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Front-Page Scotland: Newspapers and the Scottish Independence Referendum (Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies)
by David PatrickThis book provides a varied, thorough and informative analysis of how newspapers covered the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in its critical final months. Providing a wealth of new empirical findings, the book engages with the key themes and issues which emerge from within the discourses themselves. Among the main observations are: the marginalisation of women, both as subjects and producers of the news; the late emergence of the London-based media to take the vote entirely seriously; the often myopic focus on Alex Salmond; and the framing of the debate through contrasting narratives of positive democratic engagement and societal division within Scotland. The book will be the first point of contact for readers interested in the subject, providing an overview which is meticulously researched, authoritative and engaging, and offering broader insights in the areas of journalism, political communication and media studies.
Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage (History of Communication #148)
by Linda Steiner Carolyn Kitch Brooke KroegerSuffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications. This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women's suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormon-oriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage. Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy
Front Vowels, Coronal Consonants and Their Interaction in Nonlinear Phonology (Routledge Library Editions: Phonetics and Phonology #8)
by Elizabeth V. HumeFirst published in 1994. This study aims to provide evidence for the natural class of sounds comprised of front vowels, front glides and coronal consonants. The author also shows that a revised definition of the articulator feature [coronal] properly characterises this natural class of sounds. The study provides a formal representation of front vowels and coronal consonants and their interaction within a nonlinear model of feature organisation. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Front Vowels, Coronal Consonants and Their Interaction in Nonlinear Phonology (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics)
by Elizabeth V. HumeFirst Published in 1994. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics set, this title is divided into three main goals. The first is to provide evidence for the natural class of sounds comprised of front vowels, front glides and coronal consonants. The second is to show that a revised definition of the articulator feature properly characterises this natural class of sounds. The third goal is to provide a formal representation of front vowels and coronal consonants and their interaction within a nonlinear model of feature organisation. This title assumes a general knowledge of phonological theory.
Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature
by Manjeet BaruahThe study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the author attempts to link literature, its nature and use, to processes of region formation, arguing that such a study needs to take the context of historical geography into consideration. The book views region formation in north-east India as a dialectical process, that is, the dialectic between the shared and the distinct in inter-group and community relations. It borrows an anthropological approach to study written narratives and cultures so as to locate such narratives in specific processes of region formation.
Frontier Fictions: Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt
by Rebecca Weaver-HightowerThis book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement. Reading canonical texts such as Last of the Mohicans and Backwoods of Canada against underanalyzed texts such as Adventures in Canada and George Linton or the First Years of a British Colony, it demonstrates how tropes like the settler hero and his indigenous servant, the animal hunt, the indigenous attack, and the lost child cross national boundaries. Settlers similarly responded to the stressors of taking another’s land through the stories they told about themselves, which functioned to defend against uncomfortable feelings of guilt and ambivalence by creating new versions of reality. This book traces parallels in 20th and 21st century texts to ultimately argue that contemporary settlers continue to fight similar psychological and cultural battles since settlement is never complete.
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature)
by Eugene O’Brien Ian HickeyThe Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different perspectives on this body of work which vary from sustained thematic analyses on poetic form, the construction of identity, and poetry as redress, to a series of close readings of prose writing on poetic exemplars such as Robert Lowell, Patrick Kavanagh, W.B Yeats, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin and Brian Friel. Seamus Heaney’s prose is extensive in its literary depth, knowledge, critical awareness and its span. During the course of his life, he published six collections of prose entitled Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978, Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry of Northern Ireland, The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings, The Place of Writing, The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures and Finders Keepers. Each of these texts is addressed in the collection alongside occasional and specific essays such as ‘Crediting Poetry’, ‘Writer and Righter’ and ‘Mossbawn via Mantua: Ireland in/and Europe, Cross-currents and Exchanges’, among many others. This book is a comprehensive and timely study of Seamus Heaney’s prose from leading international scholars in the field.
Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
by N. G. D. Malmqvist Michelle YehContaining translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets, this anthology reveals Taiwan's 20th-century transformation in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditation to political satire, haiku to concrete poetry, surrealism to postmodernism. The in-depth introduction outlines the development of modern poetry in the unique historical and cultural context of Taiwan.
Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
by Yeh Michelle N. G. D. Malmqvist Eds.Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets spanning the entire twentieth century, this anthology reveals Taiwan in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditation to political satire, haiku to concrete poetry, surrealism to postmodernism. The in-depth introduction outlines the development of modern poetry in the unique historical and cultural context of Taiwan. Comprehensive in both depth and scope, Frontier Taiwan beautifully captures the achievements of the nation's modern poetic traditions.
The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kobo (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Kōbō AbeAbe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which he is lesser known, merging literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives into keen reflections on the nature of creativity, the evolution of the human species, and an impressive range of other subjects. Abe Kobo tackled contemporary social issues and literary theory with the depth and facility of a visionary thinker. Featuring twelve essays from his prolific career—including "Poetry and Poets (Consciousness and the Unconscious)," written in 1944, and "The Frontier Within, Part II," written in 1969—this anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Abe Kobo as critic and intellectual for the first time. Demonstrating the importance of his theoretical work to a broader understanding of his fiction—and a richer portrait of Japan's postwar imagination—Richard F. Calichman provides an incisive introduction to Abe Kobo's achievements and situates his essays historically and intellectually.
Frontiers in Technology-Mediated Language Learning (New Directions in Computer Assisted Language Learning)
by Mark Peterson Nasser JabbariIn the context of continuing technological innovation, the field of technology-mediated foreign language learning is expanding rapidly. Advances in digital technologies are providing researchers with opportunities to investigate a range of exciting new areas of research. This edited volume is designed to showcase a selection of recent cutting-edge innovations. This publication incorporates chapters dealing with the use virtual reality, social networking, speech technologies and social semiotics. Also included are chapters that focus on the relevant review work that is vital for progress in the field. This publication provides an indispensable guide to a wide range of practitioners, including language educators, researchers, graduate students, learning scientists and instructional designers.
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind
by A. C. Grayling'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the new neurosciences of mind and brain are just beginning. What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks to answer them in three crucial areas at the frontiers of knowledge: science, history and psychology. A remarkable history of science, life on earth, and the human mind itself, this is a compelling and fascinating tour de force, written with verve, clarity and remarkable breadth of knowledge._________________________'Remarkable, readable and authoritative. How he has mastered so much, so thoroughly, is nothing short of amazing' Lawrence M. Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing'This book hums with the excitement of the great human project of discovery' Adam Zeman, author of Aphantasia
Frontiers of Phonology: Atoms, Structures and Derivations (Longman Linguistics Library)
by Jacques Durand Francis KatambaFrontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. The essays are written by specialists from Europe, Canada and the USA and discuss issues from three broad areas of phonology: the nature and representation of phonological features; the role and structure of the skeletal tier and syllable structure; and the competing claims of derivational and declarative approaches to phonology. The book provides a forum for lively discussion of important theoretical topics from various standpoints including metrical and autosegmental phonology, dependency phonology and declarative phonology. The contributors, who are protagonists of these different standpoints, compare notes and show the merits of their different approaches. The essays discussing derivational issues offer an excellent introduction to the area of constraints based phonology, and by covering the phonology of many languages the book provides an understanding of how human languages in general use sound.
Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
by Parichay Patra Amitendu BhattacharyaThis book is the first of its kind to concentrate significantly on trans-nation and transnationalism, and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Transnationalism as a conceptual apparatus has rarely been explored in South Asian academia, despite its prevalence as a research method in the Euro-US domain. Taking this absence/dearth as a crucial juncture as well as a point of intervention, this book intends to push the boundaries further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism, going beyond the borders of the Indian state and engaging with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It opens itself up for such cross-border movements, formulating the trans-South Asian discursive exchange necessitated by contemporary theoretical upheavals. It looks at such exchanges through the prism(s) of literature and cinema. The book traces the various modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, trying to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation. These three locations work as contact zones where cultural interfaces manifest in various forms.
Frost's Early Poems (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesFrost's Early Poems (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Robert Frost Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols a review quiz and essay topics Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.
Froth and Scum
by Andie TucherTwo notorious antebellum New York murder cases--a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt--set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspaper--cheap, feisty, and politically independent--introduced American readers to the novel concept of what has come to be called objectivity in news coverage. The penny press was the first medium that claimed to present the true, unbiased facts to a democratic audience. But in Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores--and explodes--the notion that 'objective' reporting will discover a single, definitive truth. As they do now, news stories of the time aroused strong feelings about the possibility of justice, the privileges of power, and the nature of evil. The prostitute's murder in 1836 sparked an impassioned public debate, but one newspaper's 'impartial investigation' pleased the powerful by helping the killer go free. Colt's 1841 murder of the tradesman inspired universal condemnation, but the newspapers' singleminded focus on his conviction allowed another secret criminal to escape. By examining media coverage of these two sensational murders, Tucher reveals how a community's needs and anxieties can shape its public truths. The manuscript of this book won the 1991 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for the best-written dissertation in American history. from the book Journalism is important. It catches events on the cusp between now and then--events that still may be changing, developing, ripening. And while new interpretations of the past can alter our understanding of lives once led, new interpretations of the present can alter the course of our lives as we live them. Understanding the news properly is important. The way a community receives the news is profoundly influenced by who its members are, what they hope and fear and wish, and how they think about their fellow citizens. It is informed by some of the most occult and abstract of human ideas, about truth, beauty, goodness, and justice.
Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Sexual Cultures #11)
by Keguro MachariaWinner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language AssociationA new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, Frottage questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. Between Frantz Fanon, René Maran, Jomo Kenyatta, and Claude McKay, Macharia moves through genres—psychoanalysis, fiction, anthropology, poetry—as well as regional geohistories across Africa and Afro-diaspora to map the centrality of sex, gender, desire, and eroticism to black freedom struggles. In lyrical, meditative prose, Macharia invigorates frottage as both metaphor and method with which to rethink diaspora by reading, and reading against, discomfort, vulnerability, and pleasure.
Fruit of the Orchard: Reading Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
by Jennifer N. BrownFruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.
Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write
by Gayle BrandeisGet Your Creative Juices FlowingA sumptuous, sensuous writing guide from the author of the award-winning The Book of Dead Birds
Frutos extraños (edición ampliada)
by Leila GuerrieroEdición revisada y ampliada del libro de crónicas de una de las mejores periodistas en español «El periodismo puede, y debe, echar mano de todos los recursos de la narrativa para crear un destilado, en lo posible, perfecto: la esencia de la esencia de la realidad.» Una mujer capaz de asesinar a tres amigas poniéndoles cianuro en la taza de té, otra que mató a su hija minutos después de parirla, un mago al que le falta una mano, un grupo de rock cuyo integrante más famoso tiene síndrome de Down, un lustrabotas que acabó convirtiéndose en una figura imprescindible de la música en Hispanoamérica. Como asegura la autora, no hay nada «más sexy, feroz, desopilante, ambiguo, tétrico o hermoso que la realidad.» En esta edición revisada y ampliada de Frutos extraños Leila Guerriero nos descubre la cara más sensible, vigorosa y palpitante de una profesión que atraviesa tiempos difíciles y obra el milagro de hacernos creer de nuevo en el oficio de periodista. Las crónicas recogidas en este libro, escritas entre los años 2001 y 2019, constituyen una lección magistral de periodismo, muestran el mundo desde una perspectiva única, intensa y diferente, y tienen la capacidad de noquear al lector. La crítica ha dicho:«El periodismo que practica Leila Guerriero es el de los mejores redactores de The New Yorker, para establecer un nivel de excelencia comparable: implica trabajo riguroso, investigación exhaustiva y un estilo de precisión matemática.»Mario Vargas Llosa «Leila Guerriero construye arquitecturas verbales en las que uno se quedaría a vivir.»Juan José Millás «Una cronista y reportera superlativa, en nuestra lengua y en las otras.»Alejandro Gándara «Guerriero encuentra un género que incorpora herramientas del relato de ficción pero se atiene a las reglas de la investigación periodística. Es difícil no pensar en el antecedente de Truman Capote, desde la misma posición del autor, que parte de la gran ciudad a la localidad provinciana para escribir el crimen, moviéndose en un campo cargado de recelos y de laboriosas complicidades.»Babelia «Historias atemporales que nos recuerdan que siempre es una aventura ponerse en el lugar del otro.»Clarín «Historias de vida. De la vida real y la vida cotidiana. Un conjunto de frutos maduros, extraños y apetecibles. [...] En cada texto se aprecia el desafío por mostrar esa cara nueva de algo, de alguien: una reconfiguración de lo que se observa.»Página/12 «Una narradora formidable que no necesita de la ficción para construir historias verdaderas que parecen de mentira [...]. Un libro complejo: cómo un gaucho que baila malambo es comparado al gladiador o al atleta de elite. Cómo con poco la escritora cuenta tanto.»El Periódico
FTCE General Knowledge Book + Online (FTCE Teacher Certification Test Prep)
by Editors of REA Leasha Barry Laura Meiselman Chris A. Rose Tammy Powell Dr. Erin Mander Dr. Alicia MendozaREA's FTCE General Knowledge Test Prep with Online Practice TestsGets You Certified and in the Classroom!Nationwide, more than 4 million teachers will be needed over the next decade, and all must take appropriate tests to be licensed. REA gets you ready for your teaching career with our outstanding library of Teacher Certification test preps.Our test prep is designed to help teacher candidates master the information on the FTCE General Knowledge exam and get certified. It's perfect for college students, teachers, and career-changing professionals who are looking to become Florida teachers.Written by a Florida teacher education expert, our complete study package contains an in-depth review of all the competencies tested on the FTCE General Knowledge exam, including English language skills, essay skills, mathematics, and reading. Based on actual FTCE exam questions, our three full-length practice tests feature every type of question, subject area, and skill you need to know for the exam. The online tests at REA's Study Center offer the most powerful scoring and diagnostic tools available today. Automatic scoring and instant reports help you zero in on the topics and types of questions that give you trouble now, so you'll succeed when it counts. Every practice exam comes with detailed feedback on every question. We don't just say which answers are right - we explain why the other answer choices are wrong - so you'll be prepared on test day.The book includes the same practice tests that are offered online, but without the added benefits of detailed scoring analysis and diagnostic feedback. This complete test prep package comes with a customized study schedule and REA's test-taking strategies and tips. This test prep is a must-have for anyone who wants to teach in Florida!
Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
by Christopher M. Fairman@$#*%! Our most taboo word and how the law keeps it forbidden. This entertaining read is about the word "fuck", the law, and the taboo. Whether you shout it out in the street or whisper it in the bedroom, deliberately plan a protest, or spontaneously blurt it out, if you say "fuck," someone wants to silence you, either with a dirty look across the room or by making a rule that you cannot say the word. When it's the government trying to cleanse your language, though, you should worry. Words are ideas. If the government controls the words we use, it can control what we think. To protect this liberty, we must first understand why the law's treatment of "fuck" puts that freedom at risk. This book examines the law surrounding the word and reveals both inconsistencies in its treatment and tension with other identifiable legal rights that the law simply doesn't answer. The power of taboo provides the framework to understand these uncertainties. It also explains why attempts to curtail the use of "fuck" through law are doomed to fail. Fundamentally, it persists because it is taboo; not in spite of it.
El fuego de la imaginación: Obra periodística I
by Mario Vargas LlosaLA CULTURA, PROTAGONISTA DEL PRIMER VOLUMEN DE LA OBRA PERIODÍSTICA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA «No hay cultura genuina sin pluralidad de ideas y sin crítica» Durante más de sesenta años, Mario Vargas Llosa ha desarrollado una intensa labor como articulista. Para él, los textos publicados en medios escritos de todo el mundo son una especie de autobiografía intelectual, literaria y política que ha ido levantando al ritmo de la actualidad de cada momento. Con este volumen dedicado a la cultura, Alfaguara da comienzo a la publicación de la obra periodística del premio Nobel peruano, y lo hace siguiendo una estructura temática, lo que permite al lector descubrir en profundidad el ideario del autor a través del tiempo en cada una de las materias. «Éstas son las reflexiones maduradas a lo largo de una vida dedicada a la lectura de novelas, a la contemplación del arte, del teatro y del cine. No sólo el testimonio entusiasta de intensas horas de placer o de digestiones felices después de haber leído o visto los frutos de la fantasía. También es una aproximación comprensiva a la condición humana, a su mundo subjetivo —sus valores, conflictos, deseos, anhelos y preocupaciones— y a la manera en que han dejado su huella en la historia. No sé si el futuro se pueda leer en la palma de la mano, en los posos de café o en los arcanos del tarot. El presente, en cambio, y de esto no tengo dudas, se puede intuir en el fuego de la imaginación. Y ni siquiera hace falta ser un mago o tener poderes para ello. Basta —y este volumen lo demuestra— con ser un lector y un espectador apasionado y crítico». Del prólogo de Carlos Granés La crítica ha dicho:«La escritura de Mario Vargas Llosa ha dado forma a nuestra imagen de Sudamérica y tiene su propio capítulo en la historia de la literatura contemporánea. En sus primeros años, fue un renovador de la novela, hoy, un poeta épico.»Per Wästberg, presidente del Comité Nobel «Entre nuestros contemporáneos, nadie mejor que el Premio Nobel de 2010 ha sido capaz de seducir amablemente a una gran masa de lectores contándoles historias llenas de sentido con una prosa tan bella como eficaz. Y con un dominio de las estrategias narrativas que la evolución de la literatura del siglo XX instrumentó para superar la manera de hacer novela en el siglo anterior.»Darío Villanueva «Sus libros contienen la más compleja, apasionada y persuasiva visión de la novela y del oficio de novelista de la que tengo noticia; también contienen el mejor estímulo que un novelista puede encontrar para escribir, un estímulo solo inferior al que contienen las propias novelas de Vargas Llosa.»Javier Cercas, El País
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment
by Jennifer Wenzel Patricia YaegerHow has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another—from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next—transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way? Fueling Culture offers a compendium of keywords written by scholars and practitioners from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences. These keywords offer new ways of thinking about energy as both the source and the limit of how we inhabit culture, with the aim of opening up new ways of understanding the seemingly irresolvable contradictions of dependence upon unsustainable energy forms.Fueling Culture brings together writing that is risk-taking and interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from literary and cultural studies, environmental history and ecocriticism, political economy and political ecology, postcolonial and globalization studies, and materialisms old and new.Keywords in this volume include: Aboriginal, Accumulation, Addiction, Affect, America, Animal, Anthropocene, Architecture, Arctic, Automobile, Boom, Canada, Catastrophe, Change, Charcoal, China, Coal, Community, Corporation, Crisis, Dams, Demand, Detritus, Disaster, Ecology, Electricity, Embodiment, Ethics, Evolution, Exhaust, Fallout, Fiction, Fracking, Future, Gender, Green, Grids, Guilt, Identity, Image, Infrastructure, Innervation, Kerosene, Lebenskraft, Limits, Media, Metabolism, Middle East, Nature, Necessity, Networks, Nigeria, Nuclear, Petroviolence, Photography, Pipelines, Plastics, Renewable, Resilience, Risk, Roads, Rubber, Rural, Russia, Servers, Shame, Solar, Spill, Spiritual, Statistics, Surveillance, Sustainability, Tallow, Texas, Textiles, Utopia, Venezuela, Whaling, Wood, Work For a full list of keywords in and contributors to this volume, please go to: http://ow.ly/4mZZxV
Fuera de lugar: Memorias
by Edward W. SaidUna historia extraordinaria sobre el exilio narrada por uno de los intelectuales más importantes de nuestro tiempo. En Fuera de lugar Edward W. Said ofrece un fascinante relato del desarrollo vital de un crítico y pensador a caballo entre Oriente y Occidente. Fuera de lugar no es solamente un enfrentamiento dramático con los fantasmas de una infancia y la crónica de un mundo que ya no existe, es fundamentalmente una recapitulación de los temas que han ocupado la vida de uno de los intelectuales más importantes de este siglo: el destierro forzoso, la desposesión y, en última instancia, el exilio interior. Escritas a la luz de una grave enfermedad y a partir de un regreso traumático a los lugares de la infancia, estas memorias duras y polémicas ofrecen una perspectiva nueva sobre una vida y una obra marcadas desde el principio por la negativa imperiosa e inagotable a rendirse. Reseña:«Fuera delugar es un acto profundamente conmovedor de reivindicación y comprensión, el retrato de una educación transcultural, y a menudo dolorosa, escrito con una intensidad maravillosa y una honestidad implacable. Su lectura permite conocer a su familia y su juventud con la profundidad con la que conocemos a los personajes de la literatura, y entender de forma íntima e inolvidable lo que ha significado ser palestino en el último medio siglo.»Salman Rushdie