Word: apologias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just when you thought there was not one word left to be added to the vast canon of postcolonial literature-no more stern apologia from superannuated officials, no more sobbing memoirs of privileged childhood from the waifs and strays of empire-along comes a work that is neither a defense of colonialism nor a veiled lament for its passing. The glib assumption one first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating...
...that end, the film’s fans have busied themselves filling reviewers’ inboxes and various internet message boards with passionate apologia for the film and ardent denunciations of its detractors...
...Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86—are totally closed off to dissenting voices. The recent appointment of Niall Ferguson, who will enjoy a dual appointment to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School, proves this well enough. His apologia for the British empire and his recent argument that America is and should be an empire are hardly popular ones to make in these post-colonial days. Yet, his voice is not merely being tolerated, but embraced—he’s been invited to give a number of lectures...
Poor Bruce Cumings. Familiar with him? He’s the University of Chicago professor who recently came out with a literary apologia for the excesses of Kim Jong Il’s dictatorship. His timing was about as deft as Al Gore’s endorsement of Howard Dean...
...Rithy Panh's long, harrowing S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine shows some of the Cambodian perpetrators of genocide in the '70s confronted by their victims or the victims' survivors. Errol Morris' The Fog of War lets Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara make his nuanced, self-critical apologia for his decisions in a war that killed 56,000 Americans and 60 times as many Vietnamese. It's a must-see, especially for Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. The shroud of international evildoing covers two excellent films set in Afghanistan. Sedigh Barmak's Osama takes place in the early...