[PDF] Writing A New Society eBook

Author : V. Matheson-Hooker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004488057

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Writing a New Society is the first extended study of the novel in Malay and is a groundbreaking study of the relationship between social change and literary practice. The book traces the emergence of the genre from the 1920s and, drawing on 26 of Malaysia's best-known novels, argues that the form was developed as a vehicle for transforming Malay ideas about themselves and their society. Virginia Hooker focuses on the underlying anxiety about racial identity, which underpins much of Malay writing and examines how ethnic identity is constructed and expressed. In a radical break with the traditional notion of Malay society as being totally dependent on the Sultan, the book shows how the novelists centre their writings on descriptions of 'ordinary' Malays, and present the household as the primary site of change. Here the novels develop and describe a 'private' sphere where Malays who previously had no rights begin to exercise their initiative. The concept of social equality which inspires the novelists subverts many of the themes of modern Malay politics.

Author : Andrew Cornell
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849350671

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Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today's activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making, spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell's important contribution to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for activists today. Oppose and Propose is an engaging and accessible study, every page offers new insights. Andrew Cornell's work appears in Letters from Young Activists and The University Against Itself. He helps produce the quarterly anti-capitalist magazine Left Turn.

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Verso
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780860917724

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Raymond Williams’s work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines dramatic form and language in Racine and Shakespeare; the politics of fiction in the English Jacobin novel; David Hume and Charles Dickens and the changing characteristics of English prose; Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, and the role of region and class in the English novel. Also included are Williams’s reflections on the rise of English studies, on their crisis as the literary traditions of Cambridge University were beset by the ‘structuralist controversy’, and on the wider implications of this redefinition of the critical field.

Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521339629

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Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.

Author : Joanna Macy
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0865717753

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Personal empowerment in the face of planetary despair

Author : Howard S. Becker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226041263

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Explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. Becker explores the many ways knowledge about society can be shared and interpreted through different forms of telling—fiction, films, photographs, maps, even mathematical models—many of which remain outside the boundaries of conventional social science. Eight case studies, including the photographs of Walker Evans, the plays of George Bernard Shaw, the novels of Jane Austen and Italo Calvino, and the sociology of Erving Goffman, provide support for Becker’s argument: that every way of telling about society is perfect—for some purpose. The trick is, as Becker notes, to discover what purpose is served by doing it this way rather than that. From publisher description.

Author : Jerome Schwab
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Computers and college students
ISBN : 9780132379403

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This thematic reader helps develop writers by exposing them to readings that are immediately relevant to their lives as students, consumers, and citizens, and seeking to awaken social consciousness and encourage involvement. Rich with discussion questions and writing prompts focusing on critical reading and rhetoric, this text explores not only how society is changing, but also how citizens can participate in changing it in the interests of social justice, peace, and preservation of communities and the environment.

Author : Virginia Matheson Hooker
Publisher : Brill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789067181570

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Writing a New Society is the first extended study of the novel in Malay and is a groundbreaking study of the relationship between social change and literary practice. The book traces the emergence of the genre from the 1920s and, drawing on 26 of Malaysia's best-known novels, argues that the form was developed as a vehicle for transforming Malay ideas about themselves and their society. Virginia Hooker focuses on the underlying anxiety about racial identity, which underpins much of Malay writing and examines how ethnic identity is constructed and expressed. In a radical break with the traditional notion of Malay society as being totally dependent on the Sultan, the book shows how the novelists centre their writings on descriptions of 'ordinary' Malays, and present the household as the primary site of change. Here the novels develop and describe a 'private' sphere where Malays who previously had no rights begin to exercise their initiative. The concept of social equality which inspires the novelists subverts many of the themes of modern Malay politics.