Correct option is D
Explanation:
A. Modernity at Large → A. Appadurai
This text focuses on globalization and its impact on modernity, authored by anthropologist Arjun Appadurai.
B. The Tourist Gaze → I. J. Urry
A key text by John Urry that explores the sociology of tourism and how tourists "gaze" upon cultures.
C. Culture and Imperialism → E.W. Said
Written by Edward Said, this book builds on Orientalism and examines the cultural aspects of imperialism.
D. The Black Jacobins → C.L.R. James
A historical account by C.L.R. James focusing on the Haitian Revolution and the struggle for freedom.
Edward Said: His work critiques Western representations of the "Other."
C.L.R. James: A Marxist historian emphasizing the role of oppressed groups in history.
Information Booster:
Modernity at Large:
The 1996 essay collection Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization by Arjun Appadurai changed the way anthropologists, geographers, and philosophers viewed and comprehended the central issue of our day: globalization.
It has long been acknowledged that one of the key forces influencing the modern world is globalization, which makes it very easy for people, money, information, goods, and culture to move across national boundaries. However, if globalization is changing the world, it is also being viewed with more skepticism, and it is still unclear how to comprehend and conceptualize the significant changes that are occurring. Due in large part to its incredibly innovative approach to the conceptual issues raised by the profound and quick changes involved, Appadurai's work is currently regarded as one of the most significant contributions to the discipline. Introduces terms like "ethnoscapes" and "mediascapes." Explores concepts like deterritorialization and modern globalization.
The Tourist Gaze:
First published in 1990 and republished twice, The Tourist Gaze, by sociologist John Urry, is one of the major works on tourism. In this book, John Urry argues that the centrality of the visual in contemporary culture is mirrored in tourism, and that our desires to visit places and the ways we learn to visually appreciate those places are not merely individual and autonomous but are socially organised. Therefore, changes in tourism are necessarily related to wider transformations in society. Particularly relevant is the changing landscape of class, as not every social group has the same symbolic power to define legitimate forms of doing tourism. Highlights how tourism commodifies culture.
Culture and Imperialism:
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. Culture and Imperialism, by Edward Said, is a collection of thematically related essays that trace the connection between imperialism and culture throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Connects literature to colonial and post-colonial discourses.
The Black Jacobins:
The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. Celebrates revolutionary leadership in anti-colonial struggles.
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