03358nam 2200661 a 450 991045434970332120200520144314.01-58729-739-6(CKB)1000000000704714(EBL)843147(OCoLC)646887508(SSID)ssj0000210904(PQKBManifestationID)11184943(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210904(PQKBWorkID)10291128(PQKB)10176240(MiAaPQ)EBC843147(MdBmJHUP)muse9204(Au-PeEL)EBL843147(CaPaEBR)ebr10354411(EXLCZ)99100000000070471420060315d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew visions of community in contemporary American fiction[electronic resource] Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison /Magali Cornier MichaelIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-511-3 1-58729-505-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rethinking Community for the Twenty-First Century; Choosing Hope and Remaking Kinship: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club; Negotiating Collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven; Collective Liberation and Activism via Spirituality: Ana Castillo's So Far from God; The Call to Love, to Assert Power with Others: Toni Morrison's Paradise; Conclusion: Looking to the Future; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition building as a means of moving toward new forms of nonhierarchical justice; for ethnic cultures that, as a result of racist attitudes, have not been assimilated, power with each other rather than power over each other is a collective goal. Michael argues that much contemporary American fiction by womAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticismEthnicity in literatureCommunities in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Ethnicity in literature.Communities in literature.813/.54099287Michael Magali Cornier919415MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454349703321New visions of community in contemporary American fiction2062256UNINA03446nam 2200469 450 991079809750332120230807205503.01-4985-1649-1(CKB)3710000000531519(EBL)4398699(MiAaPQ)EBC4398699(EXLCZ)99371000000053151920160412h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe making of Pakistani human bombs /Khuram IqbalLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2015.©20151 online resource (233 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-1650-5 1-4985-1648-3 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 233A multi-level analysis of Pakistani human bombs reveals that suicide terrorism is caused by multiple factors with perceived effectiveness, vengeance, poverty, and religious fundamentalism playing a varying role at the individual, organizational, and environmental levels. Nationalism and resistance to foreign occupation appear as the least relevant factors behind suicide terrorism in Pakistan. The findings of this research are based on a multi-level analysis of suicide bombings, incorporating both primary and secondary data. In this study, the author also decodes personal, demographic, economic and marital characteristics of Pakistani human bombs. On average, Pakistani suicide bombers are the youngest but the deadliest in the world, and more than 71 percent of their victims are civilians. Earlier concepts of a weak link linking terrorism with poverty and illiteracy do not hold up against the recent data gathered on the post-9/11 generation of fighters in Pakistan (in suicidal and non-suicidal categories), as the majority of fighters from a variety of terrorist organizations are economically deprived and semi-literate. The majority of Pakistani human bombs come from rural backgrounds, with very few from major urban centres. Suicide bombings in Pakistan remain a male-dominated phenomenon, with most bombers being single men. Demographic profiling of Pakistani suicide bombers, based on a random sample of 80 failed and successful attackers, dents the notion that American drone strikes play a primary role in promoting terrorism in all its manifestations. The study concludes that previous scholarly attempts to explain suicide bombings are largely based on Middle Eastern data, thus their application in the case of Pakistan can be misleading. The Pakistani case study of suicide terrorism demonstrates unique characteristics, hence it needs to be understood and countered through a context-specific and multi-level approach.Suicide bombersSuicide bombingsPakistanPakistanfastSuicide bombers.Suicide bombings363.325095491Iqbal Khuram1549932MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798097503321The making of Pakistani human bombs3858888UNINA