Author: Urvashi Butalia
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9351367061
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Some journeys exist in the mind. Bir Bahadur Singh is haunted by the longing to return. Forced to leave his village in Pakistan during Partition in traumatic circumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey, he meets his old friend who now lives in his childhood home and exchanges banter with him and with many other lost acquaintances. For those few hours Bir Bahadur is there, the past comes alive, for him and for his companion on the journey, the author herself.
Author: Urvashi Butalia
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9351367061
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Some journeys exist in the mind. Bir Bahadur Singh is haunted by the longing to return. Forced to leave his village in Pakistan during Partition in traumatic circumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey, he meets his old friend who now lives in his childhood home and exchanges banter with him and with many other lost acquaintances. For those few hours Bir Bahadur is there, the past comes alive, for him and for his companion on the journey, the author herself.
Author: Miguel Ángel Zapata
Publisher: UNMSM
ISBN: 9789972463174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Editado en idioma inglés, este tributo a Mario Vargas Llosa y sus obras reúne los ensayos preparados en su honor, en la Universidad de Hofstra, noviembre del 2003. También se incluye dos entrevistas y una selecta bibliografía.
Author: Jessica Moody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1789622328
Category : Blacks
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being 'forgotten histories', persist over time as a contested public debate. This public memory, intimately intertwined with constructions of 'place' and 'identity', has been shaped by legacies of transatlantic slavery itself, as well as other events, contexts and phenomena along its trajectory, revealing the ways in which current narratives and debate around difficult histories have histories of their own. By the 21st century, Liverpool, once the 'slaving capital of the world', had more permanent and long-lasting memory work relating to transatlantic slavery than any other British city. The long history of how Liverpool, home to Britain's oldest continuous black presence, has publicly 'remembered' its own slaving past, how this has changed over time and why, is of central significance and relevance to current and ongoing efforts to face contested histories, particularly those surrounding race, slavery and empire.
Author: William R. Ragsdale Sr.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 197366643X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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This is an off-the-wall application of one person’s growth in the Christian faith that offers the reader an insight into their own faith as it relates to life, themselves, and others. The book offers a quite candid interpretation of various selected art forms such as paintings, musicals, and popular songs and offers a guide for others to consider or look at art around us from a faith (Christian) point of view, which does not exclude other faiths like Jewish, Muslim, and others. “Bill Ragsdale has gifted us with a remarkable book... Thank you for such a marvelous present.” -- Dr. James Howell, senior pastor, Myers Park United Methodist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Philip Kuberski
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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"Held together by a specific vision of memory, these essays put together sources that normally do not come into contact. I like this book a lot."--David B. Morris, author of "The Culture of Pain" "Thought-provoking and even moving. . . . Superior in terms of its poetic acuteness and its range."--Jonathan Boyarin, author of "Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory"
Author: David Mack
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451650752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Book One in the New York Times bestselling Cold Equations trilogy set in the expanded universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation! A BRAZEN HEIST Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew race to find out who has stolen Data’s android brother B-4—and for what sinister purpose. A BROKEN PROMISE One desperate father risks all for the son he abandoned forty years ago—but is he ready to pay the price for redemption? A DARING MISSION Against overwhelming odds, and with time running out, Commander Worf has only one chance to avert a disaster. But how high a price will he pay for victory?
Author: Vivian Sobchack
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135205612
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible.
Author: Meredith Etherington-Smith
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Draws on previously untapped material to chronicles Dali+a7's early years, his relationship with Garcia Lorca and Andre+a7 Breton, his collaboration with Luis Bun+a1uel on his first surrealist film, and his tormented marriage to Gala. 10,000 first printing.
Author: Meredith Etherington-smith
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306806629
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Surrealist painter, author, filmmaker, lecturer, performance artist, charlatan, genius, clown, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) once asked himself, "Where does the deep and philosophical Dalí begin, and where does the loony and preposterous Dalí end?" This evenhanded but exacting biography, based on interviews, unpublished letters, and previously unavailable archives, explores the relationship between his eccentric life and the hallucinatory imagery of the paintings that, like the soft watches, have become twentieth-century icons. The author penetrates the artist's self-mythologizing facade to reveal the man behind the outrageous mustache and cryptic canvasses: his Catalan childhood; his relationships with Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Breton, Picasso, Miro, de Chirico, Man Ray, Ernst, and Eluard; Dalí's fixations, phobias, and Surrealist pranks; and his bizarre marriage to Gala—muse, business manager, nymphomaniac, gold digger, and finally tormentor. With reproductions of sixteen Dalí paintings, The Persistence of Memory offers an unrivaled tour of the absurd and haunting landscape of Dalí's life.
Author: Gordon McAlpine
Publisher: Peter Owen Limited
ISBN: 9780720610475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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A magic-realism tale on a man who was pulled unconscious from a stream and who cannot remember who he is. The woman who saved him is a laundress with a large family and she lives in a house built entirely of laundry. She becomes attracted to him, but he prefers one of her daughters.