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Free Download The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past by Michael Laffan
English | August 28, 2011 | ISBN: 069114530X, 0691162166 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 1.9 MB
Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions. According to Western observers-from Dutch colonial administrators and orientalist scholars to modern anthropologists such as the late Clifford Geertz-Indonesia’s peaceful interpretation of Islam has been perpetually under threat from outside by more violent, intolerant Islamic traditions that were originally imposed by conquering Arab armies.

Free Download Cristina Stanciu, "The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924 "
English | ISBN: 0300224354 | 2023 | 384 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants

Free Download Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, "The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography"
English | ISBN: 1793624380 | 2022 | 170 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 840 KB
In The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography Teófilo Espada-Brignoni analyzes the autobiographies of New Orleans musicians (Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins) who throughout their texts construct New Orleans jazz as an authentic musical expression grounded in their experiences and culture. The author argues the autobiographies reproduce and reinterpret modernist conceptions of authenticity to assert and affirm authority over the public representations and discussions of jazz. Through the autobiographers’ use of ideas about authenticity, they establish the value of their narratives but at the same time reinforce some of the power dynamics they set out to criticize. Their narratives also reveal the complex ethics that emerged during the first decades of the music and problematize modernist values such as individualism, the dichotomy of work and life, as well as the self and the social. The book adopts Foucauldian and social-constructivist perspectives, complementing analysis of the autobiographies by drawing from literary theory, psychology, sociology, and jazz scholarship.