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Record Nr.

UNISA996210785203316

Autore

Sen Amartya

Titolo

Peace and democratic society [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Amartya Sen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : OpenBook Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-906924-48-1

1-906924-39-2

2-8218-1711-8

1-906924-41-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 pages.)

Collana

Open reports series , 2399-6676 ; ; volume 1

Altri autori (Persone)

SenAmartya

Disciplina

303.6609171241

Soggetti

Peace - Political aspects

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

At foot of title: Commonwealth Secretariat.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Violence and civil society -- pt. II. Civil paths to peace.

Sommario/riassunto

"Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between peace and democracy. In an insightful introductory essay to this report, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen challenges widely accepted explanations for violence. He makes a plea for a global, multilateral debate on the causes of conflict, and an understanding of the multiple identities of the individuals involved. The introductory essay draws on the findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, which was chaired by Sen, and established to promote mutual communication and understanding among all faiths and communities in the Commonwealth. Its timely report, "Civil Paths to Peace", suggests that governments, media and educators—indeed, everyone—must take the time to understand the complexities around violent behaviour and its causes, without prejudging what these might be."--Publisher's website.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792089603321

Autore

Siemerling Winfried

Titolo

The New North American Studies [[electronic resource] ] : Culture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

ISBN

1-280-05864-1

0-203-42052-7

1-283-60447-7

9786613916921

1-134-30748-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/358

810.9358

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc

Canadian literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - North America

National characteristics, American, in literature

National characteristics, Canadian, in literature

North America - Civilization

North America - In literature

North America - Intellectual life

Politics and literature - North America

Theory, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; New World returns; "Who cuts the border?": national approaches, comparative literature, postcolonial studies; Cultural difference and national canons; Orality and emergence; 2 Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence; The "newness" of the New



World; From conscience excluante to the anxieties of comparison; Sacvan Bercovitch and the inclusions of dissent; E. D. Blodgett: dialogues of reorigination and negotiation

Pierre Nepveu and the (re)reading of national culture3 W. E. B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity; Du Bois and Hegelian teleology; "Assimilation" and recognition; Relation and non-transparency; 4 Double consciousness, African American tradition, and thevernacular: Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker; Doubled doubles: the sentence of tradition and double consciousnessin Henry Louis Gates; Democratic blues: Houston Baker and the representation of culture; 5 Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation: Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor; Anti-imperial translation

Thomas King, Coyote, and Columbus: "two different dimensions oftime or consciousness"Gerald Vizenor: the postindian and The Heirs of Columbus; 6 Genealogies of difference; Multiculturalisms, transculturalism, difference in North (of) America; From narratives of emergence to transculture: Parti pris and Vice Versa; Charles Taylor, desire, and the limits of self-certainty; Cultural difference: the future of an illusion?; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke.In this original and groundbreaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives. Using material from the United States and Canada as case studies and drawing on a wide range of texts and theorists, he examines postcoloniality and cultural emergence from the sixties to the present against earlier ba