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Black Subjects

Author : Arlene Keizer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727370
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Black Subjects written by Arlene Keizer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott have addressed the history of slavery in their literary works. In this groundbreaking new book, Arlene R. Keizer contends that these writers theorize the nature and formation of the black subject and engage established theories of subjectivity in their fiction and drama by using slave characters and the condition of slavery as focal points. In this book, Keizer examines theories derived from fictional works in light of more established theories of subject formation, such as psychoanalysis, Althusserian interpellation, performance theory, and theories about the formation of postmodern subjects under late capitalism. Black Subjects shows how African American and Caribbean writers' theories of identity formation, which arise from the varieties of black experience re-imagined in fiction, force a reconsideration of the conceptual bases of established theories of subjectivity. The striking connections Keizer draws between these two bodies of theory contribute significantly to African American and Caribbean Studies, literary theory, and critical race and ethnic studies.

Novel Subjects

Author : Leah A. Milne
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387627
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Novel Subjects written by Leah A. Milne and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Novel Subjects, Leah Milne offers a new way to look at multicultural literature by focusing on scenes of writing in contemporary works by authors with marginalized identities. These scenes, she argues, establish authorship as a form of radical self-care--a term we owe to Audre Lorde, who defines self-care as self-preservation and "an act of political warfare."

The Subject and Other Subjects

Author : Tobin Anthony Siebers
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022164
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Subject and Other Subjects written by Tobin Anthony Siebers and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and not an example? Can one person conceive what it means to have the perspective of a community? This study treats these thorny issues in the context of recent debates in cultural studies, feminism, literary criticism, narrative theory, and moral philosophy concerning the nature and directions of multiculturalism, post-modernity, and sexual politics. Tobin Siebers raises a series of questions that "cross the wires" among ethical, aesthetic, and political definitions of the self, at once exposing our basic assumptions about these definitions and beginning the work of reconceiving them. The Subject and Other Subjects will broaden our ideas about the strange interplay between subjects and objects (and other subjects!) that characterizes modern identity, and so provoke lively debate among anthropologists, art historians, literary theorists, philosophers, and others concerned with how the question of the subject becomes entangled with ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Siebers argues, the subject is in fact a tangled network of subjectivities, a matrix of identities inconceivable outside of symbols and stories. Tobin Siebers is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, and author of Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism; Morals and Stories; The Ethics of Criticism; The Romantic Fantastic; and The Mirror of Medusa.

Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects

Author : Robert Watt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exalted Subjects

Author : Sunera Thobani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691522
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Exalted Subjects written by Sunera Thobani and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-05-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the theoretical traditions of political economy and cultural / post-colonial studies, this book examines how the national subject has been conceptualized in Canada at particular historical junctures, and how state policies and popular practices have exalted certain subjects over others. Foregrounding the concept of 'race' as a critical relation of power, Thobani examines how processes of racialization contribute to sustaining and replenishing the politics of nation formation and national subjectivity. She challenges the popular notion that the significance of racialized practices in Canada has declined in the post Second World War period, and traces key continuities and discontinuities in these practices from Confederation into the present. Drawing on historical sociology and discursive analyses, Thobani examines how the state seeks to 'fix' and 'stabilize' its subjects in relation to the nation's 'others.' A controversial, ground-breaking study, Exalted Subjects makes a major contribution to our understanding of the racialized and gendered underpinnings of both nation and subject formation.

Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies

Author : Simona Berhe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000517403
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies written by Simona Berhe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood. Such a topic is crucial for understanding both Italian imperial rule and the complex dynamics of the different colonial societies where several actors, like notables, political leaders, minorities, etc., were involved. The chapters gathered in the book constitute an unprecedented account of a heterogeneous geographical area. The cases of Eritrea, Libya, Dodecanese, Ethiopia, and Albania confirm that citizenship and subjecthood in the colonial context were ductile political tools, which were structured according to the orientations of the Metropole and the challenges that came from the colonial societies, often swinging between submission, cooptation to the colonial power, and resistance. On one hand, the book offers an account of the different policies of citizenship implemented in the Italian colonies, in particular the construction of gradated forms of citizenship, the repression and expulsion of dissidents, the systems of endearment of local people and cooptation of the elites, and the racialization of legal status. On the other, it deals with the various answers coming from the local populations in terms of resistance, negotiation, and construction of social identity.

Publication

Author : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Intercourse and Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publication written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Intercourse and Education and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Robotics

Author : Shuzhi Sam Ge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642341039
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Social Robotics written by Shuzhi Sam Ge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-04 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2012. The 66 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots, situated interaction and embodiment, robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities, social acceptance of robots and their impact to the society, artificial empathy, HRI through non-verbal communication and control, social telepresence robots, embodiments and networks, interaction and collaboration among robots, humans and environment, human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots I and II.

Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Author : Maruska Svasek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453238
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Moving Subjects, Moving Objects written by Maruska Svasek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most theories of material culture, transnationalism, and globalization have failed to incorporate a focus on emotions even though an increasing number of scholars in recent years have explored emotion-dense processes. This book fills the gap and examines how emotions can be theorized and serve as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects, and images. Through diverse, ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies, these chapters offer new perspectives that relate migration, material culture, and emotions by addressing: the ways in which migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in transnational contexts; the ways in which particular works of art, everyday objects, and artifacts evoke specific feelings in migrants and members of migrant communities; and the ways in which artists, academics, and policy makers may stimulate positive interaction between migrants and members of local communities. -- Provided by publisher.

The Statesman's Year-book

Author : Frederick Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Statesman's Year-book written by Frederick Martin and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subjects in Process

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317251199
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Subjects in Process written by Michael A. Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjects in Process investigates the human subject in the first decade of the twenty-first century in relation to changing social circumstances and belongings. The concept of 'subjectivity' in the Western tradition has focused on the figure of the autonomous, self-conscious, and rooted individual. This book develops a conception of the subject that is nomadic and fluid rather than grounded and complete. Written from a perspective that takes account of globalisation - and the pressures that it places upon individuals and communities - this book draws upon Nietzsche and the post-modern thinkers that followed him. Arguing that a modern conception of the subject must be one based on cultural exchanges and transformations, this book is sure to provide new insights for anyone concerned with or interested in the identity of the individual now and in the future.

Changing Subjects

Author : Erin Runions
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781841272696
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Changing Subjects written by Erin Runions and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming from a strong gender critical and post-colonial theoretical stance, Runions takes up important questions of the reading process that arise from literary, ideological critical and cultural studies approaches to the Bible. She examines readers' negotiations with the ambiguous configurations of gender, nation and future vision in the book of Micah, using the theoretical work of Homi Bhabha with Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek-all key figures in cultural studies. Her book confronts the problem of the determined subject reading an indeterminate text and suggests that (liminal) identifications with the ambiguitiesof the book of Micah might reconfigure the readers' own ideological positions.

The Golden West

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Golden West written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences

Author : Gloria Emeagwali
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463005153
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences written by Gloria Emeagwali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intellectual journey into epistemology, pedagogy, physics, architecture, medicine and metallurgy. The focus is on various dimensions of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK) with an emphasis on the sciences, an area that has been neglected in AIK discourse. The authors provide diverse views and perspectives on African indigenous scientific and technological knowledge that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, and policy makers, in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and enable critical and alternative analyses and possibilities for understanding science and technology in an African historical and contemporary context.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUBJECTS FOR RESEARCH-VI, VOLUME-2

Author : Dr. Dilipkumar A. Ode
Publisher : RED'SHINE Publication. Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1667143522
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUBJECTS FOR RESEARCH-VI, VOLUME-2 written by Dr. Dilipkumar A. Ode and published by RED'SHINE Publication. Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pedagogical Contract

Author : Yun Lee Too
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047211087X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Pedagogical Contract written by Yun Lee Too and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000-07-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relationship as one that since antiquity has been regarded as a scene of give-and-take, where the teacher exchanges knowledge for some sort of payment by the student and where pedagogy always runs the risk of becoming a broken contract. The book seeks to liberate teaching and learning from this historical scene and the anxieties that it engenders, arguing that there are alternative ways of conceiving the economy underlying pedagogical activities. Reading ancient material together with contemporary representations of teaching and learning, Yun Lee Too shows that apart from being conceived as a scene of self-interest in which a professional teacher, or sophist, is the charlatan who cheats his pupil, pedagogy might also purport to be a disinterested process of socialization or a scene in which lack and neediness are redeemed through the realization that they are required precisely to stimulate the desire to learn. The author also argues that pedagogy ideally ignores the imperative of the conventional marketplace for relevance, utility, and productivity, inasmuch as teaching and learning most enrich a community when they disregard the immediate material concerns of the community. The book will appeal to all those who understand scholarship as having an important social and/or political role to play; it will also be of interest to literary scholars, literary and cultural theorists, philosophers, historians, legal theorists, feminists, scholars of education, sociologists, and political theorists. Yun Lee Too is Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University. She is the author of Rethinking Sexual Harassment;The Rhetoric of Identity in Socrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy; and The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism, forthcoming; and coeditor, with Niall Livingstone, of Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning.

The Psychic Hold of Slavery

Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813583977
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Psychic Hold of Slavery written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present—and vice versa—the contributors place slavery’s historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death. Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or debate how to best convey that black lives matter. The Psychic Hold of Slavery thus raises provocative questions about how we behold the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack domination.