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The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form
Author: Francesca Orsini
language: en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date: 2022-02-23
This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War. The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms. With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.
Death in the Afternoon
The classic investigation of bullfighting's history and pomp, as well of the deeper themes of fear, valour, sport, and tragedy that it evokes, by Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon is still regarded as one of the best books on bullfighting ever written, reflecting Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than just a sport. He outlines the technical components of this dangerous rite, as well as ""the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that a man, an animal, and a strip of crimson serge draped on a stick can achieve."" Bullfighting becomes an art, a finely planned ballet, with participants ranging from ungainly novices to masters of remarkable grace and cunning, as seen through his eyes. Death in the Afternoon is a fascinating look into the history and grandeur of bullfighting, as well as a deeper reflection on the nature of cowardice and valor, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's sharp observations on life and literature.
Born to Run
Author: Christopher McDougall
language: en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date: 2010-12-09
A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.