Under Western Eyes

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin -- his close friend -- he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.

Russia under Western Eyes

Author: Martin E Malia
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529

Book Description
A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.

Under Western Eyes

Author: Balachandra Rajan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Analysis of the consolidation of British imperialist discourse about India from the seventeenth century to the 1830s.

Babylon Under Western Eyes

Author: Andrew Scheil
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442625139
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon’s remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the “Left Behind” series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime. Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon’s significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture.

Feminism Without Borders

Author: Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
DIVEssays by a pioneering theorist of feminism, multiculturalism, and antiracism./div

Ukraine Under Western Eyes

Author: Steven Seegel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932650044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As part of his personal archive, Krawciw's maps were bequeathed to Harvard University upon his death in 1975. This book serves as both a catalog of his collection and a description of how the maps he collected serve as an invaluable source for Ukraine's history and a symbol of Ukrainian national identity.

Feminist Theory Reader

Author: Carole Ruth McCann
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415931526
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description
Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives.

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

Author: E. Randolph Richards
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830863478
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. Identifying nine areas where commonplaces of modern Western thought diverge with the text, the authors ask us to reconsider long-held opinions about our most beloved book.

In the Name of Women's Rights

Author: Sara R. Farris
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822372924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western societies and as oppressors of women, and by emphasizing the need to rescue Muslim and migrant women, these groups use gender equality to justify their racist rhetoric and policies. This practice also serves an economic function. Farris analyzes how neoliberal civic integration policies and feminist groups funnel Muslim and non-western migrant women into the segregating domestic and caregiving industries, all the while claiming to promote their emancipation. In the Name of Women's Rights documents the links between racism, feminism, and the ways in which non-western women are instrumentalized for a variety of political and economic purposes.

Under Western Eyes

Author: Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Using personal experience as a way of addressing difficult social and political issues, these contributors look to their own lives to assess how assimilation, generational differences, racism, language, family, and stereotypes affect their identities as Americans. Amy Tan, Li-Young Lee, David Mura and Chang-rae Lee are among the contributors. Photos.