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The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published asKerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951,Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as asingle-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A majorliterary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007,this is the uncut version of an American classicarougher, wilder,and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavilyedited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creativehistory, represents the first full expression of Kerouacasrevolutionary aesthetic.
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studiesoffers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the mostimportant strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods,theories, thematic concerns, and contemporary debates in the field.Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, contributors explain theimpact of history, sociology and philosophy on the study ofpostcolonial literatures and cultures. Topics examined includeeverything from anti-colonial nationalism and decolonisation toglobalisation, migration flows, and the 'brain drain' whichconstitute the past and present of 'the postcolonial condition'.The volume also pays attention to the sociological and ideologicalconditions surrounding the emergence of postcolonial literarystudies as an academic field in the late 1970s and early 1980s. TheCompanion turns an authoritative, engaged and discriminating lenson postcolonial literary studies. ? Presents a lucid overview of the iss
First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's no
Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities.
An investigative journalist explores our world on the brink ofrunning out of usable water. Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit forhuman consumption, but global consumption of fresh water isdoubling every twenty years. Water has become perhaps our mostprecious commodity-a life-sustaining but increasingly rare andprivatized resource. A dramatic gap exists between those who haveadequate water for survival and those who don't, and tensions overwater in some areas of the world hover just below open war. From Europe to Asia to Africa to America, Jeffrey Rothfeder hasvisited the world's hot spots, those with the least amount ofwater, as well as places where there is so much of it that plansare in the works to sell the excess to the highest bidder. In thiscompelling narrative account of our world in turmoil over water,Rothfeder describes the issues and struggles of the people on allsides of the water crisis: from the scarred survivors of bizarrewater-management practices, to
