{"title":"Raj Chandarlapaty","description":"Raj Chandarlapaty is assistant professor of English at the American University in Afghanistan.","products":[{"product_id":"re-creating-paul-bowles-the-other-and-the-imagination-music-film-and-photography-paperback","title":"Re-creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination: Music, Film, and Photography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature's impact upon the arts through media, we may easily find a match for greater humanism and popular interaction in American rock culture through Paul Bowles. In this work, Bowles is re-invented within the postmodern, the postcolonial, and the renegade future underscored by liberal elites that had breathed new life into the American counterculture. Re-Creating Paul Bowles attests to the moments of relentless humanism and imaginative transformation that are most dreamlike, engaging the antagonism of psychology with imperialism at last. In his youth a classical composer and critic, Bowles deserves credit for spawning new generations of rock and pop music through his use of sound and tapping of non-Western or non-European folk music, bringing classic ethnography to the rock generation with Music of Morocco. Re-Creating Paul Bowles examines the Latin American, American, African, and Arab moments of his scholastic effort, a primary beginning for understanding modern popular music's free transcription of tradition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRe-Creating Paul Bowles includes several examples of films that adapt the author's personal life and times, the production of surrealist technique in film and literature, and the re-invention of classic works such as The Sheltering Sky and Collected Stories. It assumes the technique for re-production allows the elder Bowles greater freedom in crossing cultural boundaries and overruling the colonialist separateness that guarded cultural content for centuries. Bowles has always deserved re-appraisal in the American academy--and liberation from his stereotypical cult figure identity, a positive force in the ethnic comprehension of Self and society.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378248810719,"sku":"9781498502849","price":95.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7J01zUbUlz9781498502849.webp?v=1789250860"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/raj-chandarlapaty.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}