Velkom to Inklandt
Author: Sophie Herxheimer
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781780725345
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The Second and Third Generation: The Legacy of Forced Migration from Nazi Europe
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-09-26
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9004704620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Second and Third Generation have become increasingly active in remembering and researching their families’ pasts, especially now that most refugees from National Socialism have passed away. How was lived experience mediated to them, and how have their own lives and identities been impacted by persecution and flight? This volume offers a valuable insight into the personal experience of the Second Generation, as well as a perceptive analysis of film, art, and literature created by or about the subsequent generations. Recurring themes of silences, transferred trauma, postmemory, and “roots journeys" are explored, revealing the distance, connection, and collaboration between the generations. Contributors are: David Clark, Miriam E. David, Rachel Dickson, Yannick Gnipep-oo Pembouong, Anita H. Grosz, Andrea Hammel, Brean Hammond, Stephanie Homer, Merilyn Moos, Angharad Mountford, Teresa von Sommaruga Howard, Jennifer Taylor, and Sue Vice.
The Listening Forest
Author: Sophie Herxheimer
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780956316684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Author: Kevin Powers
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 0316401064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection. National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown in the dry Iraq heat; writing a love letter; listening to a mother recount her dreams. Written with evocative language and discernment, Powers's poetry strives to make sense of the war and its echoes through human experience. Just as The Yellow Birds was hailed as the "first literary masterpiece produced by the Iraq war," this collection will make its mark as a powerful, enduring work (Los Angeles Times).
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2021-03-04
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0008347603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. ‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW
In the Flesh
Author: Adam O'Riordan
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-07-20
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1409001695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the lost to the living, seeking familiarity in a world of 'false trails and disappearing acts'. Here relatives, friends and other absences are coaxed into life and urgently pressed on the reader as they surface, in the flesh. Journeys begin with indelible detail and open into new and astonishing landscapes of the head and the heart. Whether in graceful elegies for the dead or the charged lyrics of love and desire, poems cross space as well as time, from the 'blackened lung' of Victorian Manchester and the fateful events of the 1913 Derby, to enter a modern era of satellites and late night searches for lost lovers. At the heart of the collection lies the sonnet sequence 'Home', a slant look at the lives of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, intersected by more recent, sometimes unsettling, personal portraits. Clear-eyed and sensuous, these are poems linked by a strong sense of place and presence, longing and loss; of history captured in an irrevocable moment. In the Flesh is a startling debut from one of our finest young British poets.
Who Is Mary Sue?
Author: Sophie Collins
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 0571346626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior.Part poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority.A work of captivation and correction, this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition and culture: everyone, in other words, who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world. Who Is Mary Sue? is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood.
Sixty Lovers to Make and Do
Author: Sophie Herxheimer
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781999797478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 60 Lovers To Make And Do, Sophie Herxheimer imagines a litany of characters who make companions for themselves from everyday objects. Each woman animates her creation with reflected desires and frustrations. Their absurd, often funny stories distill into familiar loves, which take flight, fail, or settle somewhere between a compromise and a perky arrangement. Herxheimer's glorious collages evoke both the seasons of a year and a lifetime -- extraordinary objects of private devotion are prised from chandeliers and trees, skirting boards and biscuits."--Back cover.
Wonder Tales
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0195178211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEspecially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy tales full of polished wit and prose.
The Republic of Motherhood
Author: Liz Berry
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-07-12
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1473564050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem* ‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’ In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives, and everything changes.
