Refusal of the Shadow

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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Peck's views on being a separate courageous individual.

A Sliver of Shadow

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

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Acclaimed author Pang follows up "A Brush of Darkness" with this gripping fantasy. Original.

Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism

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

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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.