Author: Ataféï Pewissi Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan ISBN: 2140110366 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 322
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Le Professeur Komla Messan Nubukpo, à qui cet ouvrage est consacré, a eu un parcours exceptionnel. Chef du département d’anglais puis Doyen de la faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de l’Université de Lomé, il a été élevé au rang de Doyen honoraire de la même faculté. Il a été Ministre de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. À cheval entre les études américaines et africaines, le Professeur Nubukpo a investi les aires de recherche dans le Post-modernism et le New Criticism. En littérature africaine, ses travaux portent essentiellement sur l’outil critique Womanism, théorisé par Alice Walker et, dans les Humanités africaines, il a énormément contribué aux études postcoloniales et l’attachement aux droits humains.
Author: Daniel J. Sherman Publisher: ISBN: 9780816619511 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 326
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Museums display much more than artifacts; Museum Culture makes us on a tour through the complex of ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting today. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives from history, art history, critical theory and sociology, the contributors to this new collection argue that museums have become a central institution and metaphor in contemporary society. Discussing exhibition histories and practice in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States, the authors explore the ways in which museums assign meaning to art through various kinds of exhibitions and display strategies, examining the political implications of these strategies and the forms of knowledge they invoke and construct. The collection also discusses alternative exhibition forms, the involvement of some museums with the more spectacular practices of mass media culture, and looks at how museums construct their public.
Author: James Penney Publisher: ISBN: 9781849649858 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 212
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Makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism.
Author: K. Sian Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137463562 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 214
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Offering 12 interviews with postcolonial thinkers in the social sciences and humanities, this collection features theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Paul Gilroy. Topics range from Bob Marley to the Black Panthers, Fanon to feminism, and anti-apartheid to the academy, uncovering thought provoking adventures about resistance and empowerment.
Author: A. Brah Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230378536 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 250
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Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant narratives of ostensibly unfettered movement of people, unmitigated economic growth and social progress.
Author: Elizabeth DeLoughrey Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199792739 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 580
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The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial writers, the diverse contributions highlight the literary imagination as crucial to representing what Eduoard Glissant calls the "aesthetics of the earth." The essays are organized around a group of thematic concerns that engage culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. With chapters that address works by J. M. Coetzee, Kiran Desai, Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, Zakes Mda, and many others, Postcolonial Ecologies makes a remarkable contribution to rethinking the role of the humanities in addressing global environmental issues.
Author: George Weisz Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400857414 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 414
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George Weisz offers a comprehensive analysis of the French university system during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examining the major reforms of higher education undertaken during the Third Republic, he argues that the original thrust for reform came from within the educational system, especially from an academic profession seeking to raise its occupational status. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Allen Thiher Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 0826264697 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 312
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"Examines the relationship between science and the fiction developed by modernists, including Musil, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce. Looks at Pascalian and Newtonian cosmology, Darwinism, epistemology, relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the development of modernist and postmodern fiction, positivism, and finally works by Woolf, Faulkner, and Borges"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Michel Foucault Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0679724699 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 177
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Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
Author: Ataféï Pewissi
Author: Daniel J. Sherman
Author: James Penney
Author: K. Sian
Author: A. Brah
Author: Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Author: Marguerite Duras
Author: George Weisz
Author: Allen Thiher
Author: Michel Foucault