Representing culture : essays on identity, visuality and technology / / edited by Claudia Alvares

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Culture - Research
• Altri autori: AlvaresClaudia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE ATTACK ON KNOWLEDGE; FEMINIST COMMUNITARIANISM; CONSTRUCTING THE 'MUSLIM OTHER'; CONFRONTING WHITENESS; 'OUR DISGUST WILL MAKE US STRONGER'; PUBLIC FRAMES; HERITAGE REVISITED; 'IT'S FOR YOU'; THE END OF DISTANCE; MNEMOSYNE AND THE ARCADES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays collected in this volume are interdisciplinary in nature, defying the traditional boundaries that compartmentalise and contain knowledge within particular camps. Heir to the 'undisciplining' legacy of cultural studies, they attempt to transcend the restrictive frameworks of pre-established discourse, engaging in new and fruitful combinations of theories and methodologies. The general aim of the book is to indicate new perspectives for the exercise of cultural criticism on the basis...
• Titolo autorizzato: Representing culture
• ISBN: 1-282-19029-6; 9786612190292; 1-4438-0641-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827790303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II