More Than Meets the Eye: A Woman`s Search for Significance, Livermon Sandra Kimbrell

Автор: Xavier Livermon
Название: Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
ISBN: 1478005793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005797
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg's nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito. He shows how kwaito culture operates as an alternative politics that challenges the dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. Artists such as Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza rescripted notions of acceptable femininity and masculinity, while groups like Boom Shaka enunciated an Afrodiasporic politics. In these ways, kwaito culture recontextualizes practices and notions of freedom within the social constraints that the legacies of colonialism, apartheid, and economic inequality place on young South Africans. At the same time, kwaito speaks to the ways in which these legacies reverberate between cosmopolitan Johannesburg and the diaspora. In foregrounding this dynamic, Livermon demonstrates that kwaito culture operates as a site for understanding the triumphs, challenges, and politics of post-apartheid South Africa.

Автор: Livermon Xavier
Название: Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
ISBN: 1478006633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478006633
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg's nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito. He shows how kwaito culture operates as an alternative politics that challenges the dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. Artists such as Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza rescripted notions of acceptable femininity and masculinity, while groups like Boom Shaka enunciated an Afrodiasporic politics. In these ways, kwaito culture recontextualizes practices and notions of freedom within the social constraints that the legacies of colonialism, apartheid, and economic inequality place on young South Africans. At the same time, kwaito speaks to the ways in which these legacies reverberate between cosmopolitan Johannesburg and the diaspora. In foregrounding this dynamic, Livermon demonstrates that kwaito culture operates as a site for understanding the triumphs, challenges, and politics of post-apartheid South Africa.

Автор: Kimbrell Gregory
Название: The Ceremonial Armor of the Impostor
ISBN: 1948712555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948712552
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The Ceremonial Armor of the Impostor combines dark fantasy, Gothic horror, period drama, and furry literature in two thematically intertwined sequences of narrative poems. In one, a 16th-century mercenary soldier makes a phantasmagorical journey across the continent, perhaps even across time, in search of his lost comrade. In the other, a young, disaffected aristocrat of the 19th century becomes smitten with a mysterious lion-headed baron who may hold the keys to his family's secrets.

Does a salamander god still live at the heart of the mountain? What really happened to the patients of the sanitarium? Stuffed with lurid details, yet grimly serious in tone, the book sits in a cozy spot between Proustian high literature and campy Poe-inspired midnight movies starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. This is as much a loving tribute to some of Kimbrell's favorite things as it is a brooding exploration of identity shaped by the past, societal norms, and repressed homoerotic longing.

Finding inspiration in everything from Alexandre Dumas to horror anime, The Ceremonial Armor of the Impostor is an ornate, eerie, and affecting book that begs to be read by the fire on a long, quiet winter night, when the ghosts of the past have awakened.

Автор: Amresh Shrivastava, Megan Kimbrell, David Lester
Название: Suicide From a Global Perspective: Vulnerable Populations & Controversies
ISBN: 1619427753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781619427754
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Examines the problem of suicide around the world and how suicide can be prevented. This title presents discussions of issues that have been of particular concern, such as whether antidepressants precipitate suicidal behaviour in some people as well as preventing it in others and the complex issues involved in physician-assisted suicide.

Автор: Kimbrell Barbara Willis
Название: Drunks, Monks and Mental Illness: . . . Based on a Lie
ISBN: 194571414X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781945714146
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Цена: 15880.00 T
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