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Author : Dawson's Book Shop
Release : 198?
Genre : Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Book Synopsis The Changing Face of Los Angeles by : Dawson's Book Shop
Download or read book The Changing Face of Los Angeles written by Dawson's Book Shop. This book was released on 198?. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine by :
Download or read book The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine written by . This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture – a synopsis of current trends in African literature – and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and suffering. The volume is comparative, bringing together literature in at least five languages and from at least ten national literatures. Such a large, comparative frame is implied by most discussion of African literature but is too seldom seen. At the same time, the collection also problematizes the comparison: the goal is to make clear what African literatures have in common but also where they diverge. What difference do distinct literary traditions, readerships, and publishing patterns make to literatures which share a common thematic and so many of the same questions and needs? By juxtaposing contemporary texts form several traditions, the intention of this collection is to bring out the themes that are currently dominant in African literatures generally. After a preface by Liz Gunner and a wide-ranging introduction by the editors, the collection presents keynote essays on new paradigms in African literature, before treating specific themes – recent crime fiction, the Afrikaans and anglophone novel, feminist literature, ‘migritude’ – and studies of recent works by individual authors such as André Brink, Henri Djombo, Pie Tshibanda, Bessora, Nadine Gordimer, and Paulina Chiziane, as well as the South African television series Yizo Yizo.
Author : Richard Feist
Release : 2010-10-27
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity by : Richard Feist
Download or read book Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity written by Richard Feist. This book was released on 2010-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical examination of technology’s growing influence. This pioneering collection explores the relationship between technology and free will. Rejecting the notion of technology as a neutral addition to our lives, the contributors examine the type and degree of our society’s technological dependence. Technology is revealed as something from which we have, and will continue to have, difficulty separating ourselves, both as individuals and as a society. Without articulating a purely deterministic perspective, this collection illuminates the powerful influence technology has on our world and our perception of it.
Author : Nikolay Slavkov
Release : 2021-11-22
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 358/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker” by : Nikolay Slavkov
Download or read book The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker” written by Nikolay Slavkov. This book was released on 2021-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by various researchers, arguing that the ensuing monolingual norms and assumptions are flawed or inequitable in a global super-diverse world. However, such norms are still ubiquitous in educational, institutional and social settings, in political structures and in research paradigms. This collection offers voices from various contexts and corners of the world and further challenges the native speaker construct adopting poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives. It includes conceptual, methodological, educational and practice-oriented contributions. Topics span language minorities, intercomprehension, plurilingualism and pluriculturalism, translanguaging, teacher education, new speakers, language background profiling, heritage languages, and learner identity, among others. Collectively, the authors paint the portrait of the "changing face of the native speaker" while also strengthening a new global agenda in multilingualism and social justice. These diverse and interconnected contributions are meant to inspire researchers, university students, educators, policy makers and beyond.
Author : Pertti Joenniemi
Release : 2017-09-29
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Changing Face of European Conscription by : Pertti Joenniemi
Download or read book The Changing Face of European Conscription written by Pertti Joenniemi. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscription is seen as forming a site and an issue-area around which different identities are struggled over and core political relations established in a security-related context. The unravelling of conscription thus unavoidably pertains to a set of essential ideational issues and has significance far beyond the military sphere. The contributors to this book explore the more profound issues such as the meaning of conscription in the context of the increasingly feeble relationship between the state and the nation. The analysis relates the question of changes or lack of change in recruitment to broader social, political and cultural issues, thereby breaking new ground. Attention not only focuses on what the military manpower systems do, but also on what they represent. As such, conscription has meaning far beyond the sphere of military affairs.
