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UNINA9910823720503321 |
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Autore |
Duffy Jean H. |
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Thresholds of meaning : passage, ritual and liminality in contemporary French narrative / / Jean H. Duffy [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2011 |
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1-78138-791-5 |
1-84631-679-0 |
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1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; ; 18 |
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French fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
French fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
Liminality in literature |
Rites and ceremonies in literature |
Autobiographical fiction, French - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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At death's door: illness, ritual and liminality in Darrieussecq, Lenoir, and Mauvignier -- Suicide and saving face in Bon, Mauvignier and Bergounioux -- Commemoration, monument and identity in Bergounioux, Darrieussecq and Rouaud -- Retouching the past: family photographs and documents in Rouaud, Bon and Lenoir -- Conclusion: writing passage and the passage to writing. |
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Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and récits by Pierre Bergounioux, François Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean Rouaud, Duffy demonstrates the ways in which contemporary narrative, while capitalising on the formal lessons of the nouveau roman and drawing upon a shared repertoire of motifs and themes, engages with the complex processes by which meaning is produced in the referential world and, in particular, with the rituals and codes that social man brings into play in order to negotiate |
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the various stages of the human life-cycle. By the application of theoretical concepts and models derived from anthropology and from visual studies, the study situates itself at the intersection of the developing field of literature and anthropology studies and research into word and image. |
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UNISA996588059803316 |
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Autore |
Breman Jan |
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Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism : A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice / / Jan Breman |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2024] |
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©2024 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (432 p.) |
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HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue: The Formative Impact of Childhood : Life Experiences in a Comparative Setting of Time and Space -- Part I Imperialism, Its Ideology and Practice of Racial Inequality -- 1 Colonialism and Racism -- 2 Alexis de Tocqueville on Class and Race -- Part II The Coolie Scandal on Sumatra's East Coast -- 3 Dutch Colonialism and Its Racist Impact -- 4 Coolie Labour and Colonial Capitalism in Asia -- 5 'A Crafty Lawyer of Shady Deals' -- Part III Civilization and Racism -- 6 Primitive Racism in a Colonial Setting -- 7 Colonial Development -- 8 Early Whistle-blowers on Belgian Colonialism -- Part IV Political Advocacy of the Multinational State -- 9 The Colour Bar as the Crux of Colonial Rule -- 10 The Religious Fervour of Ethical Politics -- 11 The Capitalist Imperative of Colonialism -- 12 The Denial of Freedom and Its Impact on Indonesia's Early Statecraft -- Part V Development Aid as the Postcolonial Codex of Globalized Capitalism -- 13 Spreading Dutch Welfarism in the Global |
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South -- 14 Development Aid Abandoned, Mission Achieved -- 15 W.F. Wertheim: A Sociological Chronicler of Revolutionary Change -- Epilogue: A World in Disorder -- Name Index |
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For a long time, Europe's colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were 'bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.' This doctrine of white superiority and indigenous inferiority was accompanied by a boundless exploitation of local labor. Under colonial rule, the ideology that later became known as neoliberalism was free to subject labor to a capitalism tainted by racialized policies. This political economy has now become dominant in the Western world, too, and has reversed the trend towards equality. In Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism, Jan Breman shows how racial favoritism is no longer contained to 'faraway, indigenous peoples,' but has become a source of polarization within Western societies as well. |
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