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Author: Keith Gilyard Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814330579 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
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No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild, Killens was regarded by many as a spiritual father who inspired a generation of African American novelists with his politically charged works. And yet today he rarely receives proper critical attention. Seeking to strengthen our understanding of this important literary figure, Keith Gilyard departs from standard critical frameworks to reveal Killens's novels as artful renderings of rich African American rhetorical forms and verbal traditions. Gilyard finds that many critics, adhering to ideals of art for art's sake or narrative conciseness, are ill-equipped to appreciate the many ways in which Killens's fiction succeeds. Rejecting the "pure art" position, Killens sought to articulate Black heroism particularly within a family or community context, offering a set of values he deemed liberatory. He focused on rendering noble and polemical characters, and his work represents a distinguished fusion of sociopolitical persuasion (rhetoric) and literary artifact (poetics). To help illuminate such novels as Youngblood (1954), And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), and The Cotillion (1971), Gilyard examines Killens's work as an essayist and cultural organizer, highlighting his activism. His life and literary production can be partly characterized, Gilyard suggests, by the African American jeremiad-a major rhetorical form in the Black intellectual tradition expressing faith that America's destiny is to become an authentic, pluralistic democracy.
Author: Keith Gilyard Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814330579 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild, Killens was regarded by many as a spiritual father who inspired a generation of African American novelists with his politically charged works. And yet today he rarely receives proper critical attention. Seeking to strengthen our understanding of this important literary figure, Keith Gilyard departs from standard critical frameworks to reveal Killens's novels as artful renderings of rich African American rhetorical forms and verbal traditions. Gilyard finds that many critics, adhering to ideals of art for art's sake or narrative conciseness, are ill-equipped to appreciate the many ways in which Killens's fiction succeeds. Rejecting the "pure art" position, Killens sought to articulate Black heroism particularly within a family or community context, offering a set of values he deemed liberatory. He focused on rendering noble and polemical characters, and his work represents a distinguished fusion of sociopolitical persuasion (rhetoric) and literary artifact (poetics). To help illuminate such novels as Youngblood (1954), And Then We Heard the Thunder (1962), and The Cotillion (1971), Gilyard examines Killens's work as an essayist and cultural organizer, highlighting his activism. His life and literary production can be partly characterized, Gilyard suggests, by the African American jeremiad-a major rhetorical form in the Black intellectual tradition expressing faith that America's destiny is to become an authentic, pluralistic democracy.
Author: Frank Mehring Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004292012 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” How is the national framed within a dynamic system of intercultural contact zones highlighting often competing agendas of remembrance? How does the production, (re)mediation, and framing of narratives within different social, territorial, and political environments determine the cultural memory of liberation? The articles compiled in this volume seek to provide new interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on the politics and cultures of liberation by examining commemorative practices, artistic responses, and audio-visual media that lend themselves for transnational exploration. They offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy from the war years, through the Cold War era to the 21st century.
Author: Sam Dann Publisher: Texas Tech University Press ISBN: 9780896723917 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 310
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Members of the Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry discuss what it was like to participate in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April of 1945.
Author: Martyn Bone Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820351857 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 306
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Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region’s relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales: hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania), and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of “scale” that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope.
Author: Miguel Cardina Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000782700 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 203
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Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory takes as its reference from the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and the ways this period has been publicly remembered. Drawing on original and detailed empirical research, it presents novel insights into the complex entanglements between colonial pasts and political memories of anti-colonialism in shaping new nations arising out of liberation struggles. Broadening postcolonial memory studies by emphasising underdeveloped research cases, it provides the first comprehensive research into how the liberation struggle is memorialised in Cape Verde and why it changes over time. Proposing an innovative approach to thinking about this historical event as a political subject, the book argues that the "struggle" constitutes a mnemonic device mobilised while negotiating contemporaneous representations related to the Cape Verdean nation, state and society. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, anthropology and politics with interests in memory studies and public memory, postcolonialisms and African studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author: Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0228002796 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 180
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This book tells the story of the Battle of Vertières, fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by Napoleon. The battle marked the culmination of a thirteen-year revolutionary struggle to end slavery and the dawn of an independent Haiti. Yet despite its pivotal importance to the history of Haiti, France, and the Americas, the Battle of Vertières has been struck from the record. The Cry of Vertières is the first book-length study of the battle, drawing from an array of sources including military correspondence, Haitian literature, art, and popular music. The event itself is recounted in vivid detail: it is a dramatic story of a volunteer army of former slaves, seeking the promises of freedom and citizenship held out by the revolution, defeating a colonial power determined to re-enslave them. The book also examines why the history of the battle has been suppressed in France - an act of erasure of a humiliating defeat - and why it remains fragile even in Haiti. Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec explains that today Vertières is both a key lieu de mémoire that embodies reconciliation, pride, and strength for the Haitian people, and a figure of speech exploited by politicians to reinforce their power. Describing a decisive yet largely forgotten moment in the revolutionary history of the Americas, The Cry of Vertières makes an essential contribution to the complex subjects of race, memory, colonialism, and cultural nationalism in present-day France and Haiti.
Author: Moon-Hyun Yoon Publisher: 연화사 ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 532
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1)It refers to a fine, soft, and smooth peduncle. It has the same meaning as touch, the sixth of the 12 relationships, and refers to the sense of touch that causes fine, soft, and smooth pleasure. 2)It refers to six superhuman abilities of freedom and freedom. That is, the divine-foot-path, which allows the body to appear as the mind desires, the heavenly-eye-path, which does not hinder the ability to see the life, death, sorrow, and joys of the six paths of living beings, and the various forms of the world, and the suffering and suffering of the six paths of living beings. Heavenly hearing, capable of hearing the language of happiness, anxiety, and joy, and various voices of the world; Tasimtong, knowing well the thoughts in the hearts of all beings in the six paths; and the destiny of the past life of oneself and the six living beings. It refers to the fateful tong (宿命通), which knows things well, and the progressive tong (漏盡通) that cuts off all the sufferings of the three worlds and does not receive birth and death in the three worlds. 3)The Sanskrit word is paca-kāmaguṇa, and it is also called the five myo-yok, the five myo-yok, and the five myo-saks. It refers to the five desires caused by obsession with the five boundaries of color, nature, scent, taste, and touch. In other words, it refers to lust, sexual desire, pleasure, lust, and lust. 4)It is also called the 10 paths of good karma, and is the opposite of the 10 paths of evil. 10Evil karma means committing acts of killing, stealing, adultery, lying, profane words, harsh words, sly words, greed, anger, and foolishness. Avoiding the above ten evils is the 10 good karma paths. 5)It refers to the five defilements that cover the nature of the mind and prevent good dharma from occurring: greed, anger, lethargy, delusion, and doubt. 6)Among the six paramitas, it refers to the jhana paramita. 7)In the new translation, each view is translated as review. Gak (覺) means to pursue and reason, which means thinking roughly about the principles of things, and gwan (觀) refers to the mental action of thinking carefully about the name and meaning of a method. These two impede the righteous mind of the second Zen or higher, so if they continue, the body and mind become tired and damaged, and they become obstacles to righteous thoughts. Depending on the presence or absence of each of these organs, it is possible to determine whether the depth of the right mind is shallow or deep. In Volume 21 of 『Chapahamgyeong』, it is said, “Having awareness and contemplation is called nine actions.” Since the angles and tubes are the cause of language, language does not exist apart from the angles and tubes. 8)Profit, non-profit, fame, obscurity, discussion, non-discussion, suffering, pleasure, etc. 9)It is also called worldly way or worldly way, and is the opposite concept of Murudo. It is called Yurudo because it is related to the practice of bringing about the consequences of the three worlds, including humans and heaven. 10) It is also called the fourth heart, and refers to the four hearts of self-love, sorrow, joy, and sorrow. 11) Also called the Four Minds, it observes that the body is unclean through self-image and fantasy, observes that perception is painful, observes that the mind is impermanent, and observes that the mind is impermanent. It refers to observing this non-self (no-self) and replacing the four inherited contemplative methods of meditation, pleasure, appearance, and self. 12) It is also called the 4th process, and it is an empty-rooted decision, a food-free decision, a non-possessed decision, and an emergency non-injury decision. ) refers to Gongmubyeoncheojeong transcends the fourth jhana of the form of meditation, destroys and eliminates all thoughts that hinder jhāna, and thinks that space is infinite. Consciousness and consciousness are thought to be infinite, transcending emptiness and consciousness. The non-possessing state transcends the non-possessing state and corresponds to non-possession, and one thinks about the idea of non-possession and settles on it. Non-non-possessive pre-condition transcends the non-possessive pre-disposition, thinks and possesses the concept [相] of non-possessive, non-possessive, and settles in it. This Jeong (定) is different from the annihilated Jeong (想) because it is the predominant form of ignorance (無明), and it is also different from the impermanent Jeong (無想定) because it is not impermanent (無想). 13) It is also called the 7 points of knowledge and 7 parts of vision. It is a practice that corresponds to the sixth class among the 37 classes. First, awareness of awareness is having a clear mind and always keeping jhāna and wisdom in mind. Second, the way to choose the law is to rely on wisdom to choose the true law and discard the false law. Third, Jeongjin-gakji (精進覺支) means devoting oneself to cultivating and learning the Dharma (Dharma) and not showing a lazy mind. Fourth, enlightenment is the joy of attaining the right Dharma. Fifth, Gyeongangakji (輕安覺支), also known as Uigakji (猗覺支), is when the body and mind are light, comfortable, and comfortable. Sixth, clear awareness is not being distracted by meditation. Seventh, blind spot is maintaining balance without the mind being biased or obsessed. 14) It refers to the five sense organs of sentient beings. The five sense organs, including the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, produce emotions and are therefore called the five emotions.
Author: Herbert Marcuse Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134774524 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 271
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The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society, and his writings on culture and art generate the possibility of liberation and radical social transformation. The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for Marcuse’s eightieth birthday with exchange of letters; and many articles that explore the role of art in society and how it provides possibilities for liberation. This volume will be of interest to those new to Marcuse, generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social milieus of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the specialist, giving access to a wealth of material from the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt and his private collection in San Diego, some of it published here in English for the first time. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner reflects on the genesis, development, and tensions within Marcuse’s aesthetic, while an afterword by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser summarizes their relevance for the contemporary era.