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Author : Antonio Sotomayor
Release : 2016-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 810/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sovereign Colony by : Antonio Sotomayor
Download or read book The Sovereign Colony written by Antonio Sotomayor. This book was released on 2016-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of the development of the Olympic movement in Puerto Rico in the context of national and political identity"--
Author : Antonio Sotomayor
Release : 2016-02
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 40X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sovereign Colony by : Antonio Sotomayor
Download or read book The Sovereign Colony written by Antonio Sotomayor. This book was released on 2016-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial experience, however, Puerto Ricans managed to secure national Olympic representation in the 1930s and in so doing nurtured powerful ideas of nationalism. By examining how the Olympic movement developed in Puerto Rico, Antonio Sotomayor illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that evolved within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence. Significantly, it was precisely in the Olympic arena that Puerto Ricans found ways to participate and show their national pride, often by using familiar colonial strictures—and the United States’ claim to democratic values—to their advantage. Drawing on extensive archival research, both on the island and in the United States, Sotomayor uncovers a story of a people struggling to escape the colonial periphery through sport and nationhood yet balancing the benefits and restraints of that same colonial status. The Sovereign Colony describes the surprising negotiations that gave rise to Olympic sovereignty in a colonial nation, a unique case in Latin America, and uses Olympic sports as a window to view the broader issues of nation building and identity, hegemony, postcolonialism, international diplomacy, and Latin American–U.S. relations.
Author : Nicole A. Jacobs
Release : 2021
Genre : American literature
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Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature by : Nicole A. Jacobs
Download or read book Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature written by Nicole A. Jacobs. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines apian imagery--bees, drones, honey, and the hive--in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it came to emblematize the process of colonization itself. The beehive connected the labor of those marginalized by race, class, gender, or species to larger considerations of sovereignty. This study examines the works of William Shakespeare; Francis Daniel Pastorius; Hopi, Wyandotte, and Pocasset cultures; John Milton; Hester Pulter; and Bernard Mandeville. Its contribution lies in its exploration of the simultaneously recuperative and destructive narratives that place the bee at the nexus of the human, the animal, and the environment. The book argues that bees play a central representational and physical role in shaping conflicts over hierarchies of the early transatlantic world.
Author : Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
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Book Synopsis The Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent by : Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
Download or read book The Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent written by Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hannah Amaris Roh
Release : 2022-08-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 402/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea by : Hannah Amaris Roh
Download or read book Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea written by Hannah Amaris Roh. This book was released on 2022-08-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first philosophical approaches to the study of Korea’s ethnic nationalism, Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea traces the impact of Christianity in the formation of Korean national identity, outlining the metaphysical origins of the concept of the sovereign subject. This monograph takes a meta-historical approach and engages the moral questions of Korean historiography amid the fraught politics of narrating colonialism and the postcolonial period. Indebted to Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction and his framework of "hauntology," this monograph unpacks the ethical consequences of ethnic nationalism, exploring how Western metaphysics has haunted imaginations of freedom in colonial Korea. While most studies of modern Korean nationalism and (post)colonialism have taken a cultural, literary, or social scientific approach, this book draws on the thought of Jacques Derrida to offer an innovative intellectual history of Korea’s colonial period. By deconstructing the metaphysical claims of turn-of-the-century Protestant missionaries and early modern Korean intellectuals, the book showcases the relevance of Derrida’s philosophical method in the study of modern Korean history. This is a must read for scholars interested in Derrida, historiography, and Korean history.
