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"Muddily Human": antimodernism in the novels of Robert Kroetsch [PDF]
For many years the novels of Robert Kroetsch have been canonized as paradigmatic Canadian postmodern and postcolonial texts. This thesis argues that Kroetsch’s texts are antimodernist works which reveal his reaction against modernity.
Clarke, Bronagh
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Sisyphean toil. Review of “Art Since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism”
, 2016 Sisyphean toil.
Kotlomanov, Alexander O.
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
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Understanding and truth in Hannah Arendt: The critical reception of the Eichmann trial and the will
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article highlights a shift in Hannah Arendt's intellectual development regarding the will during the 1960s, traced into the early 1970s when she focused on thinking, willing, and judging. I argue that this change was driven by reactions to her report on Adolf Eichmann's 1961 trial in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
Andrew Song
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2025.Abstract Selective abortion of female fetuses is a widespread, illegal, and profoundly consequential form of family planning in contemporary India. In Gujarat state, public health campaigns against the practice rely on narratives exhibiting the hallmarks of melodrama: good–evil binaries, stock characters, emotional provocations, simplistic diagnoses ...
Utpal N. Sandesara
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Decoloniality and the Spectre of Modernity: Notes for a Theoretical Critique
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 251-262, June 2024.This article examines a thesis that has become a common currency in Latin American critical thought, namely that ‘coloniality’ is constitutive of modernity. This proposition rests on a reifying conception of modernity as a Eurocentric civilisational project which, I contend, is theoretically flawed and politically pernicious.
Julián Harruch
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The ‘Everyday’ in the Context of Japanese Cultural Anti-Modernism
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural InquiryWith the opening up of Japan’s borders to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, after about two hundred years of self-isolation, and its eventual defeat in World War II, Japan rushed into an age committed to conscious modernization.
Ritaban Bhattacharya
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 71-93, June 2024.Abstract In this article, we explore how raciolinguistic parody functions in a society that hegemonically denies racial divisions. Through an analysis of Puerto Rican comedian Natalia Lugo's YouTube portrayals of her character, Francheska the Yal ‘welfare queen,’ we argue that covert racialization operates through a semiotics of respectability, whereby
Mary Elizabeth Beaton +2 more
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"Muddily Human": antimodernism in the novels of Robert Kroetsch [PDF]
, 2007 For many years the novels of Robert Kroetsch have been canonized as paradigmatic Canadian postmodern and postcolonial texts. This thesis argues that Kroetsch’s texts are antimodernist works which reveal his reaction against modernity.
Clarke, Bronagh
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A Safety Valve to Modern Living: Antimodernism, Citizenship, Leisure, and the Environment in Toronto's Outdoor Education Centres, 1953-1997 [PDF]
, 2012 In 1960 the Toronto Board of Education opened its first residential outdoor education centre, the Toronto Island Natural Science School, which signaled the beginning of an outdoor education movement in the city.
Joyce, Katherine Anne
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