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The Politics of Postmodernism
01 Jan 1989-
TL;DR: In this article, the postmodernist representation is de-naturalized the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history, Re-presenting the past: 'total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text.
Abstract: General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Representing the postmodern: What is postmodernism? Representation and its politics, Whose postmodernism? Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism. 2. Postmodernist representation: De-naturalizing the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history. 3. Re-presenting the past: 'Total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text. 4. The politics of parody: Parodic postmodern representation, Double-coded politics, Postmodern film? 5. Text/image border tensions: The paradoxes of photography, The ideological arena of photo-graphy, The politics of address 6. Postmodernism and feminisms: Politicizing desire, Feminist postmodernist parody, The private and the public. Concluding note: some directed reading. Bibliography. Index.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a table of Matières and a list of the sigles of the corpus of the Corpus of the human body, which includes the following:
Abstract: .................................................................................................................................... ii Preface ..................................................................................................................................... iii Table des Matières ................................................................................................................... iv Liste des sigles ......................................................................................................................... vi Acknowledgements................................................................................................................. vii Dedication..............................................................................................................................viii Chapitre 1 : Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 1.1. L’instant traumatique ................................................................................................. 2 1.2. La comémoire : un décryptage du langage traumatisé ............................................... 6 1.3. L’écriture é/veillée ................................................................................................... 12 1.4. La constitution du corpus ......................................................................................... 13 1.5. Les fils conducteurs ................................................................................................. 17 Chapitre 2 : L’Acacia .............................................................................................................. 28 2.1. Une téphromancie comémorielle ............................................................................. 29 2.2. Le traumatisme primaire et les réveils initiaux ........................................................ 31 2.3. Se séparer de la souffrance ...................................................................................... 37 2.4. Adossé à l’arbre : la transformation d’un symbole .................................................. 42 2.5. Le sommeil et l’éveil et/ou la veille ......................................................................... 51 2.6. L’instant traumatique et le traumatisme prolongé ................................................... 55 2.7. L’autobiographie et le réveil à la possibilité de la mort ........................................... 67 2.8. Quelque chose d’irrémédiable ................................................................................. 70 Chapitre 3 : L’Oublié .............................................................................................................. 84 3.1. Dix ans de silence .................................................................................................... 85 3.2. Le témoignage, l’héritage et la comémoire .............................................................. 92 3.3. ‘Lieux de mémoire,’ ‘nœuds de mémoire’............................................................. 104 3.4. L’instant traumatique : le témoignage d’un viol .................................................... 114 3.5. La Nuit : le traumatisme primaire et la genèse d’un intertexte .............................. 126 Chapitre 4 : Lignes de faille .................................................................................................. 133 4.1. Qu’était-ce ? ............................................................................................................. 134 4.2. L’instant traumatique ............................................................................................. 140 4.3. L’hospitalité et l’hostilité : l’arrivée de l’étranger ................................................. 153 4.4. Le revenant et le retour du refoulé ; le corps et la métamémoire........................... 163 4.5. La répétition historique et héritière ........................................................................ 174
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2017
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: This paper investigated the intersection of religion, self-identification, and imperialism in a number of Arab American literary works, and found that the cultural conservatives belong to a growing transnational body of writers whose phenomenon constitutes an extension of what Matthew F. Jacobs calls an “informal network of transnational self-identified specialists.
Abstract: Supervisory Committee Dr. Christopher Douglas, Supervisor (Department of English) Dr. Lincoln Shlensky, Department Member (Department of English) Dr. Jason Colby, Outside Member (History Department) This research project investigates the intersection of religion, self-identification, and imperialism in a number of Arab American literary works. It engages a wide array of, and contributes to, scholarship from American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Global Studies, and Transnational Literary Theory. The project examines two groups of writers: the first group consists of American cultural conservatives of Arab or Muslim descent, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Bridgette Gabrielle, and Wafa Sultan, while the second includes Arab American literary writers Mohja Kahf, Leila Ahmed, Ibrahim Fawal, and Alia Yunis. The former employ the traditional autobiography genre to produce master narratives, while the latter utilize the memoir, novel, and short-story cycle genres to challenge hegemonies and master narratives. The cultural conservatives, I contend, belong to a growing transnational body of writers whose phenomenon constitutes an extension of what Matthew F. Jacobs calls an “informal network” of transnational self-identified specialists (4). In their autobiographies, Ali, Gabrielle, Darwish, and Sultan concentrate on the Middle East, Muslims, and Arabs, but they are unique in the sense that their policy-oriented personal narratives explicitly seek to influence not only American attitudes and practices aimed at Arabs and Muslims, but also those directed at American citizens of Arab or Muslim descent. Furthermore, their culturally-conservative traditional autobiographies Infidel (2007), Nomad (2010), Heretic (2015), Now They Call Me Infidel (2006), Because They Hate (2006), They Must Be Stopped (2008), and A God Who Hates
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...These works are Infidel (2007), Nomad (2010), Heretic (2015), Now They Call Me Infidel (2006), Because They Hate (2006), They Must Be Stopped (2008), and A God Who Hates (2009)....
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...Furthermore, their culturally-conservative traditional autobiographies Infidel (2007), Nomad (2010), Heretic (2015), Now They Call Me Infidel (2006), Because They Hate (2006), They Must Be Stopped (2008), and A God Who Hates...
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...These works are Infidel (2007), Nomad (2010), Heretic (2015), Now They Call Me Infidel (2006), Because They Hate (2006), They Must Be Stopped (2008), and A God Who Hates (2009). In these autobiographies, as I later demonstrate in chapter one of the dissertation, the four authors deem contemporary manifestations of Muslim religiosity, whether conservative or radical, mainstream...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider four readings of this combination of trust and suspicion and their consequences for the autonomy and cultural credibility of the sciences, and they take respectively Fine's trusting attitude, his emphasis upon local practice, and his antiessentialism about science as most fundamental to NOA.
Abstract: Modernism in the philosophy of science demands a unified story about what makes an inquiry scientific (or a successful science). Fine's "natural ontological attitude" (NOA) is "postmodern" in joining trust in local scientific practice with suspicion toward any global interpretation of science to legitimate or undercut that trust. I consider four readings of this combination of trust and suspicion and their consequences for the autonomy and cultural credibility of the sciences. Three readings take respectively Fine's trusting attitude, his emphasis upon local practice, and his antiessentialism about science as most fundamental to NOA. A fourth, more adequate reading, prompted by recent feminist interpretations of science, offers less restrictive readings of both Fine's trust and his suspicion toward approaching science with "ready-made philosophical engines" (Fine 1986b, 177).
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...But in that context, the burden of proof has to some extent now been shifted (Fuller 1988, chap....
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