Postcolonialité et droits de l'homme. Littératures et cultures britanniques et américaines Tome 2

Postcolonialité et droits de l'homme. Littératures et cultures britanniques et américaines Tome 2
Author: Ataféï Pewissi
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2019-01-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 2140110366

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.

Museum Culture

Museum Culture
Author: Daniel J. Sherman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780816619511

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.

Postcolonial Ecologies

Postcolonial Ecologies
Author: Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199792739

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.

The Emergence of Modern Universities In France, 1863-1914

The Emergence of Modern Universities In France, 1863-1914
Author: George Weisz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1400857414

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.

Fiction Refracts Science

Fiction Refracts Science
Author: Allen Thiher
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0826264697

"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.

The History of Sexuality

The History of Sexuality
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 177
Release: 1990-04-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0679724699

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.

Post-colonial Theory and English Literature

Post-colonial Theory and English Literature
Author: Peter Childs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Includes critical essays on William Shakespeare's The Tempest; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Rudyard Kipling's Kim; James Joyce's Ulysses; E.M. Forster's A passage to India; and, Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses.

Chairs

Chairs
Author: Charlotte Fiell
Publisher: Welbeck
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2023-04-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1802794565

This updated edition features designs from 1800 up to present day, and features the biggest names in furniture design, art, architecture and craft.

Modernism and the Ordinary

Modernism and the Ordinary
Author: Liesl Olson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199349789

Modernism and the Ordinary overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. Liesl Olson shows how modernist writers were preoccupied, instead, with the unselfconscious actions of everyday life, even in times of political crisis and war. Experiences like walking to work, eating a sandwich, or mending a dress were often resistant to shock, and these daily activities presented a counter-force to the aesthetic of heightened affect with which the period is often associated. With attentive and sensitive readings, Modernism and the Ordinary examines works by Joyce, Woolf, Stein, Stevens, Proust, Beckett, and Auden alongside the ideas of philosophers such as Henri Bergson and William James. In doing so, the book reveals the non-transformative power of the ordinary as one of modernism's most compelling attributes.