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Gaze Back

Author : Marylyn Tan
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811432511
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Gaze Back written by Marylyn Tan and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry 2020) What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Should a work be easy, should a work be safe? Marylyn Tan’s debut volume, GAZE BACK, complicates ideas of femininity, queerness, and the occult. The feminine grotesque subverts the restrictions placed upon the feminine body to be attractive and its subjection to notions of the ideal. The occultic counterpoint to organised religion, then, becomes a way toward techniques of empowering the marginalised. GAZE BACK, ultimately, is an instruction book, a grimoire, a call to insurrection—to wrest power back from the social structures that serve to restrict, control and distribute it amongst those few privileged above the disenfranchised.

The Long Gaze Back

Author : Sinéad Gleeson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848405486
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Long Gaze Back written by Sinéad Gleeson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic, The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced. Featuring: Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary Costello, June Caldwell, Lucy Caldwell, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Maria Edgeworth, Anne Enright, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Norah Hoult, Mary Lavin, Eimear McBride, Molly McCloskey, Bernie McGill, Lisa McInerney, Belinda McKeon, Siobhán Mannion, Lia Mills, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Kate O'Brien, Roisín O'Donnell, E.M. Reapy, Charlotte Riddell, Eimear Ryan, Anakana Schofield, Somerville & Ross, Susan Stairs. Taken together, the collected works of these writers reveal an enrapturing, unnerving, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a lively literary landscape. Spanning four centuries, The Long Gaze Back features 8 rare stories from deceased luminaries and forerunners, and 22 new stories by some of the most talented Irish women writers working today. The anthology presents an inclusive and celebratory portrait of the high calibre of contemporary literature in Ireland. These stories run the gamut from heartbreaking to humorous, but each leaves a lasting impression. They chart the passions, obligations, trials and tribulations of a variety of vividly-drawn characters with unflinching honesty and relentless compassion. These are stories to savour.

Returning the Gaze

Author : Anna Everett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326144
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Returning the Gaze written by Anna Everett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovers and examines the lost history of African-American film criticism from the first half of the century.

Europe and Latin America

Author : Peter R. Beardsell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719056314
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Europe and Latin America written by Peter R. Beardsell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the 1980s. Based on a series of interviews with over ninety radical republican activists from the wide range of groups and currents which make up 'dissident' republicanism, the book provides an up-to-date assessment of the political significance and potential of the groups who continue to oppose the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement. It shows that the 'dissidents' are much more than traditionalist irreconcilables left behind by Gerry Adams' entry into the mainstream. Instead the book suggests that the dynamics and trajectory of 'dissident' republicanism are shaped more by contemporary forces than historical tradition and that by understanding the "dissidents" we can better understand the emerging forms of political challenge in an age of austerity and increasing political instability internationally.

Surviving the White Gaze

Author : Rebecca Carroll
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982174552
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Surviving the White Gaze written by Rebecca Carroll and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman, who consistently undermined Carroll’s sense of her blackness and self-esteem. Carroll’s childhood became harrowing, and her memoir explores the tension between the aching desire for her birth mother’s acceptance, the loyalty she feels toward her adoptive parents, and the search for her racial identity. As an adult, Carroll forged a path from city to city, struggling along the way with difficult boyfriends, depression, eating disorders, and excessive drinking. Ultimately, through the support of her chosen black family, she was able to heal. Intimate and illuminating, Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today, and an extraordinarily moving portrait of resilience.

Fixing My Gaze

Author : Susan R. Barry
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078674474X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Fixing My Gaze written by Susan R. Barry and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she saw the city of Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life. As a neuroscientist, she understood just how extraordinary this transformation was, not only for herself but for the scientific understanding of the human brain. Scientists have long believed that the brain is malleable only during a "critical period" in early childhood. According to this theory, Barry's brain had organized itself when she was a baby to avoid double vision - and there was no way to rewire it as an adult. But Barry found an optometrist who prescribed a little-known program of vision therapy; after intensive training, Barry was ultimately able to accomplish what other scientists and even she herself had once considered impossible. Dubbed "Stereo Sue" by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, Susan Barry tells her own remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses.

The Red Gaze

Author : Barbara Guest
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567505
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book The Red Gaze written by Barbara Guest and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawn is "the red gaze." It unburdens itself through poetry and its colors.

The Gaze

Author : Elif Shafak
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961384
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Gaze written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and compelling novel, Elif Shafak's The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others "I didn't say anything. I didn't return his smiles. I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting. He grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes. I hate those who think fat people are stupid.' An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. But while the woman wants to hide away from the world, the man meets the stares from passers-by head on, compiling his 'Dictionary of Gazes' to explore the boundaries between appearance and reality. Intertwined with the story of a bizarre freak-show organised in Istanbul in the 1880s, The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others. "Beautifully evoked" - The Times "Original and Compelling" - TLS "Plays with ideas of beauty and ugliness like they're Rubik's cubes" - Helen Oyeyemi "Entertaining and affecting" - Publishers' Weekly Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph, Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000 viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul and London.

Treasuring the Gaze

Author : Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226309711
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Treasuring the Gaze written by Hanneke Grootenboer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.

Brain and the Gaze

Author : Jan Lauwereyns
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262304619
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Brain and the Gaze written by Jan Lauwereyns and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically integrative account of visual perception, grounded in neuroscience but drawing on insights from philosophy and psychology. How do we gain access to things as they are? Although we routinely take our self-made pictures to be veridical representations of reality, in actuality we choose (albeit unwittingly) or construct what we see. By movements of the eyes, the direction of our gaze, we create meaning. In Brain and the Gaze, Jan Lauwereyns offers a novel reformulation of perception and its neural underpinnings, focusing on the active nature of perception. In his investigation of active perception and its brain mechanisms, Lauwereyns offers the gaze as the principal paradigm for perception. In a radically integrative account, grounded in neuroscience but drawing on insights from philosophy and psychology, he discusses the dynamic and constrained nature of perception; the complex information processing at the level of the retina; the active nature of vision; the intensive nature of representations; the gaze of others as visual stimulus; and the intentionality of vision and consciousness. An engaging point of entry to the cognitive neuroscience of perception, written for neuroscientists but illuminated by insights from thinkers ranging from William James to Slavoj Žižek, Brain and the Gaze will give new impetus to research and theory in the field.

The Show and the Gaze of Theatre

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587290633
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Show and the Gaze of Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre, in some respects, resembles a market. Stories, rituals, ideas, perceptive modes, conversations, rules, techniques, behavior patterns, actions, language, and objects constantly circulate back and forth between theatre and the other cultural institutions that make up everyday life in the twentieth century. These exchanges, which challenge the established concept of theatre in a way that demands to be understood, form the core of Erika Fischer-Lichte's dynamic book. Each eclectic essay investigates the boundaries that separate theatre from other cultural domains. Every encounter between theatre and other art forms and institutions renegotiates and redefines these boundaries as part of an ongoing process. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating examples, both historical and contemporary, Fischer-Lichte reveals new perspectives in theatre research from quite a number of different approaches. Energetically and excitingly, she theorizes history, theorizes and historicizes performance analysis, and historicizes theory.

Through the Leopard's Gaze

Author : Njambi McGrath
Publisher : Twenty in 2020
ISBN 13 : 9781913090104
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Through the Leopard's Gaze written by Njambi McGrath and published by Twenty in 2020. This book was released on 2020 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Thirteen-year-old Njambi, fearing her assailant would return to finish her, courageously escaped, walking through the night in the Kenyan countryside, risking wild animals, robbers and murderers, before being picked up by two shabbily dressed but safe men. She buries the memories of that fateful day and night, and years later ends up in London with a British husband and children. Then one day a simple unassuming wedding invitation arrives in her mailbox causing her to have to confront the remnants of a past she had thought was behind her. This is a book about survival, and courage when all else fails. It's a searingly honest examination of human cruelty and strength in equal measure.

Berserk Volume 26

Author : Kentaro Miura
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506704395
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Berserk Volume 26 written by Kentaro Miura and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guts, the Black Swordsman, goes from the frying pan to the fire as he must enter the mating chamber in the horrifying lair of trolls to rescue his love, Casca, and the Lady Farnese from the loathsome attentions of the hideous beasts. But while even an army of trolls cannot stand against Guts's boundless fury, the mightiest of warriors is no match for a demon lord. And so when Slan of the Godhand manifests from the entrails of slain trolls and takes Guts into her deadly embrace, Guts discovers he may not only be fighting for his life, but for his very soul!

Why Put a Bow Tie on a Llama?: How a Crazy Idea Can Change Your Life and Transform Your Business

Author : Celia Gaze
Publisher : Practical Inspiration Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781788601245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Why Put a Bow Tie on a Llama?: How a Crazy Idea Can Change Your Life and Transform Your Business written by Celia Gaze and published by Practical Inspiration Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressed and unhappy at work, Celia Gaze thought to herself one day: "Surely there must be more to life than this?" She resigned from her high-powered health management role and started transforming a neglected farm into an award-winning wedding venue. She faced nearly every type of challenge an entrepreneur can face - tribunals, near bankruptcy, court hearings, staff issues, system problems - and survived to tell the tale. But the moment that transformed her business from a struggle to a success was the moment she put a bow tie on a llama. Everyone thought she was crazy - why on earth would you do that? But it turns out that the 'crazy' ideas are often the ones that change your life. This book is a roadmap for uncovering your crazy idea and implementing it. From the pitfalls and problems to the practical details of making your idea happen, this is a roadmap for anyone who wants more out of life.

The Lifespan of a Fact

Author : John D'Agata
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529404630
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Lifespan of a Fact written by John D'Agata and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A BROADWAY PLAY STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE 'Provocative, maddening and compulsively readable' Maggie Nelson In 2003, American essayist John D'Agata wrote a piece for Harper's about Las Vegas's alarmingly high suicide rate, after a sixteen-year-old boy had thrown himself from the top of the Stratosphere Tower. The article he delivered, 'What Happens There', was rejected by the magazine for inaccuracies. But it was soon picked up by another, who assigned it a fact checker: their fresh-faced intern, and recent Harvard graduate, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment, and beyond the essay's eventual publication in the magazine, was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D'Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction. This book includes an early draft of D'Agata's essay, along with D'Agata and Fingal's extensive discussion around the text. The Lifespan of a Fact is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between 'truth' and 'accuracy', and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other. 'A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be' Lydia Davis

Reversing the Colonial Gaze

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488129
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Reversing the Colonial Gaze written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transformative account of the adventures of Persian travelers in the nineteenth century, moving beyond Eurocentric approaches to travel narratives.

The Gorgon's Gaze

Author : Julia Golding
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761453772
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Gorgon's Gaze written by Julia Golding and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.