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Book Synopsis Sojourns in the New World by : T. Darby
Download or read book Sojourns in the New World written by T. Darby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1986-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays represents a reflective inquiry into the way in which our world is set apart from its past, its present defined and its destiny shaped by technology. The contributors tackle the subject from different perspectives within the fields of philosophy and politics.
Download or read book Sojourn written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state. An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second sojourn in the city, which seems strange, and also strangely familiar, to him. He is disoriented by its names, its immensity, and its history; he is worried that something may happen to him there. Faqrul, a friendly Bangladeshi poet living in exile, takes him up—then disappears. The visiting writer is increasingly adrift in a city that not long ago was two cities, each cut off from the other, much as the new unified city is cut off from the divided one of the past. It is the fall of 2005; every day it grows colder. The visitor is beginning to feel his middle age. To him, the new world of the twenty-first century, with its endless commodities from all over the place and no prospect of any sort of historical transformation, appears to exist in a state of amnesiac suspense. He gets involved with a woman, Birgit. He begins to miss his classes. He blacks out in the street. People are worried. “I’ve lost my bearings—not in the city; in its history,” he thinks. “The less sure I become of it, the more I know my way.” But does he? Amit Chaudhuri’s Sojourn is a dramatic and disconcerting work of fiction, a book about the present as it slips into the past, a picture of a city and of a troubled mind, a historical novel about an ostensibly post-historical time, a story of haunting. Here, as in his earlier work, Chaudhuri pries open fictional form to explore questions of public and private life in ways that are both bold and subtle.
Book Synopsis Muscogee Daughter by : Susan Supernaw
Download or read book Muscogee Daughter written by Susan Supernaw and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American, the question wasn't just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, abuse, and a physical disability, Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She became a presidential scholar, won a scholarship to college, and was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. Supernaw might not have won the Miss America pageant that year, but she did call attention to the Native peoples living largely invisible lives throughout their own American land. And she did at long last earn her Native American name. Chronicling a quest to escape poverty and find meaning, Supernaw's story is revealing, humorous, and deeply moving. Muscogee Daughter is the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman, a Native American, and a citizen of the world.
Book Synopsis Sands of the Well by : Denise Levertov
Download or read book Sands of the Well written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise Levertov was born in England in 1923. She published her first book of poems in 1946 and moved to America in 1948. SANDS OF THE WELL, first published in hardcover in 1996, shows the poet at the height of her considerable powers, as she addresses the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest coastal landscape in terms of music, memory, aging, doubt, and faith.
Download or read book The Sojourn written by Andrew Krivak and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krivak pens a stunning debut novel of brutality and survival on the Southern Front of World War I.
Download or read book Sojourns written by Martin Heidegger and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger's philosophical journal, written during his first visit to Greece in 1962, and appearing here in English for the first time.
Book Synopsis Writing the New World by : Mauro José Caraccioli
Download or read book Writing the New World written by Mauro José Caraccioli and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Studies Association Theory Section Best Book Award In Writing the New World, Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political thought. Revealing their narrative context, religious ideals, and political implications, Caraccioli shows how these sixteenth-century works promoted a distinct genre of philosophical wonder in service of an emerging colonial social order. Caraccioli discusses narrative techniques employed by well-known figures such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Bartolomé de Las Casas as well as less-studied authors including Bernardino de Sahagún, Francisco Hernández, and José de Acosta. More than mere catalogues of the natural wonders of the New World, these writings advocate mining and molding untapped landscapes, detailing the possibilities for extracting not just resources from the land but also new moral values from indigenous communities. Analyzing the intersections between politics, science, and faith that surface in these accounts, Caraccioli shows how the portrayal of nature served the ends of imperial domination. Integrating the fields of political theory, environmental history, Latin American literature, and religious studies, this book showcases Spain’s role in the intellectual formation of modernity and Latin America’s place as the crucible for the Scientific Revolution. Its insights are also relevant to debates about the interplay between politics and environmental studies in the Global South today. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Virginia Tech.
Book Synopsis A Sojourn in Paradise by : Howard Philips Smith
Download or read book A Sojourn in Paradise written by Howard Philips Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Robinson made his name as a much-sought-after fashion and celebrity photographer during the 1960s and early 1970s, and his work is well documented in hundreds of pages of Vogue, the New York Times, and Life, as well as other publications. However, his personal life remains virtually unknown. In this study of Robinson and his photography, Howard Philips Smith takes an in-depth look at Robinson’s early life in New Orleans, where he discovered his passion for painting, photography, and the Dixie Bohemian life of the French Quarter. A Sojourn in Paradise: Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans features more than one hundred photographs taken by the artist, accompanied by detailed commentary about Robinson’s life in New Orleans and excerpts from interviews with the people who knew him when he lived there. Robinson’s photographs of New Orleans reveal the genesis of two unique and fascinating facets of the city’s history and culture: the creation of the first gay Carnival krewes who would make their own unique contribution to the rich cultural history of the city and the formation of the Orleans Gallery, one of the earliest centers of the contemporary art movement blossoming in 1950s America. This detailed study of Jack Robinson’s early life and photography illustrates the contributions of a gifted, gay artist whose quiet spirit and constant interior struggle found refuge in New Orleans, the city where he was able to find himself, for a time, free from society’s grip and open to exploring life on his own terms.
Book Synopsis Desert Sojourn by : Debi Holmes-Binney
Download or read book Desert Sojourn written by Debi Holmes-Binney and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 31, having left a stifling decade-long marriage, Debi Holmes Binney set off alone into the harsh Utah desert to find direction and spiritual renewal. Armed with only basic supplies and her writing journals, she spent an extended sojourn in a place by turns physically terrifying, psychologically invigorating, and gloriously beautiful. Her moving account will appeal to both physical and spiritual adventurers.
Book Synopsis The Other "Hermit" of Thoreau's Walden Pond by : Terry Barkley
Download or read book The Other "Hermit" of Thoreau's Walden Pond written by Terry Barkley and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Barkley’s biography brings Hotham back to life and paints a picture of a complex and fascinating man.” —Richard Smith, acclaimed Living History interpreter of Henry David Thoreau Nearly seven years after Henry Thoreau died in 1862 of tuberculosis in Concord, Massachusetts, a young theological student from New York City arrived in Concord in November 1868. Edmond Hotham had never been there, but he immediately began preparations to pursue the “wild life.” He met transcendentalist poet (William) Ellery Channing, a former close friend of Thoreau’s who had suggested to Thoreau that he build his cabin at Walden Pond. It was Channing who likely introduced Hotham to transcendentalist leader Ralph Waldo Emerson (the “Sage of Concord”), and Emerson who gave Hotham permission, like Thoreau before him, to build his “Earth-cabin” on the poet’s property at Walden Pond. Hotham built his shanty on the pond’s shore about 100 yards in front of Thoreau’s, where he attempted to out-economize and out-simplify Thoreau. Hotham’s sojourn as the second “hermit” at Walden Pond exemplified the growing adulation of Henry David Thoreau and his literary work. Author Terry Barkley has gleaned archival sources, vital records, period newspaper accounts, and census rolls for everything that is known about Edmond Hotham. The Other “Hermit” of Thoreau’s Walden Pond is the first book-length treatise on Hotham, half of which is wholly new material. It far supersedes the late Kenneth Walter Cameron’s 1962 article on Hotham, which until now was the most complete study of the man. Barkley’s groundbreaking study book is an important addition to the Concord-Walden Pond story and a fascinating read. To quote Thoreau, “What is once well done is done forever.”
Book Synopsis Relocating Cultural Studies by : Valda Blundell
Download or read book Relocating Cultural Studies written by Valda Blundell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is an unrivalled guide to international cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Legends of the American Desert by : Alex Shoumatoff
Download or read book Legends of the American Desert written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines history, anthropology, natural science, and personal narrative to provide a portrait of the American Southwest, looking at the variety of people and experiences that populate the area, focusing on the struggle between different cultures for access to water, and examining many other aspects of the diverse region.
Download or read book Sojourns written by R. Munro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict festers where evil thrives, save where goodness denies it . Sometimes earthy, sometimes aesthetic, Sojourns is about troubled souls, Long was I in wanting rest, To know the fair surcease As may be found in innocence . about turning points, Had I seen her countenance With eyes less preened in violence . and about choices, The path you walk is amply wide, But you alone may choose the stride That ventures forth or turns aside. In Sojourns, Munro melds conflict and resolution together to form a determined quest for spiritual grace and dignity, In aspect, soft and still . and reminds us of the oft forgotten admonition, "And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him." -Leviticus 19:33
Author :Amit Chaudhuri Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9354926967 Total Pages :106 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Sojourn written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. He moves along its streets and pavements; through its department stores, museums and restaurants. He befriends Faqrul, an enigmatic exiled poet, and Birgit, a woman with whom he shares the vagaries of attraction. He tries to understand his white-haired cleaner. Berlin is a riddle-he becomes lost not only in the city but in its legacy. Sealed off in his own solitude, and as his visiting professorship passes, the narrator awaits transformation and meaning. Ultimately, he starts to understand that the less sure he becomes of his place in the moment, the more he knows his way.
Book Synopsis The Law of Nations and the New World by : L. C. Green
Download or read book The Law of Nations and the New World written by L. C. Green and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal, theological and philosophical analysis of the ideology of colonialism. Focuses on sovereignty and right of self-government of Amerindians, leading to present "aboriginal problems" such as those posed by the Canadian constitutional affirmation of "existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal people of Canada."
Book Synopsis Sojourn Home by : Charles R. Meathrell
Download or read book Sojourn Home written by Charles R. Meathrell and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending years working to make himself clean from drugs and alcohol, Jack now has to face the greatest tragedy of his life. Sojourn Home follows Jack on his journey out of tragedy, down a long dusty path with challenges and troubles, and into the arms of God. This is the story of every Christian. Charles R. (Chuck) Meathrell lives in Hepzibah, WV with his wife, Jessica and their cat, named Kat and rabbit named Valentino. He leads weekly at the Middle Island Seventh-Day Baptist Church, and works during the week with individuals with developmental disabilities.
Book Synopsis A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica by : Philip Henry Gosse
Download or read book A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica written by Philip Henry Gosse and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
