Author: Mark Nicholls
Publisher: Pluto Press Australia
Keywords: mob, melancholia, men, scorsese
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-03-21
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1864031565
ISBN-13: 9781864031560

Author: Paul Gilroy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: lectures, library, wellek, melancholia, postcolonial
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-09-11
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 023113455X
ISBN-13: 9780231134552

In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That’s the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy’s searing analyses of race, politics, and culture have always remained attentive to the material conditions of black people and the ways in which blacks have defaced the "clean edifice of white supremacy."In "Postcolonial Melancholia", he continues the conversation he began in the landmark study of rac

Author: Paul Gilroy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: lectures, library, wellek, melancholia, postcolonial
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-09-22
List price: $72.50
ISBN-10: 0231134541
ISBN-13: 9780231134545

In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That’s the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy’s searing analyses of race, politics, and culture have always remained attentive to the material conditions of black people and the ways in which blacks have defaced the "clean edifice of white supremacy." In Postcolonial Melancholia, he continues the conversation he began in the landmark study of rac

Author: Alice A. Kuzniar
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: kinship, reflections, melancholia
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226465780
ISBN-13: 9780226465784

Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cross-species communication is never easy. Dog love can be a precious but melancholy thing. An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, Melancholia’s Dog tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and the

Author: Salman Akhtar
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Keywords: defense, moving, manic, melancholia, faces, mourning, three
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-12-25
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0765705168
ISBN-13: 9780765705167

Mourning and the importance of the capacity to bear some helplessness, while still finding pleasure in life, are central to this tightly organized volume. The multi-faceted processes involved in mourning and adaptation are addressed.