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  • 1970-1974
  • Project Muse  (26)
  • Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse  (26)
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  • 1
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    Alles verandert altijd : Perspectieven op literair vertalen (2019)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Leuven, Belgium : Universitaire Pers Leuven
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    ISBN: 9789461662996 , 9461662998 , 9789461662989 , 946166298X , 9789462701939
    Language: Dutch
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (unpaged)))
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 428.023931
    Keywords: Literature Translations ; Dutch language Handbooks, manuals, etc Translating ; Translating and interpreting Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Translating and interpreting ; Translations ; Handbooks and manuals ; Literature
    Abstract: Onmisbaar handboek voor de literair vertaler. Alles verandert altijd is een onmisbaar instrument voor de literair vertaler in opleiding en de beginnende en gevorderde professional bij het vertalen in en uit het Nederlands. Voor het eerst worden hier alle belangrijke aspecten van het literair vertalen helder en bevattelijk samengebracht: de zakelijke en financiële aspecten, de basiskennis en vaardigheden die deze activiteit veronderstelt, de algemene kernbegrippen en uitdagingen, het vertalen van de traditionele literaire genres, maar ook van kinder- en jeugdliteratuur, literaire non-fictie en filosofie, en de 'nazorg' in de vorm van revisie, marketing en promotie. Het boek is een initiatief van het Expertisecentrum Literair Vertalen (ELV), en bevat bijdragen van 23 vertaalexperts (wetenschappers, opleiders en vertalers), onder eindredactie van Lieven D'hulst en Chris Van de Poel. Beiden zijn lid van het wetenschappelijk comite van het ELV, een partnerschap van de Taalunie, de KU Leuven en de Universiteit Utrecht, in samenwerking met het Nederlands Letterenfonds en het Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren
    Note: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE , Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: kostenfrei
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  • 2
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    Old Nyaviyuyi in Performance : Seven tales from Northern Malawi as told by a master performer of the oral narrative (2018)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Mzuzu [Malawi] : Mzuni Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (x, 90 pages)) , music
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Keywords: Tales ; Tumbuka language Texts ; Tumbuka (African people) Folklore ; Folklore Performance ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Reading these tales from Northern Malawi readers come close to watching an original performance and the tales and the songs encapsulate the essence of Malawian culture. The authors presentation, using performance directions, allows the reader to see and hear old Nyaviyuyi as she, through word, voice, tone and gesture, mocks nosy wives, and celebrates the devotion of friendship and parental love. The author has made a further contribution to the topic by including musical notations for the songs
    Abstract: The tales in English -- The tales in Chitumbuka -- The songs
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20) , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE , English and Tumbuka
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  • 3
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    Cape Town harmonies : memory, humour and resilience (2017)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xxvii, 337 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.48420968
    Keywords: Minstrels ; Music Social aspects ; History and criticism ; Choral societies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Part one. Memory and processes of musical appropriation. -- 1. Music behind the music : appropriation as the engine of creation -- 2. In the footsteps of the future : musical memory and reconciliation in South Africa -- part two. Nederlandsliedjies and notions of blending -- 3. The nederlandsliedjies' "uniqueness" -- 4. The meanings of blending -- part three. Moppies : humour and survival -- 5. Assembling comic songs -- 6. Behind the comic -- Conclusion : memory, resilience, identity and creolisation
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-334) , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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  • 4
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    Fixing inequality in Hong Kong (2017)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xvi, 298 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Friedman lecture fund monograph
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.5/12
    Keywords: Equality ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in alleviating inequality. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy. He recommends more investment in education, starting with early education and immigration policy reforms to attract highly educated and skilled people to join the workforce. In analyzing what causes inequality, this book ties disparate issues together into a coherent framework, such as Hong Kong's aging population, lack of investment in human capital, and family breakdowns. Rising divorce rates among low-income households have created a shortage of housing, driving rents and property prices upwards, and enlarging the wealth gap between those who own housing and those who do not, thus causing intergenerational upward mobility. This is the third of Richard Wong's collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy and Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013 and 2015 respectively, discuss growing contradictions in Hong Kong's economy and current housing problems as well as their solutions
    Abstract: Part 1. Introduction -- part 2. Alleviating poverty is hard -- part 3. Human capital, income inequality, and intergenerational mobility -- part 4. The family matters -- part 5. Housing and land -- part 6. Business strategy -- part 7. Fiscal concerns -- part 8. Labor market measures th at don't work -- part 9. What is the real challenge
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: Volltext
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  • 5
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    Boys' love, cosplay, and androgynous idols : queer fan cultures in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (2017)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xxxiii, 258 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Queer Asia
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.76/6
    Keywords: Sexual minorities in mass media ; Fans (Persons) ; Fans (Persons) ; Fans (Persons)
    Abstract: Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans' diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this volume challenge long-established Western-centric and Japanese-focused fan scholarship by highlighting the significance and specificities of Sinophone queer fan cultures and practices in a globalized world. The geographic organization of the chapters illuminates cultural differences and the other competing forces shaping geocultural intersections among fandoms based in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
    Abstract: Introduction / Jing Jamie Zhao, Ling Yang, and Maud Lavin -- I. Mainland China -- 1. Chinese danmei fandom and cultural globalization from below / Ling Yang and Yanrui Xu -- 2. Cosplay, cuteness, and weiniang : the queered ke'ai of male cosplayers as "fake girls" / Shih-chen Chao -- 3. "The world of grand union" : engendering trans/nationalism via boys' love in online Chinese hetalia fandom / Ling Yang -- 4. Queering the post-L word shane in the "Garden of Eden" : Chinese fans' gossip about Katherine Moennig / Jing Jamie Zhao -- 5. From online BL fandom to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala : the transforming power of online carnival -- Shuyan Zhou -- 6. Dongfang Bubai, online fandom, and the gender politics of a legendary queer icon in post-Mao China / Egret Lulu Zhou -- II. Hong Kong -- 7. Desiring queer, negotiating normal : Denise Ho (HOCC) fandom before and after the coming-out / Eva Cheuk Yin Li -- 8. Hong Kong-based fans of mainland idol Li Yuchun : elective belonging, gender ambiguity, and rooted cosmopolitanism / Maud Lavin -- III. Taiwan -- 9. Exploring the Significance of "Japaneseness" : a case study of Fujoshi's BL fantasies in Taiwan / Weijung Chang -- 10. Girls who love boys' love : BL as goods to think with in Taiwan (with a revised and updated coda) / Fran Martin
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-245) and index , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: Volltext
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  • 6
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    Leading from behind : women in community development in Rhodesia, 1973-1979 (2017)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Harare [Zimbabwe] : Weaver Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xviii, 457 pages)) , illustrations, maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.42096891
    Keywords: Chenaux-Repond, Maia ; Zimbabwe Biography ; Women in community development Biography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on communications ‘rescued' from the shredders in the last days of Rhodesia, enlivened by photographs and memories - both her own and those of her colleagues - Maia Chenaux-Repond tells the story of her work as the Provincial Community Development Officer (Women) for Mashonaland and South in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the 1970s. There are no records whatsoever in the National Archives of Zimbabwe about the Community Development Section (Women), even though it was active in all the provinces. In the absence of other documentary sources, and all other provincial officers long having emigrated or died, this account of her work fills a significant gap in the pre-independence history of Zimbabwe. The crucial focus of the Women's Section on improving the lives and skills of women in the rural areas became progressively more difficult when the civil war intensified from the early 1970 as rural people - and the development workers themselves - were moved into ‘Protected Villages', and as the Ministry became increasingly militarized
    Abstract: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Abbreviations used; Map of Mashonaland South; Prologue: 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978-1979; The End; Index; Back cover
    Note: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE , Includes bibliographical references
    URL: Volltext
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  • 7
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    Death of a discipline? : Reflections on the history, state, and future of social anthropology in Zimbabwe (2017)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG | [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (iv, 127 pages)))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.80071
    Keywords: Ethnology Study and teaching (Higher) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of the discipline in the country. The book makes an important claim that the future and vibrancy of anthropology in Zimbabwe, lies in how well anthropologists in the country and in the diaspora are able to join efforts in articulating, debating and enhancing its relevance and vitality. The book provides critical overview and nuanced analyses of the role and continued relevance of the discipline in reading and interpreting the social unfolding of everyday life and dynamism. It is a vital text for understanding and contextualising histories and trends in the development of social anthropology in Zimbabwe and how anthropologists in the country navigate the tumultuous waters and struggles that have engrossed the discipline since colonial times. The book has the capacity to generate added insights and influence national, continental, and global debates and trends in the field
    Abstract: 1. Anthropology, society, and change in conversation -- 2. Anthropology, Christianity, and the colonial project : a search for a humane anthropology in Zimbabwe -- 3. Anthropology, politics and recognition : a disciplinary struggle -- 4. Anthropology and the search for relevance -- 5. Anthropology in Zimbabwe thirty-five years after independence -- 6. Debunking the myths, resuscitating the discipline : the future of social anthropology in Zimbabwe -- 7. Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-127) , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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  • 8
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    Rendering nature : animals, bodies, places, politics (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780812291452 , 081229145X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations.
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Nature and culture in America
    Series Statement: Nature and culture in America
    DDC: 333.70973
    Keywords: Culture ; Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; United States Civilization
    Abstract: We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival--health, sustenance, shelter--or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever. Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes--animals, bodies, places, and politics--the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40771
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  • 9
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    UNESCO on the ground : local perspectives on intangible cultural heritage (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780253019530 , 0253019532
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations, Karten.
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Encounters: explorations in folklore and ethnomusicology
    Series Statement: Encounters--explorations in folklore and ethnomusicology
    DDC: 306.0601
    Keywords: Unesco ; Intangible property ; Cultural property
    Abstract: For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local communities? Drawing upon six communities ranging across three continents--from India, South Korea, Malawi, Japan, Macedonia and China--and focusing on festival, ritual, and dance, this volume illuminates the complexities and challenges faced by those who find themselves drawn, in different ways, into UNESCO's orbit. Some struggle to incorporate UNESCO recognition into their own local understanding of tradition; others cope with the fallout of a failed intangible cultural heritage nomination. By exploring locally, by looking outward from the inside, the essays show how a normative policy such as UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage policy can take on specific associations and inflections. A number of the key questions and themes emerge across the case studies and three accompanying commentaries: issues of terminology; power struggles between local, national and international stakeholders; the value of international recognition; and what forces shape selection processes. With examples from around the world, and a balance of local experiences with broader perspectives, this volume provides a unique comparative approach to timely questions of tradition and change in a rapidly globalizing world.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42251
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  • 10
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    Evita, inevitably : performing Argentina's female icons before and after Eva Perón (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780472120550 , 0472120557
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 305.40982
    Keywords: Perón, Eva In mass media ; Perón, Eva ; Rezeption ; Frau ; Starkult ; Celebrities ; Performing arts Social aspects ; Women in popular culture ; Argentinien
    Abstract: Evita, Inevitably sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country's most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-nineteenth century onward, reading Evita against the performances of other female icons: Camila O'Gorman, executed by firing squad over her affair with a Jesuit priest; Difunta Correa, a devotional figure who has achieved near-sainthood; cumbia-pop performer Gilda; the country's patron saint, the Virgin of Luján; and finally, Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Employing the tools of discursive, visual, and performance analysis, Jean Graham-Jones studies theatrical performance, literature, film, folklore, Catholic iconography, and Internet culture to document the ways in which these "femicons" have been staged.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/36845
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  • 11
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    Radical French thought and the return of the "Jewish question" (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780253016843 , 0253016843
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Studies in antisemitism
    Series Statement: Studies in antisemitism (Bloomington, Ind.)
    DDC: 305.8924044
    RVK:
    MC 7400
    Keywords: Intellektueller ; Literatur ; Philosophie ; Antisemitismus ; Zionism ; Antisemitism ; Frankreich
    Abstract: For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the hostility shown toward Jews by some representatives of contemporary critical theory. It presents for the first time in English five essays by Éric Marty, previously published in France, with a new preface by the author addressed to his American readers. The focus of these essays is the debate in France and elsewhere in Europe concerning the "Jew." The first essay on Jean Genet, one of postwar France's most important literary figures, investigates the nature of Genet's virulent antisemitism and hatred of Israel and its significance for an understanding of contemporary phenomena. The curious reappearance of St. Paul in theological and political discourse is discussed in another essay, which describes and analyses the interest that secular writers of the far left have shown in Paul's "universalism" placed over and against Jewish or Israeli particularism. The remaining essays are more polemical in nature and confront the anti-Israeli attacks by Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.
    Note: Contains translations of five articles originally published in French , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40094
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  • 12
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    Jewish space in contemporary Poland (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780253015068 , 0253015065
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations, Karten
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 305.89240438
    RVK:
    NQ 6020
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    NY 4770
    Keywords: Judenvernichtung ; Juden ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Architektur ; Memorialization ; Collective memory and city planning ; Jews Social life and customs ; Jews Social conditions ; Polen
    Abstract: In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in conflict and collaboration with other remembered minorities, engaging in complex negotiations with local, regional, national, and international groups and interests. With its emphasis on spaces and built environments, this volume illuminates the role of the material world in the complex encounter with the Jewish past in contemporary Poland.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/39665
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  • 13
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    Vanguard performance beyond left and right (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780472121397 , 0472121391
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , color Illustrations
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 306.484
    Keywords: Right and left (Political science) ; Arts Political aspects ; Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
    Abstract: Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding "radical" and "experimental" performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals--unification, exaltation, immersion--are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/43036
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    Harnessing cultural capital for sustainability : a pan Africanist perspective (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789956762392 , 9956762393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , color Illustrations
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 306.096
    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; Lokales Wissen ; Kulturelles Kapital ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Sustainable development ; Ethnoscience ; Culture Economic aspects ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book argues that the basic component of any society's social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. However, with regard to African societies, since the dawn of racial slavery and colonialism, cultural capital - indigenous knowledge in particular - has iniquitously and acrimoniously suffered marginalisation and pejorative ragtags. Increasingly since the 1990s, cultural capital informed by African knowledge systems has taken central stage in discussions of sustainability and development. This is not unrelated with the recognition by America and Europe in particular of the central role that cultural capital could and should assume in the logic of development and sustainability at a global level. Unfortunately, action has often failed to match words with regard to the situation in Africa. The current book seeks to make a difference by exploring the role that African cultural capital could and should assume to guarantee development and sustainability on the continent and globally. It argues that lofty pan-African ideals of collective self-reliance, self-sustaining development and economic growth would come to naught unless determined and decisive steps are taken towards full recognition of indigenous cultural capital on the continent.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/41486
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    Transnational feminism and women's movements in post-1997 Hong Kong : solidarity beyond the state (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789888313174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations.
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Global connections
    Series Statement: Global connections (Hong Kong University Press)
    DDC: 305.42095125
    Keywords: Women's rights History ; Feminism History
    Abstract: This study demonstrates that recognizing the differences of the women activists promoting disparate agendas leads to a fuller appreciation of the connections and commonalities in the relations among those involved. Transnational Feminism and Women's Movements in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Solidarity Beyond the State is the first comprehensive account of feminism and women's movements in Hong Kong. The unique geographical, historical and cultural situation of the city provides the backdrop for Adelyn Lim to bring diverse groups of activists organizing socially disadvantaged and disaffected women, many of whom originating from Mainland China as well as South and Southeast Asia, to the foreground. Feminism, Lim argues, is not premised on a collective identity; it should rather be understood as a collective frame of action. The work begins with a critical history of women's mobilization during the British colonial period and the lead up to governance under the People's Republic of China. Subsequent chapters discuss the organizational forms, rhetoric, and strategies of women's groups in addressing the feminization of poverty, engagement with state institutions, violence against women, prostitution, and domestic work. Conflicts between feminist ideals and the realities and demands of the socio-political environment are thrown into sharp relief. The empirical analysis makes a case for Hong Kong to be considered as a prime site to challenge and renew the theorizing of transnational feminism.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40599
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    The complete folktales of A : Volume II (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9781496802781 , 1626746389
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Uniform Title: Narodnye russkie skazki.
    Keywords: Tales
    Abstract: Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov's edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number. This second volume of 140 tales continues the work started in Volume I, also published by University Press of Mississippi. A third planned volume will complete the first English-language set. The folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas'ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas'ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection, he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes; a collection of mildly obscene tales, Russkie zavetnye skazki; and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were stylistic, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are generally not included in this volume.
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    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42506
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    Unmasking social science imperialism : globalization theory as a phase of academic colonialism (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789956792214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (some color), Karten
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 306.43096
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften ; Politische Theorie ; Globalisierung ; Imperialismus ; Globalization Political aspects ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Neoliberalism ; Capitalism ; Afrika
    Abstract: Contemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation of Europe's capitalist world system or imperialism. There is therefore nothing that is natural, logical, or accidental about the institutionalization of the social sciences. These Europeanized structures of knowledge are imposed ways of producing knowledge of the world. This Eurocentrism of social science has justifiably come under increasingly vigorous scrutiny, especially in the period since 1945 with the formal decolonization of Africa, Asia, and much of the Caribbean. This book forcefully argues that if social science is to make any progress in the twenty-first century, it must overcome its Eurocentric heritage that has distorted social analyses and its capacity to deal with the problems of the contemporary world and embrace other non-Western funds of knowledge production.
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    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/38362
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    Africa through structuration theory-ntu (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789956762040 , 9956762040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , color Illustration
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Philosophie ; Strukturierung ; Afrika ; Africa Social conditions 21st century ; Africa Economic conditions 21st century ; Africa Politics and government 21st century
    Abstract: Despite all the talk about African renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and much of Afrocentric literature rightly promote African ideas and solutions for African problems. While the idea in itself is noble, the danger is for Africa to close itself off and ignore 'outside' technical and intellectual innovations that it desperately needs to advance further. Africa through Structuration Theory - ntu joins the discourse by attempting to restore intellectual freedom and convincingly defends structuration theory not only as the way forward for Africa but also as a legitimate African concept. It is innovative, refreshing and deserves to be heard across the world and appreciated especially by African graduates, current and future leaders of various African institutions or businesses, non-Africans who might hesitate to refer to such a theory when trying to understand and deal with African problems and the wider public who constitute the audience for this book.
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    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/41492
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    African appropriations : cultural difference, mimesis, and media (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780253016409 , 0253016401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations.
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    Series Statement: African expressive cultures
    Series Statement: African expressive cultures
    DDC: 306.096
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    Keywords: Pop-Kultur ; Film ; Musik ; Comic ; Rezeption ; Globalisierung ; Mass media Social aspects ; Mass media and culture ; Popular culture ; Nigeria ; Tansania ; Africa Social life and customs ; Africa Civilization
    Abstract: Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an "original" or "faithful copy," but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture.
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    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40651
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    Dethroning the deceitful pork chop : rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9781610755689 , 1610755685
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Food and foodways
    Series Statement: Food and foodways
    DDC: 394.12
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    Keywords: Food preferences ; Food habits ; African Americans Food
    Abstract: The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic--or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come.
    Note: "Foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson ; afterword by Rebecca Sharpless"--Cover , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/41285
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    Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei : local opera under the revolution (1949-1956) (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789629968922 , 9629968924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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    LS 41400
    Keywords: Folk drama, Chinese ; Operas, Chinese Political aspects ; Operas, Chinese Censorship ; Operas, Chinese History and criticism
    Abstract: This volume is the most extensive social and cultural history of twentieth-century Huangmei Opera to date. A regional Chinese theater originating in the Anqing countryside, Huangmei Opera gained popularity with the success of the 1950s play and movie, Married to a Heavenly Immortal. Through a case study of this work, the author juxtaposes the complex process of rewriting and revising the play and movie against the rapidly changing cultural and ideological climate of the Communist theater reform movement. As a result, the traditional theme of filial piety becomes a struggle over class and free love. This volume features a full translation of the original play and its revision in the 1950s, as well as selected articles by scriptwriters, directors, performers, and critics.
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    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40054
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    Models for movers : Irish women's emigration to America (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9781782051596 , 1782051597
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations
    Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
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    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 304.80973
    Keywords: Irish American women History ; Women immigrants History
    Abstract: A unique collection of Irish migrant women's oral histories spanning three waves of twentieth-century emigration, in the 1920s, 1950s, & 1980s. Each woman describes how she created a new life in America, creating a multigenerational tapestry of experience that will be valuable to emigrants everywhere.
    Note: Originally published: Dublin : Attic Press, 1990 , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40915
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    Life, work, and rebellion in the coal fields : the southern West Virginia miners 1880-1922 (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Morgantown [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press
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    ISBN: 9781940425801 , 1940425808
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (xxiii, 312 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: West Virginia and Appalachia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.56209754
    Keywords: Working class History ; West Virginia ; Coal miners Labor unions ; History ; West Virginia ; Labor disputes History ; West Virginia ; Coal miners History ; West Virginia ; West Virginia ; Working class History ; Coal miners Labor unions ; History ; Labor disputes History ; Coal miners History ; Labor disputes History ; Coal miners Labor unions ; History ; Working class History ; Coal miners History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Coal miners ; Coal miners ; Labor unions ; Labor disputes ; Working class ; History ; West Virginia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal mining culture. This second edition contains a new preface and afterword by author David A. Corbin
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Coal is our existence" -- "What kind of animals" -- Class over caste : interracial solidarity in the company town -- "Solidarity forever" -- Conspiracies and control -- "We shall not be moved" -- A war for democracy -- "I'm gonna fight for my union" -- "Land of the free, home of the brave" -- Afterword : "so it is with West Virginia."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index. - Print version record , Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index
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    Engaging children and youth in Africa : methodological and phenomenological issues (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Conseil pour le developpement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique | [Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 PDF (ii, 240 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305.2309
    Keywords: Youth ; Children ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Representing research from east, central, west, and southern Africa, Engaging Children and Youth in Africa provides a well-balanced analysis of on-the-ground data with methodological and phenomenological issues that abound in much of research in Africa today. With an introduction that charts out some of the most critical approaches in African-centred research on children and youth, contributors to this volume give the reader a glimpse of the product of engaged research that places children and youth at the centre of analysis. The authors follow recent studies that have insisted on seeing African childhood and youth beyond constraining Western notions of vulnerability or innocence, to capture the ways in which recent advances in technology, the intensification of global processes, and continued weakening of the nation-state have not only contributed to new ways of being children and youth but how they have also provided a new lens through which to study social change
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction1. The professional constructions of childhood and youth in Africa: new directions for research -- Natewinde Sawadogo -- 2. New directions in child and youth research in Africa -- Patricia Henderson -- 3. "it's not normal but it's common" : elopement, marriage and the mediated recognition of youth identity in Harare, Zimbabwe -- Jeremy Jones -- 4. Children's lives and children's voices : an exploration of popular music's representation of children in East Africa -- Mwenda Ntarangwi -- 5. Teenage girls, mobile phones and perceptions of autonomy : examples from Molyko Neighbourhood, southwest Cameroon -- Flavius Mayoa Mokake -- 6. Street dialogue spaces : youth and the reshaping of public political process in Ivory Coast -- Silue Oumar -- 7. The city production process: Ouagadougou youth, street culture and new forms of engaging with Burkina Faso's political sphere -- Ollo Pepin Hien.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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    Bruno Latour in pieces : an intellectual biography (2014-2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780823263738
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xiii, 175 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Forms of living
    Series Statement: Forms of Living (FUP)
    Series Statement: Forms of Living Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Bruno Latour in Pieces : An Intellectual Biography
    DDC: 340.115
    Keywords: Latour, Bruno ; Law Philosophy ; Law -- Philosophy ; Latour, Bruno ; Law ; Philosophy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- C o n t e n t s -- A b b r e v i at i o n s f o r F r e q u e n t ly C i t e d W o r k s -- A c k n ow l e d g m e n t s -- Introduction -- Exegesis and Ethnology -- A Philosopher in the Laboratory -- Machines of Tradition -- Pandora and the History of Modernity -- Of Actants, Forces, and Things -- Science and Action -- Questions Concerning Technology -- The Coming Parliament -- Conclusion -- T i m e l i n e -- N o t e s -- B i b l i o g r a p h y -- I n d e x.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""C o n t e n t s""; ""A b b r e v i at i o n s f o r F r e q u e n t ly C i t e d W o r k s""; ""A c k n ow l e d g m e n t s""; ""Introduction""; ""Exegesis and Ethnology""; ""A Philosopher in the Laboratory ""; ""Machines of Tradition""; ""Pandora and the History of Modernity""; ""Of Actants, Forces, and Things""; ""Science and Action""; ""Questions Concerning Technology""; ""The Coming Parliament""; ""Conclusion""; ""T i m e l i n e""; ""N o t e s""; ""B i b l i o g r a p h y""; ""I n d e x""
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Word space, multiplicities, openings, andings : collected essays and papers in digital poetics, hypertext, and new media (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Morgantown [West Virginia] : Center for Literary Computing
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    ISBN: 9781940425641
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xvi, 275 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Computing literature
    Series Statement: Computing Literature Ser
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.231
    Keywords: Online authorship ; Digital media ; Interactive multimedia ; Hypertext systems ; Digital media -- Social aspects ; Digital media ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Word Space, Multiplicities, Openings, Andings will change your understanding of digital writing. The book offers the first comprehensive collection of Jim Rosenberg's essays, gathering what may be the most significant and overarching single exploration of hypertext. It includes historically significant texts such as "The Interactive Diagram Sentence" as well as Rosenberg's most recent essays. This book is required reading for digital humanists, electronic writers, and new media scholars
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword / by Sandy BaldwinPreface -- part I. Essays and interviews -- 1. Openings : the connection direct -- 2. Bios/the logosphere/the finite-made evolver space -- 3. Questions about the second move -- 4. An interview on poetics -- 5. A conversation with Jim Rosenberg -- 6. Inter-field, the acts -- 7. A prosody of space/non-linear time -- 8. Visualities : the shape of openings space, buildings invitation, connection guide space -- 9. Poetics and hypertext : where are the hypertext poets? -- 10. Notes toward a non-linear prosody of space -- 11. The word the play attaching at a wide interval -- 12. Making way for making way : co-striation act topographer of the mingle scripter transform dance -- part II. Formal papers -- 13. The interactive diagram sentence : hypertext as a medium of thought -- 14. The structure of hypertext activity -- 15. And and : conjunctive hypertext and the structure acteme juncture -- 16. Locus looks at the turing play : hypertextuality vs. Full programmability -- 17. A hypertextuality of arbitrary structure : a writer's point of view -- 18. Hypertext in the open air : a systemless approach to spatial hypertext -- 19. Reflections on spatial writing in place -- 20. Conditional spatiality -- 21. User interface behaviors for spatially overlaid implicit structures -- 22. Navigating nowhere/hypertext infrawhere.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE , Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index
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