Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination, Michael Allen

Автор: Patrick W. Galbraith
Название: Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
ISBN: 1478006293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478006299
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.

Автор: Schulman Sarah
Название: Gentrification of the Mind
ISBN: 0520280067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520280069
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism.

Автор: Dale Timothy, Foy Joseph
Название: Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem
ISBN: 1442246642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442246645
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Цена: 21110.00 T
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Описание: Jim Henson's creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world's most recognizable cultural icons. Henson's legacy endures because he never shied away from exploring deep questions, nor underestimated the ability of children (or adults) to grapple with profound philosophical issues. Anyone who grew up with his stories, or has fallen in love with his characters, will enjoy this book's exploration of the entertaining, educational and profound world of Jim Henson.

Автор: Weingarten
Название: Abortion In The American Imagination
ISBN: 0813565294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565293
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Описание: The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe V. Wade, to long before the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life” were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy.Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race and gender roles.Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton and Langston Hughes into conversation with the era’s films, newspaper articles and activist rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped our very sense of what it means to be an American.

Автор: Rene Goscinny
Название: Nicholas Again
ISBN: 0714844918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714844916
Издательство: Phaidon Press Ltd.
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Описание: UK edition. The sequel to Nicholas, the classic adventures of the French schoolboy.

Автор: Jesse S. Cohn
Название: Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet
ISBN: 1496850165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496850164
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political "realism" that continue to suppress the radical imagination. Alluding both to the ongoing climate catastrophe and to Tom Godwin’s "The Cold Equations"—that famous touchstone of "hard science fiction"—Hot Equations reads the crises of our "post-normal" moment via works that increasingly subvert genre containment and spill out into the public sphere.

Drawing on archives and contemporary theory, author Jesse S. Cohn argues that these imaginative works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror strike at the very foundations of modernity, calling its basic assumptions into question. They threaten the modern order with a simultaneously terrible and promising anarchy, pointing to ways beyond the present medical, ecological, and political crises of pandemic, climate change, and rising global fascism. Examining books ranging from well-known titles like The Hunger Games and The Caves of Steel to newer works such as Under the Pendulum Sun and The Stone Sky, Cohn investigates the ways in which science fiction, fantasy, and horror address contemporary politics, social issues, and more. The "cold equations" that established normal life in the modern world may be in shambles, Cohn suggests, but a New Black Fantastic makes it possible for the radical imagination to glimpse viable possibilities on the other side of crisis.

Автор: Burch Wanda Easter
Название: The Home Voices Speak Louder Than the Drums: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs
ISBN: 1476665583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476665580
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Описание: Providing fresh perspective on the human side of the Civil War, this book explores the dreams and imaginings of those who fought it, as recorded in their letters, journals and memoirs. Sometimes published as poems or songs or printed in newspapers, these rarely acknowledged writings reflect the personalities and experiences of their authors.

Автор: Vigil, Kiara M. (amherst College, Massachusetts)
Название: Indigenous intellectuals
ISBN: 1107656559 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107656550
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 32730.00 T
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Описание: From the 1880s and into the 1930s, Native people participated in debates regarding how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. Indigenous Intellectuals traces the narrative discourses created by four influential American Indian intellectuals and discussions about citizenship, race, and modernity in the United States.

Автор: Pйrez Louis A.
Название: Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
ISBN: 0807886939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807886939
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 39710.00 T
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Автор: Amanda Brickell Bellows
Название: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination
ISBN: 1469655543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469655543
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens. During the second half of the long nineteenth century, Americans and Russians responded to these societal transformations through a fascinating array of new cultural productions. Analyzing portrayals of African Americans and Russian serfs in oil paintings, advertisements, fiction, poetry, and ephemera housed in American and Russian archives, Amanda Brickell Bellows argues that these widely circulated depictions shaped collective memory of slavery and serfdom, affected the development of national consciousness, and influenced public opinion as peasants and freedpeople strove to exercise their newfound rights.

While acknowledging the core differences between chattel slavery and serfdom, as well as the distinctions between each nation's post-emancipation era, Bellows highlights striking similarities between representations of slaves and serfs that were produced by elites in both nations as they sought to uphold a patriarchal vision of society. Russian peasants and African American freedpeople countered simplistic, paternalistic, and racist depictions by producing dignified self-representations of their traditions, communities, and accomplishments. This book provides an important reconsideration of post-emancipation assimilation, race, class, and political power.

Автор: Vigil
Название: Indigenous Intellectuals
ISBN: 1107070813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107070813
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: From the 1880s and into the 1930s, Native people participated in debates regarding how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. Indigenous Intellectuals traces the narrative discourses created by four influential American Indian intellectuals and discussions about citizenship, race, and modernity in the United States.

Автор: Amanda Brickell Bellows
Название: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination
ISBN: 1469655535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469655536
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 82770.00 T
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Описание: The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens. During the second half of the long nineteenth century, Americans and Russians responded to these societal transformations through a fascinating array of new cultural productions. Analyzing portrayals of African Americans and Russian serfs in oil paintings, advertisements, fiction, poetry, and ephemera housed in American and Russian archives, Amanda Brickell Bellows argues that these widely circulated depictions shaped collective memory of slavery and serfdom, affected the development of national consciousness, and influenced public opinion as peasants and freedpeople strove to exercise their newfound rights.

While acknowledging the core differences between chattel slavery and serfdom, as well as the distinctions between each nation's post-emancipation era, Bellows highlights striking similarities between representations of slaves and serfs that were produced by elites in both nations as they sought to uphold a patriarchal vision of society. Russian peasants and African American freedpeople countered simplistic, paternalistic, and racist depictions by producing dignified self-representations of their traditions, communities, and accomplishments. This book provides an important reconsideration of post-emancipation assimilation, race, class, and political power.