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Sealed in Stone
Self-imprisoned in a Parisian cemetery wall, a woman reflects on the savage turmoil of the medieval world.
Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature
The mobility of women is a central issue in feminist analysis of literary works and historical periods. Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature explores the concept of the journey from feminist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial perspectives, in order to offer an alternative understanding of "moving." Cinzia Sartini Blum examines the new literature of migration in Italian and journeys in the works of Biancamaria Frabotta, Dacia Maraini, Toni Maraini, and Maria Pace Ottieri, to demonstrate that women writers and migrant authors in contemporary Italy present journeys as events that are beyond heroic modern exploration and postmodern fragmentation. Using the mythical figure of G...
Songs of the Heart
A detailed description of the inner 'valleys' of the spiritual path. The receiving by man of the force of light from above, its working within him, the joy and suffering which may be entailed, and the insight that arises with it.
Moroccan Modernism
In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca École des beaux-arts, transforming the colonial relic into a wellspring of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed Melehi, defined the modernist movement in Morocco. Their visual arts activism was displayed at their iconic outdoor exhibition in the Djemaa al-Fna plaza in Marrakech, in their collaborations with the cultural and political journal Souffles, through their radical anticolonial pedagogy, and through their use of abstraction to expand the horizons of postcolonial national culture. In Moroccan Modernism, Holiday Powers argues that the pedagogy and transnational solidarities of this generation of artists were intrinsic to their broader artistic projects. She advances a novel reading of Moroccan modernism that is rooted in its cosmopolitan national context and in Pan-Africanism and Pan-Arabism, the transnational anticolonial intellectual movements that defined the era.
Songs of Submission
Cultural Writing. Spiritual Essays. SONGS OF SUBMISSION is the first book in renowned mystical writer Ronimund von Bissing's spiritual quartet Songs of the Spirit. One of the most significant contributions to the mystical literature of the Twentieth century. This classic companion in the great spiritual tradition reaches the heights of inner experience where differences of doctrine dissolve and man faces his true self. See also SONGS OF THE HEART, SONGS OF THE JOURNEY and SONGS OF THE WAYFARER, all available from SPD.
Art in the Service of Colonialism
In the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956), the French established vocational and fine art schools, imposed modern systems of industrial production and pedagogy and reinvented old traditions. Hamid Irbouh argues that the French used this systematic modernisation of local arts and crafts regulation to impose their control. He looks in particular at the role and place of women in the structures of art production and education created by the French- that transformed and dominated Moroccan society during the colonial period. French women infiltrated the Moroccan milieu, to buttress colonial ideology, yet at critical moments, Moroccan women rejected traditional roles and sabotaged colonial plans. Meanwhile, the contradictions between reformist goals and the old order added to social dislocations and led to rebellion against French hegemony. Irbouh examines and analyses these processes and demonstrates how Moroccan artists have struggled to exorcise French influences and rediscover an authentic visual culture since decolonisation. This book reveals that the weight of colonial history continues to weigh heavily on artistic practice and production.
Zeitgenössische Werke marokkanischer Künstler
Nicht nur in Deutschland sind die Werke marokkanischer Künstler nahezu unbekannt. Was sind die Gründe? Ist es der Alleinvertretungsanspruch des Westens in Sachen Kunst oder, wie Enwezor betont, die Unfähigkeit der westlichen Avantgarde, künstlerische Modernität außerhalb des Okzidents zu begreifen? Ist es die rätselhafte Zeichensprache einer islamischen Ästhetik, die dem europäischen Betrachter den Zugang erschwert, deren immanente Spiritualität jedoch Klee bewunderte, und deren metaphysische und kosmologische Vorstellungen dem von Kandinsky postulierten "Geistigen in der Kunst" entsprechen? Das Verdienst dieser Studie ist es, die scheinbar so fremd wirkenden Arbeiten marokkanische...
Action!
Action! draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the Bright Lights Film Journal, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died. The book also benefits from many rare photographs of these great directors on set, and scenes from their groundbreaking works.
The Cultures of Italian Migration
The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective 'Italian' to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like 'home,' 'identity,' 'subjectivity,' and 'otherness' eschew stereotyping. This volume demonstrates that interpretations of old migrations are necessary in order to talk about contemporary Italy. New migrations trace new non linear paths in the definition of a multicultural Italy whose roots are unmistakably present throughout the centuries. Some of these essays concentrate on topics that are historically long-term, such as emigration from Italy to the Americas and southern Pacific Ocean. Others focus on the more contemporary phenomena of immigration to Italy from other parts of the world, including Africa. This collection ultimately offers an invitation to seek out new and different modes of analyzing the migratory act.
Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema
The Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Italian cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology.
