Exile as Challenge
Title | Exile as Challenge PDF eBook |
Author | Dagmar Bernstorff |
Publisher | Orient Blackswan |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Refugees, Tibetan |
ISBN | 9788125025559 |
This Book Is An Attempt To Document The Lives Of Members Of The Exiled Tibetan Community In Indian And Elsewhere. It Thus Aims To Fill A Gap In Our Understanding. The Book Focuses On Two Main Themes: How Tibetans In Exile Preserve Their Culture, And How The Community Prepares Itself For The Return To Tibet. The Book Also Carries An Interview With His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Exile's Challenge
Title | Exile's Challenge PDF eBook |
Author | Angus Wells |
Publisher | Spectra |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2010-03-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307574636 |
The masterful conclusion to the Exiles saga: Angus Wells is one of today's masters of epic fantasy. Now, continuing the thrilling new adventure begun in Exile's Children, he weaves his beguiling powers of magic into an unforgettable tale... Escaping a life of servitude under the evil Autarchy, a warrior, his beautiful wife, and a gifted Dreamer are refugees from the war-ravaged prison colony of Salvation. It was the young Davyd's dreams, magically bound to those of a far-off Seer, that guided their perilous flight to the land of the Matawaye. But even now they might not be safe. For a man whose gifts are eclipsed by Davyd's is looking for the perfect vengeance. Meanwhile, a renegade band of the Matawaye, forced out by their peaceable leaders, is wreaking havoc on Salvation. And there's worse to come. For the real threat has yet to descend on Salvation--and when it does, its bloodlust and magic could well mean the end of them all.
The Dialectics of Exile
Title | The Dialectics of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Sophia A. McClennen |
Publisher | Purdue University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781557533159 |
The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language and Space in Hispanic Literatures offers a theory of exile writing that accounts for the persistence of these dual impulses and for the ways that they often co-exist within the same literary works. Focusing on writers working in the latter part of the twentieth century who were exiled during a historical moment of increasing globalization, transnational economics, and the theoretical shifts of postmodernism, Sophia A. McClennen proposes that exile literature is best understood as a series of dialectic tensions about cultural identity. Through comparative analysis of Juan Goytisolo (Spain), Ariel Dorfman (Chile) and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), this book explores how these writers represent exile identity. Each chapter addresses dilemmas central to debates over cultural identity such as nationalism versus globalization, time as historical or cyclical, language as representationally accurate or disconnected from reality, and social space as utopic or dystopic. McClennen demonstrates how the complex writing of these three authors functions as an alternative discourse of cultural identity that not only challenges official versions imposed by authoritarian regimes, but also tests the limits of much cultural criticism.
From Protest to Challenge
Title | From Protest to Challenge PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Karis |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 814 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Anti-apartheid movements |
ISBN | 0253354226 |
Bibles and Baedekers
Title | Bibles and Baedekers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Grimshaw |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317491475 |
Contemporary tourism and travel have become a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. However, could Church and theology be religious forms of tourism and travel? 'Bibles and Baedekers' offers a theology of tourism and exile for a modern and postmodern world. It examines the ways in which location, identity and movement have made use of religious texts and metaphor and questions the relative absence of secular texts and ideas in theology. The theology of the tourist and traveller is one of new experiences, the acquisition of identity through movement. 'Bibles and Baedekers' uniquely applies this to the postmodern Christian, embodying the fulfilment of Bonhoeffer's 'religionless Christianity', dislocated from both a secular and 'religious' world.
Exile's Children
Title | Exile's Children PDF eBook |
Author | Angus Wells |
Publisher | Spectra |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0553374869 |
After generations of peace, Morrhyn watches the people of his clan descend into bloodshed and war when two young men, rivals for the love of the same woman, set everyone at odds and place the clan's future in the hands of three outlaws. Original.
Biblical Portraits of Exile
Title | Biblical Portraits of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Abi Doukhan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2016-05-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317174399 |
Exile constitutes one of the most central experiences in the Bible, notably in the book of Genesis. The question has rarely been asked however as to why exile plays such an important role in the lives of Biblical characters. Biblical Portraits of Exile proposes a philosophical reading largely inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas of the experience of exile in the book of Genesis. Focusing on the 8 central figures of exile Adam, Eve, Cain, the sons of Shem, Abraham, Rebekah, Jacob and the sons of Levy the book draws out the ethical and redemptive implications of exile and thereby paves the way for a renewed description of the human subject, one that situates ethics at its very core.