Republic of Signs
Title | Republic of Signs PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Norton |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1993-11-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780226595122 |
Norton examines the enactment of liberal ideas in popular culture; in the possessions of ordinary people and the habits of everyday life. She sees liberalism as the common sense of the American people: a set of conventions unconsciously adhered to, a set of principles silently taken for granted. The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. "In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities."—Richard E. Flathman, American Political Science Review "[S]timulating and stylish exploration of political theory, language, culture, and shopping at the mall . . . popular culture at its best, informed by history and theory, serious in purpose, yet witty and modest in tone."—Bernard Mergen, American Studies International
Deaf Republic
Title | Deaf Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1555978800 |
Finalist for the National Book Award • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award • Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize • Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
Language, Borders and Identity
Title | Language, Borders and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Dominic Watt |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2014-10-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0748669787 |
Identifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology.
Industrial World
Title | Industrial World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1260 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Industrial arts |
ISBN |
Humanity in the City
Title | Humanity in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Hubbell Chapin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Sermons, American |
ISBN |
Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Postal service |
ISBN |
Squatter's Republic
Title | Squatter's Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Tamara Venit Shelton |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520289099 |
Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded AgeÑand the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically, the author considers the land question through the anti-monopolist reform movements it inspired in late nineteenth-century California. The Golden State was a squatter's republicÑa society of white men who claimed no more land than they could use, and who promised to uphold agrarian republican ideals and resist monopoly, the nemesis of democracy. Their opposition to land monopoly became entwined with public discourse on Mexican land rights, industrial labor relations, immigration from China, and the rise of railroad and other corporate monopolies.