Contesting Realities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting Realities write by Susanne Dahlgren. This book was released on 2010-12-23. Contesting Realities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a resident of Aden for more than three years spanning the late years of Marxist South Yemen, Dahlgren presents the reader with an intimate portrait of Yemeni men and women in the home, in the factory, in the office, and in the street, demonstrating that Islamic societies must be understood through a multiplicity of social spheres and morality orders. Within each space, she examines the range of legal, political, religious, and social regulations that frame gender relations and social dynamics. Highlighting the diversity of women’s and men’s positions as a continuum rather than as distinct areas, Dahlgren presents a vivid picture of this dynamic society, providing an in-depth background to today’s political upheavals in Yemen.
Translation Revisited
Translation Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translation Revisited write by Mamadou Diawara. This book was released on 2019-01-17. Translation Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How realistic is it to expect translation to render the world intelligible in a context shaped by different historical trajectories and experiences? Can we rely on human universals to translate through the unique and specific webs of meaning that languages represent? If knowledge production is a kind of translation, then it is fair to assume that the possibility of translation has largely rested on the idea that Western experience is the repository of these human universals against the background of which different human experiences can be rendered intelligible. The problem with this assumption, however, is that there are limits to Western claims to universalism, mainly because these claims were at the service of the desire to justify imperial expansion. This book addresses issues arising from these claims to universalism in the process of producing knowledge about diverse African social realities. It shows that the idea of knowledge production as translation can be usefully deployed to inquire into how knowledge of Africa translates into an imperial attempt at changing local norms, institutions and spiritual values. Translation, in this sense, is the normalization of meanings issuing from a local historical experience claiming to be universal. The task of producing knowledge of African social realities cannot be adequately addressed without a prior critical engagement with how translation has come to shape our ways of rendering Africa intelligible.
Challenging Realities: Magic Realism in Contemporary American Women's Fiction
Challenging Realities: Magic Realism in Contemporary American Women's Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenging Realities: Magic Realism in Contemporary American Women's Fiction write by M. Ruth Noriega Sánchez. This book was released on 2011-11-28. Challenging Realities: Magic Realism in Contemporary American Women's Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Les arrels del realisme màgic en els escrits de Borges i altres autors d'Amèrica Llatina han estat àmpliament reconeguts i ben documentades produint una sèrie d'estudis crítics, molts dels quals figuren en la bibliografia d'aquest treball. Dins d'aquest marc, aquest llibre presenta als lectors una varietat d'escriptores de grups ètnics, conegudes i menys conegudes, i les col·loca en un context literari en el que es tracten tant a nivell individual com a escriptores així com a nivell col·lectiu com a part d'un moviment artístic més ampli. Aquest llibre és el resultat del treball realitzat a les universitats de Sheffield i la de València i representa una valuosa investigació i una important contribució als estudis literaris.
Confucianism as a World Religion
Confucianism as a World Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confucianism as a World Religion write by Anna Xiao Dong Sun. This book was released on 2013. Confucianism as a World Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion. The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when Friedrich Max Müller and James Legge classified Confucianism as a world religion in the new discourse of "world religions" and the emerging discipline of comparative religion. Anna Sun shows how that decisive moment continues to influence the understanding of Confucianism in the contemporary world, not only in the West but also in China, where the politics of Confucianism has become important to the present regime in a time of transition. Contested histories of Confucianism are vital signs of social and political change. Sun also examines the revival of Confucianism in contemporary China and the social significance of the ritual practice of Confucian temples. While the Chinese government turns to Confucianism to justify its political agenda, Confucian activists have started a movement to turn Confucianism into a religion. Confucianism as a world religion might have begun as a scholarly construction, but are we witnessing its transformation into a social and political reality? With historical analysis, extensive research, and thoughtful reflection, Confucianism as a World Religion will engage all those interested in religion and global politics at the beginning of the Chinese century.
Reality Television and Arab Politics
Reality Television and Arab Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reality Television and Arab Politics write by Marwan M. Kraidy. This book was released on 2010. Reality Television and Arab Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.
