Автор: Hyde, Lewis Название: Trickster Makes This World (Canons Edition) ISBN: 178689050X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786890504 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1632.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a `masterpiece`
Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyonc? to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.
Автор: Dale Timothy, Foy Joseph Название: Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem ISBN: 1442246642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442246645 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jim Henson's creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world's most recognizable cultural icons. Henson's legacy endures because he never shied away from exploring deep questions, nor underestimated the ability of children (or adults) to grapple with profound philosophical issues. Anyone who grew up with his stories, or has fallen in love with his characters, will enjoy this book's exploration of the entertaining, educational and profound world of Jim Henson.
Автор: J. Michael Dash Название: Haiti and the United States ISBN: 0333680189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333680186 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4191.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text examines the relations between Haiti and the United States through the literature of both countries. The West`s mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the 19th century until it emerges strongly in the 1960s.
Автор: J. Michael Dash Название: Haiti and the United States ISBN: 0333680170 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333680179 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text examines the relations between Haiti and the United States through the literature of both countries. The West`s mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the 19th century until it emerges strongly in the 1960s.
Название: Contemporary writing and the politics of space ISBN: 3034322054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034322058 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 12621.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts. Contributors tackle a broad range of themes, including how prose fiction addresses spaces of intimacy, abjection, espionage, discipline, madness, post-human identities, post-communist cities, the architecture of dystopia, and coercive medical practices. In turn, these themes open up analysis to key areas within contemporary literary and cultural criticism, including the study of sexuality, politics, power, and identity; the configuration of urban, regional, and national spaces and borders; and the delineation of private and public domains. The contributors reflect on diverse authors from English-speaking cultures and focus on a variety of genres and periods while acknowledging recent research in space studies and offering original contributions to what has now become a thriving field.
Название: Diy utopia ISBN: 1498523889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498523882 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28278.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection examines contemporary artist and activist-inspired utopian projects and DIY communities of interest. Throwing into relief the immense difficulty of thinking beyond the current system of consumer capitalism, coupled with the powerful desire to do just that, this anthology explores what our ideals and desires tell us about ourselves.
Автор: Yuji Sone Название: Japanese Robot Culture ISBN: 1137532165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137532169 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Japanese Robot Culture examines social robots in Japan, those in public, domestic, and artistic contexts. Unlike other studies, this book sees the robot in relation to Japanese popular culture, and argues that the Japanese ‘affinity’ for robots is the outcome of a complex loop of representation and social expectation in the context of Japan’s continuing struggle with modernity. Considering Japanese robot culture from the critical perspectives afforded by theatre and performance studies, this book is concerned with representations of robots and their inclusion in social and cultural contexts, which science and engineering studies do not address. The robot as a performing object generates meaning in staged events and situations that make sense for its Japanese observers and participants. This book examines how specific modes of encounter with robots in carefully constructed mises en sc?ne can trigger reflexive, culturally specific, and often ideologically-inflected responses.
Claudio Magris is one of Italy’s – and Europe’s – most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently interviewed about his hometown Trieste, the region called Mitteleuropa and the European Union. But what makes Magris such a relevant figure on the European literary scene?
European Vistas aims to answer this question by analysing the three most central elements in Magris’ novels – history, ethics and identity – in relation to contemporary Europe. His choice of particular histories are considered in terms of the ethical ideas and values that motivate him as well as the relevance of these stories for Europe. The book also explores Magris’ understanding and narration of identity and its potential for a transnational mode of identification, specifically within the European context. Ultimately, the author demonstrates why Magris’ ideas about history, ethics and identity are fundamental for Europe’s future.
Автор: Se?n Street Название: The Sound inside the Silence ISBN: 9811384487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811384486 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this poetic exploration of the auditory imagination, the third in his series on sonic aesthetics, Se?n Street peoples silence with sound, travelling through time and space to the distant past, the infinite future and the shadow lands of the inner psyche. Our mind is a canvas on which the colours of the sound world leave permanent impressions. It is the root of all listening.
Автор: Giselle Rampaul, Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete Название: The Child and the Caribbean Imagination ISBN: 9766402671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766402679 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In <em>The Child and the Caribbean Imagination</em>, twelve emerging and established scholars in the fields of literature, linguistics and education examine and interrogate the representations, roles and realities of Caribbean children. This multidisciplinary volume explores the experiential, discursive and fictive worlds of the child portrayed and treated variously as subject and object in the region’s oral and scribal literatures, formal classroom settings, and other socio-cultural contexts. Divided into four sections – Discourse and Representation, Unstable Identities, Language Development, and Pedagogy – <em>The Child and the Caribbean Imagination</em> offers breadth and depth in its contribution to much-needed academic scholarship aimed at impacting the lives of and paying homage to children in the Caribbean.
Описание: Twenty-first century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of ""blackness."" The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural independence inform the daily life of Cubans at every cultural level, as anthropologist Paul Ryer argues in Beyond Cuban Waters. Focusing on the everyday world of ordinary Cubans, this book examines Cuban understandings of the world and of Cuba's place in it, especially as illuminated by two contrasting notions: ""La Yuma,"" a distinctly Cuban concept of the American experience, and ""Aacute;frica,"" the ideological understanding of that continent's experience. Ryer takes us into the homes of Cuban families, onto the streets and nightlife of bustling cities, and on boat journeys that reach beyond the typical destinations, all to better understand the nature of the cultural life of a nation.This pursuit of Western status symbols represents a uniquely Cuban experience, set apart from other cultures pursuing the same things. In the Cuban case, this represents neither an acceptance nor rejection of the American cultural influence, but rather a co-opting or ""Yumanizing"" of these influences.
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