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Mother Shock: BOY Blog Book Tour: "Introduction" In the second section, "Will Boys Be Boys?" writers further explore the notion of the "otherness" of boys, including violence, preschool bullies, "boy" literature, the freedom and power of boyhood, and dreams of a boy that never was. This book, It's a Boy, and its companion piece, It's a Girl, due out in 2006, are the result. The stories of the mothers and sons in this book are reflective of that. www.mothershock.com /blog/archives/2005/10/boy_blog_book_t.html   (1882 words)

Daniel and Judith -- Amy-Jill Levine, "Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith" in Feminist Companion to the Bible 7 (Sheffield University Press, 1995) While Judith's widowhood conforms to the traditional representation of of Israel as a woman in mourning and, while both she and Bethulia are draped in sackcloth, Judith's particular representation-- her status, rhetoric, wealth, beauty and even her geneaology--aborts the metaphor. Judith appears at first to be a classic metaphor both for the nation and for all women. www.annettereed.com /roshchodesh/symbolism.htm   (531 words)

Sarmatian Review XIV.1: Gadja and Smith Writers of the last two decades, largely descent writers who are Americans reconstructing their ethnicity in their own voices, occupy the second and shorter portion of the book. For an isolationist generation of readers, Polish "otherness" diminished and the Poles were portrayed "just like us." With the coming of the Great Depression, novels of social protest incorporated politically conscious idealogically driven, working-class Poles who actively sought social justice, and the Poles became representative of the proletariat in America. The first part of the book traces the development of Polish selves, initially by host-nation writers and later by dissent writers; the second part examines the largely descent literature of by-now American selves who seek to articulate their identities as American ethnics. www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/194/gadja.html   (531 words)

The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by Jose Garcia Villa One writer wonders why Villa does not appear in contemporary anthologies of modernist and postmodernist anthologies and posits the "otherness" of Villa as Philippine-American as the cause. Deign of the book is good, and the title poem is worth the price of admission alone. The memoirs and essays at the end of the book are superb. traveltowesternafrica.com /1885030282.html   (531 words)

Books of David Brin Brightness Reef : Book One of a New Uplift Trilogy (Bantam Spectra Book); David Brin; Hardcover; $18.36 Otherness/Collected Stories by a Modern Master of Science Fiction; David Brin; Mass Market Paperback; $5.85 Infinity's Shore (Bantam Spectra Book); David Brin; Hardcover; $21.56 www.neponset.com /books/brin.htm   (112 words)

Aberrant and Trinity Books - RPGnet Forums The Terragen book is alternately loved and hated, it includes rules for aberrants who embrace their otherness and use taint to further their own evolution. For Aberrant, get the Player's Guide for high-Quantum powers, the Teragen book has some cool crunchies, and the other faction books have some powers that I don't think are reprinted in the Player's Guide. The Directive book has some rules for playing normal folk who monitor the aberrants but is mostly setting stuff. forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?t=160567   (1177 words)

Janet Frame The book also saved Frame from lobotomy in 1952 - a hospital worker read that she had won a literary prize and the operation was cancelled. After publication of her first book, she is saved from lobotomy. Diane Caney has argued in her article "Janet Frame and The Tempest" (1998) that Frame's writing is iridescent with imagery drawn from Shakespeare's play The Tempest and mirrors the tale of Prospero with the notions of Storm, Sea, Island, Exile, Magic, Otherness and Return. www.kirjasto.sci.fi /frame.htm   (1184 words)

Sarmatian Review XIV.1: Gadja and Smith Writers of the last two decades, largely descent writers who are Americans reconstructing their ethnicity in their own voices, occupy the second and shorter portion of the book. For an isolationist generation of readers, Polish "otherness" diminished and the Poles were portrayed "just like us." With the coming of the Great Depression, novels of social protest incorporated politically conscious idealogically driven, working-class Poles who actively sought social justice, and the Poles became representative of the proletariat in America. When they revisit the immigrant on the land, for example, instead of squeezing the "otherness" away to construct an American, they husband at least some portion of ethnicity and place their characters on a road leading to multiculturalism. www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/194/gadja.html   (1184 words)

Amazon.com: Books: MURASAKI I became interested in this book after reading Otherness by David Brin. The book itself is has a very intruiging storyline and I enjoyed reading much of it. Instead of being a collaborative novel, "Murasaki" is a mixed bag of science fiction stories that share a setting, each written by a different award-winning author. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553561871?v=glance   (1184 words)

The "Uplift Series" - www.ezboard.com Brin is probably best known 4 The Postman but he has authored many a fantastic book, such as; Glory Season, Earth, The Practice Effect, the classic Heart of the Comet, with Gregory Benford and 2 great short story collections, Otherness and The River of Time. In all Brin, so far, has written 6 "Uplift" books, and the diverse alien cultures, concepts and universe crafting in all of them is astonishing. I like that book the best of all of the Uplift books, I just love the dolphins. p210.ezboard.com /fahirashangarfrm32.showMessage?topicID=2.topic   (1902 words)

RoseAnna Mueller Two pages later he concludes, “The marvelous functions for Columbus as the agent of conversion: a fluid mediator between outside and inside, spiritual and carnal, the realm of objects and the subjective impressions made by those objects, the recalci­trant otherness of a new world and the emotional effect aroused by the otherness” (75). Columbus (Oxford University Press, 1991), the author coyly suggests that the only book left to write about Columbus is one that claims he is gay. Fernández-Armesto’s Columbus emerges as “the socially ambitious, socially awkward parvenu; the autodictat, intellectually aggressive but easily cowed; the embittered escapee from distressing realities, the adventurer inhibited by fear of failure—is, I believe consistent with the evidence but it would no doubt be possible to reconstruct the image, from the same evidence, in other ways” (vii). academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/via/ViaVol3_2Mueller.htm   (1754 words)

Augoustakis: Lemnian Murderers and Tamed Amazons: Female Outsiders in the Thebaid In book 4, the Argives encounter Hypsipyle who is marked from the outset of the narrative as a foreigner (Lemnias). Even at the end, it still remains unclear how much her otherness has benefited the Argive army on its way to initiate civil war: Hypsipyle’s failure as a queen on the public level, and as a daughter (her saving of Thoas is marked as fraus) and mother in the private domain, forebodes disasters. Moreover, the sixth book of the poem starts with the lamentation for Opheltes’ death that takes place within the imperial house of Nemea. www.camws.org /meeting/2004/abstracts2004/augoustakis.html   (587 words)

Theologian Miroslav Volf to speak at WFU Volf is the author and editor of more than nine books and 60 scholarly articles, including his book "Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation," which won the Christianity Today Book Award in 1998 and the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, is a native of Croatia who emigrated to the United States in the early 1990s. Volf is visiting Wake Forest as part of events planned for the inauguration of the university's 13th president Nathan O. Hatch. www.wfu.edu /wfunews/2005/101105v.html   (288 words)

Responses The most significant contribution of the book may lie in the compelling way in which it prods both Jewish and Christian theologians to reflect, each for themselves as well as in dialogue with one another, about the ways in which "sacrifice" functions in Judaism and Christianity both as the foundational act and as a model. Miroslav Volf is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of Exclusion and Embrace: A Theoloigcal Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Nasshville: Abingdon, 1996). Miroslav Volf, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of Exclusion and Embrace: A Theoloigcal Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Nasshville: Abingdon, 1996). www.doubleclicked.net /ICJS/volf.html   (1494 words)

German Anthropology-Online This book, although starting from a perspective of teaching language (German as a foreign language) which includes a necessity for understanding not only words but the way of thinking of a people, presents a structured study of understanding alterity, the traditional field of anthropology. Keywords: understanding, hermeneutics, Gadamer, H.-G., psychology and understanding, otherness, alterity, xenology, self and other, language and understanding, identity, unconscious and otherness, epistemology The last chapter analyzes this space in-between and discusses "universal conditions of understanding", structural levels of understanding, the interchange between epistemological and axiological levels, and the praxeological level. www.anthropology-online.de /Aga/0006.html   (1494 words)

Lingua Romana: Volume 1. Issue 1. Interview with James Faulconer S.S.: Vincent Descombes argues in his well-known book, Le même et l’autre, that contemporary French philosophy (by which he means Sartre through the poststructuralists) has been influenced primarily by German philosophers—what he refers to as the three H’s: Husserl, Heidegger and Hegel, although Nietzsche also figures in the mix. Of course, as Vincent Descombes showed some time ago (Le Même et le autre, 1979), in an important way this interest in otherness does not begin with Lévinas. Descombes's book was published in 1979, just before this "turn" began in full force, so it does not at all figure in his scenario. linguaromana.byu.edu /faulconer.html   (4347 words)

The Observer Review Observer review: Journey to the End of the Whale by John David Morley John David Morley's new novel is a strange but largely successful mixture of two contradictory elements: a paean to the majesty, complexity and otherness of the world's whales; and an elegy for a way of life which depended on killing them. In general, Morley does a remarkable job of forging an odd assortment of preoccupations into a viable narrator, but when this ramshackle vessel has been pushed down the slipway into the main body of the book, it is immediately becalmed. The scenes on Lefu are the heart of the book, but Morley builds up to them eccentrically. observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1577184,00.html   (803 words)

The Romanian Cultural Debate of the Summer: Romanian Intellectuals and Their Status Groups The main theme of the collections of essays that make the book is how intellectuals had their role in public life, gained prestige and an unquestionable status whose validity was impossible to investigate for fear one would be labeled as anti-intellectual or suspected to have something against a certain public figure. He is only one of the many public figures that were mentioned in Sorin Matei’s book.  I cannot ignore two episodes in the turmoil after 1989: one of the greatest joy of the young (and mature) educated Romanians was to enjoy freely books that had been previously listed under the “S” code in all the public libraries (and which we read with the complicity of library custodians). www.columbia.edu /cu/romanian/TheRomanianCulturalDebateoftheSummer.htm   (2984 words)

Margarita Gómez-Reino Cachafeiro, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Italian Politics Inventing the Padania: Lega Nord and the northern question Perspectives on peripheral nationalism in Europe; New political mobilization in Northern Italy; Manufacturing a united north; Lega Nord and the political construction of otherness; Party mobilization and symbolic resources; An ethno-territorial cleavage in the Italian party system?; Conclusions; References. 'Margarita Gómez-Reino has written a very well informed book on the Lega Nord and relates the electoral successes of the Italian Leagues to other attempts to mobilize ethnicity. This book presents for the first time data on political participation - both party elites and members - and the real dimension of the party organization. www.ercomer.org /publish/books/Ethn_Nat.html   (339 words)

American Ethnologist - Online Book Reviews Chin writes from her dissertation fieldwork, but she intends the book as a wider platform for taking these issues to a popular audience; her very interesting research techniques are reserved for appendixes. Chin begins by noting that although black communities in the United States may receive research attention because of assumed “otherness” from the mainstream, the questions asked are too often “phrased in terms of ‘What is wrong?’ rather than. Anthropologists in Sri Lanka have generally concentrated on villages, where they could find a different “way of life,” because “otherness as such was the unspoken rationale for the ethnographic project” (p. www.aaanet.org /aes/bkreviews/result_details.cfm?bk_id=684   (339 words)

Miller, J.H.: Others. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W. Yeats, E. Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. "A book by J. Hillis Miller, one of the most influential and productive of American critics of the past four decades, has a special significance: readers familiar with his work want to know how his thinking is developing and look forward to his combination of astute close reading and theoretical awareness. From the exquisite close readings for which he is celebrated, Miller reaps a capacious understanding of otherness--one reachable not through theory but through literature itself. www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/7200.html   (602 words)

The Unmaking of Modern Poetry in Canada In the rest of the essay, she shows that whatever its problems, Brébeuf and His Brethren has the "ability both to recover the context of the Jesuit Relations and consciously to foreground that work’s historicity, its otherness" (85), and therefore it is superior on Bakhtinian grounds to Eldon Garnet’s parody, Brébeuf. The two essays on Pratt are so good that they alone make this book indispensable. On the Edge of Genre would be a better book without its opening attempt at a historical survey, which a good editor would have removed. www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol46/ware.htm   (1396 words)

Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada by Christine Weisenthal Smaro Kamboureli's most recent book opens with an essay - the author `hesitate[s] to call it a chapter' - in which `some of the implications of the diasporic critic's location and her cultural and pedagogical responsibilities' are considered. Nevertheless, it is this somewhat unsystematic approach which lends to Scandalous Bodies the impression of a series of more or less connected essays rather than of a book which struggles to work through for its audience a `unifying theme' or thesis based on its own particular constellation of literary and historical referents. of Otherness and incommensurability.' Postmodernism is an easy target these days, and I also confess to a little weariness with Kamboureli's predictable political critique of `postmodern multiculturalism' - almost exclusively as it is embodied in the target example of Linda Hutcheon's work. www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/701/scandalous163.html   (436 words)

Oropesa, The Contemporáneos Group, University of Texas Press In this book, Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporáneos—Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustín Lazo, Guadalupe Marín, and Jorge Cuesta—and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the realities of modern Mexico, and flexible enough to speak to the masses as well as the elites. Oropesa discusses Novo and Villaurrutia in relation to neo-baroque literature and satiric poetry, showing how these inherently subversive genres provided the means of expressing difference and otherness that they needed as gay men. He concludes the book with Novo's self-transformation from intellectual into celebrity, which fulfilled the Contemporáneos' desire to merge high and popular culture and create a space where those on the margins could move to the center. www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/orocon.html   (283 words)

Frank Felsenstein ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES: A PARADIGM OF OTHERNESS IN ENGLISH POPULAR CULTURE, 1660-1830 ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES: A PARADIGM OF OTHERNESS IN ENGLISH POPULAR CULTURE, 1660-1830 Book Frank Felsenstein ANTI-SEMITIC STEREOTYPES: A PARADIGM OF OTHERNESS IN ENGLISH POPULAR CULTURE, 1660-1830 Frank Field - Dr Frank Fields Get Out Alive www.searchbooktitle.com /80389_frank-felsenstein.html   (283 words)

Alan McQuillan He also served as co-editor of a book on sustainable development. Natural forests, in children�s literature and for the general psyche, continue to provide an essential locus of otherness by which we differentiate ourselves from nature. He has taught primarily in forest planning, forest management and economics, and (for the last 15 years) a course titled "Ethics and the Management of Public Lands." His research in ethics kindled an interest in forest aesthetics with particular reference to ecological restoration. pewagbiotech.org /events/1204/mcquillan.php3   (283 words)

Jonathan Lethem:  Motherless Brooklyn On the other hand, Motherless Brooklyn should also gain Lethem readers who wouldn't touch a book which has been "tainted" by the science fiction label, and anything which increases awareness of this interesting author is to be applauded. While his latest novel, Motherless Brooklyn maintains Lethem style of character and setting, it completely lacks the science fictional elements which have graced his books from Gun, With Occasional Music through Girl in Landscape. Lionel's Tourette's syndrome, however, is strange enough that it helps to fill in the sense of otherness that science fiction frequently has. www.sfsite.com /~silverag/brooklyn.html   (474 words)

JS Online: Stories to savor, a dogged philosophy Alas, his stories (about animals he has known since his boyhood in Australia and that are full of love and clarity, never maudlin, as the cover photo suggests), give way to passages on "the mysterious otherness" his dog, Gypsy, and contemplative sections we read but will not return to, ever. This book is for serious thinkers in a mood to ponder what Gaita calls our "creatureliness." Remember: Read slowly, and twice. Instead, we vainly proceeded to the first chapter and found it captivating, which says much about the difference between Gaita the philosopher and Gaita the storyteller. www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/aug04/250363.asp?format=print   (274 words)

Lisa Goldstein:  The Red Magician The Red Magician is Goldstein's first novel, but is written with a general clarity which allows the story of Kicsi's maturation to be told in a straightforward way without obscuring the ideas of responsibility, family, and otherness which are used throughout the novel. Lisa Goldstein's The Red Magician is another book which manages to walk this fine line. This is caused, at least in part, by the fact that for Kicsi, the main character, it is a coming of age novel. www.sfsite.com /~silverag/goldstein.html   (436 words)

Bedtime Stories Thus, the commonsense understanding of Canada as a national space where we-are-all-the-same-inside, and therefore as "equal, and as Canadian as the white kid down the street" (Yee 348), orchestrates normative interpretive paradigms through which the category of otherness, as an essentialising depository of difference, is stabilised. Similarly, children's books such as Coloured Pictures, A Giant Named Azalea, and Why Me? also emphasize ethnicity and race as relational, encompassing ideological complexities in their narratives that potentially exceed the representational economies of legislated multiculturalism. On the one hand, the book's cheerful conclusion nicely appeals to liberal multiculturalism's politics of consensus but, on the other hand, because the story represents Shanti's rather than Jackie's perception, it affirms the non-white reader's subject position. www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl392/492a/articles/louise.html   (436 words)

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