As If Silent and Absent
Title | As If Silent and Absent PDF eBook |
Author | Ehud R. Toledano |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007-07-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0300126182 |
This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Ehud R. Toledano examines how bonded persons experienced enslavement in Ottoman societies. He draws on court records and a variety of other unexamined primary sources to uncover important new information about the Africans and Circassians who were forcibly removed from their own societies and transplanted to Middle East cultures that were alien to them. Toledano also considers the experiences of these enslaved people within the context of the global history of slavery. The book looks at the bonds of slavery from an original perspective, moving away from the traditional master/slave domination paradigm toward the point of view of the enslaved and their responses to their plight. With keen and original insights, Toledano suggests new ways of thinking about enslavement.
Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse
Title | Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Melani Schröter |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2017-12-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3319645803 |
This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse. It presents a range of proposals as to how we can identify and analyse what is absent, and promotes the empirical study of absence and silence in discourse. The authors argue that these phenomena should hold a more central position in the field of discourse, and discuss these two topics at length in this innovative edited collection. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis.
A Book of Silence
Title | A Book of Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Maitland |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1619021420 |
A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).
The Bondwoman's Narrative
Title | The Bondwoman's Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Crafts |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2002-04-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0759527644 |
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters
Title | The Absent Father Effect on Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Susan E. author Schwartz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
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"This book investigates the impact of absent - physically or emotionally - and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. It tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice. It is relevant for those wanting to understand the complex dynamics of daughters and fathers to become their authentic selves and essential reading for those seeking understanding, analytical and depth psychologists, therapy professionals, academics and students with Jungian and post-Jungian interests"--.
The Silent God
Title | The Silent God PDF eBook |
Author | M.C.A. Korpel |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2011-03-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004203907 |
Like the biblical Job, many people suffer under the silence of God. This book shows that it is enlightening to retrace the origins of the concept of divine speech and silence in the ancient Near East and Greece.
Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse
Title | Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Melani Schröter |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2013-05-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027272107 |
This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silence by analysing metadiscourse about politicians’ silence and by systematically conceptualising the communicativeness of silence in the interplay between intention (to be silent), expectation (of speech) and relevance (of the unsaid). Three cases of sustained metadiscourse about silent politicians from Germany are analysed to exemplify this approach, based on media texts and protocols of parliamentary inquiries. Ideals of political transparency and communicative openness are identified as a basis for (disappointed) expectations of speech which trigger and determine metadiscourse about politicians’ silences. Finally, the book deals critically with the role of those who act as advocates of ‘the public’s’ demand to speak out.