Author: Monika Mehta File Type: pdf India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorships role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring. Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact.**
Author: Otto F. A. Meinardus
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Christianity arrived early in Egypt, broughtaccording to traditionby Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. Since its split from the Byzantine Church in 451, the Coptic Church has proudly maintained its early traditions, and influence from outside has been minimal the liturgy is still sung to unique rhythms in Coptic, a late stage of the same ancient Egyptian language that is inscribed in hieroglyphs on temple walls and papyri. Dr. Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the history of the Coptic Church, here revises, updates, and combines his renowned studies Christian Egypt, Ancient and Modern (The American University in Cairo Press, 1965, 1977) and Christian Egypt, Faith and Life (The American University in Cairo Press, 1970) into a new, definitive, one-volume history for the Millennium, surveying the twenty centuries of existence of one of the oldest churches in the world.**
Author: Keramet Reiter
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This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Author: David N. Wells
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Before Japan was opened up in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early eighteenth century onwards, as a result of their expanding commercial interests in East Asia and the North Pacific, Russians had begun to encounter Japanese and were increasingly eager to establish diplomatic and trading relations with Japan. This book presents rare narratives written by Russians, including official envoys, scholars and, later, tourists, who visited Japan between 1792 and 1913. The introduction and notes set these narratives in the context of the history of Russo-Japanese relations and the genre of European travel writing, showing how the Russian writers combined ethnographic interests with the assertion of Russian and European values, simultaneously inscribing power relations and negotiating cultural difference.
Author: Nunila Lopez Salamero
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La cenicienta que no queria comer perdices se ha convertido en un gran boom editorial antes de publicarse la puja por la compra de los derechos de publicacion ha sido la mas renida del ano. Las autoras escribieron e ilustraron a cuatro manos este cuento que autoeditaron tras conseguir fi nanciacion gracias a amigos y conoc**
Author: Neil Rhodes
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What existed before there was a subject known as English? How did English eventually come about? Focusing specifically on Shakespeares role in the origins of the subject, Neil Rhodes addresses the evolution of English from the early modern period up to the late eighteenth century. He deals with the kinds of literary and educational practices that would have formed Shakespeares experience and shaped his work and traces the origins of English in certain aspects of the educational regime that existed before English literature became an established part of the curriculum. Rhodes then presents Shakespeare both as a product of Renaissance rhetorical teaching and as an agent of the transformation of English in the eighteenth century into the subject that emerged as the modern study of English. By transferring terms from contemporary disciplines, such as media studies and creative writing, or the technology of computing, to earlier cultural contexts Rhodes aims both to invite further reflection on the nature of the practices themselves, and also to offer new ways of thinking about their relationship to the discipline of English. Shakespeare and the Origins of English attempts not only an explanation of where English came from, but suggests how some of the things that we do now in the name of English might usefully be understood in a wider historical perspective. By extending our view of its past, we may achieve a clearer view of its future.Review`Review from previous edition learned, historically capacious, thoughtful, concerned with challenging topics in several related subdisciplines EL The range of his book is admirable and its lack of dogmatism welcome Russ McDonald, Shakespeare Quarterly`lively and accessible . . . his arguments offer a refreshing, though not always unproblematic, revitalization of elements of English studies that have lain moribund for decades, if not centuries Leah S. Marcus, Modern Language Quarterly`a lively, readable and thought-provoking book Richard Dutton, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900`full of stimulating, and sometimes provocative, ideas and viewpoints and displays great skill in weaving together different materials and lines of argument. . . . Lively, provocative, and rich in ideas, iShakespeare and the Origins of Englishi is a stimulating contribution to the debate about contemporary, as well as early modern, literary education. Fred Schurink, Notes and Queries`Rhodes shows convincingly that Shakespeares literary achievement is most often based on his consistent breaking of accepted Renaissance rules for writing. Rhodes comments on the neoclassic writers response to Shakespeare are also very illuminating. . . . offers much to engage the attention. Choice About the AuthorNeil Rhodes is Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews.
Author: Frederick Lewis Allen
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An acclaimed classic detailing the economic history of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and exposing the capitalist giants who changed the worldFrederick Lewis Allens insightful financial history of the United Statesfrom the late 1800s through the stock market collapse of 1929remains a seminal work on what brought on Americas worst economic disaster the Great Depression. In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented corporate expansion, with ultimate financial power in the hands of a few wealthy industrialists who exploited the capitalist system for everything it was worth. The Rockefellers, Fords, Morgans, and Vanderbilts were the lords of creation who, along with like-minded magnates, controlled the economic destiny of the country, unrestrained by regulations or moral imperatives. Through a combination of foresight, ingenuity, ruthlessness, and greed, Americas giants of industry remolded the US economy in their own preferred image. In so doing, they established their absolute power and authority, ensuring that theyand they alonewould control the means of production, transportation, energy, and commercethereby setting the stage for the most devastating global financial collapse in history.As Gretchen Morgenson thoughtfully states in her introduction, It is not immediately clear why the frequency and severity of financial scandals is increasing in the United States. Whatisclear is that we need to understand the origins of these disasters, as well as the policies and people that bring them on. . . . While distant actions may seem unrelated to current events, rereading about the past almost always provides surprising insights into the present.The Lords of Creation, first published in the midst of the Great Depression, when the financial catastrophe was still painfully fresh, is a fascinating story of bankers, railroad tycoons, steel magnates, speculators, scoundrels, and robber barons. It is a tale of innovation and shocking exploitationand a sobering reminder that history can indeed repeat itself.
Author: Rajeshwari S. Vallury
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Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni. Rajeshwari S. Vallury argues that postcolonial literature demonstrates a conscious, rational, and deliberate engagement with the question of democracy. The author shows how the metaphors of literature invent an arena or platform for the enactment of democratic dissension. Postcolonial texts stage contentious debates about the principles that can and must sustain a life of the common. The capacity of the poetic word to regenerate and recreate forms of thinking, being, saying, and doing lies at the heart of the political power of literature. In the case of Algeria, the dual forces of military rule and radical Islamism have not succeeded in stifling the revolutionary will of the people, which continues to find self-expression in the idea of the nation, the concept of universal human rights, the notion of civility, and the philosophical traditions of pluralism and toleration within Islam. This book argues that postcolonial literature attests to the dissonance of democracy by staging the nation as the space of a universal equality and civility. **Review Vallury offers an engaging study of works by authors Rachid Mimouni and Tahar Djaout. She effectively demonstrates that these writers of French expression use allegory and metaphor to recast the Algerian nation as a utopic space that allows for democratic dissension and political subversion. She defines literary metaphors as sources of poetic valence that enable debates in political justice and equality. These debates continue to be relevant in the contentious sociopolitical arenas of present-day Algeria. (Valerie Orlando, Professor, French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Maryland) About the Author Rajeshwari S. Vallury is Director of Womens Studies and Associate Professor of French at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Surfacing the Politics of Desire Literature, Feminism, and Myth (2008)