le Carré, Laila Halaby, Michael Chabon, and Jarett Kobek. Narrating 9/11 pushes beyond a critical focus on domestic realism, offering chapters that examine speculative and genre fiction, postmodernism, climate change, and the evolving security state, as well as the television series Lost and the film Paradise Now.

The treasure

Author : Lucia Canovi
Publisher : lucia-canovi.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The treasure written by Lucia Canovi and published by lucia-canovi.com. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frontiers Past and Future

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers Past and Future written by Carl Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abbott offers a fruitful new way to read science fiction, one that also greatly enriches our understanding of western history and its impact on our collective imagination. Detailing the overlap of science fiction and western fiction - especially relating to their mutual interest in and concerns about frontier expansionism - he reveals an unsuspected common ground that informs the writings of both camps." "Reviewing the work of many Hugo and Nebula Award winners, as well as drawing upon popular film and television series (like the Buck Rogers serials), Abbott's study journeys across the far reaches of science fiction's universe."

Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe

Author : M. Kelemen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403914362
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe written by M. Kelemen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of transition in Eastern European countries is one in which ideas of the past and present, both local and Western, meet and conflict. Presenting a wealth of new ethnographic and interview-based research, Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe argues that the reform process in Central and Eastern Europe has been dominated by the traditional 'Western' view of management practice. However, this approach overlooks the fact that certain managerial and organizational practices developed in Central and Eastern Europe may still be appropriate and indeed effective within this particular setting. The book brings together authors from both East and West Europe to evaluate how the two systems can best be harmonized, which is particularly important in the context of EU enlargement.