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Author | : Todd Kontje |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472123734 |
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Imperial Fictions explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire. Unlike nationalist literary historians of the nineteenth century, who sought the tribal roots of an allegedly homogeneous people, this study finds a distant mirror of analogous processes today in the fluid mixtures and movements of peoples. Imperial Fictions argues that it is time to stop thinking about today’s multicultural present as a deviation from a culturally monolithic past. We should rather consider the various permutations of “German” identities that have been negotiated within local and imperial contexts from the early Middle Ages to the present.
Author | : Rana Kabbani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
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Rana Kabbani unravels Western fantasies and myths about the East which were woven over the ages. Devised during the Crusades to combat Islam, then confirmed by centuries of Western writers and artists, these myths fostered racial and sexual stereotypes that became vital to imperial designs. In Orientalist travelogues and paintings, the British and the French conceived of an erotic and sinister East, one that they believed to be morally inferior and dangerous, and therefore ripe for colonisation. Such perceptions remain very much apparent today, fuelling the tension between East and West. "Imperial Fictions", now a classic, is an erudite analysis of Europe's fabricated Orient, as expressed in its writings and illustrated in its paintings.
Author | : Todd Kontje |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2018-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472130781 |
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Rethinks German literature by challenging the notion that national literature is the narrative of a spiritually united people
Author | : Jeffers Lennox |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442614056 |
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In this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763.
Author | : Rana Kabbani |
Publisher | : Saqi Books |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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"An important, fierce and judicious book."--Salman Rushdie
Author | : William T. Vollmann |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1789 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101105151 |
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From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.
Author | : Su Yun Kim |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501751891 |
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In Imperial Romance, Su Yun Kim argues that the idea of colonial intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers, social leaders, and intellectuals than previously understood. Kim investigates representations of Korean-Japanese intimate and familial relationships—including romance, marriage, and kinship—in literature, media, and cinema, alongside documents that discuss colonial policies during the Japanese protectorate period and colonial rule in Korea (1905–45). Focusing on Korean perspectives, Kim uncovers political meaning in the representation of intimacy and emotion between Koreans and Japanese portrayed in print media and films. Imperial Romance disrupts the conventional reading of colonial-period texts as the result of either coercion or the disavowal of colonialism, thereby expanding our understanding of colonial writing practices. The theme of intermarriage gave elite Korean writers and cultural producers opportunities to question their complicity with imperialism. Their fictions challenged expected colonial boundaries, creating tensions in identity and hierarchy, and also in narratives of the linear developmental trajectory of modernity. Examining a broad range of writings and films from this period, Imperial Romance maps the colonized subjects' fascination with their colonizers and with moments that allowed them to become active participants in and agents of Japanese and global imperialism.
Author | : Maaja A. Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820315409 |
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"In Domestic Realities and Imperial Fictions, Maaja A. Stewart juxtaposes the discourses of late eighteenth-century domesticity and imperialism to provide an original and compelling reading of Jane Austen's novels. Stewart contends that the sphere of domesticity largely associated with women during this era was constructed alongside - and in complex relation to - the changing socioeconomic conditions of England as a whole. At the center of these changing conditions was the British drive toward empire." "Stewart's double focus on home and empire illuminates the varied ways in which imperialism penetrated the daily lives of women, who were deceptively represented as being largely untouched by England's overseas trade, its conquest of India, and its cultivation of West Indian slave plantations. This focus also illuminates the challenge the imperial enterprise posed to social and ethical systems of the gentry." "Stewart's concrete point of entry to this material is a central narrative in Austen's novels - the struggle for mastery between the older son who inherits the traditional estate and the younger sons who enter various colonial services, gain wealth, and return to contest the supremacy of the older brother. This contest, Stewart argues, transforms the traditional paternal country house into a maternal domestic space. In this context, domesticity reveals itself to be a compensatory realm, a world of denials and false appearances, where the brute realities of imperial domination could be symbolically transformed. By situating the ideologically charged domestic space in the larger context of British imperialism, Stewart shows how the construction of female subjectivity and female virtue were both an antidote to and a mask for colonial aggression." "Stewart's approach - poststructuralist, postcolonial, and intertextual - yields a revisionary rereading of Austen's novels. The model she offers can also be used to reread texts other than Austen's and thus invites a fresh examination of the dominant cultural discourses at the beginning of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : David M. Higgins |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1609387848 |
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"Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds (where technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England) that ask Western audiences to imagine what it's like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. In this book, David M. Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative (because they ask us to think critically about what empire feels like from the receiving end), reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. Everyone, now (including anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries) likes to imagine themselves as the Rebel Alliance fighting against the Empire (or Neo trying to escape the Matrix, or Katniss Everdeen waging war against the Capitol). Reverse colonization fantasy, in other words, has a dangerous tendency to enable white men (and other subjects of privilege) to appropriate a sense of victimhood for their own social and political advantage"--
Author | : Martin W. Huang |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684173574 |
Download Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In this new study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. He further suggests that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming dynasty should be studied in the context of contemporary debates on desire, along with the new and complex views that emerged from those debates.Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China shows that the obsession of authors with individual desire is an essential quality that defines traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre. Thus the maturation of the genre can best be appreciated in terms of its increasingly sophisticated exploration of the phenomenon of desire."