Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time

Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time
Author: Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-08-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1978822448

Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time examines literary magazines generated during the 1940s that catapulted Caribbean literature into greater international circulation and contributed significantly to social, political, and aesthetic frameworks for decolonization, including Pan-Caribbean discourse. This book demonstrates the material, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Pan-Caribbean literary discourse in magazine texts by Suzanne and Aimé Césaire, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and their contemporaries. Although local infrastructure for book production in the insular Caribbean was minimal throughout the twentieth century, books, largely produced abroad, have remained primary objects of inquiry for Caribbean intellectuals. The critical focus on books has obscured the canonical centrality of literary magazines to Caribbean literature, politics, and social theory. Up against the imperial Goliath of the global book industry, Caribbean literary magazines have waged a guerrilla pursuit for the terms of Caribbean representation.

Library automation and networking – New tools for a new identity / L'automatisation et les réseaux de bibliothèques – de nouveaux outils pour une identité nouvelle

Library automation and networking – New tools for a new identity / L'automatisation et les réseaux de bibliothèques – de nouveaux outils pour une identité nouvelle
Author: Herman Liebaers
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311171134X

Covers use of new technologies for libraries and the European Commission plan for libraries. Contains papers covering new technologies and data collecting for preservation, networking between publishers, distributors and libraries, data and access, co-operative library systems and more.

Memory's Library

Memory's Library
Author: Jennifer Summit
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2008-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226781720

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.

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Total Pages: 686
Release: 1967
Genre: Libraries
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