1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460965603321

Autore

Hoodbhoy Nafisa

Titolo

Aboard the democracy train : a journey through Pakistan's last decade of democracy / / Nafisa Hoodbhoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Anthem Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-85728-906-3

0-85728-894-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

954.9105/3

Soggetti

Press and politics - Pakistan

Democracy - Pakistan - History - 20th century

Terrorism - Pakistan

Women journalists - Pakistan

Electronic books.

Pakistan Politics and government 1988-

Pakistan Social conditions 20th century

Pakistan Ethnic relations

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

part I. Politics and journalism in Pakistan -- part II. Human rights -- part III. Terrorism in Pakistan.

Sommario/riassunto

'Aboard the Democracy Train' is about politics and journalism in Pakistan. It is a gripping front-line account of the country's decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era at 'Dawn', Pakistan's leading English language newspaper. In this volume, the author reveals her unique experiences and coverage of ethnic violence, women's rights and media freedoms. The narrative provides an insight into the politics of the Pak-Afghan region in the post 9-11 era, and exposes how the absence of rule of law claimed the life of



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910887917003321

Autore

De Zordo Ornella

Titolo

altri canoni / canoni altri : pluralismo e studi letterari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Firenze University Press, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (260 p.)

Collana

Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna

Soggetti

linguistics

Translation & interpretation

Literature & literary studies

Literature: history & criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The concept of the literary canon is one of the most debated and controversial in the western intellectual tradition. This book offers ten contributions by Italian scholars of Anglo-American culture addressing the way in which the concept of the literary canon holds out against areas traditionally considered as external or extraneous to it. The essays range over different topics: the etymological analysis of the term "canon"; the relations between canon and performativity; paraliterature – a universe populated by non-hierarchic genres; the relations between post-colonial literature and the canon; postmodern biofiction; studies on translation and finally gay and lesbian literature. The book ends with a meditation on the innovations wrought on the Anglo-American canon by the virtual world of Internet and with a reading proposal originating from a different area of literary studies. Taken as a whole, the intention of the book is to pave the way to democratisation and pluralism in literary studies, going beyond the limitations set by the traditional scale of values of the "western canon". It proposes a frequentation of the geographical and cultural borderlines and hence of the areas of resistance that such borderlines pose to the dominant conceptual hierarchies within and around us, enabling us to glimpse an original future for literature and for western culture in a broader sense.