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The Dark Continent?

Author : Frits Andersen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771248544
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Continent? written by Frits Andersen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture--with the Congo as an analytical focal point. It also demonstrates that the myth was more than a creation of colonial propaganda; the Congo reform movement--the first international human rights movement--spread horror stories that still have repercussions today. The book cross-examines a number of witness testimonies, reports and novels, from Stanley's travelogues and Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Herge's Tintin and Burroughs' Tarzan, as well as recent Danish and international Congo literature. The Dark Continent? proposes that the West's attitudes to Africa regarding free trade, emergency aid and intervention are founded on the literary historical assumptions of stories and narrative forms that have evolved since 1870.

Inside Africa

Author : John Gunther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Inside Africa written by John Gunther and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Continents

Author : Ranjana Khanna
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384582
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Dark Continents written by Ranjana Khanna and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial critique, Ranjana Khanna boldly shows how bringing psychoanalysis, colonialism, and women together can become the starting point of a postcolonial feminist theory. Psychoanalysis brings to light, Khanna argues, how nation-statehood for the former colonies of Europe institutes the violence of European imperialist history. Far from rejecting psychoanalysis, Dark Continents reveals its importance as a reading practice that makes visible the psychical strife of colonial and postcolonial modernity. Assessing the merits of various models of nationalism, psychoanalysis, and colonialism, it refashions colonial melancholy as a transnational feminist ethics. Khanna traces the colonial backgrounds of psychoanalysis from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up to the present. Illuminating Freud’s debt to the languages of archaeology and anthropology throughout his career, Khanna describes how Freud altered his theories of the ego as his own political status shifted from Habsburg loyalist to Nazi victim. Dark Continents explores how psychoanalytic theory was taken up in Europe and its colonies in the period of decolonization following World War II, focusing on its use by a range of writers including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Octave Mannoni, Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Wulf Sachs, and Ellen Hellman. Given the multiple gendered and colonial contexts of many of these writings, Khanna argues for the necessity of a postcolonial, feminist critique of decolonization and postcoloniality.

The Jewish Dark Continent

Author : Nathaniel Deutsch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674062647
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Dark Continent written by Nathaniel Deutsch and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.” Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive—what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite—which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a massive ethnographic questionnaire. Consisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions, from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of destruction. Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life in all its wonder and complexity.

Light on Darkness?

Author : T. Jack Thompson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802865240
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Light on Darkness? written by T. Jack Thompson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? T. Jack Thompson, a leading historian of African Christianity, revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included.

New Light on the Most Ancient East

Author : V. Gordon Childe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317606426
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book New Light on the Most Ancient East written by V. Gordon Childe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed survey on major archaeological discoveries in the Near and Middle East. This classic account focuses on the findings in three great centers of ancient civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus valley. Professor Childe discusses the excavation of the three cities of Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro on the Indus and Harappa on the Ravi, and what these sites have revealed about Indian civilization in the third millennium B.C. He describes the findings at the numerous tells between Mesopotamia and the Indus basin, and in the three provinces of the Fertile Crescent; the succession of cultures in pre-dynastic Egypt and the rise of the Pharaohs; the findings at Ur and Kish and the development of an urban civilization in Mesopotamia. Throughout the text, the author sets forth the step-by-step gathering of precise archaeological evidence, relating these findings both to the context of their particular culture and to the larger context of the origins of European history.

The Missionary Review of the World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Development

Author : Stuart Corbridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944800
Total Pages : 1391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Development written by Stuart Corbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 1391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together twenty-five of the most influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. The first part looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s. Thereafter, the book is organized thematically. Geographers have made key contributions to development studies in four major areas, all of which are represented here and include gender and households, development alternatives and identities, resource conflicts and political ecology and globalization and resistance. The book ends with three broad-ranging essays by leading figures in the field.

Women in Film Noir

Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839021233
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Women in Film Noir written by E. Ann Kaplan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of 'Women in Film Noir' (1978) assembled a group of scholars and critics committed to understanding the cinema in terms of gender, sexuality, politics, psychoanalysis and semiotics. This edition is expanded to include further essays which reflect the renewed interest in Film Noir. Exploring 'neo-noir', postmodernism and other contemporary trends, new essays offer readings of, among others, 'Bound' and 'Basic Instinct', broadening the scope of the book to include questions of race and homosexuality.

The Global Brand

Author : Nigel Hollis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230615414
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Global Brand written by Nigel Hollis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top executive at one of the world's leading marketing firms analyzes the familiarity and strength of brands and establishes five steps towards increasing brand strength in a globalized world Rapid advances in modern technology present companies with quickly expanding marketing opportunities, but they also create an over-saturated business landscape that both helps and hurts brands. The Global Brand is a thorough investigation of brand strength in the accelerated modern business world. Nigel Hollis draws on his experience at Millward Brown to present a simple formula for determining brand strength based on two axes, Presence (or familiarity) and Voltage (or marketing appeal), to illustrate the market value and performance of brands. He analyzes the five steps of customer commitment to a strong brand--Presence, Relevance, Performance, Advantage, and Bonding. Finally, Hollis emphasizes human nature as a set of constant core values that all brands should appeal to, and analyzes the future of brand-building as a profitable investment. “In The Global Brand, Nigel Hollis not only corrects some of the misconceptions of the past but offers a glimpse of the future that is both perceptive and grounded in good business sense. Those who take the time to properly digest this book will save their companies a lot of money.” —Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Author : Mohit Kumar Ray
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126904716
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness written by Mohit Kumar Ray and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hastily Written In Pencil And Serialized In Blackwood S Magazine In 1899 As The Heart Of Darkness , And Later Published In Book Form In 1902, As Heart Of Darkness, The Sibylline Charm Of The Novel Has Established It As One Of The Most Important Canonical Texts Of British Literature. Critics Have Seen The Book As An Angry Document On Absurd And Brutal Exploitation (Guerard), Probably The Greatest Short Novel In English (Karl), An Annunciation Of The Savage God (Cox), An Adventure Story, An Early Instance Of Modern Fiction, An Existential Novel, And An Early Specimen Of New Historicism. The Novel Turns On A Double Paradox (Hillis Miller), And Addresses Itself Simultaneously To Europe S Exploitation Of Africa, The Primeval Human Situation, An Archaic Aspect Of The Mind S Structure And A Condition Of Moral Baseness (Parry). But At The Same Time The Novel Has Elicited An Angry Reaction From Chinua Achebe Who Calls Conrad, A Bloody Racist. The Present Study, One In The Series Of Atlantic Critical Studies, Attempts To Make A Close Reading Of The Novel, And Examines Its Various Aspects With Lucidity And Profundity, Never Losing, However, The Touch With The Reality Of The Academic Needs Of The Students Of English Literature.

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. III

Author : Marcus Garvey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520052574
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. III written by Marcus Garvey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the United States during the 1920s. Now, the long-awaited African volumes of this edition (Volumes VIII and IX and a forthcoming Volume X) demonstrate clearly the central role Africans played in the development of the Garvey phenomenon. The African volumes provide the first authoritative account of how Africans transformed Garveyism from an external stimulus into an African social movement. They also represent the most extensive collection of documents ever gathered on the early African nationalism of the inter-war period. Here is a detailed chronicle of the spread of Garvey's call for African redemption throughout Africa and the repressive colonial responses it engendered. Volume VIII begins in 1917 with the little-known story of the Pan-African commercial schemes that preceded Garveyism and charts the early African reactions to the UNIA. Volume IX continues the story, documenting the establishment of UNIA chapters throughout Africa and presenting new evidence linking Garveyism and nascent Namibian nationalism.

The Dial

Author : Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tradition, Culture and Development in Africa

Author : Ambe J Njoh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878328
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Tradition, Culture and Development in Africa written by Ambe J Njoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. While this book does not attempt to answer this question per se, it addresses a largely ignored, but important issue, which might provide some insights into the matter. This issue is the link between culture/tradition and socio-economic development in Africa. By weaving a common thread through these concepts, this book breaks new ground in the discourse on development. It highlights the differences between Euro-centric culture, which is rooted in capitalist ideology and Protestant ethic, and traditional African culture, where concepts such as capital accumulation, entrepreneurial attitudes and material wealth are not of top priority. In doing so, it dispels popular myths, stereotypes and distortions, as well as discounting misleading accounts about major aspects of African culture and traditional practices.

Herald of Gospel Liberty

Author : Elias Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herald of Gospel Liberty written by Elias Smith and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Christian treasury (and missionary review).

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Christian treasury (and missionary review). written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Discourse of British and German Colonialism

Author : Felicity Rash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429821026
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of British and German Colonialism written by Felicity Rash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project from as early as the sixteenth century but especially after the foundation of the German Second Empire in 1871 – the era of the so-called 'Scramble for Africa'. The authors present the points of view not only of the colonizing nations, but also of former colonies, including Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Namibia, Tanzania, India, China, and the Pacific Islands. The title will prove invaluable for students and researchers working on British colonial history, German colonial history and post-colonial studies.