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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark MathabaneThis is a rare look inside the festering adobe shanties of Alexandra, one of South Africa's notorious black townships. Rare because it comes...from the heart of a passionate young African who grew up there.
The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies #19)
by Sonja ArntzenJapan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagero Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition. The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna’s Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794–1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954–74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman’s experience of a thousand years ago. The diary centers on the author’s relationship with her husband, Fujiwara Kaneie, her kinsman from a more powerful and prestigious branch of the family than her own. Their marriage ended in divorce, and one of the author’s intentions seems to have been to write an anti-romance, one that could be subtitled, “I married the prince but we did not live happily ever after.” Yet, particularly in the first part of the diary, Michitsuna’s Mother is drawn to record those events and moments when the marriage did live up to a romantic ideal fostered by the Japanese tradition of love poetry. At the same time, she also seems to seek the freedom to live and write outside the romance myth and without a husband. Since the author was by inclination and talent a poet and lived in a time when poetry was a part of everyday social intercourse, her account of her life is shaped by a lyrical consciousness. The poems she records are crystalline moments of awareness that vividly recall the past. This new translation of the Kagero Diary conveys the long, fluid sentences, the complex polyphony of voices, and the floating temporality of the original. It also pays careful attention to the poems of the text, rendering as much as possible their complex imagery and open-ended quality. The translation is accompanied by running notes on facing pages and an introduction that places the work within the context of contemporary discussions regarding feminist literature and the genre of autobiography and provides detailed historical information and a description of the stylistic qualities of the text.
Kaija Saariaho
by Pirkko MoisalaThis book is the first comprehensive study of the music and career of contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho. Born in Finland in 1952, Saariaho received her early musical training at the Sibelius Academy, where her close circle included composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has since become internationally known and recognized for her operas L'amour de loin and Adriana Mater and other works that involve electronic music. Her influences include the spectral analysis of timbre, especially string sounds, micropolyphonic techniques, as well as the visual and literary arts and sounds in the natural world. Pirkko Moisala approaches the unique characteristics of Saariaho's music through composition sketches, scores, critical reviews, and interviews with the composer and her trusted musicians.
Kaiserliche Damen der ottonischen Dynastie: Frauen und Herrschaft im Deutschland des zehnten Jahrhunderts
by Phyllis G. JesticeIm Europa des zehnten Jahrhunderts und insbesondere in Deutschland konnten kaiserliche Frauen in einer Weise Macht ausüben, wie es in früheren Jahrhunderten kaum vorstellbar war. Theophanu und Adelheid waren zwei der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten im ottonischen Reich, zusammen mit ihren Ehemännern, die sich stark auf ihre Unterstützung verließen. Phyllis G. Jestice untersucht eine Reihe von Faktoren, die zu ihrer Macht und ihrem Prestige beitrugen, darunter die gesellschaftliche Einstellung gegenüber Frauen, ihr Reichtum, ihre Salbung als Königin und ihr sorgfältig aufgebautes Image der Frömmigkeit. Aufgrund ihrer einflussreichen Stellung konnten Theophanu und Adelheid die Herrschaft über den jungen Otto III. trotz des erbitterten Widerstands Heinrichs des Zänkers während des Thronstreits von 984 zurückgewinnen. Indem es untersucht, wie sie die Regentschaft erfolgreich sicherten, konfrontiert dieses Buch die überholte Vorstellung des Exzeptionalismus und beleuchtet das Leben der mächtigen ottonischen Frauen.
The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day
by Stephen TurnbullFirst major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when religious toleration was granted in 1873 - and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day.
The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day
by Stephen TurnbullFirst major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when religious toleration was granted in 1873 - and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day.
Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective
by Judith Misrahi-Barak Ashutosh BhardwajWhen used in India, the term Kala pani refers to the cellular jail in Port Blair, where the British colonisers sent a select category of freedom fighters. In the diaspora it refers to the transoceanic migration of indentured labour from India to plantation colonies across the globe from the mid-19th century onwards. This volume discusses the legacies of indenture in the Caribbean, Reunion, Mauritius, and Fiji, and how they still imbue our present. More importantly, it draws attention to India and raises new questions: doesn’t one need, at some stage, to wonder why this forgotten chapter of Indian history needs to be retrieved? How is it that this history is better known outside India than in India itself? What are the advantages of shining a torch onto a history that was made invisible? Why have the tribulations of the old diaspora been swept under the carpet at a time when the successes of the new diaspora have been foregrounded? What do we stand to gain from resurrecting these histories in the early 21st century and from shifting our perspectives? A key volume on Indian diaspora, modern history, indentured labour, and the legacy of indentureship, this co-edited collection of essays examines these questions largely through the frame of important works of literature and cinema, folk songs, and oral tales, making it an artistic enquiry of the past and of the present. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of world history, especially labour history, literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, diaspora studies, sociology and social anthropology, Indian Ocean studies, and South Asian studies.
Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora: Indian Perspectives
by Judith Misrahi-Barak Ritu Tyagi H. Kalpana RaoThis volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race, class, caste, gender, and sexuality intersect with concepts of home, belonging, displacement and the reinvention of the nation and of self. Positioning itself as a companion to Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th century Migrations from India’s Perspective (Routledge, 2021), the present book examines whether indentureship and diasporic locations marginalised women and men or empowered them; how negotiations or resistances have been determined by race, class, caste, or ethnicity; how traditional standards of Indianness and gender relations have been reshaped; how ideas of home, self and the nation have been impacted in the diaspora and in India after the 19th and early 20th century indentureship migration; and what 21st century Indians stand to gain by theorizing the legacy of 19th century indenture through a gender framework. To understand how fiction and non-fiction writers have negotiated the legacy of indentureship to create spaces where normative practices can be interrogated and challenged, the book gives pride of place to interviews with writers such as Cyril Dabydeen, Ananda Devi, Ramabai Espinet, Davina Ittoo, Brij Lal, Peggy Mohan, Shani Mootoo, and Khal Torabully. Thus rooted in critical analyses but also in subjective and creative perspectives, this volume is a major intervention in understanding Indian indenture and its legacy in the diaspora and in India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, history, Indian Ocean studies, migration and South Asian studies.
Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature
by Brett BrehmWhat stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds a bridge between visual culture and sound studies.Kaleidophonic Modernity places the poet and inventor Charles Cros and his lover, the celebrated concert pianist and salonnière Nina de Villard at the heart of modern aesthetic and scientific vanguards. Cros's scientific endeavors ranged from color photography, to telecommunications, to mechanical sound reproducibility. In his poetry the Surrealists found an ancestor and inspiration. His literary and scientific works prove startling and relevant to predicaments of technological media in his own time and ours. For nearly twenty years Nina de Villard presided over a supremely daring intellectual salon. There, she welcomed manifold literary, artistic, and musical luminaries into a veritable crucible of the artistic avant-garde and precursor to the famous Chat Noir cabaret. Together, these two forgotten but pivotal figures, Cros and Villard, help reframe our thinking on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman, icons of urban modernity who can now be seen and heard in a kaleidophonic light, one that offers a compelling new perspective on modern mediascapes.In elaborating this transatlantic phenomenon, Kaleidophonic Modernity illuminates the prehistory of the phonograph as it intersects with the aesthetics of sound reproducibility, Franco-American literary exchange, Poe’s aesthetic and intellectual legacy, the sounds of modern cities and technologies, and the genealogy of audiovisual experimentation found in such movements as Dada, Futurism, and the sound art of today.
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities
by Joan Z. Spade Mary Nell Trautner Catherine Kay ValentineThe Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities provides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. The kaleidoscope metaphor and its three themes—prisms, patterns, and possibilities—unify topic areas throughout the book. By focusing on the prisms through which gender is shaped, the patterns which gender takes, and the possibilities for social change, the reader gains a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others, both locally and globally. Editors Catherine Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner and the work of Joan Spade focus on the paradigms and approaches to gender studies that are constantly changing and evolving. The Sixth Edition includes incorporation of increased emphasis on global perspectives, updated contemporary social movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and an updated focus on gendered violence.
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities
by Joan Z. Spade Mary Nell Trautner Catherine Kay ValentineThe Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities provides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. The kaleidoscope metaphor and its three themes—prisms, patterns, and possibilities—unify topic areas throughout the book. By focusing on the prisms through which gender is shaped, the patterns which gender takes, and the possibilities for social change, the reader gains a deeper understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others, both locally and globally. Editors Catherine Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner and the work of Joan Spade focus on the paradigms and approaches to gender studies that are constantly changing and evolving. The Sixth Edition includes incorporation of increased emphasis on global perspectives, updated contemporary social movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and an updated focus on gendered violence.
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities (Fifth Edition)
by Catherine G. Valentine Joan Z. SpadeIn this anthology, scholars explain how the complex, evolving pattern of gender is constructed interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally, and challenges students to question how gender shapes their daily lives.
A Kaleidoscope of Malaysian Indian Women’s Lived Experiences: Gender‐Ethnic Intersectionality and Cultural Socialisation
by Premalatha Karupiah Jacqueline Liza FernandezThis book presents a compilation of chapters relating to the socio-cultural experiences of Malaysian Indian women. It includes a historical background covering Indian women’s migration to Malaya, and explores the lived realities of contemporary Indian women who are members of this minority ethnic group in the country. The authors cover a wide range of issues such as gender inequality, poverty, the involvement of women in performing arts, work, inter‐personal relationships, and well-being and happiness, drawing on substantial empirical data through a gendered lens. This book addresses the gap in the intersectional gender studies literature on minority groups of women in Malaysia, while simultaneously highlighting the multiple forms of subordination minority women - particularly Indian women - experience in society, including those that arise from gender‐ethnic intersectionality. In examining the case of Indian women in Malaysia, it also speaks to and enriches existing literature on the lives of minority groups of women in the Global South more broadly This anthology is beneficial to researchers and students in the social sciences, particularly in disciplines related to gender studies and minority studies. In addition, it is also useful for policy makers and social activists working with minority women in the Global South.
Kaleidoscopic Odessa
by Tanya RichardsonThe recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run through the former Soviet republic. Examining Odessa, the Black Sea port that was once the Russian Empire's southern window onto Europe, Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides an ethnographic portrait of these overlapping divisions in a city where many residents consider themselves separate and distinct from Ukraine. Exploring the tensions between local and national identities in a post-Soviet setting from the point of view of everyday life, Tanya Richardson argues that Odessans's sense of distinctiveness is both unique and typical of borderland countries such as Ukraine. Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides a detailed account of how local conceptions of imperial cosmopolitanism shaped the city's identity in a newly formed state. Richardson draws on her participation in history lessons, markets, and walking groups to produce an exemplary study of urban ethnography. Ethnographically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, Kaleidoscopic Odessa will interest anthropologists, Slavists, sociologists, historians, and scholars of urban studies.
Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People
by Elias Lönnrot'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York TimesSharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of a nation through the ages from the dawn of creation. Sung by rural Finns since prehistoric times, and formally compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the nineteenth century, it is a landmark of Finnish culture and played a vital role in galvanizing its national identity in the decades leading to independence. Its themes, however, reach beyond borders and search the heart of human existence.Translated with an Introduction by Eino Friberg
Kaliningrad: the European Amber Region (Routledge Revivals)
by Pertti Joenniemi Jan PrawitzFirst published in 1998, this book reflects a concern for Kaliningrad. Too little is known about the region, developments in recent years have not been sufficiently covered and it is rarely integrated, in terms of analysis, with the way post-Cold War Europe is viewed more generally.
Kalkül versus Katastrophe
by Friedemann LembckeInsbesondere die Wissenschaft des Klimawandels beansprucht Öffentlichkeit und bekommt diese auch, allerdings in einem von Ambivalenz geprägten Verhältnis zu den Massenmedien. Friedemann Lembcke zeigt, dass es weniger um ein lösbares Problem in der Kommunikation des Klimawandels geht, als vielmehr um eine wechselseitige Bedingtheit von Kalkül- und Katastrophenkommunikation.
The Kalmyks (Caucasus World: Peoples of the Caucasus)
by Elza-Bair Mataskovna GouchinovaThe Kalmyks are in a unique position among the peoples of Europe in several respects, most conspicuously as being the only Buddhist people group in Europe. Until recently they had been a nomadic people, grazing their flocks and herds in the steppe lands north of the Caspian Sea, between the Volga river and the Caucasus mountains. Nowadays, with Russia’s transition to a post-Communist state, the relatively young President of Kalmykia stands out as being a self-made millionaire who has helped put his region 'on the map' not only by promoting economic ties with Japan and the West but also by hosting an international chess Olympiad. This practical guide written by a Kalmyk anthropologist, provides a comprehensive introduction to the Kalmyk people. The wide-ranging chapters give an overview of the Kalmyks, focusing on many facets of the Kalmyk culture, including language use, the traditional nomadic economy and dwellings, Kalmyk family and gender relationships, rites of passage, food and clothing, folk crafts, Kalmyk religion and the role of folklore and epic in Kalmyk culture. The Kalmyks provides an original and fascinating perspective on little-known Asiatic people whose history and culture have become intertwined with that of Europe.
Kama Muta: Discovering the Connecting Emotion
by Alan Page FiskeThis book describes a ubiquitous and potent emotion that has only rarely and recently been studied in any systematic manner. The words that come closest to denoting it in English are being moved or touched, having a heart-warming feeling, feeling nostalgic, feeling patriotic, or pride in family or team. In religious contexts when the emotion is intense, it may be labeled ecstasy, mystical rapture, burning in the bosom, or being touched by the Spirit. All of these are instances of what scientists now call ‘kama muta’ (Sanskrit, ‘moved by love’). Alan Page Fiske shows that what evokes this emotion is the sudden creation, intensification, renewal, repair, or recall of a communal sharing relationship – when love ignites, or people feel newly connected. He explains the social, psychological, cultural, and likely evolutionary processes involved – and how they interlock. Kama muta is described as it manifests in diverse settings at many points in history across scores of cultures, in everyday experiences as well as the peak moments of life. The chapters illuminate the occurrence of kama muta in a range of contexts, including religion, oratory, literature, sport, social media, and nature. The book will be of interest to students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in emotion or social relationships. Supplementary notes can be found online at: www.routledge.com/9780367220945
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
by Tom WolfeBestselling author Tom Wolfe introduces the 1960s through essays about extravagant new styles of life, the Beatles, bouffant hairdos, Kar Kustomizers, and much more.
Kang Youwei Engages India: His Travel Narratives (1901–1902) and Predicaments of Civilization and Nation
by Kamal Sheel Ranjana SheelThis book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Kang Youwei, one of the most famous intellectuals and modernisers of late 19th-century China. These travelogues offer insights into Kang’s perceptions of India, which influenced modern intellectual discourse on India in China. These perceptions not only had a great impact on the thinking of other intellectuals but were also responsible for the larger construct that China developed about India during the republican and post-liberation period. The texts provide meaning to many dilemmas and predicaments that enshrouded the concept of civilisation and its linkages with the modern concepts of nationalism and modernity in Asian countries such as China and India. They are a valuable prism in gauging the early 20th-century intellectual and Chinese moderniser mind as it grappled with the challenges and uncertainties of those times. An important contribution to the study of Sino-Indian interactions, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of nation, nationalism, civilisation, empire, modern history, translation studies, Chinese Studies, and Asian studies.
Kanji Politics
by GottliebFirst Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Kann Wissenschaft witzig?: Wissenschaftskommunikation zwischen Kritik und Kabarett
by Marc-Denis Weitze Wolfgang Chr. Goede Wolfgang M. Heckl"Kann Wissenschaft witzig?“ nimmt ein ebenso innovatives wie zukunftsträchtiges Element moderner Wissenschaftskommunikation unter die Lupe: Die Komik!Leserinnen und Leser werden durch anschaulich gehaltene akademische Theorie sowie spannende Hands-on- und Best Practice-Beispiele renommierter Praktiker und Kabarettisten geführt:· Was haben Schafskäse und Autoreifen gemeinsam?· Kann Lachen Mauern einreißen lassen?· Wie funktioniert „Die Anstalt“· Wie schafft Zauberkunst Wissen?· Gibt es Humor im Museum?· Kommt ein Dalmatiner an die Kasse· Drei Schritte zum Humor· Serviervorschlag für den Heiligen Geist· Diktatur der Dummheit· Und viel mehr!Das ist aber nicht alles nur lustig. Komik kann auch Kritik etwas von ihrer beißenden Schärfe nehmen, die Kritik für die Adressaten verdaulich, ja sogar schmackhaft machen.„Kann Wissenschaft witzig?“ navigiert zwischen Kritik und Kabarett und setzt sich mit Komik in verschiedenen Spielarten aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auseinander. 22 Beiträge zeigen, wie sich die Ergebnisse von Wissenschaft, Forschung, Technologie auf neuen Wegen in die breite Öffentlichkeit tragen lassen. Sie demonstrieren insbesondere auch, wie Humor sich als kritisch-fragende Kraft einsetzen lässt – wertvoll für sämtliche Kommunikationsarten und hilfreich, damit sie in Zukunft gewitzter daherkommen.
Kansas Facts and Symbols
by Kathleen W. DeadyThis book presents information about the state of Kansas, its nickname, motto, and emblems.