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conceptualisation of the body found in Afro-Diasporic religious cultures. An explication of some canonical texts of Western philosophy and some filmic and literary texts from Haiti can demonstrate how these ... the concept of a unitary soul within the hermetic enclosure of a body. In Sources of the Self, the Historian of philosophy, charles Taylor, presents a genealogy of the Western self in which Descartes
or unethical political dealings, and religious fanaticism, to mention but a few. The novel unravels these polemical issues through the story of the fictional hijacking of an Air France plane by Muslim ... for the Plague is, over and above everything, an examination of a terrorist incident and the traumatic marks it makes upon the survivors, it also tackles the subsequent political obfuscation and
primarily concerned with the nature of political power in ex-colonial Africa and the problem of adapting traditional cultures to modern social structures. The personal relationships of the main characters ... African societies which show social structures which are inconsistent in themselves because of social and political pressures which operate in contrary directions. Thi s serial is available in Kunapipi
1. Power Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach were written in Brussels in 1845. They occupy just three pages of the fifty volume Collected Works, and comprise Marx’s call for an exit from philosophy and an ... philosophy, and become increasingly shorter, and closer to the directness of political rhetoric. Thesis XI, the final and most famous, states: This journal article is available in Kunapipi: https
It might seem odd to claim birding as a postcolonial reading strategy, as a strategy of approach to the text and the world that implicitly questions power structures and political injustices. Pre ... and political injustices. Pre-eminent American ornithologist John James Audubon, after all, infamously slaughtered hundreds of avian specimens in the interest of preserving and identifying, through
me is the very one I have been determined to avoid because I write verse. Public prose contains in it an affability, in fact, a superiority that is political. It must contain charm, however contorted ... it is left and left when it is right. This is not only what conftjses those who listen to political addresses but what reduces cities to rubble and incinerates generations who mistake the margins. But
. Two decades after Independence from Britain the crucial questions which bred conflict beg redress again under different political circumstances.
modern dance collaborations in Australia since the late 1960s when she brought dance with a socio-political subtext to Australia through the work of her mentor-collaborator, the controversial Eleo Pomare. ... The Irish Linen Memorial. Through working closely with Cameron Dalman, I have come to understand her emphasis on the sculptural use of space, and to appreciate the political imperative of her work. LT
, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin. In a speech a decade ago in Stockholm, Wole Soyinka argued that the African writer had failed to respond to the 'political moment ... 'political moment' of his society, because he has been 'without vision'. Do you feel that this situation, if Soyinka 's assessment was correct, has changed over the past decade? We are now getting to the eye
countries educated their masses on the merits of empire and industry while also trying to out-do each other by showing greater wealth and political power. One way of doing this was through the many displays
of a hybrid African and black diasporic identity. He asserts that Africa as a coherent ideological and political entity was, indeed, invented with the advent of European expansion and continuously ... culture. As Sidney Lemelle and Robin Kelley have argued, this body of scholarship and political thinking, which flourished in professional academic circles in the 1960s and 1970s, ‘was an attempt to
cover world history — ancient, mediaeval and modern — politics, international relations, war, peace, conflict resolution and political philosophy. There is a large section on titles that relate to ... . In the same room are books on Natural History and Science, Philosophy, Religion and Cultural studies. The centre shelves carry all the books related to Cypriot literature, mostly in English, but also
brings out the worst In his political enemies C, my friend, used a simple analogy:
people. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan writer whose novels deal with the Kenyan war of Independence and present-day political oppression in Kenya. His involvement with theatre in the vemacular has eamed him ... sharp political practices. In traditional African literature comparable cases cannot be cited since the novel does not exist in that literature. However, in ballads and songs, singers often attack bad
explanations over any others. Brett questions the emphasis on class as the determining factor for political allegiance among Australians, and suggests that the role of religion has been largely ignored by ... Jones, Helen Garner, Murray Bail, Robert Dessaix, Gerald Murnane, David Foster, Paul Sheehan, as well as several critics. It would seem that Gelder is in search of a highly rarefied political purity that
. Nonetheless, given the current cultural and political rivalries between Singapore and Malaysia, it is rather ironic that a Malaysian tradition of writing started in a territory that now sees Malaysia as the ... its inception because India and pakistan were already independent in 1947 and Malaysia was to become independent in a few years, in 1957. of course, there are practical and political reasons for this
to interrogate power structures and unmask injustice. According to Michel Foucault, the highest duty of the intellectual ‘is to criticize the working of institutions’ in order to unmask the political ... institutions’ in order to unmask the political violence that operates obscurely through them ‘so that one can fight them’ (qtd in Rabinow, 6). Illness facilitates this process by forcing characters to tap their
political climate engendered by Edward Seaga’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the 1980s compared with that of the Michael Manley led People’s National Party (PNP) of the 1970s. ... people’s National party (pNp) of the 1970s. Although obika Gray points out that both political parties were expediently appropriating ‘the “nation language” of downtrodden groups’ (74) in their political
local poetry scene as a performer of hard-hitting, political pieces. ... of hard-hitting, political pieces. In 1985 his second collection (The Dread Affair) came out, and contributed to launching Akira Press, an independent black publishing house. Zephaniah’s other poetry
political spokesmen. Even when they manage to participate, the contributions by women tend to go unrecognised; women’s support for peace is frequently overlooked, or simply taken for granted. ... dominate socio-political life, the reality is quite different: absence from public life was not the same as lacking power’. She goes on to cite a number of social, cultural and other factors which constrain