Böcker utgivna av Peter Lang

«Indian Muslim women are vibrant and have an identity of their own. As a section of humanity and as individuals, they have faced immense struggles, have had varied experiences, have rendered their support to the freedom struggle, have raised their voice for women¿s emancipation and have asserted their identity. This book is a very fine documentation of the lives of prominent Indian Muslim women icons who inspired millions of other women to express their voice and bring about social transformation.»(Mr K Rahman Khan, Former Union Minister of Minority Affairs-GOI, Former Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha.)¿This book brings together an impressive collection of meticulously curated articles on the lives and accomplishments of Muslim women icons of India. The present-day India has witnessed Muslim women trailblazers establishing their names in the field of arts, science, politics, social activism and literature. Even medieval and colonial India has its own share of extraordinary Muslim women legends. They have ruled empires, been unbiased chroniclers of history, lent their mind and effort to the Freedom Movement and been unsung heroines of Women¿s emancipation. This work coalesces the stories of Muslim women achievers, their contribution to society and highlights their undeniable role in human progress. Diverse, well-researched and inspiring, it is a must-read for all, especially the younger generation. The book is an essential read for understanding Muslim women¿s contribution in India.

Das angebliche Bilderverbot, das im Zweiten Gebot des Dekalogs enthalten sein soll, ist eigentlich ein Idolatrieverbot. Das heißt, dass das jüdische Gesetz nicht Bilder an sich, sondern Idole verbietet. Gewiss: Manche Bilder werden als Idole verehrt. Es gibt aber auch Bilder, die keine idolatrische Bedeutung haben, und umgekehrt Idole, die keinen bildlichen Charakter aufweisen. Die Untersuchung dieser komplexen Zusammenhänge ist das Hauptziel des vorliegenden Sammelbandes. Von unterschiedlichen theoretischen Standpunkten ausgehend, eröffnen die hier versammelten Aufsätze neue Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis zwischen Bild und Idol.Mit Beiträgen von Beniamino Fortis, Asher D. Biemann, Ellen Rinner, Mario C. Schmidt, Lars Tittmar, Johannes Bennke und Agata Bielik-Robson.

«In this brilliant study of Jane Austen¿s fiction, Rita J. Dashwood deftly illuminates the complexity of women¿s relationships to nineteenth-century property, by considering not only houses and estates, but law, inheritance, management, interior spaces, and feelings. Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, which breaks important new ground in Austen studies, will appeal to newcomers and seasoned readers alike.»(Professor Devoney Looser, Professor of English, Arizona State University)¿«Combining meticulous close reading with a thorough knowledge of contemporary debates, Rita Dashwood expertly demonstrates how Austen¿s fictional characters forged affective connections with the properties they inherited, managed, lived in and imagined, often working around and against the legal system and its constraints. In so doing she both expands our understanding of 'ownership' in the period and provides compelling evidence for Austen as, in her brother¿s words, 'the novelist of home'.»(Professor Joe Bray, Professor of Language and Literature, The University of Sheffield)¿Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen investigates the centrality of real property ¿ the house and the estate ¿ in Austen¿s fictional works, and how it allows her to depict her characters establishing complex relationships to the spaces they inhabit. By offering an original reconceptualisation of «ownership» which includes legal as well as affective relationships towards property, this book particularly considers how the women in Austen¿s novels establish feelings of ownership towards houses they are not legally entitled to own. As this book demonstrates, through her work, Austen offers more than just a criticism of the current property laws and the ways in which they affect women: she puts forward alternative ways for women to establish a sense of purpose for themselves and express their identities through the spaces they create and occupy, unreservedly legitimizing female ownership.

Ce volume se propose de faire des pas significatifs dans la direction d¿une meilleure compréhension et application de la méthodologie de la recherche dans les productions scientifiques actuelles, dans les sciences humaines. La recherche se poursuit d¿après une approche rigoureuse qui se propose de trouver des réponses à des questions qui conduisent à des investigations dans le réel. La recherche scientifique veut mettre en évidence ce qui est caché, se propose d¿établir une loi, un principe. C¿est un processus dynamique et une démarche rationnelle qui permet d¿examiner des phénomènes littéraires ou linguistiques et se propose d¿obtenir des réponses qui mènent à de nouvelles perspectives dans le champ étudié.

«Valentina Romanzi¿s study is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on dystopia, utopia science fiction, and speculative fiction. It provides a comprehensive and updated review of the complex and rich debate on the question of genres and subgenres, while at the same time offering a fresh perspective. Eloquent and very well written, this volume reveals Americäs fascination with catastrophic future scenarios, including the post-apocalyptic, delving into the issues that surround critical dystopia, progress, hope and fear. The close readings offer lucid, insightful interpretations of texts that range from SF literary ancestor, Mary Shelley¿s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood¿s award winning The Testaments, sequel to the acclaimed The Handmaid¿s Tale.»(Eleonora Rao, Università degli Studi di Salerno)¿This volume investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction. Using a methodological framework based on sociology, it theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a renewed interest in dystopian worlds.¿Part One illustrates the methodological framework, exploring the concept of dystopia, offering an overview of the American myths and of their current status and spotlighting some relevant sociological theories.¿Part Two applies the proposed methodological framework to four texts, investigating the sub-genres of political, technological and environmental dystopia. The primary works, chosen to show both the relevance of the abovementioned American myths to dystopian narratives and the pervasiveness of the genre across the media, are Margaret Atwood¿s The Testaments (2019), Dave Eggers¿s The Circle (2013), David Cage¿s video game Detroit: Become Human (2018), and the Hughes Brothers¿ 2010 movie The Book of Eli.

In A Fragmented Caribbean Empire, Jerome Teelucksingh examines some of the personalities and organizations that are often overlooked in analysis of the Caribbean region and its diaspora, and in particular the Indo-Caribbean presence in literature, migration and politics. Most of the existing scholarship on the Caribbean has tended to overlook this and other ethnic, religious and cultural minorities. The author utilizes interviews and delves into diverse archival sources to create a paradigm of a region with a rich historical past and a promising future. Research on indentureship and migration to North America and Britain elucidates the strong transnational ties between the Caribbean and other regions of the world, and shows how the Caribbean can be conceptualised as a global ¿empire¿. Behind this lies the author¿s unwavering conviction that the Caribbean should be acknowledged as important and given its rightful place in global history.

Michel Foucault, de la fin des années 1970 au début des années 1980, au moment oùle primat de la production cède le pas au primat de la consommation, sublime lesproblèmes politiques actuels en menant une vaste enquête sur les dilemmes propresà l¿éthique classique (grecque, romaine, chrétienne). Emergent ainsi des notions quinous fournissent des indications historiques et conceptuelles pour mettre en placedes résistances inédites ¿ résistances fondées sur le caractère exemplaire de formesde vie minoritaires ¿ face à un gouvernement de la vie qui n¿admet dans son principeaucune opposition à sa diffusion capillaire. Il s¿agit de mettre à jour des existences,des textes, des documents fragmentaires, oubliés et refoulés, situés sur le bord dutemps, dans le sous-sol de l¿histoire. L¿hypothèse qui guide la composition de cetouvrage est que, dans les dernières années de son travail, Foucault met à l¿épreuvedes formes de subjectivation capables de se soustraire à une condition telle que celleque nous vivons où la liberté elle-même est devenue un dispositif de contrôle subtileet puissant. Parrêsia, cynisme antique, esthétique de l¿existence, désir, souci de soi,plaisirs, ascèse, Aristote, Deleuze, Hadot, Heidegger, Kant, Nietzsche, Platon sont lesthématiques et les notions convoquées ici pour documenter comment s¿organise chezFoucault un vocabulaire éthico-politique insoupçonné pour nous orienter dans lacatastrophe du présent.