Stories from the Rains of Love and Death
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversial plays from some of Iran's leading dramatists, translated into English for the first time.
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Interculturalism and Performance Now
Author: Charlotte McIvor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-29
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 303002704X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a ‘new’ interculturalism.
Monique and the Mango Rains
Author: Kris Holloway
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2006-07-20
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1478609028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a remote corner of West Africa, Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope every day in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of the authors decade-long friendship with Monique, an extraordinary midwife in rural Mali. It is a tale of Moniques unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work, as well as her tragic and ironic death. In the course of this deeply personal narrative, as readers immerse in village life and learn firsthand the rhythms of Moniques world, they come to know her as a friend, as a mother, and as an inspired woman who struggled to find her place in a male-dominated world.
Preemptive Love
Author: Jeremy Courtney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1476733651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe founder of the Preemptive Love Coalition, an organization based in Iraq that provides heart surgeries to Iraqi children and trains local doctors and nurses, presents an account of lifesaving and peacemaking in this war-torn country.
The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation
Author: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-07-08
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1000583422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the development of the field, gives critical expression to research on Persian literature in translation, and brings together cutting-edge theoretical and practical research. The book is divided into the following three parts: (I) Translation of Classical Persian Literature, (II) Translation of Modern Persian Literature, and (III) Persian Literary Translation in Practice. The chapters of the book are authored by internationally renowned scholars in the field, and the volume is an essential reference for scholars and their advanced students as well as for those researching in related areas and for independent translators of Persian literature.
Performing the Intercultural City
Author: Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0472053604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how theater in Toronto, the world's most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup
Someday (a Love Story) Andstories about Life and Death Love Liberrty Cats and Dogs Cakes and Other Stuff
Author: Rogers E. a. Rogers
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1440182671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA diary written by a young naive Missouri girl during the depression details her hopes, dreams and heartache as her marriage and hopes for a large family are sidetracked by grief and despair. She leaves it unfinished with the hope her middle daughter will someday finish the story. In so doing, Beth Anne Brunswick discovers secrets of her own and through faith and love finds answers and peace.
The Birth of Pleasure
Author: Carol Gilligan
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2003-08-12
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0679759433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today. “Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.” —The Times Literary Supplement Carol Gilligan, whose In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns? Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare’s plays and Freud’s case histories, to Anne Frank’s diaries and contemporary novels.
When I Was a Child
Author: T. L. Needham
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781432771362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen I Was A Child - by T. L. Needham was a finalist in the Best Books of 2011, in the Category of History: United States, according to USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses. A Stunning Story of Love, Death, and Survival on the Kansas Prairie On Ash Wednesday, 1926, a young couple, Alex and Theresa, left their six children home on the farm. They drove through heavy rains to attend Mass in town. That's when the temperature dropped fast, and the heavy rain became a snowy windswept blizzard. Only one of them would survive that night. The terrible loss upended the lives of this working-class family in ways no one could have expected. Through it all, the ironclad bonds of love held them together as they endured the Great Depression and an unceasing string of trials, losses, and hardships. Based on actual events, When I Was a Child documents the inner strength, courage, and sheer grit that steadied the couple's children through loss, economic crises, tornados, dust storms and war. Focusing on the extraordinary life of Louis Pfeifer, this vividly rendered book juxtaposes vignettes of a tragic past-the loss of a mother, father, and grandmother-against Louis's harrowing experiences as an 82nd Airborne paratrooper and prisoner of war during World War II. What emerges is an inspirational story of love and family bonds as Louis and his siblings grow up to become devoted, successful parents-despite all odds. Powerful, honest, and unflinching, When I Was a Child is about the suffering that life inflicts-and the bravery that gets us to the other side, becoming much wiser and stronger along the way.
Of Life, Love and Death
Author: Steve Chimombo
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2021-12-31
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9996098230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovative, interesting, out of the ordinary, are accolades used to describe the stories in Of Life, Love and Death. They grew out the turbulent years of Malawi's third republic, through the years beyond to the second and into the third and reflect the times, places, and concerns of the people at all times. Some were molded, if not mutilated, by the oppressive political climate Malawi experienced in the thirty years of Banda's first republic between 1964 and 1994. Some of them could not have been conceived and written during that period without reprisals from the all-powerful Censorship Board, which dictated what could or could not be published. Others were written, but denied publication until the more democratic era after 1994.
