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The Concept of the Foreign

2003 History
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Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Concept of the Foreign by : Rebecca Saunders

Download or read book The Concept of the Foreign written by Rebecca Saunders. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concept of the Foreign investigates the diverse and consequential uses of the concept of the foreign--a formidable and hitherto untheorized force in everyday discourse and practice. This highly original work--whose experimental nature moves beyond traditional academic bounds--undertakes to theorize the meanings, deployments, and consequences of 'foreignness', a term largely overlooked by academic debates. Innovative in format, the book comprises an introductory theoretical dialogue and seven essays, each authored by a scholar from a different discipline--anthropology, literary theory, psychology, philosophy, social work, history, and women's studies-who investigate how his/her disciplines engage and define the concept of the foreign. Drawing out literal and metaphorical meanings of 'foreignness' this wide-ranging volume offers much to scholars of postcolonial, gender, and cultural studies seeking new approaches to the study of alterity.

Altogether Elsewhere

1996-03-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1996-03-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Altogether Elsewhere by : Marc Robinson

Download or read book Altogether Elsewhere written by Marc Robinson. This book was released on 1996-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Elsewhere

2005-08-03 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2005-08-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Elsewhere by : Adam Zachary Newton

Download or read book The Elsewhere written by Adam Zachary Newton. This book was released on 2005-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."

After the Fall

2007 Art
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Release : 2007
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis After the Fall by : Noemi Marin

Download or read book After the Fall written by Noemi Marin. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noemi Marin analyzes famous writers from the area as critical intellectuals and exiles in order to explore the role of rhetoric and identity in writers' own experiences during the long history of communism. Along with examinations of discursive relationships among power, culture and resistance in works by George Konrad, Andrei Codrescu, and Siavenka Drakulic before and after the fall of communism, Marin proposes specific dimensions for a rhetoric of exile pertinent to communist Eastern and Central Europe. After the Fall shows how critical works on identity, culture, and communist history by the writers studied aid in reconstituting a rhetoric of dissidence, identity, and legitimation in the public discourse of a changing Europe. The book offers a unique perspective on the complex contexts of political transition, in which competing public discourse on freedom and democracy intersect with totalitarian regimes, unsettled societies, and issues of resistance.

Wanderers Across Language

2017-12-02 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-12-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Wanderers Across Language by : Kinga Olszewska

Download or read book Wanderers Across Language written by Kinga Olszewska. This book was released on 2017-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas Irish exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and Irish authors - Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which uses exile as a literary device."

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