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Includes works by many well known writers, such as the fiction writers Uzma Aslam Khan, Kamila Shamsie and Bapsi Sidhwa and the creative memoirists Fawzia Afzal Khan and Sara Suleri Goodyear. Also includes new literary talents. While there are other anthologies of Pakistani women’s writing, this is the only one to be published in North America that focuses on stories written directly into English. Whether it is the country’s connection to terrorism and Al Qaeda or incidents like the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan is a hot topic. But until recently, very little has been published from Pakistan, especially from women writers, who have a unique perspective on their country and their world. This anthology provides a crucial glimpse into the creative lives of Pakistani women and into Pakistan itself. Readers have fallen in love with a wealth of Indian writers (Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai, and Thrity Umrigar to name a few); though not yet as well known, Pakistani writers come from the same literary tradition. Includes works from women living in Pakistan, some in minority communities, as well as from the diaspora. Stories focus on the theme of identity: gender, cultural duality, the desire to cross boundaries and overcome prejudices.
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An honest account of a common experience (stillbirth) that is rarely discussed.Brings up the controversies that rage about home-birth vs. medicalized birth. When this mother of a stillbirth decides to spend time with the body before burial, she challenges all our notions of how to deal with death, and what part a physical body might have in the grieving process. Has been excerpted on Salon.com, generating hundreds of comments and Facebook «likes.»In this age of tiger moms, mommy blogs, and proliferating parenting forums, this book offers an intimate and thoughtful view of birthing options and alternative families. Well-known scholar (history, women's/gender studies) writes her first nonacademic work. Award-worthy book with great potential for book clubs, reading groups, and word-of-mouth buzz.
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Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Kluger's story of her years in the camps and her struggle to establish a life after the war as a refugee survivor in New York, has emerged as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales.Still Alive is a memoir of the pursuit of selfhood against all odds, a fiercely bittersweet coming-of-age story in which the protagonist must learn never to rely on comforting assumptions, but always to seek her own truth.
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A singular first-person account of sexual violence and the long journey to find and prosecute those responsible. At least one out of six women will be sexually assaulted. Very few of them press charges. Even fewer see their rapists convicted. This book brings to light how difficult the process is to navigate, but how necessary it is to speak out and seek justice. Illuminates the psychological realities of rape and relates them to the larger economical and political forces at work, giving complexity that is often obscured by the trauma of violence. Reveals how certain modes of gentrification and a corrupt property market expose vulnerable residents to economic and sexual violence.A riveting, moment by moment account of sexual violence—the psychological experience of the assault, the navigation of the health and criminal justice systems, the drive to prosecute both the perpetrator and landlord who maintained unsafe living conditions, and the personal transcendence that comes with understanding the complex structures at work. An original analysis of violence in the new millennium: how passive aggression creates the illusion that nothing is actually happening against the victim’s will, releasing the perpetrator from guilt, and imposing feelings of self-betrayal and alienation on to the victim.
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Tales from the Front Line – Trafalgar offers a unique insight into the most significant naval battle in history, told through the accounts of those who were actually there. Here you will find original accounts from the great military leaders of the time – including Nelson – as well as the experiences of the ordinary seamen and civilian witnesses. This title is drawn from a variety of contemporary sources including letters, diaries, newspapers and ships' logs.
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"King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history."—The Wall Street Journal Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical energy and intellectual curiosity, he was a man of many parts, a warlord and conqueror, a judge who promised "for each their law and justice," a defender of the Latin Church, a man of flesh and blood. In the twelve centuries since his death, warfare, accident, vermin, and the elements have destroyed much of the writing on his rule, but a remarkable amount has survived. Janet Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charles I, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives.   Building on Nelson’s own extraordinary knowledge, this biography is a sort of detective story, prying into and interpreting fascinating and often obdurate scraps of evidence, from prayer books to skeletons, gossip to artwork. Charles’s legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped counties, countries, and continents; founded and rebuilt towns and monasteries; and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the head of the renewed Roman Empire. His successors—even to the present day—have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy, or subvert his legacy. Janet Nelson gets us as close as we can hope to come to the real figure of Charles the man as he was understood in his own time.
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A seminal figure in late antique Christianity and Christian orthodoxy, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus published a collection of more than 240 letters. Whereas these letters have often been cast aside as readers turn to his theological orations or autobiographical poetry for insight into his life, thought, and times, <I>Self-Portrait in Three Colors</I> focuses squarely on them, building a provocative case that the finalized collection constitutes not an epistolary archive but an autobiography in epistolary form—a single text composed to secure his status among provincial contemporaries and later generations. Shedding light on late-ancient letter writing, fourth-century Christian intelligentsia, Christianity and classical culture, and the Christianization of Roman society, these letters offer a fascinating and unique view of Gregory’s life, engagement with literary culture, and leadership in the church. As a single unit, this autobiographical epistolary collection proved a powerful tool in Gregory’s attempts to govern the contours of his authorial image as well as his provincial and ecclesiastical legacy.
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Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country’s first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice’s rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While Sotomayor’s confirmation appeared to signal the greater acceptance and inclusion of Latinos—the nation’s largest “minority majority”—the uncritical embrace of her status as a “possibility model” and icon paradoxically erased the fact that her success was due to civil rights policies and safeguards that no longer existed.   Being Brown analyzes Sotomayor’s story of success and accomplishment, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, in order to ask: What do we lose in democratic practice when we allow symbolic inclusion to supplant the work of meaningful political enfranchisement? In a historical moment of resurgent racism, unrelenting Latino bashing, and previously unimaginable “blood and soil” Nazism, Being Brown explains what we stand to lose when we allow democratic values to be trampled for the sake of political expediency, and demonstrates how understanding “the Latino question” can fortify democratic practice.  Being Brown provides the historical vocabulary for understanding why the Latino body politic is central to the country’s future and why Sonia Sotomayor’s biography provides an important window into understanding America, and the country’s largest minority majority, at this historical juncture. In the process, Being Brown counters “alternative facts” with historical precision and ethical clarity to invigorate the best of democratic practice at a historical moment when we need it most.     
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Автор произведения Lazaro Lima
Жанр Биографии и Мемуары
Серия American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, <I>Uberland</I> paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss.<BR />  <BR /> The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy. <I>Uberland</I> chronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber’s outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives.<BR />  <BR /> Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat’s firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, <I>Uberland</I> goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.<BR />
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The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later generations, Verdi's operas—along with those by Rossini, Donizetti, and Mercadante—did inspire Italians to imagine Italy as an independent and unified nation. Capturing what it was like to attend the opera or to join in the music at an aristocratic salon, <I>Waiting for Verdi</I> shows that the moral dilemmas, emotional reactions, and journalistic polemics sparked by these performances set new horizons for what Italians could think, feel, say, and write. Among the lessons taught by this music were that rules enforced by artistic tradition could be broken, that opera could jolt spectators into intense feeling even as it educated them, and that Italy could be in the vanguard of stylistic and technical innovation rather than clinging to the glories of centuries past. More practically, theatrical performances showed audiences that political change really was possible, making the newly engaged spectator in the opera house into an actor on the political stage.