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| Author | : Linda Garber |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Lesbian feminist theory |
| ISBN | : 9780231110327 |
What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating current information in paleobotany with physical, chemical, and geological data.
| Author | : Linda Garber |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2001-10-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0231506724 |
"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current factionalism. In an eloquent challenge to the privileging of queer theory in the academy, Garber calls for recognition of the historical—and intellectually significant—role of lesbian poets as theorists of lesbian identity and activism. The connections, Garber shows, are most clearly seen when looking at the pivotal work of working-class lesbians/lesbians of color whose articulations of multiple, simultaneous identity positions and activist politics both belong to lesbian feminism and presage queer theory. Identity Poetics includes a critical overview of recent historical writing about the women's and lesbian-feminist movements of the 1970s; discussions of the works of Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa; and, finally, a chapter on the rise and hegemony of queer theory within lesbigay studies.
| Author | : Linda Garber |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780231110334 |
In seeking to bridge what is often a generation gap between lesbian feminists on the essentialist/existential side of the schism and postmodern queer theorists favoring the social construction of lesbian identity, Graber (social sciences, California State U., Fresno) critically overviews the writing of influential poet-activist- theorists Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa. A major concern is de-marginalizing working- class/lesbians of color in this debate. The final chapter traces the rise of queer theory circa 1991.
| Author | : Adam Krims |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2000-04-24 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780521634472 |
This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in popular music studies are misplaced and need to be reconsidered if cultural studies are to treat seriously the social force of rap music, popular musics, and music in general. Drawing extensively on recent scholarship in popular music studies, cultural theory, communications, critical theory, and musicology, Krims redefines 'music theory' as meaning simply 'theory about music', in which musical poetics (the study of how musical sound is deployed) may play a crucial role when its claims are contextualized and demystified. Theorizing local and global geographies of rap, Krims discusses at length the music of Ice Cube, the Goodie MoB, KRS-One, Dutch group the Spookrijders, and Canadian Cree rapper Bannock.
| Author | : Ana-Maria Baciu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2023-11-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1527524302 |
The book reveals the historical change in the function of the generic form of the fairy tale: at the beginning of the twentieth century, fairy tales are no longer written or read for their stimulus to the imagination or their nostalgia towards past times, but with a political end in view: to define a nation’s identity meant to justify and support claims to a unitary state (Romania) or an independent state (Ireland). As such, this book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics at the time of the rise of modernist nationalism at the margins of Europe.
| Author | : John D. Kerkering |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2003-12-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139440985 |
John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
| Author | : Édouard Glissant |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780472066292 |
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
| Author | : Charles Hatfield |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2015-11-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 147730729X |
The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.
| Author | : Linda Garber |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Homosexuality |
| ISBN | : |
