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| Author | : Elías J Palti |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2024-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0197774946 |
Is there a Latin American thought? What distinguishes it from the thought of other regions, particularly from European thought? What are its main expressions in political, cultural, and social life? How has it evolved historically? As the Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea Aguilar stated: "hardly any other society has so zealously sought for the features of its own identity." In Misplaced Ideas?, Elías J. Palti examines how Latin American identity has been conceived across different epochs and diverse conceptual contexts. Palti approaches these ideas from a historical-intellectual perspective, unraveling the theoretical foundations on which the very interrogation on Latin American identity has been forumulated and re-formulated. While he does not endorse or refute any particular perspective, Palti discloses the historical and contingent nature of their foundations. Ultimately, Misplaced Ideas? highlights the problematic dynamics of the circulation of ideas in peripheral regions of Western culture, which raises, in turn, broader theoretical questions regarding the ways of approaching complex historical-intellectual processes.
| Author | : Roberto Schwarz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Misplaced Ideas spans the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the life and work of Brazil's most influential novelist, Machado de Assis, as well as Brazilian film, poetry, theatre and music. Among the themes that run through the text are the dangers of nationalism, the West's attraction for exotic backwardness and the notion of Third World literature.
| Author | : Sarah A. Lichtman |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2023-11-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1000962849 |
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences––to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement. The contributors foreground objects, spaces, visual, and material practices and consider design’s role in the empire, the state, and various colonizing regimes in controlling the mass movement of people, things, and ideas across borders, as well as in social acts that resist forced mobility and immobility, or enact new possibilities. By consciously surfacing echoes, rhymes, and dissonances among varied histories, this volume highlights local specificity while also accounting for the vectors of displacement and design across borders and histories. Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories shows displacement to be a lens for understanding space and materiality and vice versa, particularly within the context of modernity and colonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars working in design history, design studies, architectural history, art history, urban studies, and migration studies.
| Author | : Roberto Schwarz |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2001-12-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780822322399 |
DIVA translation of Schwarz's study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908)./div
| Author | : Martin Cooper |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2011-07-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1443832456 |
Brazilian Railway Culture examines the cultural relationship Brazil has had with its railways since tracks were first laid by British, American and French engineers in the nineteenth century. ‘Railway’ and ‘Brazil’ are words not often found in the same sentence. Yet each year over seven hundred million passengers are carried by train in the major urban centres, and tens of thousands of visitors enjoy heritage steam rides at over a dozen restored lines and museums. Brazilian Railway Culture starts from the premise that Brazilian society and culture is not just samba, football and sex. The book takes a journey through Brazilian cultural output from 1865 to the present day, examining novels, poetry, music, art, film and television, as well as autobiographies, written histories, and museums to uncover ways in which the railway has been represented. This interdisciplinary study engages with theories of informal empire and postcolonialism, Latin American studies, cultural studies, film and television studies, literary criticism, art history and criticism, museum and heritage studies, as well as railway studies. This is a supplementary text for use by students on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It will also be of interest to academics, researchers, and railway historians across a range of disciplines.
| Author | : João Cezar de Castro Rocha |
| Publisher | : MSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2019-04-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1628953586 |
In Shakespearean Cultures, René Girard’s ideas on violence and the sacred inform an innovative analysis of contemporary Latin America. Castro Rocha proposes a new theoretical framework based upon the “poetics of emulation” and offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding the asymmetries of the modern world. Shakespearean cultures are those whose self-perception originates in the gaze of a hegemonic Other. The poetics of emulation is a strategy developed in situations of asymmetrical power relations. This strategy encompasses an array of procedures employed by artists, intellectuals, and writers situated at the less-favored side of such exchanges, whether they be cultural, political, or economic in nature. The framework developed in this book yields thought-provoking readings of canonical authors such as William Shakespeare, Gustave Flaubert, and Joseph Conrad. At the same time, it favors the insertion of Latin American authors into the comparative scope of world literature, and stages an unprecedented dialogue among European, North American, and Latin American readers of René Girard’s work.
| Author | : Patrick R. O'Malley |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0192507648 |
Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the various modes in which the very notion of the historical past was articulated. He proposes that nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture present two competing modes of political historiography: one that eludes the unresolved wounds of Ireland's violent history through the strategic representation of a unified past that could be the model for a liberal future; and one that locates its roots not in a culturally triumphant past but rather in an account of colonial and specifically sectarian bloodshed and insists upon the moral necessity of naming that history. From myths of pre-Christian Celtic glories to medieval Catholic scholarship to the rise of the Protestant Ascendancy to narratives of colonial violence against Irish people by British power, Irish historiography strove to be the basis of a new nationalism following the 1801 Union with Great Britain, and yet it was itself riven with contention.
| Author | : Maite Conde |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2018-10-15 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1786833255 |
This volume includes the first English translations of Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes’ most influential essays on Hollywood, Soviet, European and Brazilian Cinema. Provides readers with theoretical ruminations on the vicissitudes of developing a national film archive, extending our appreciation of national film theory to encompass such practical endeavours. Shows how Brazil’s national film culture was theorised through extensive engagements with international trends thereby broadening our understanding of national cinema.
| Author | : Beverley Best |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 2702 |
| Release | : 2018-06-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1526455625 |
The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signalling its possible future in a time of great uncertainty. Taking a distinctively theoretical, interdisciplinary, international and contemporary perspective on the topic, this wide-ranging collection of chapters is arranged thematically over three volumes: Volume I: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society Volume II: Themes Volume III: Contexts This Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students in the field, showcasing the scholarly rigor, intellectual acuteness and negative force of critical social theory, past and present.
| Author | : Andrew Milner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1846318424 |
A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.
