Wojciech H Kalaga - Böcker

At the turn of the millennium, memory has emerged as one of the key notions of the contemporary paradigm. This volume explores its involvement in the conceptualisation of culture as well as its underlying presence in literature and philosophy. Mem...

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Baudrillard's culture of simulation destroys our sense of paramount reality. It has created, as Chris Rojek puts it, a "huge refugee camp in which viewers, dissociated from place and community, are caught up in global indexing and dragging pr...

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Peopled with diasporas and individuals, the space of exile persistently exists, though it cannot be circumscribed. Papers collected in the volume traverse that space in various directions, shedding some light on its manifold regions, niches, and c...

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A relationship between man and place has always attracted scientists', scholars', and artists' attention. Succinctly subsumed in the concept of genius loci and implicated in the art of visual and linguistic description, topography of man's existen...

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Contents: The Body in the Centre. Surgical (Re)Constructions of the Body - The Body in the Margins. The Body and Resistance: Reclaiming the Self in Non-Mainstream Body Modifications - Mastectomy: Phenomenology of Absence, or Reclaiming the Self in...

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The contributions in this volume examine literary and other texts as well as cultural and political discourses in relation to issues of identity formation and dis-formation, of self and society and of the socially local within the global. All thes...

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There is no sapient question: to eat or not to eat? Eating comes before culture, but with culture it becomes more than just eating. It is with the purpose of exploring the relation between culture and consuming food - a relation far more complex t...

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Spoiling the Cannibals' Fun? is not a volume about Captain Cook, unless one thinks the story of his having been eaten in the Polynesian tropics is not so much about the nourishing of the barbarians with a white man's flesh, as one which raises a n...

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