Heir to a Silent Song

Heir to a Silent Song

Author: Barbara Nimri Aziz

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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On the lives and works of Yogamāyā, 1860-1941 and Durga Devi, 1918-1973, women social reformers from Nepal.


Song In The Silence

Song In The Silence

Author: Elizabeth Kerner

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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Fantasy. Lanen Kaelar has always dreamed of dragons. Now she sets out on a long, perilous, winding road to find them.


Song of the Silent Harp

Song of the Silent Harp

Author: BJ Hoff

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0736939822

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Song of the Silent Harp, Book One of BJ Hoff’s acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series begins the five-book saga of three friends raised in a tiny Irish village devastated by the Potato Famine of the mid-1800s, as they struggle to survive and hold onto their faith during Ireland’s darkest days... Nora Kavanagh has lost her husband and young daughter, and now lives in fear of losing her home. She and her young son, Daniel, have only one hope for survival, the poet/patriot—and love of Nora’s youth--Morgan Fitzgerald. But his dangerous involvement with a band of Irish rebels keeps him in constant danger and puts the possibility of a future for him and those he loves in jeopardy. Michael Burke, a close childhood friend of both Nora and Morgan, left his homeland for America and is now a New York City policeman. A widower with a difficult, rebellious son, he still remembers Nora with love and fondness and wants nothing more than to help her escape the cataclysmic famine and build a new life...with him. This panoramic epic of love and faith and adventure spans an ocean to follow three of BJ Hoff’s most memorable characters in their quest for survival and courage and hope.


Yogmaya & Durga Devi

Yogmaya & Durga Devi

Author: Barbara Nimri Aziz

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789994655373

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On the lives and works of Yogamāyā, 1860-1941 and Durga Devi, 1918-1973, women social reformers from Nepal; includes Nepali work of Yogamāyā, 1860-1941, Sarvārtha yogavān̐nī.


Rehearsing for Life

Rehearsing for Life

Author: Monica Mottin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1108641032

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This work examines the production and performance of theatrical activities aimed at bringing about social change in both development and political intervention in Nepal. If everyday social problems can be both represented and challenged through drama-based performances, then what differentiates street theatre performed in planned developments from street theatre performed within social and political movements? This multi-sited ethnography attempts to answer this question by following the works of Aarohan Theatre - a Kathmandu-based professional company, performing both loktantrik natak (theatre for democracy) in the context of the 2005–06 popular movement, and kachahari natak (forum theatre) for development projects. The analysis then extends to the forum theatre produced by one of Aarohan's partner groups, the Kamlari Natak Samuha - a Tharu grassroots activist organization based in Deukhuri Valley (West Nepal) campaigning against indentured child labour.


The Other #MeToos

The Other #MeToos

Author: Iqra Shagufta Cheema

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0197619878

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"To bring more awareness to the revolutionary international impact of #MeToo, The Other #MeToos brings together chapters that look at specific iterations of the #MeToo movement across multiple communities, cultures, and countries. Going beyond gender, the book takes into account the intersectional assemblage of location, history, religion, ethnicity, race, class, and neoliberal aspects that inform #MeToo and its place in local and transnational feminisms. From Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Tunisia, and Morocco to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to South Africa to Latin America to South Korea, Japan, and China to Czech Republic - #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends as well as transnational and collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Therefore, by making feminism mainstream, it has rendered possible international feminist solidarities unlike any other feminist movement that precedes it. It is critical to document this defining feminist moment of #MeToo and its variants to acknowledge the diversity and multidimensionality of transnational feminisms, along with looking at the various ways they have been changed by the #MeToo, internationally. To that argument, the contributions in this collection examine, analyze, and interrogate the reception, translation, and adaptation of #MeToo in their local, indigenous, minoritized, othered, and/or postcolonial contexts. Overall, The Other #MeToos highlights the adaptation, translation, and impact of #MeToo in non-Western, postcolonial, minoritized, and othered locales to expand the larger discourse and praxes of the #MeToo movement beyond its Americentric focus to explore other feminist possibilities that the movement has enabled"--


Songs for "Great Leaders"

Songs for

Author: Keith Howard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-01-24

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0190077530

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Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance. The first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean, Songs for "Great Leaders" pulls back the curtain on this theatre for the first time. Renowned ethnomusicologist Keith Howard moves from the first songs written in the northern part of the divided Korean peninsula in 1946 to the performances in February 2018 by a North Korean troupe visiting South Korea for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. Through an exceptionally wide range of sources and a perspective of deep cultural competence, Howard explores old revolutionary songs and new pop songs, developments of Korean instruments, the creation of revolutionary operas, and mass spectacles, as well as dance and dance notation, and composers and compositions. The result is a nuanced and detailed account of how song, together with other music and dance production, forms the soundtrack to the theater of daily life, embedding messages that tell the official history, the exploits of leaders, and the socialist utopia yet-to-come. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and resources in private and public archives and libraries in North Korea, South Korea, China, North America and Europe, Songs for "Great Leaders" opens up the North Korean regime in a way never before attempted or possible.


Heir of Hope

Heir of Hope

Author: Stephenia H. McGee

Publisher: By The Vine Press

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 099786608X

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Heir of Hope: Ironwood Plantation Family Saga Book Two


The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

Author: Mahendra Lawoti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 1135261679

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The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and how a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the end of the Cold War, in contrast to the decline of other radical communist movements in most parts of the world. Scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds employ a wide variety of approaches and methods to unravel different aspects of the rebellion. Individual chapters analyze the different causes of the insurgency, factors that contributed to its growth, the organization, agency, ideology and strategies employed by the rebels and the state, and the consequences of the insurgency. New issues are analysed in conjunction with the insurgency, such as the role of the Maoist student organization, Maoist's cultural troupes, the organization and strategies of the People's Army and the Royal Nepal Army, indoctrination and recruitment of rebels, and international factors. Based on original field work and a thorough analysis of empirical data, this book fills an existing gap in academic analyses of the insurgency in Nepal.