Author: David WheldonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780953021208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Uncompliant Stranger
Author: David WheldonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780953021208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
The Sun Collective
Author: Charles BaxterPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1984899716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to—and unmoored by—a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune). Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over their home city of Minneapolis. She checks the usual places— churches, storefronts, benches—and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who’s convinced he may start a revolution. A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.
Not as a Stranger
Author: Morton ThompsonThe Writers Directory
Author: The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1778
Book Description
The Strange Child
Author: Andrea Gevurtz AraiPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804798567
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to "the child problem," a powerful discourse of social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic futures and shifting ideologies of national identity onto the young. Andrea Gevurtz Arai's ethnography details the different forms of social and cultural dislocation that erupted in Japan starting in the late 1990s. Arai reveals the effects of shifting educational practices; increased privatization of social services; recessionary vocabulary of self-development and independence; and the neoliberalization of patriotism. Arai argues that the child problem and the social unease out of which it emerged provided a rationale for reimagining governance in education, liberalizing the job market, and a new role for psychology in the overturning of national-cultural ideologies. The Strange Child uncovers the state of nationalism in contemporary Japan, the politics of distraction around the child, and the altered life conditions of—and alternatives created by—the recessionary generation.
Strangers
Author: Albert MemmiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Strangers is the story of a mixed marriage, between a Tunisian Jew and Marie, a Catholic girl from Alsace whom he meets and marries while studying medicine in Paris. His decision to settle among his own people in Tunis, there to establish a practice as a doctor, begins for them a married life which, conceived in honesty and love, soon rings to the surface profound and bitter conflicts. Marie is confronted with what to her is a strange new world. There is the contrast between the staid Northern atmosphere of Europe and the colorful, uninhibited Mediterranean and even more important, the conflict between Marie's own upbringing and the network of Jewish laws and traditions in which her husband's family lives. The story of Marie and her husband is a compelling one; rarely have the conflicts of mixed marriage been so deeply probed in a work of fiction, and Albert Memmi, whose first novel The Pillar of Salt was so highly praised, brings to this theme the same clarity of style and perception which were so notable in that first novel. Strangers posed many questions: it not only asks if a man and woman of different civilizations, cultures and nationalities can live together; it also asks if peoples who speak different languages, observe different customs and have dissimilar interests can live in peace together, side by side. -- Publisher description.
Romance of London: strange stories, scenes and persons
Author: John TimbsThe Romance of London Supernatural Stories, Sights and Shows, Strange Stories, Sight and Shows, Strange Adventures, and Remarkable Persons by John Timbs, F. S. A
Author: John TimbsToward a Political Philosophy of Race
Author: Falguni A. ShethPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791494047
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Timely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination. Drawing on the examples of the internment of U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent, of Muslim men and women in the contemporary United States, and of Asian Indians at the turn of the twentieth century, Falguni A. Sheth argues that racial discrimination and divisions are not accidents in the history of liberal societies. Race, she contends, is a process embedded in a range of legal technologies that produce racialized populations who are divided against other groups. Moving past discussions of racial and social justice as abstract concepts, she reveals the playing out of race, racialization of groups, and legal frameworks within concrete historical frameworks.