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titletitlemeta name=GENERATOR content=LibreOffice 3.5 (Linux)p lang=zxx 0cm font-style normalMagisterial reference work on the socio-linguistics of Hell. DIS-Epic.
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Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic flavors and smells urged to enjoy a wide range of sexual experiences pushed to engage in extreme sports and recreational drugs--all in the pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity. Tristan Garcia argues that such intensity rarely lives up to its promise. It always comes at a price one that defines the ethical predicament of contemporary life. The notion of intensity was the hidden key to Garcias landmark book Form and Object. In The Life Intense, the first part of his ambitious Letting Be trilogy, he begins to develop it in detail. This first book focuses on ethics the forthcoming two books look at politics and metaphysics respectively.
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This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain an aristocrats valet in rural Wales a Black queer man in 1930s London an artists model a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and Prisoner of War during the Second World War. Through his return to Jamaica after the war and his re-migrations to London in the late 1940s and the early 1960s, he was also witness to post-war Jamaican struggles and the independence movement as well as the development of Londons post-war multi-ethnic migrations. Drawing on a range of archival materials including letters sent to individuals such as Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant (his former boyfriend and life-long friend), as well as paintings and newspaper articles, Gemma Romain explores the intersections of these diverse aspects of Nelsons life and demonstrates how such marginalized histories shed light on our understanding of broader historical themes such as Black LGBTQ history, Black British history in relation to the London artworld, the history of the Second World War, and histories of racism, colonialism and empire. **Review Gemma Romains narrative of Patrick Nelsons life in Jamaica, London and beyond gives us valuable insights into a range of experiences of an ordinary black man in the mid-twentieth century. From growing up in Kingston in the 1920s, to working as a valet, to life in queer Bloomsbury as a lover and model for Duncan Grant, to his harsh years as a soldier and POW in the Second World War, he witnessed Jamaican and British histories of colonialism and decolonisation and reminds us of how much we need to know of the rich diversity of black lives. Professor Catherine Hall, Chair Emerita of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London, UK Gemma Romains book is a feat of prodigious historical research and her fascinating subject, Patrick Nelson, emerges in its pages with richness, detail, and context. Romains attentiveness to the particular challenges of unfolding lives traditionally unattended to, and her sheer skill in finding hitherto obscure materials, are remarkable. This book changes our sense of what it is possible to know, and to say, about black queer Caribbean life in the early part of the twentieth century. Nadia Ellis, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA About the Author Gemma Romain is a historian of the Caribbean and Black Britain. She researches, curates and writes on black British queer histories, and African-Caribbean diasporic histories with a focus on Grenada and Jamaica. She has recently worked at The Equiano Centre, Department of Geography, UCL, UK and is an Honorary Fellow of The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK. She was the co-curator with Caroline Bressey, Emma Chambers and Inga Fraser of the Tate Britain display Spaces of Black Modernism London 191939 (2014-2015).
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