Timothy Brennan is a cultural critic and biographer. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Minnesota and the author of, most recently, Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz, Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies, and Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said.
13 Ebooks par Timothy Brennan
Timothy Brennan: Wars of Position
Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. He contends that a certain soci …
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Timothy Brennan: Borrowed Light
A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the ‘anticolonial century.’ The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ign …
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Michael Crew & Pier Luigi Parcu: The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector
This book addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Postal operators worldwide have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created …
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Pier Luigi Parcu & Timothy Brennan: The Contribution of the Postal and Delivery Sector
This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Worldwide, there is currently a considerable amount of interest in postal and delivery economics. The …
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Timothy Brennan: Salman Rushdie and the Third World
The dialectic between national literary production and the rise of a group of writers with cosmopolitan sympathies is the aim of this book, concentrating on Rushdie’s novels and …
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Timothy Brennan: Lucky Rice
This award winning e Book describes the first meetings of a traditional rice farmer, his family and a young visitor from a western city. Spanning the course of a single day and punctuated by …
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Timothy Brennan: Places of Mind
‘An intimate portrait … Critical, generous and heartfelt’ Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian’An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character’ Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival sources …
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Timothy Brennan: Secular Devotion
Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western …
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€28.99
Basak Ertur & Müge Gürsoy Sökmen: Waiting for the Barbarians
Bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Edward Said and his scholarship,
Waiting for the Barbarians looks at Said the public intellectual and literary critic, and his …
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Gopal Balakrishnan: Debating Empire
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s book
Empire has been hailed as a latter day
Communist Manifesto. Its ability to develop a theoretical framework relevant to the current period of global …
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Daniele Archibugi: Debating Cosmopolitics
Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance of …
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Timothy Brennan: Places of Mind
**WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2021**Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan’s Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the …
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Edward Said: Songs of an Eastern Humanist
‘Considering the emphasis in Said’s critical work on space and place and the political importance of geography, it is less surprising to see the luxuriant evocation of a specific topography of dusty …
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