Tag: Violence

Free Download Hakeem Bello, "The Interpreters: Ritual, Violence, and Social Regeneration in the Writing of Wole Soyinka"
English | ISBN: 9789181957 | 2014 | 178 pages | PDF | 20 MB
A concern for social regeneration stands as the factor that animates Soyinka’s life-long involvement in social and political activism, leading to hid incarceration for two years during the civil war, and his having to flee into exile during the period of Sani Abacha’s dictatorship. Soyinka expresses this same concern for social regeneration in his writings, using difference metaphors. The focus of this work lies in the exploration of the articulations of social regeneration in the works of Wole Soyinka. The first past focuses on the dramatic works, and the argument of the author is that the metaphor adopted by Africa’s foremost playwright in articulating his vision of social regeneration is that of ritual. Attention shifts in part two to Soyinka’s two novels; and here, Bello goes to the roots of Yoruba metaphysics to fetch a metaphor which describes a creature with contradictory personality; which at once is committed to the regeneration of the social order while at the same time retaining a vindictive, vengeful nature.

Free Download Deadly Musings: Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction by Michael Kowalewski
English | July 26, 1993 | ISBN: 0691069735 | True EPUB/PDF | 316 pages | 0.4/1.9 MB
"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski examines incidents ranging from scalpings and torture in The Deerslayer to fish feeding off human viscera in To Have and Have Not, to show how highly charged descriptive passages bear on major issues concerning a writer’s craft. Instead of focusing on violence as a socio-cultural phenomenon, he explores how writers including Cooper, Poe, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Pynchon draw on violence in the realistic imagining of their works and how their respective styles sustain or counteract this imagining.

Free Download Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South
by Pavan Kumar Malreddy
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009443836 | 254 Pages | True PDF | 3.6 MB

Free Download Scott Nethersole, "Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence"
English | ISBN: 0300233515 | 2018 | 320 pages | PDF | 43 MB
This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. Renaissance Florentines were constantly subjected to the sight of violence, whether in carefully staged rituals of execution or images of the suffering inflicted on Christ. There was nothing new in this culture of pain, unlike the aesthetic of violence that developed towards the end of the 15th century. It emerged in the work of artists such as Piero di Cosimo, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, and the young Michelangelo. Inspired by the art of antiquity, they painted, engraved, and sculpted images of deadly battles, ultimately normalizing representations of brutal violence. Drawing on work in social and literary history, as well as art history, Scott Nethersole sheds light on the relationship between these Renaissance images, violence, and ideas of artistic invention and authorship.

Free Download Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, "Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500 "
English | ISBN: 0367565706 | 2021 | 238 pages | EPUB | 776 KB
This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times.

Free Download Street Harassment as Everyday Violence
by Melinda A. Mills
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1666912379 | 239 Pages | True PDF | 1.55 MB

Free Download Susanna Trnka, "State of Suffering: Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji"
English | ISBN: 0801446406 | 2008 | 224 pages | PDF | 29 MB
How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians’ lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji.

Free Download Nicolas Argenti, "Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission"
English | ISBN: 1845456246 | 2009 | 280 pages | PDF | 1469 KB
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the transgenerational effects of trauma and the means by which experiences are transmitted from person to person across time to become intrinsic parts of the social fabric. With eight contributions covering Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East, this volume sheds new light on the role of memory in constructing popular histories – or historiographies – of violence in the absence of, or in contradistinction to, authoritative written histories. It brings new ethnographic data to light and presents a truly cross-cultural range of case studies that will greatly enhance the discussion of memory and violence across disciplines.

Free Download Museums and Mass Violence
by Paul Morrow, Amy Sodaro
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032707143 | 289 Pages | True PDF | 13.2 MB

Free Download Paul Morrow, "Museums and Mass Violence "
English | ISBN: 1032707143 | 2024 | 304 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address – or fail to address – the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.