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Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter

In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geopolitical literacy that goes beyond fundamentalist identity politics and absolutist poststructuralist theory, and she continually focuses the reader's attention on those locations where differences are negotiated and transformed. Pervading the book is a concern with narrative: the way stories and cultural narratives serve as a primary mode of thinking about the politically explosive question of identity. Drawing freely on modernist novels, contemporary film, popular fiction, poetry, and mass media, the work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Gloria Anzald%a, Neil Jordon, Virginia Woolf, Mira Nair, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, and Irena Klepfisz. Defending the pioneering role of academic feminists in the knowledge revolution, this work draws on a wide variety of twentieth-century cultural expressions to address theoretical issues in postmodern feminism.

Copyright: 1999

ISBN: 9781400822577

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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (P. S. Series)

by Michael Chabon

The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together. &“I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.&” Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown who maintains a fierce appreciation of the seductive arts of so-called &“genre&” fiction. In this lively collection of sixteen critical and personal essays, the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay champions the cause of westerns, horror, and all the stories, comics, and pulp fiction that get pushed aside when literary discussion turns serious. Whether he&’s taking up Superman or Sherlock Holmes, Poe or Proust, Chabon makes it his emphatic mission to explore the reasons we tell one another tales. Throughout, Chabon reveals his own blooming as a writer, from The Mysteries of Pittsburgh to The Yiddish Policeman&’s Union. He is living proof of his theory that the stories that give us great pleasure are in many ways our truest, best art—the building blocks of our shared imagination—and in Maps and Legends, he &“makes an inviting case for bridging the gap between popular and literary writing&” (O, The Oprah Magazine). This ebook features a biography of the author.

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 9781453234136

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Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)

by Asa Mittman

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Copyright: 2006

ISBN: 9781135501112

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Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature (Cultural Spaces)

by Kyle Wanberg

During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.

Copyright: 2020

ISBN: 9781487534950

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Maps of the Imagination

by Peter Turchi

In Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to leave out, in order to get from here to there, without excess baggage or a confusing surplus of information. Turchi traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. He describes how maps rely on projections in order to portray a three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional flat surface of paper, which he then relates to what writers do in projecting a literary work from the imagination onto the page.

Copyright: 2004

ISBN: 9781595340948

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Marathi (Descriptive Grammars)

by Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande

This is a complete grammatical description of Marathi, which belongs to the Indo-European family and is spoken in Maharashtra State in India. It has around 45 million speakers, who comprise about eight per cent of the total population of India. Marathi is particularly interesting from the point of view of its structure: it is a blending of linguistic features of the Indo-European and Dravidian language families. Marathi provides fascinating data for the study of language typology, structural change, and language universals.

Copyright: 1998

ISBN: 9781136851643

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Marathi Bhasha ani Shuddhalekhan FYBA New NEP Syllabus - RTMNU: मराठी भाषा आणि शुद्धलेखन एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - राष्ट्रसंत तुकडोजी महाराज नागपूर विद्यापीठ

by Satvashila Samant

मराठी भाषा आणि शुद्धलेखन – एक विचार मंथन" हे सत्त्वशीला सामंत यांचे भाषेप्रती प्रेम, अभ्यास आणि चिकाटी यांचे उत्कृष्ट उदाहरण आहे. हे पुस्तक मुख्यतः मराठी भाषेच्या शुद्धलेखनाच्या नियमांवर, व्याकरणाच्या अचूकतेवर, भाषाशुद्धतेच्या आवश्यकतेवर आणि भाषेच्या भवितव्याबाबत समाजधुरीणांनी काय भूमिका घ्यावी, यावर प्रकाश टाकते. इंग्रजी भाषेच्या अति प्रभावामुळे मराठी भाषेची होत असलेली हानी, मराठी शिक्षणातील अडचणी, शासनाची उदासीनता आणि माध्यमांचा प्रभाव यांचे विश्लेषण लेखकाने अभ्यासपूर्ण पद्धतीने मांडले आहे. बालभारतीतील तोडाक्षर पद्धती, प्रसारमाध्यमांतील अशुद्ध उच्चार व लेखन, अनुवादातील अडचणी यावरही लेखकाने सखोल चर्चा केली आहे. विद्यार्थ्यांनी शुद्ध व शास्त्रीय पद्धतीने लेखन करावे, यासाठी लेखकाने अनेक उपाय सुचवले आहेत. हे पुस्तक एफ.वाय.बी.ए. स्तरावर मराठी भाषेचा मूलभूत अभ्यास करणाऱ्या विद्यार्थ्यांसाठी अत्यंत उपयुक्त असून ते भाषेच्या शुद्धतेसाठी एक प्रेरणादायी दस्तऐवज ठरते.

Copyright: 2024

Features: Contains image descriptions

Marathi Shuddhalekhan Pradeep FYBA New NEP Syllabus - RTMNU: मराठी शुद्धलेखन प्रदीप एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - राष्ट्रसंत तुकडोजी महाराज नागपूर विद्यापीठ

by M. R. Valambe

मराठी शुद्धलेखन प्रदीप हे मो. रा. वाळंबे लिखित पुस्तक मराठी शुद्धलेखनाच्या नियमांचे सखोल विश्लेषण करणारे एक प्रमाणभूत व उपयुक्त ग्रंथ आहे. हे पुस्तक विद्यार्थ्यांपासून शिक्षक, अभ्यासक व स्पर्धा परीक्षांच्या तयारीसाठी उपयुक्त ठरते. यामध्ये मराठी लेखनाच्या इतिहासापासून ते शुद्धलेखनाचे बदलते नियम, अनुस्वार, दीर्घ-ऋस्व स्वर, वाक्यरचना, विरामचिन्हांचा योग्य वापर, व शुद्ध शब्दसूची यांचा सविस्तर अभ्यास मांडलेला आहे. भाषा कशी शुद्ध लिहावी याचे सोपे, स्पष्ट आणि उदाहरणांसह मार्गदर्शन यात आहे. विशेषतः १९६२ मध्ये मान्यता मिळालेल्या शुद्धलेखन नियमांपासून सुरू होणारी लेखनपद्धतीतील सुधारणा, शालेय अभ्यासक्रमासाठी योग्य रीतीने व विगामी पद्धतीने समजावून दिली गेली आहे. लेखकाच्या दशकानुदशकाच्या संशोधनातून आणि वैयक्तिक अनुभवातून आकाराला आलेले हे पुस्तक शिक्षणाच्या सर्व पातळ्यांवरील मराठी शिकवणाऱ्यांसाठी एक मार्गदर्शक ठरते. शुद्धलेखन ही केवळ शिस्त नसून एक संस्कार असल्याची भावना बिंबवणारा हा ग्रंथ मराठी भाषेच्या संवर्धनासाठी महत्त्वाचा ठरतो.

Copyright: 2024

ISBN: 9788186169278

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