1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451172203321

Autore

Agnaou Fatima

Titolo

Gender, literacy, and empowerment in Morocco / / Fatima Agnaou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93725-7

0-203-60464-4

1-280-04851-4

0-203-48917-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Middle East studies

Disciplina

370/.82/0964

Soggetti

Women - Education - Morocco

Literacy - Morocco

Women - Morocco - Social conditions

Women - Morocco - Economic conditions

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 (p. 183-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : investigating women's literacy in Morocco -- Literacy, gender, and empowerment : the state of the art -- Conceptions of literacy and related issues -- The planning and organization of Moroccan adult literacy : campaigns and programs -- Research design, data, and sample -- Women's literacy obstacles -- Identifying women's literacy needs and learning needs -- Responding to women's literacy needs -- Responding to women's strategic needs -- Toward new perspectives of women's literacy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book's concept concerns the positive correlation between literacy and women's development and empowerment in developing countries.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975072803321

Autore

Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro <1961->

Titolo

Asia-Pacific : Culture, Politics, and Society : Kurosawa : Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, USA, : Duke University Press, 20000301

Duke University Press

ISBN

9780822397090

0822397099

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Collana

Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society Kurosawa

Classificazione

AP 59763

Disciplina

791.43/0233/092

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS

Film & Video / History & Criticism

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Film

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I JAPANESE CINEMA IN SEARCH OF A DISCIPLINE -- Introduction -- PART II THE FILMS OF KUROSAWA AKIRA -- 1. Kurosawa Criticism and the Name of the Author -- 2. Sanshiro Sugata -- 3. The Most Beautiful -- 4. Sanshiro Sugata, Part 2 -- 5. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail -- 6. No Regrets for Our Youth -- 7. One Wonderful Sunday -- 8. Drunken Angel -- 9. The Quiet Duel -- 10. Stray Dog -- 11. Scandal -- 12. Rashomon -- 13. The Idiot -- 14. Ikiru -- 15. Seven Samurai -- 16. Record of a Living Being -- 17. Throne of Blood -- 18. The Lower Depths -- 19. The Hidden Fortress -- 20. The Bad Sleep Well -- 21. Yojimbo -- 22. Sanjuro -- 23. High and Low -- 24. Red Beard -- 25. Dodeskaden -- 26. Dersu Uzala -- 27. Kagemusha -- 28. Ran -- 29. Dreams -- 30. Rhapsody in August -- 31. Madadayo -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro



Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions.Arguing that Kurosawa’s films arouse anxiety in Japanese and Western critics because the films problematize Japan’s self-image and the West’s image of Japan, Yoshimoto challenges widely circulating clichés about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to sociocultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While fully acknowledging the achievement of Kurosawa as a filmmaker, Yoshimoto uses the director’s work to reflect on and rethink a variety of larger issues, from Japanese film history, modern Japanese history, and cultural production to national identity and the global circulation of cultural capital. He examines how Japanese cinema has been “invented” in the discipline of film studies for specific ideological purposes and analyzes Kurosawa’s role in that process of invention. Demonstrating the richness of both this director’s work and Japanese cinema in general, Yoshimoto’s nuanced study illuminates an array of thematic and stylistic aspects of the films in addition to their social and historical contexts.Beyond aficionados of Kurosawa and Japanese film, this book will interest those engaged with cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural globalization, film studies, Asian studies, and the formation of academic disciplines.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910496030503321

Autore

Goncalves Dominique

Titolo

Le planteur et le roi : L’aristocratie havanaise et la couronne d’Espagne (1763-1838) / Dominique Goncalvès

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madrid, : Casa de Velázquez, 2020

ISBN

84-9096-279-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI-460 p.)

Collana

Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez

Altri autori (Persone)

BertrandMichel

Soggetti

History

économie

colonie

sucre

élite

réforme

endogamie

saccharocratie

Havane

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

En 1763, l’Espagne n’est plus en mesure de défendre seule La Havane. Désireuse de développer une économie coloniale, elle négocie une réforme politique et économique avec les élites locales. Ces élites, encouragées à participer activement et financièrement à la défense de l’Île, reçoivent en contrepartie certains avantages, notamment pour favoriser la production du sucre de canne. La monarchie suscite une compétition pour l’obtention de titres de Castille et gagne ainsi la fidélité d’une quarantaine de familles. Rapidement, ces familles de planteurs enrichis, qui forment la saccharocratie, deviennent de formidables alliées de la Couronne espagnole et s’avèrent, à Cuba, des partenaires incontournables. Dans les années 1820, bien que ces aristocrates soient de plus en plus fragilisés par leur endogamie et par la concurrence des commerçants, ils seront un frein à l’évolution de



Cuba vers l’indépendance.  En 1763 España ya no está en condiciones de defender sola La Habana. Deseosa de desarrollar una economía colonial, negocia con las élites criollas una reforma política y económica. Dichas élites, animadas a participar activa y financieramente en la defensa de la isla, reciben privilegios como contrapartida. La monarquía española fideliza a unas cuarenta familias otorgándoles títulos de Castilla y, rápidamente, estas familias de plantadores enriquecidos -la sacarocracia- se convertirán en un formidable aliado de la Corona española. Hacia 1820, debilitados por su endogamia y la competencia de los comerciantes, estos mismos aristócratas constituirán un freno en la evolución de Cuba hacia su independencia.