Present Pasts
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Transforming Memories In Contemporary Women S Rewriting
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Author : L. Plate
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-12-08
Transforming Memories In Contemporary Women S Rewriting written by L. Plate and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.
Interior Interruptions
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Author : Jean Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-02-07
Interior Interruptions written by Jean Whitehead and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-07 with Architecture categories.
Interior Interruptions examines the role of the ‘palimpsest’ and its relationship to narrative, sustainability, renovation and adaptive reuse. By exploring storytelling, palimpsestic characteristics and techniques, the book argues that these devices play a central role in the consideration of the designed interior. Narrative has a burgeoning relationship with the palimpsest and this approach embraces an aesthetic of incompleteness and imperfection as a site rich response. It recognises the ongoing ‘biography’ or heritage of a building as a form of transient architectural narrative that encourages reuse through the continual process of writing, rewriting, overwriting and unwriting. This process has sustainable, societal, archaeological and textual connotations that can be interpreted as a process of ‘layering’ whereby the architectural shell is viewed as a container; a rich repository that is ‘overlain’ by surface changes, documents architectural and spatial modifications, and is populated by interior fixtures and fittings that all unite to create an ever-changing interior story. Exploring case studies from the UK, Netherlands, Palestine, Belgium, Singapore, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Brazil, Japan, USA and China and beautifully illustrated in full colour, this book proposes that the act of interior renovation can be viewed as a perpetual form of revisionary storytelling re-imagined as a series of temporal interior ‘interruptions’. It is essential reading for students and professionals interested in the built environment, including, but not limited to, interior design, interior decoration, interior architecture and architecture.
Rhodesia Past And Present
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Author : Stefanus Jacobus Du Toit
language : en
Publisher: London : Heinemann
Release Date : 1897
Rhodesia Past And Present written by Stefanus Jacobus Du Toit and has been published by London : Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Africa, Southern categories.
Temporality And Film Analysis
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Author : Matilda Mroz
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-06
Temporality And Film Analysis written by Matilda Mroz and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality, however, remains an underexplored area of film analysis, which frequently discusses images as though they were still rather than moving. This book traces the operation of duration in cinema, and argues that temporality should be a central concern of film scholarship. In close readings of Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura, Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror, and the ten short films that make up Krzysztof Kie?lowski's Decalogue series, Mroz highlights how film analysis must consider both particular moments in cinema which are critically significant, and the way in which such moments interrelate in temporal flux. She explores the concepts of duration and rhythm, resonance and uncertainty, affect, sense and texture, to bring a fresh perspective to film analysis and criticism.Essential reading for students and scholars in Film Studies, this engaging study will also be a valuable resource for critical theorists.
Violence And Memory In Zimbabwean Literature
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Author : Tanaka Chidora
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-12-01
Violence And Memory In Zimbabwean Literature written by Tanaka Chidora and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book investigates how Zimbabwean literary texts subvert state-sponsored amnesia when it comes to the many forms of past and ongoing political violence in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean Literature provides an important space for confronting the past and reflecting on how violence continues into the present day. This violent past was forgotten either through the promise of violence against those who sought to remember, or by depicting the violence as a necessary tool of a never-ending decolonisation process, or by appealing to the logic of letting bygones be bygones. For instance, by claiming that the five years of the Gukurahundi genocide were ‘a moment of madness’, Robert Mugabe set a climate of state-sponsored amnesia which has persisted through subsequent acts of state violence and into the Mnangagwa era. Drawing on key works by Shimmer Chinodya, Alexander Kanengoni, Yvonne Vera, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Brian Chikwava, Chenjerai Hove, Panashe Chigumadzi, and NoViolet Bulawayo, this book investigates how fictional works challenge this state-sponsored amnesia, in relation both to Gukurahundi and other past and ongoing forms of violence. Bringing together iconic literary texts from 1980 to 2022, the book draws a common thread through the texts’ connected histories and highlights their role in de-silencing the past. Situated at the interface of memory studies and literary criticism, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of African literature, politics, development, and history.
The Distant Shores Of Freedom
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Author : Subarno Chattarji
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-18
The Distant Shores Of Freedom written by Subarno Chattarji and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Distant Shores of Freedom analyses literary works in English written by Vietnamese refugees in the US. Fiction and memoirs by Vietnamese Americans recover stories and memories that are often different from mainstream American ones and that difference enables readers to think of the US war in Vietnam from perspectives that are missing in mainstream representations. Dwelling not only on the war and its aftermaths, Vietnamese American writings also ponder over the existential issues of exile; the idea of home; the pain of marginality and racism; the question of community formation within the US; and the complexity of diasporic lives. Subarno Chattarji raises critical questions such as who gets to speak and write, and to what ends and purposes? Who reads Vietnamese American writings and how can we account for these publications in the US over a period of time? What can and cannot be written or spoken? What is remembered and what is silenced? What traumas and memories are articulated? These questions point towards a larger context of diaspora studies as well as 'the rituals of cultural memory' that complicate our understanding of the Vietnam War and its aftermaths.
Slang And Its Analogues Past And Present
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Author : William Ernest Henley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Slang And Its Analogues Past And Present written by William Ernest Henley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with English language categories.
Urban Communities And Memories In East Central Europe In The Modern Age
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Author : Aleksander Łupienko
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-08-07
Urban Communities And Memories In East Central Europe In The Modern Age written by Aleksander Łupienko and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-07 with History categories.
This edited volume studies the logic of community formation and the common view of the past to show how various social bonds of communities functioned during the modern national era of East-Central Europe from the late eighteenth century until today and how multifaceted this group-building really was. Through an overview of selected examples of communities in East-Central European urban centres, mainly the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its successor empires, the volume shows the potential of re-interpretation or adaptation of the past as a crucial tool for assuring social cohesion and for strengthening the image of group boundaries. It studies not only textual sources but also the cultural construction of local historical writings such as oral tradition and municipal publications, as well as symbolic objects such as epitaphs, plaques, monuments and public edifices. The contributors explore the actual creativity employed by these communities to envision their past and their future in homage to the ideals of centralised nationalism or regionalism and how these strongly ethnically marked historic spaces can be interpreted, celebrated or neglected. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of regional urban history and cultural diversities, memory cultures and community formation.
Terrifying Europe History And Memory Of Terrorism In European Identity
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Author : Pérez Baquero, Rafael
language : en
Publisher: Marcial Pons
Release Date : 2024-06-01
Terrifying Europe History And Memory Of Terrorism In European Identity written by Pérez Baquero, Rafael and has been published by Marcial Pons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-01 with History categories.
As different historians have outlined, memories and identities stemming from the dreadful events unfolded in Europe during the 20th century are deeply connected with the ways in which traumatic and violent pasts are remembered, commemorated and mourned as the years go by. Collective and national identities during the second half of the last century haven been constructed upon the remembrance and depiction of victims within public sphere. As a result, the ways in which contemporary violence is framed through the different ‘mediations and re-meditations’ provided by cultural memory are key to understand the reconfiguration of contemporary European identities. Undoubtedly, the experience of terrorism in European soil is one of comes to the fore when dealing the remembrance of violence. Regardless of the political nature and grounding of the different terrorist attacks which have shocked and undermined the feeling of security within Western societies, the evolution of European identities is dependent on how such events are depicted and on how their victims are remembered and commemorated. Echoing this situation, Remembering Terror aims at offering a diverse set of perspectives focusing on different historical cases of remembering and commemorating terrorism in contemporary Europe. Therefore, each chapter included in this book is thus intended to provide a different approach to how a specific event in Europe related to terrorism has been reframed. In this regard, far from endorsing a particular perspective, Remembering Terror is bound to offer a glimpse on the heterogeneous ways in which memory of terrorism has reshaped collective identities in Europe.
Past And Present
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Author : Israel Friedlaender
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
Past And Present written by Israel Friedlaender and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with Jews categories.