The Making of Exile Cultures
Title | The Making of Exile Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Naficy |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 145290197X |
Using Iranian television as a case study, The Making of Exile Cultures explores the seemingly contradictory way in which immigrant media and cultural productions serve as the source both of resistance and opposition to domination by host and home country's social values while simultaneously acting as vehicles for personal and cultural transformation and the assimilation of those values.
Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution
Title | Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Campbell |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2013-02-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004246304 |
Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution traces the development of the postcolonial Arabic-language Moroccan novel. Its close readings of major texts are based in the spatial practices of these novels.
The Artistry of Exile
Title | The Artistry of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Stabler |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0199590249 |
The Artistry of Exile is a new study of one of the most important myths of nineteenth-century literature. Romantic poetry abounds with allusions to the loss of Eden and the isolation of figures who are 'sick for home'. This book explores the way such thematic preoccupations are modified by the material reality of enforced travel away from home.
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech
Title | Memory Rose into Threshold Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Celan |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2020-11-24 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374719721 |
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as the major post-World War II German-language poet. Celan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest, however, is not only reflective: there is in Celan's writing a profound need and desire to create a new, inhabitable world and a new language for it. In Memory Rose into Threshold Speech, Celan’s reader witnesses his poetry, which starts lush with surrealistic imagery, become gradually pared down; its syntax tightens and his trademark neologisms and word formations increase toward a polysemic language of great accuracy that tries, in the poet's own words, "to measure the area of the given and the possible." Translated by the prize-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the 2014 publication of Breathturn into Timestead, Celan's collected later poetry. All nine volumes of Celan's poetry are now available in Joris's carefully crafted translations, accompanied here by a new introduction and extensive commentary. The four volumes in this edition show the flowering of one of the major literary figures of the last century. This volume collects Celan’s first four books: Mohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy and Memory), Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (Threshold to Threshold), Sprachgitter (Speechgrille), and Die Niemandsrose (NoOnesRose).
Baxter's Explore the Book
Title | Baxter's Explore the Book PDF eBook |
Author | J. Sidlow Baxter |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 1846 |
Release | 2010-09-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310871395 |
Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
At the Threshold of Memory
Title | At the Threshold of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie Agosín |
Publisher | White Pine Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781893996625 |
A comprehensive selection of work from this renowned writer and human rights activist.
The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts
Title | The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Ehud Ben Zvi |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2010-10-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110221780 |
In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. But YHWH is not only imagined as just, but also as loving and forgiving, for the exile is presented as a transitory state: Exile is deeply intertwined with its discursive counterpart, the certain “Return”. As the Exile comes to be understood as a necessary purification or preparation for a renewal of YHWH’s proper relationship with Israel, the seemingly unpleasant Exilic conditions begin, discursively, to shape an image of YHWH as loving Israel and teaching it. Exile is dystopia, but one that carries in itself all the seeds of utopia. The concept of Exile continued to exercise an important influence in the discourses of Israel in the Second Temple period, and was eventually influential in the production of eschatological visions.