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In the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family had no choice but to leave Shanxi province. Heading north, they began a new life, farming the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia. They prospered as landowners and teachers, but could not escape the ravages of warlords, soldiers and revolutionaries. Born into this pioneering family, Li Yao grew up in Mao's China. He dreamt of becoming a writer, but his dreams were torn apart by the Cultural Revolution. When the storm finally subsided, the young man turned to translation. In Australian writing, he found colourful tales set in new landscapes, a literature quite unfamiliar to him. Li Yao's story is interwoven with that of his friend, Australian historian David Walker. David's family had also settled in an unfamiliar and difficult land, a world away in distant South Australia. The two men became friends as Li Yao translated one of David's books into Chinese, and their personal histories provide a fascinating, illuminating window into life in China, an experience inevitably shaped by China's relations with the wider world.
Interracial friendship. --- Translators --- Historians --- Yao, Li. --- Yao, Li --- Walker, David --- Friends and associates.
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African Americans --- Dakota Indians --- Slavery --- Kicking Bear, --- Walker, David, --- Boston (Mass.) --- North Dakota
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African American political activists --- Delany, Martin Robison --- Walker, David --- Farrakhan, Louis
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American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse. Struggle on Their Minds shows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial justice.Zamalin looks at the language and concepts put forward by the abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey Newton, and the prison abolitionist Angela Davis. Each helped revise and transform ideas about power, justice, community, action, and the role of emotion in political action. Their thought encouraged abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery, black journalists to chastise American institutions for their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in tense times. Struggle on Their Minds is a critical text for our contemporary moment, showing how the political thought that comes out of resistance can energize the practice of democratic citizenship and ultimately help address the prevailing problem of racial injustice.
African Americans --- African American intellectuals. --- lavery --- Politics and government. --- Political activity --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- Influence. --- Walker, David, --- Douglass, Frederick, --- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., --- Newton, Huey P. --- Davis, Angela Y. --- Political and social views.
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In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to counteract ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he discusses-Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart-engaged the concepts of democracy, freedom, and equality as these ideas ripened within the context of racial terror and colonial hegemony. Wheelock highlights the ways in which religious and secular versions of collective political destiny both competed and cooperated to forge a vision for a more perfect and just society. By appealing to religious sensibilities and calling for emancipation, these writers addressed slavery and its cultural bearing on the Atlantic in varied, complex, and sometimes contradictory ways during a key period in the development of Western political identity and modernity.
American literature --- Slaves' writings, English --- Slavery --- Slavery in literature. --- English literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- English slaves' writings --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism --- Stewart, Maria W., --- Walker, David, --- Equiano, Olaudah, --- Cugoano, Ottobah. --- Slavery in literature --- Religious aspects --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons --- English enslaved persons' writings --- Enslaved persons' writings, English
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Street Art Today is een actueel en eigentijds overzicht van de meest invloedrijke street artists, hun werk en de belangrijkste stromingen. De auteurs stelden deze who's who van de hedendaagse street art op in samenwerking met tal van kunstenaars. Namen als MOBSTR, Pixel Pancho, JR, 1010, Invader, spY passeren de revue.Exclusieve interviews, verhelderende essays en een voorwoord van Martyn Reed maken van dit boek een mustread voor al wie deze steeds populairder wordende kunstscene van ver of dichtbij volgt.
public spaces --- Contemporary [style of art] --- street art --- Art --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019 --- humor --- sculpture [visual works] --- mural paintings [visual works] --- site-specific works --- Walker, David --- Harrington, Conor --- Pixel Pancho --- M-City --- Levalet --- Nychos --- Void, Axel --- Inti --- Zacharevic, Ernest --- Hayuk, Maya --- Tenten/1010 --- Jana & Js --- Space Invader --- Iacurci, Agostino --- Os Gemeos --- Biancoshock --- Eversiempre --- Bicicleta Sem Freio --- Phlegm --- JR --- SpY --- Borondo --- Magee, Fintan --- DALeast --- Ella & Pitr --- Mobstr --- Strøk --- Fikos --- Faith 47 --- Escif --- Diaz, Alexis --- Aryz --- Cordal, Isaac --- MTO --- Etam Crew --- Bordalo II --- Ludo --- Helten, Van, Guido --- Elle --- Eaton, Tristan --- Case --- Telmo Miel --- Pejac --- ROA --- Rone --- Banksy --- Seth --- Iurato, Joe --- Hyuro --- Street art --- Art [Modern ] --- 21st century --- Mural painting and decoration --- Graffiti --- Muurschilderingen --- Beeldende kunst --- straatkunst --- urban art --- surrealisme --- toyisme --- naïeve kunst --- figuratieve kunst --- hyperrealisme --- urban interventionisme --- 738.9 --- schilder- en tekenkunst, overige genres en motieven -trompe l'oeil, graffiti --- Invader --- Muurschildering --- 730 --- grafische kunst --- art urbain --- schilder- en tekenkunst --- peinture et dessin --- kunst in de openbare ruimte --- social criticism --- Propaganda
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In contrast to the prevailing scholarly con-sensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite--fear, especially the fear of God's wrath. Most antislavery reformers recognized that calls for love and sympathy or the representation of suffering slaves would not lead an audience to "feel right" or to actively oppose slavery. The threat of God's apocalyptic vengeance--and the terror that this threat inspired--functioned within the tradition of abolitionist sentimentality as a necessary goad for sympathy and love. Fear,then, was at the center of nineteenth-century sentimental strategies for inciting antislavery reform, bolstering love when love faltered, and operating as a powerful mechanism for establishing interracial sympathy. Depictions of God's apocalyptic vengeance constituted the most efficient strategy for antislavery writers to generate a sense of terror in their audience. Focusing on a range of important anti-slavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the sametime, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery. Situated at the intersection of love and fear, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism proposes a new genealogy for understanding literary sentimentalism as a complex negotiation of seemingly oppositional emotional economies. In the manuscript, Kevin Pelletier investigates the convergence of emergent sentimental practices with the fire and brimstone rhetoric of evangelical Christianity. Its aims are threefold: 1) to demonstrate that prophecies of apocalypse, and the fear they stimulate, are foundational to the U.S. sentimental tradition; 2) to analyze how abolitionist and antislavery writers adopted and revised the rhetoric of apocalyptic sentimentality in the years leading up to the Civil War; and 3) to examine how this discourse of apocalyptic sentimentalism was used to produce an innovative theory of selfhood, one that challenged the then-prevalent notion that African Americans were inherently inferior--physically, emotionally, and intellectually--than whites. The works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and others are discussed, as Pelletier works to uncover this ignored tradition and demonstrate how nineteenth-century apocalyptic sentimentalists produced messianic selfhood in order to subvert established racial hierarchies.
African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Apocalyptic literature --- Apocalyptische literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Emoties in de literatuur --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Emotions in literature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Esclaves dans la littérature --- Literature [Apocalyptic ] --- Literatuur [Apocalyptische ] --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Slaven in de literatuur --- Slavernij in de literatuur --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- American literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Antislavery movements in literature. --- Apocalyptic literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Literature and society --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Antislavery movements in literature --- United States --- Walker, David --- Criticism and interpretation --- Turner, Nat --- Fiction --- Stewart, Maria W. --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Brown, John
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Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers-from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona LaDuk
Literature and society. --- Literature and morals. --- Humanism in literature. --- Social justice in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- Humanism --- Social change --- American literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Social aspects --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- United States --- Social problems in literature --- Social justice in literature --- Humanism in literature --- Literature and society --- Walker, David --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth --- Viramontes, Helena Maria --- Silko, Leslie Marmon --- Naylor, Gloria --- Ortiz, Simon --- Yamashita, Karen Tei
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