Violent Modernity
Title | Violent Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Abdelmajid Hannoum |
Publisher | Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Algeria |
ISBN | 9780674053281 |
Hannoum examines the advent of political modernity in Algeria and shows how colonial modernity was not only a project imposed by violence but also a violent project in and of itself, involving massive destruction and significant transformation of the population of Algeria.
The Violence of Modernity
Title | The Violence of Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Debarati Sanyal |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1421429292 |
The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.
Islam, Modernity, Violence, and Everyday Life
Title | Islam, Modernity, Violence, and Everyday Life PDF eBook |
Author | A. Ahmad |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2009-03-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0230619568 |
This book offers a better insight into the comparison of Western and Islamic cultures, with studies that address the issues of Islam and modernity, violence in Islamic law and history, and respect for individuals' privacy in Islamic cultures.
Unfolding the ‘Comfort Women’ Debates
Title | Unfolding the ‘Comfort Women’ Debates PDF eBook |
Author | Maki Kimura |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 2016-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137392517 |
This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism, while illuminating the importance of testimonies of victim-survivors as the site where women recover and gain their voices and agencies.
Modernity At Large
Title | Modernity At Large PDF eBook |
Author | Arjun Appadurai |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | 9781452900063 |
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
Title | Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Dwyer |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319629239 |
This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. Bringing together scholars from around the world, the book includes chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies and conquests. It considers multiple experiences of colonial violence, ranging from political dispute to the non-lethal violence of everyday colonialism and the symbolic repression inherent in colonial practices and hierarchies. These comparative case studies show how violence was used to assert and maintain control in the colonies, contesting the long held view that the colonial project was of benefit to colonised peoples.
Violent Minds
Title | Violent Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Levay |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110842886X |
Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.