Representing the Contemporary North American Family - 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 Representing the Contemporary North American Family write by Sophie Chapuis. This book was released on 2021-08-06. Representing the Contemporary North American Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rise in individualism and the growing liberalism of family law may be seen as potential threats to the family as a unit. Currently, defenders of traditional family models are being forced to accept a more fluid definition of family as an intrinsic heterogeneous unit. Central to this book is the idea that the family, as a social unit around which society is structured, still plays a pivotal role in North America. States, courts, and political parties have had to address the major mutations of the family landscape in the last decades. The family is instrumental in reorganizing communities in migration contexts, and is a key component of political strategies. The way family is staged in the press, on social media, and in TV shows, reflects the fast-changing patterns and new realities of North American families, and offers alternatives to hegemonic representations of normative families. It also ranks high among current literary obsessions since it is the privileged receptacle for contemporary anxieties and operates both as an ideal retreat or an alienating space. The proliferation of family narratives, in their ever-shifting forms, reveals that family has boundless potential for fiction, and continues to run deep in the North American imaginary. This book gathers together approaches that range from field study, sociology, politics, media studies and literature. The contributions here show the centrality of the family both as an individual unit and as social, political, legal, and fictional constructs.
And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America
And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America - 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 And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America write by Abigail Wood. This book was released on 2016-04-08. And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs, well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century, presenting an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical repertory - New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century - and outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its singers have taken to, and beyond, this point.
Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands
Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands - 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 Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands write by Jesús Benito Sánchez. This book was released on 2002. Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring how borders and conceptualizations of borders impact on issues of self and group identity, 13 essays are presented by Benito (American literature, U. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) and Manzanas (American literature, U. of Salamanca, Spain). The essays look at English language literature from North America and the Caribbean, including works by Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Louise Erdrich, Rudolfo Anaya, Richard Rodriguez, and Harriet Wilson. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Contemporary North American Film Directors
Contemporary North American Film Directors - 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 Contemporary North American Film Directors write by Yoram Allon. This book was released on 2002. Contemporary North American Film Directors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Encompassing the careers of up to 600 directors - over 60 new to this edition - working in the US and Canada today, this volume is an invaluable reference for students, researchers and enthusiasts of film and popular culture. Each entry provides biographical information as well as insightful textual and thematic analysis of the director's work. In comprehensively covering a wide range of film-makers - from more established mainstream luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Kathryn Bigelow, through independent mavericks like Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, to innovative emerging talents including Marc Forster (Monster's Ball), Todd Field (In the Bedroom) and David Gordon Green (George Washington) - the shifting landscape of contemporary film-making is brought into sharp focus." Sur la 4e de couv.
Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels
Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels - 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 Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels write by Şemsettin Tabur. This book was released on 2018-09-30. Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume investigates the ways in which Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, and Carolyn See’s There Will Never Be Another You engage with the physical, ideological, and socially constructed “real-and-imagined” spaces of colonialism, justice, diaspora, and risk. Building on a range of theoretical approaches to the production of space, this study argues for the significance of literature as a cartographic practice charting the intricacies of the socio-spatiality of human life. Through rigorous readings, this book examines each novel as a critical map that both represents and explores contested spaces and alternative spatial negotiations. These spatially oriented literary analyses contribute to recent conceptualizations of space as socially and relationally produced, open, dynamic, and contested, and enrich the existing scholarship on the novels discussed here.
