George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency (Studies in Major Literary Authors)

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Literature & Fiction

Stewart, Anthony

British & Irish

Routledge

Narrow Ground the Roots of Conflict in Ulster

History

Terence, Quincey

Europe

Faber&Faber

In Approximate Gestures, Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett?s fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the potential of a larger, more uncertain world in an effort to confront bigotry and similarly limiting patterns of thought. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Stewart proposes that their notion of the schizorevolutionary figure captures the in-between status of many of Everett?s characters as they refuse the constraints of the binary, categorical structures that govern so much of human life. Approximate Gestures engages specifically with the vexed question of discussing race in Everett?s fiction. Stewart frames the stakes of analyzing such subject matter in the writing of an African American novelist whose work rigorously questions critical approaches to race. Requiring readers to engage with black males who are hydrologists, ranchers, college professors, romance novelists, and in one case, a toddler, means entering a world released from habitual frames of reference. Through an examination of a broad selection of novels, Stewart demonstrates the extent to which Everett?s characters inhabit ?infinite spaces in between conventional categories? and understand themselves as subjects attempting to navigate social and psychological worlds. Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett encourages readers and critics to think more deeply about how they position themselves in and engage with the world around them. As one of the first books of literary criticism devoted to Everett?s fiction, Stewart?s pathbreaking study models a method for reading the formidable body of work being produced by a major contemporary writer.

Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett

History & Criticism

LSU Press

George Orwell, Doubleness and the Value of Decency

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Documenting a black professor’s account of his own professional experience, this study describes what it feels like to be a nonwhite academic in one of the big three” disciplines in the humanitiesEnglish, history, and philosophy. Challenging the notion that today’s Canadian universities have successfully addressed the issues of diversity, this argument warns that if professors of color cannot see academia as a liberal bastion, it can only be even more forbidding for students of color. Demonstrating how integration policies are manipulated when it comes to hiring visible minorities in the university, this reference highlights aspects such as merit that are commonly used to deny employment. Positing that institutions should deliver on their stated policies instead of hiding behind formalities, this emboldened examination will surprise those inside and outside of the academic field.

You Must Be a Basketball Player: Rethinking Integration in the University

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Fernwood Publishing

Canada’s next major challenge is not economic or political. It’s ethical. On the issue of racism, Canadians tend to compare themselves favourably to Americans and to rely on a concession that Canadian racism, if it exists at all, is more “subtle.” Is there a future time when newcomers and visible minorities will be enabled to feel like they belong in Canada? Or will they have to accept their experience as visitors to Canada no matter how long they have lived here? These are some of the questions Anthony Stewart tackles eloquently and with considerable wit. “As a Black Canadian, the Canada that I have come to see is different from the idealized Canada of Tim Hortons commercials, Hockey Night in Canada and countless other imaginings. It’s a Canada that takes credit for a level of open-mindedness that far exceeds its reality. It’s a Canada that distinguishes itself for its population of citizens who passively lay claim to welcoming difference while staying silent when those around them who are in fact different are disenfranchised, dehumanized, undervalued and left to feel that we do not belong in the country in which many of us were born, or about which we are told tales of tolerance.” – Anthony Stewart

Visitor: My Life in Canada

Anthropology

Google Cloud: GCP: Google Cloud Platform: Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Test 2021

Computers & Technology

Certification

Independently published

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