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UNINA9910838209603321 |
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Autore |
Plummer Anita |
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Titolo |
Kenya's Engagement with China : Discourse, Power, and Agency |
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Tucson : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2022 |
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©2022 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Kenyans - Political activity |
Electronic books. |
Kenya Relations China |
China Relations Kenya |
Kenya Economic policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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An Origin Story -- A Flag Follows the Direction of the Wind: Language and Cultural Diplomacy -- Local Markets and Industries Are Not Yet Out of Place and Out of Time -- Is Coal the Past or the Future? Environmental Justice and Community Sustainability -- Race, Rumor, and Labor Relations -- Indebtedness. |
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"This book argues that Kenyan publics are exercising agency by questioning domestic power structures and the country's ties with China, demanding policy change, and articulating different visions for development processes and political participation"-- |
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UNINA9910956413203321 |
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Autore |
Sheehan Paul <1960-> |
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Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence / / Paul Sheehan |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-35812-4 |
1-107-23852-8 |
1-107-34225-2 |
1-107-34943-5 |
1-107-34600-2 |
1-107-34850-1 |
1-139-56829-9 |
1-107-34475-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain |
Modernism (Literature) - France |
Violence in literature |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: modernism's blasted history -- Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses -- 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics -- 3. Culture, corruption, criminality -- 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced -- 6. No dreaming pale flowers -- 7. Modernist sexual politics -- 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane) -- 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness -- Epilogue: traumas of the world -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
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The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Paul Sheehan traces the modernist fascination with violence to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when certain French and English writers sought to celebrate dissident sexualities and |
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stylized criminality. Sheehan presents a panoramic view of how the aesthetics of transgression gradually mutates into an infatuation with destruction and upheaval, identifying the First World War as the event through which the modernist aesthetic of violence crystallizes. By engaging with exemplary modernists such as Joyce, Conrad, Eliot and Pound, as well as lesser-known writers including Gautier, Sacher-Masoch, Wyndham Lewis and others, Sheehan shows how artworks, so often associated with creative well-being and communicative self-expression, can be reoriented toward violent and bellicose ends. |
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