Refusal of the Shadow
Title | Refusal of the Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Richardson |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1996-05-17 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781859840184 |
Refusal of the Shadow explores the nature of the relationship between black anti-colonialist movements in the Caribbean and the most radical of the European avant-gardes, and presents a series of texts which reveal its complexity.
Black, Brown, & Beige
Title | Black, Brown, & Beige PDF eBook |
Author | Franklin Rosemont |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2009-12-07 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0292719973 |
This collection documents the extensive participation of people of African descent in the international surrealist movement over the past 75 years.
Surrealism Against The Current
Title | Surrealism Against The Current PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Richardson |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2001-09-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The choice of texts for the anthology reflects Richardson (Oriental and African studies, U. of London) and Fijalkowsky's (visual culture and art history, U. of East Anglia) desire to highlight the essence of surrealism as a collective idea whose very rationale is founded in the implications that emerge from any attempt at thinking together. They arrange documents in sections on historical orientation, revolutionary politics, the security of the spirit, and declarations on colonialism. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Surrealism and Cinema
Title | Surrealism and Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Richardson |
Publisher | Berg |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2006-03-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1847881084 |
Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its influence. Most of the critical literature, however, focuses either on the 1920s or the work of Buuel. The aim of this book is to open up a broader picture of surrealism's contribution to the conceptualisation and making of film.Tracing the work of Luis Buuel, Jacques Prvert, Nelly Kaplan, Walerian Borowcyzk, Jan vankmajer, Raul Ruiz and Alejandro Jodorowsky, Surrealism and Cinema charts the history of surrealist film-making in both Europe and Hollywood from the 1920s to the present day. At once a critical introduction and a provocative re-evaluation, Surrealism and Cinema is essential reading for anyone interested in surrealist ideas and art and the history of film.
The Road Less Traveled and Beyond
Title | The Road Less Traveled and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | M. Scott Peck |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1998-01-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0684835614 |
Peck's views on being a separate courageous individual.
A Sliver of Shadow
Title | A Sliver of Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Allison Pang |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2012-02-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439198349 |
Acclaimed author Pang follows up "A Brush of Darkness" with this gripping fantasy. Original.
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism
Title | Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer M. Wilks |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780807133644 |
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899–1971), Martinican Suzanne Césaire (1913–1966), and African American Dorothy West (1907–1998). Reexamining their most significant work, Jennifer M. Wilks demonstrates how their writing challenges prevailing racial archetypes—such as the New Negro and the Negritude hero—of the period from the 1920s to the 1940s, and explores how these writers tapped into modernist currents from expressionism to surrealism to produce progressive treatments of race, gender, and nation that differed from those of currently canonized black writers of the era, the great majority of whom are men. Wilks begins with Lacascade, whom she deems "best known for being unknown," reading Lacascade's novel Claire-Solange, âme africaine (1924) as a protofeminist, proto-Negritude articulation of Caribbean identity. She then examines the fissures left unexplored in New Negro visions of African American community by showing the ways in which Bonner's essays, plays, and short stories highlight issues of economic class. Césaire applied the ideas and techniques of surrealism to the French language, and Wilks reveals how her writings in the journal Tropiques (1941–45) directly and insightfully engage the intellectual influences that informed the work of canonical Negritude. Wilks' close reading of West's The Living Is Easy (1948) provides a retrospective critique of the forces that continued to circumscribe women's lives in the midst of the social and cultural awakening presumably embodied in the New Negro. To show how the black literary tradition has continued to confront the conflation of gender roles with social and literary conventions, Wilks examines these writers alongside the late twentieth-century writings of Maryse Condé and Toni Morrison. Unlike many literary analysts, Wilks does not bring together the four writers based on geography. Lacascade and Césaire came from different Caribbean islands, and though Bonner and West were from the United States, they never crossed paths. In considering this eclectic group of women writers together, Wilks reveals the analytical possibilities opened up by comparing works influenced by multiple intellectual traditions.