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Author |
: James B. Steeves |
Publisher |
: Duquesne |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015061754654 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Bodies by : James B. Steeves
"The book also amends traditional theories of imagination by suggesting a new approach to determining what it is and how it functions. The imagination is not only extended beyond the realm of fanciful thinking but is restored as being essentially spatial and embodied; there is a primacy of the imaginary within perceptual experience. Further, Steeves demonstrates a stronger connection between Merleau-Ponty's early works on the body and perception and his later works on aesthetic and social theory and on the ontology of the "flesh." Finally, Steeves answers to recent criticisms of Merleau-Ponty's work from postmodernism, deconstructionism and feminism, paving the way for a new understanding of perception and ontology."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: C. Henderson |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2015-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 134929053X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781349290536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining the Black Female Body by : C. Henderson
This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.
Author |
: Susan Legêne |
Publisher |
: NUS Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2015-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789971698577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9971698579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sites, Bodies and Stories by : Susan Legêne
Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes. Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmotif in heritage initiatives. Contemporary heritage formation in Indonesia is intrinsically linked to a canon of Indonesian art and culture developed during Dutch colonial rule, institutionalized within Indonesia's heritage infrastructure and in the Netherlands, and echoed in museums and exhibitions throughout the world. The authors in this volume acknowledge colonial legacies but argue against a colonial determinism, considering instead how contemporary heritage initiatives can lead to new interpretations of the past.
Author |
: Tanya L. Shields |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2014-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813935980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813935989 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies and Bones by : Tanya L. Shields
In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean’s iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using a distinctive methodology she calls "feminist rehearsal" to chart the Caribbean’s multiple and contradictory accounts of historical events, the author highlights the gendered and emergent connections between art, history, and belonging. By drawing on a significant range of genres—novels, short stories, poetry, plays, public statuary, and painting—Shields proposes innovative interpretations of the work of Grace Nichols, Pauline Melville, Fred D’Aguiar, Alejo Carpentier, Edwidge Danticat, Aimé Césaire, Marie-Hélène Cauvin, and Rose Marie Desruisseau. She shows how empathetic alliances can challenge both hierarchical institutions and regressive nationalisms and facilitate more democratic interaction.
Author |
: David F. Crew |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2017-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472130139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472130137 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies and Ruins by : David F. Crew
Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII
Author |
: Devan Stahl |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2018-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781532640292 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1532640293 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imaging and Imagining Illness by : Devan Stahl
Medical imaging technologies can help diagnose and monitor patients' diseases, but they do not capture the lived experience of illness. In this volume, Devan Stahl shares her story of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis with the aid of magnetic resonance images (MRIs). Although clinically useful, Stahl did not want these images to be the primary way she or anyone else understood her disease or what it is like to live with MS. With the help of her printmaker sister, Darian Goldin Stahl, they were able to reframe these images into works of art. The result is an altogether different image of the ill body. Now, the Stahls open up their project to four additional scholars to help shed light on the meaning of illness and the impact medical imaging can have on our cultural imagination. Using their insights from the medical humanities, literature, visual culture, philosophy, and theology, the scholars in this volume advance the discourse of the ill body, adding interpretations and insights from their disciplinary fields.
Author |
: John Burke |
Publisher |
: Baker Books |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2015-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493400515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493400517 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagine Heaven by : John Burke
It's obvious from the bookshelves and the big screen that heaven is on everyone's mind. All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author John Burke is no exception. For decades, he has been studying accounts of people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs). While not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors clearly point to the God of the Bible and the exhilarating picture of heaven he promises. Imagine Heaven is an inspirational journey through the Bible's picture of heaven, colored in with the real-life stories of heaven's wonders. Burke compares gripping stories of NDEs to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of heaven: Will I be myself? Will I see friends and loved ones? What will it look like? What is God like? What will we do forever? What about children and pets? This book will propel readers into an experience that will forever change their view of the life to come and the way they live life today. It also tackles the tough questions of heavenly reward and hellish NDEs. Anyone interested in NDEs or longing to imagine heaven more clearly will enjoy this fascinating and hope-filled book.
Author |
: Magali M. Carrera |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2003-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0292712456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292712454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Identity in New Spain by : Magali M. Carrera
Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited. The discourse of calidad(status) and raza(lineage) on which the regulations were based also found expression in the visual culture of New Spain, particularly in the unique genre of castapaintings, which purported to portray discrete categories of mixed-blood plebeians. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and castapaintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. She explains how these visual practices emphasized a seeming realism that constructed colonial bodies--elite and non-elite--as knowable and visible. At the same time, however, she argues that the chaotic specificity of the lives and lived conditions in eighteenth-century New Spain belied the illusion of social orderliness and totality narrated in its visual art. Ultimately, she concludes, the inherent ambiguity of the colonial body and its spaces brought chaos to all dreams of order.
Author |
: Michael Sakamoto |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2022-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819580665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081958066X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Empty Room by : Michael Sakamoto
An Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is now a global phenomenon. This is the first book about butoh authored by a scholar-practitioner who combines personal experience with ethnographic and historical accounts alongside over twenty photos. Author Michael Sakamoto traverses butoh dance history from its roots in post-World War II Japan to its diaspora in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. An Empty Room delves into the archive of butoh dance, gathering testimony from multiple generations of artists active in Japan, the US, and Europe. The book also creatively highlights seminal visual and written texts, especially Hosoe Eikoh's photo essay, "Kamaitachi," and Hijikata Tatsumi's early essays. Sakamoto ultimately fashions an original view of what butoh has been, is and, more importantly, can be through the lens of literary criticism, photo studies, folklore, political theory, and his experience performing, photographing, teaching, and lecturing in 15 countries worldwide.
Author |
: Dennis Todd |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 1995-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226805557 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226805559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining Monsters by : Dennis Todd
In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity.