Ramboud & Juliana

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Author: Laurence Lamers

Publisher: PoseTone Studios

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 225

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There is no power quite like the strength of love. It cannot be surpassed, and if challenged, it brings sorrow and pain to those who resist. This is the story of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It is a tale not only familiar within the city walls of Verona but also prevalent in other regions of our planet, revealing the short-sightedness of individuals opposing love for their own ends. A similar story occurred in the year 1698 in the Dutch region of the Zaanse Schans, located to the north of Amsterdam. It was a bustling industrial area, where mills processed imported raw materials into refined goods that were then sent back to Amsterdam, the global trade center, for distribution across the world. The town was under the influence of two families who held opposing religious beliefs. The Catholic family, led by Maarten van de Bergh, and the Calvinist Hooft family, headed by the vengeful Cornelis Hooft. Unfortunately, fortune did not favor Cornelis in his endeavors, while his rival Maarten flourished in his undertakings. Cornelis attributed his misfortune to the Catholics, accusing them of foul play. He couldn't comprehend why God did not act justly, considering his family's adherence to Protestant principles. The conflict between the families escalated to such an extent that it had repercussions on the investments made by the Sephardic financier Francisco Mendes do Pinto. Seeking a resolution, Francisco remained unaware of the impulsive nature of his nephew Parigi, a wealthy Jewish merchant from the Levant. Parigi, captivated by the radiant beauty of Cornelis's daughter Juliana, resolved to marry her and offered a bridal gift that Cornelis could not refuse, thus securing a life of financial tranquility. However, Juliana's heart yearns for a man she has always longed to meet - Ramboud, the hardworking son of her father's rival, Maarten van den Bergh. Ramboud tirelessly maintains the Cacao mill across the river. The marriage arrangement thrusts Juliana into Ramboud's embrace and seals their love for eternity. Will this tale unfold as tragically as the story of Juliet and Romeo, or will the power of love triumph over the desires of those who oppose it? This is a narrative that delves into religious conflicts during Holland's golden age, offering a glimpse into the daily lives of the Dutch people during a time of prosperity.

Transnational Jean Rhys

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Author: Juliana Lopoukhine

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1501361309

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This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer is due for reassessment. Transnational Jean Rhys argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with Rhys's writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign – especially French – authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in myriad directions. Including an interview with Black Atlantic novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.

Against Value in the Arts and Education

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Author: Sam Ladkin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1783484918

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Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art’s defenders make art self-satisfied, or otherwise an echo-chamber for the limited and limiting self-description of people’s lives lived in an “audit culture”, a culture pervaded by the direct and indirect excrescence of practices of accountability. This book diagnoses the counter-intuitive effects of the rhetoric of value. It posits that the auditing of values pervades the fabric of people’s work-lives, their education, and increasingly their everyday experience. The book uncovers figures of resentment, disenchantment and alienation fostered by the dogma of value. It argues instead that value judgments can behave insidiously, and incorporate aesthetic, ethical or ideological values fundamentally opposed to the “value” they purportedly name and describe. The collection contains contributions from leading scholars in the UK and US with contributions from anthropology, the history of art, literature, education, musicology, political science, and philosophy.

Merde Happens

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Author: Stephen Clarke

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1608195864

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In the acclaimed third installment of the popular Merde series, Paul West winds up stuck in American, chin-deep in financial trouble. He and his French girlfriend set off to America, with hopes of veering off the path to fiscal ruin. But as the not-so-dynamic duo stumble toward Los Angeles, via Boston, Miami, New Orleans, and Las Vegas, Paul's well-oiled plans for success, of course, turn to merde: the couple takes on carjackers, old flames, and liaisons dangereuses. The result is a madcap, hilarious adventure, an acerbic tour through America, France, England, and the places that make us who we are.

The Queer Sixties

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Author: Patricia Juliana Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1136683615

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The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.

After Marx

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Author: Colleen Lye

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1108808395

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After Marx:Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist literary criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, deindustrialization, high-tech labor, ecological crisis, and other issues. A key innovation of the volume's essays is how they attend to Marx's theory of value. For Marx, capitalist value demands a range of different kinds of labor as well as unemployment. This book shows the importance of Marxist approaches to literature that reach beyond simply demonstrating the revolutionary potential or the political consciousness of a 19th-century-style industrial working class. After Marx makes an argument for the twenty-first century interconnectedness of widely different literary genres, and far-flung political struggles.

Jean Rhys

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Author: Juliana Lopoukhine

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-29

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1000879062

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Jean Rhys' position upon the literary map of the 20th century remains unstable, even after Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). She shunned public exposure and yet, desperately sought acknowledgement by her own peers; she stood away from the modernist circles of Montparnasse, in Paris, and yet, explored a radically avant-garde writing which retrospectively makes her rank among them, while her always problematic authority places her in the marginalized position of the postcolonial author. 'Writing precariously', in the case of Jean Rhys, reaches far beyond a mere posture of submission or a necessity to cope with a lack of money or a 'room of one’s own'. Rather, it becomes an ethical and political stance that engages with forms of minimal resistance to forms of subjection just as the very precariousness of her writing thwarts any efforts to 'place' her or her work, to frame her characters or label her style. With Jean Rhys, precariousness is the site where voices silenced and bodies dismissed by a gendered or imperialistic power may be retrieved, until their vulnerability becomes a dislodging force that makes the power structures precarious in turn. This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insists and persists. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Women: A Cultural Review.

Because the Sun

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Author: Sarah Burgoyne

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1770566708

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Camus’s Meursault and Thelma and Louise meet up under the blazing sun. Vexed by the ‘unremarkable star’ that ‘presses’ Camus’s Meursault to commit murder, Because the Sun considers the blazing sun as a material symbol of ambient violence – violence absorbed like heat and fired at the nearest victim. Likewise, as a friendship between women confronts gendered aggression in Thelma and Louise, the sun becomes the repository of pain, the high noon that pushes us through desert after desert. Because the Sun’s pastiche of voices embodies both stylistic and formal relentlessness by teasing out tonalities that blend and merge into each other, generating a blinding effect, like looking into the sun. “Breathless and death defying, the poems in Because the Sun are high-wire work. They sway above us in a blazing light of Burgoyne’s making. It is so rare that a book of poems is both a tuning fork for our minds as well as a balm for our bodies. But that is exactly what happens page after page in this blazing book.” —Michael Dickman, author of Days & Days “This beautiful work wraps Camus’s The Stranger in a poetics concerning erasure/+ hope. Out of the titular Sun’s burning punctum burst telling shards of what is erased by Camus’s remarkable construction of whiteness in-the-masculine: the dead ‘Arab,’ the female body’s interminable violations – but also its warming, even blinding capacity for consequential pleasures.” —Gail Scott, author of Heroine “Sarah Burgoyne begins with the sun and ends with flowers. In between is a complicated exploration of what it means to exist within a tradition that is Camus, Rimbaud, Blake. Taking her cue from Sara Ahmed, she notices how hard it is to challenge this tradition and yet that it matters to do it anyway.” —Juliana Spahr, author of That Winter the Wolf Came

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