Paul Robeson by Ron Ramdin

Paul Robeson by Ron Ramdin

This book writes itself off the guide map of familiar literary forms and melts down conceptual barriers, offering a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Straddling the divide between fiction and scholarship, it combines fictional narrative, contemplation, theoretical thinking, scholarly discussion, and interviews. The book examines and crosses boundaries on various ontological levels--between genders, languages, historical epochs, and literary genres--as it questions reality, identity, knowledge, culture, truth, and mind.
While openly confronting the author's location in Israel, the book looks at women's ability to take themselves from place to place, viewing space and spatial freedom as deeply gendered in modern Western cultures. From this perspective, home is imagined as a protective holding space for one gender, and girls are systematically deskilled for spatial competence. The author tells of women whose lives embody a powerful project of travel, realizing exceptional degrees of independence, and also tells of women who refrain from driving, a major contemporary tool of autonomous movement.
The book imagines a movement-nurturing space that subverts the confining construct of home. From this nonexistent yet tangibly welcoming home space, the glass corridors of home--analogous to the glass ceiling of professional life--can be brought into full view and denaturalized. This cannot be accomplished, however, without a compelling, painful look at the patriarchal, colonial, and militarized structures underpinning all Western travel, women's emancipatory journeys included--a look influenced by the still-colonial structure of the author's Israeli placement.

Ramdin, Ron: - Ron Ramdin is a historian, biographer, and novelist. His previous books include The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain. He lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780720606843
ISBN 10	0720606845
Titel	Paul Robeson
Autor	Ron Ramdin
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Peter Owen Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr	1987-10-01
Seitenanzahl	224
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