The Return of Discourses of Civilization and Barbarism

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-52
Keyword(s):  
Civilization And Barbarism

Civilization and Barbarism

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 219-258
Author(s):  
Kenji Ohashi
Keyword(s):  
Civilization And Barbarism

Borges the Post-Orientalist

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Fiddian
Keyword(s):  
South Atlantic ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
The South ◽  
Civilization And Barbarism ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
East West

The chapter examines several works including ‘The East’, ‘A Thousand and One Nights’, and ‘Buddhism’, which are on subjects relating to the East, and finds conclusive evidence of a post-Orientalist optic in Borges’s writing at this point in his life. Japan inspires ‘The Stranger’ and ‘Nihon’, both included in The Limit and outstanding examples of Borges’s wit and craftsmanship. A comparison between ‘Nihon’ and ‘Story of the Warrior and the Captive Woman’ from an earlier collection illustrates Borges’s evolved approach to the binary opposition between civilization and barbarism, across the East–West divide. Two milongas are also studied in the context of the war in the South Atlantic (1982) and point to a disillusioned conclusion about Argentina 170 years on from formal independence in 1810.

Civilization and Barbarism

2008 ◽  
pp. 267-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos de la Torre
Keyword(s):  
Civilization And Barbarism

scholarly journals Reseñas

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Revista de Filología y Lingüística
Keyword(s):  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
San Luis ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
Literatura Latinoamericana ◽  
William Rowe ◽  
Sor Juana ◽  
Civilization And Barbarism ◽  
San Luis Potosí

Brendan Lanctot. Beyond Civilization and Barbarism: Culture and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Argentina (1829-1852). Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2014, 179 páginas (Reseña por Verónica Ríos).Mario A. Ortiz. La musa y la melopea: la música en el mundo conventual, la vida y el pensamiento de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. México D.F., México: Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2015, 192 páginas (Reseña por Dorde Cuvardic García).María Lourdes Cortés. Los amores contrariados. Gabriel García Márquez y el cine. México: Ariel, 2015, 354 páginas (Reseña por Carolina Sanabria).Palmar Álvarez-Blanco y Toni-Dorca. Contornos de la narrativa española actual (2000-2010): Un diálogo entre creadores y críticos. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert, 2011, 318 páginas (Reseña por Jorge Chen Sham).Magdalena Chocano, William Rowe y Helena Usandizaga (Eds.). Huellas del mito prehispánico en la literatura latinoamericana. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert, 2011, 439 páginas (Reseña por Jorge Chen Sham).Néstor Ponce. Diagonales del género: Estudios sobre el policial argentino. San Luis Potosí: El Colegio de San Luis, 2013, 225 páginas (Reseña por Jorge Chen Sham).Hélène Tropé (Ed.). S’opposer dans l’Espagne des XVIè et XVIIè siècles (Perspectives historiques et représentations culturelles). París: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2014, 266 páginas (Reseña por Jorge Chen Sham).

Potential Challenges and Opportunities in Iraq’s Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemin Hussein Mirkan
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The People ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
Economic Violence ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Civilization And Barbarism ◽  
First World ◽  
Inside Out

The people of Mesopotamia are an ancient people who have experienced prosperity and poverty, authority and subjection, civilization and barbarism all together. The British, who won the first World War, were responsible for creating a new Iraq with many structural deficiencies. This inevitably led to structurally driven political, social and economic violence, which still entangles the people of Iraq. Arabs, Kurds, and other ethnoreligious minorities could not find a recipe that would glue all of Iraq together ever since [1]. The aspiration of Iraq’s ruler was always beyond the boundaries of the country, beyond nationalism. Over all previous centuries, it is hard to find a genuine nationalist who ruled Iraq with a sole focus on Iraqi’s wellbeing. They rather had supra-nationalist aspirations such as Arabism, Socialism, and currently Shi’ism [2]. This chapter tries to pinpoint the structural maladies of Iraq. Some have been created by external forces, inasmuch as Iraq has been the major arena for the bitter rivalry between the United States and Iran. However, this paper argues that main cause of the failing of Iraq as a state is manufactured by Iraqis themselves. This study uses an inside-out look at Iraq’s never-ending cycle of violence and distrust between the newly so-called “rivals” and the new “establishment.” It ultimately presents a set of recommendations pointing the way to alleviate the prolonged instability in the country.

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