1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460970903321

Autore

Chang Yoonmee <1970->

Titolo

Writing the ghetto [[electronic resource] ] : class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / / Yoonmee Chang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-36993-1

9786613369932

0-8135-4984-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/895073

Soggetti

American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism

Asian Americans in literature

Asian Americans - Intellectual life

Poverty in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Social classes in literature

Model minority stereotype

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Writing the ghetto -- "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre -- The Japanese American internment : master narratives and class critique -- Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy -- Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- Indian Edison: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography -- Conclusion : A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.

Sommario/riassunto

In the United States, perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community, which is often described as residing in positive-sounding ""ethnic enclaves."" Yoonmee Chang's Writing the Ghetto helps clarify the hidden or unspoken class inequalities faced by Asian Americans, while insightfully analyzing the effect such notions have had on their literary



voices.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455349603321

Titolo

Polemical encounters [[electronic resource] ] : esoteric discourse and its others / / edited by Olav Hammer and Kocku von Stuckrad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-282-39769-9

9786612397691

90-474-3151-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Aries book series, , 1871-1405 ; ; v. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

HammerOlav

StuckradKocku von <1966->

Disciplina

130.9

Soggetti

Occultism - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / O. Hammer and C.K.M. Von Stuckrad -- Introduction. Western Esotericism And Polemics -- Christian Kabbalah And Anti-Jewish Polemics: Pico In Context / Kocku Von Stuckrad -- Christian Orthodoxy And Jewish Kabbalah: Russian Mystics In The Search For Perennial Wisdom / Konstantin Burmistrov -- Adorno’S Kabbalah: Some Preliminary Observations / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- \'Authorized Guardians\': The Polemics Of Academic Scholars Of Jewish Mysticism Against Kabbalah Practitioners / Boaz Huss -- The Trouble With Images: Anti-Image Polemics And Western Esotericism / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Between Heresy And Orthodoxy: Alchemy And Piety In Late Sixteenth-Century Germany / Hanns-Peter Neumann -- Between Theosophy And Orthodox Christianity: Johann Salomo Semler’S Hermetic Religion / Peter Hanns Reill -- The Masonic Necromancer: Shifting Identities In The Lives Of Johann Georg Schrepfer / Renko Geffarth -- René Guénon And The Traditionalist Polemic / Brannon Ingram -- Contested Diviners: Verbal Battles Between Dowsers And



Skeptics / Olav Hammer -- Seeking Ancient Wisdom In The New Age: New Age And Neognostic Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas / Dylan Burns -- United In Diversity, Divided From Within: The Dynamics Of Legitimation In Contemporary Witchcraft / Titus Hjelm -- Notes On Contributors / O. Hammer and C.K.M. Von Stuckrad -- Index / O. Hammer and C.K.M. Von Stuckrad.

Sommario/riassunto

In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie both the identities within and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history. From Jewish and Christian kabbalah through heretical discourse and interconfessional polemics in early modernity to the legitimization of esoteric identity in modern culture, the 12 chapters, accompanied by an editors’ introduction, provide a cornucopia of relevant cases that are interpreted in a framework of polemical discourse and ‘Othering’. This volume sheds new light on the ultimately polemical structure of western esotericism and thus opens new vistas for further research into esoteric discourse.