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    The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / by Argenti, Nicolas

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.…”
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    The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / by Argenti, Nicolas

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.…”
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    Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. …”
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    Thinking on thresholds the poetics of transitive spaces /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. …”
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    Siegfried Kracauer's American writings essays on film and popular culture / by Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Why France liked our films (1942) -- Hollywood's terror films (1946) -- Jean Vigo (1947) -- The revolt against rationality (1947) -- Jewish culture (1947) -- Filming the subconscious (1948) -- Psychiatry for everything and everybody (1948) -- Those movies with a message (1948) -- National types as Hollywood presents them (1949) -- The mirror up to nature (1949) -- Preston Sturges, or laughter betrayed (1950) -- Art today (1961) -- About the state of the humanities -- A statement on the humanistic approach -- Talk with Teddie (1960) -- A critic at large I: film reviews. …”
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    Siegfried Kracauer's American writings essays on film and popular culture / by Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Why France liked our films (1942) -- Hollywood's terror films (1946) -- Jean Vigo (1947) -- The revolt against rationality (1947) -- Jewish culture (1947) -- Filming the subconscious (1948) -- Psychiatry for everything and everybody (1948) -- Those movies with a message (1948) -- National types as Hollywood presents them (1949) -- The mirror up to nature (1949) -- Preston Sturges, or laughter betrayed (1950) -- Art today (1961) -- About the state of the humanities -- A statement on the humanistic approach -- Talk with Teddie (1960) -- A critic at large I: film reviews. …”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook