Witnesses of Remembrance
Witnesses of Remembrance

Author: Kunwar Narain

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2024-02-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9357087591

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A new selection of far-reaching poems from an outstanding literary doyen of our times. Kunwar Narain is widely regarded as one of India’s finest contemporary poets and thinkers, with a universal appeal. Awarded with the Jnanpith, his work bears witness to how the lived and the written coalesce. His poems say more than their words—taking us into and out of the morass of our bizarre worlds, signalling inner disquiets in their solicitudes, waking us up to hope in the interstices between lines, and creating entire worldviews in their collectivity. This is the first book-length translation of the author’s poetry to appear after his passing away in 2017. It has an eclectic, wide-ranging selection of poems from his latest five collections. This bilingual edition is also substantive, with over a hundred poems—translated and introduced by Apurva Narain, who has spent years with his father’s poems. Among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today, he brings here a compelling level of precision and evocation that Kunwar Narain’s poems demand—slowly expansive as they are in their visionary insights, tender intimations, austere surfaces and silent remembrances; conversing with their readers and urging them to re-read. and is among the most accomplished translators of Hindi poetry into English today.

In the Forest of Your Remembrance
In the Forest of Your Remembrance

Author: Gloria Jean Pinkney

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0399186204

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In a personal journey of remembrances, Gloria Jean Pinkney shows how she came to recognize the many miraculous events in her life. In her engaging voice, Ms. Pinkney narrates thirty-three short "tellings" and uses quotes from the Bible to frame each story. This heartfelt work offers an inspiring call for her readers to enter their own "Forest of Remembrance." As Clifton Taulbert writes in his wonderful foreword, "As we read, we will be challenged to become 'dear hearers' within our own daily lives. This book will help many to personalize and anticipate the joy of 'unselfish living.'" A book to be shared with the whole family, this spiritual memoir is also a family project. Ms. Pinkney's husband, Jerry, and two of their sons, Brian and Myles, provide illustrations, with each artist using a different medium.

Commonplace Witnessing
Commonplace Witnessing

Author: Bradford Vivian

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 019061109X

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Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so. Commonplace Witnessing presupposes that witnessing in modern public culture is a broad and inclusive rhetorical act; that many different types of historical subjects now think and speak of themselves as witnesses; and that the rhetoric of witnessing can be mundane, formulaic, or popular instead of rare and refined. This study builds upon previous literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and theological studies of its subject matter in order to analyze witnessing, instead, as a commonplace form of communication and as a prevalent mode of influence regarding the putative realities and lessons of historical injustice or tragedy. It thus weighs both the uses and disadvantages of witnessing as an ordinary feature of modern public life.

Communities of Memory
Communities of Memory

Author: William James Booth

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1501726862

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"Memory has fueled merciless, violent strife, and it has been at the core of reconciliation and reconstruction. It has been used to justify great crimes, and yet it is central to the pursuit of justice. In these and more everyday ways, we live surrounded by memory, individual and social: in our habits, our names, the places where we live, street names, libraries, archives, and our citizenship, institutions, and laws. Still, we wonder what to make of memory and its gifts, though sometimes we are hardly even certain that they are gifts. Of the many chambers in this vast palace, I mean to ask particularly after the place of memory in politics, in the identity of political communities, and in their practices of doing justice."—from the Preface W. James Booth seeks to understand the place of memory in the identity, ethics, and practices of justice of political communities. Identity is, he believes, a particular kind of continuity across time, one central to the possibility of agency and responsibility, and memory plays a central role in grounding that continuity. Memory-identity takes two forms: a habitlike form, the deep presence of the past that is part of a life-led-in-common; and a more fragile, vulnerable form in which memory struggles to preserve identity through time—notably in bearing witness—a form of memory work deeply bound up with the identity of political communities. Booth argues that memory holds a defining place in determining how justice is administered. Memory is tied to the very possibility of an ethical community, one responsible for its own past, able to make commitments for the future, and driven to seek justice. "Underneath (and motivating) the politics of memory, understood as contests over the writing of history, over memorials, museums, and canons," he writes, "there lies an intertwining of memory, identity, and justice." Communities of Memory both argues for and maps out that intertwining.

Witness and Memory
Witness and Memory

Author: Ana Douglass

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1136073620

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This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.

Understanding Eyewitness Memory
Understanding Eyewitness Memory

Author: Sean M. Lane

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1479842516

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An essential overview of how perception and memory affect eyewitness testimony In 1981, sixteen-year-old Michael Williams was convicted on charges of aggravated rape based on the victim’s eyewitness testimony. No other evidence was found linking him to the attack. After nearly twenty-four years, Williams was released after three separate DNA analyses proved his innocence. The victim still maintains that Williams was the culprit. This heartbreaking case is but one example of eyewitness error. In Understanding Eyewitness Memory, Sean M. Lane and Kate A. Houston delve into the science of eyewitness memory. They examine a number of important topics, from basic research on perception and memory to the implications of this research on the quality and accuracy of eyewitness evidence. The volume answers questions such as: How do we remember and describe people we’ve encountered? What is the nature of false and genuine memories? How do emotional arousal and stress affect what we remember? Understanding Eyewitness Memory offers a brilliant overview of how memory and psychology affect eyewitness testimony, where quality and accuracy can mean the difference between wrongful imprisonment and true justice.

Witness
Witness

Author: Frederik Tygstrup

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 8763504251

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Witness is an anthology comprising 40 critical essays from an international cast of researchers who engage with a complex set of questions concerning notions of witnessing and attestation in 20th- and 21st-century Western culture. The contributors provide insightful perspectives on the subject of witnessing and suggest how this vital yet relatively unexplored concept lends itself to a wide range of media and subject areas. The essays critically reconsider existing scholarly tendencies which focus on historical evidence and the witness' vocalization of true remembrance. They do this by establishing important links with canonical texts, images, and voices within a theoretical and interpretive framework where questions of mediation, memorization, and representation are addressed.

The Other World
The Other World

Author: C. A. Varian

Publisher:

Published: 2022-09-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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If a door only opened one way, would you enter?Stage 4 thyroid cancer was supposed to be a death sentence for 18-year-old Elianna Foster, but she's been given "the key."The antique golden key is anything but ordinary. It grants her passage to a magical fae world where she can survive the fatal disease? If she uses it before her time runs out.A chance at survival is tempting, but nothing in life is free. Crossing the portal would cure her disease, but first, she'd have to turn her back on her family and friends-on everyone she's ever loved. The moment she crosses the threshold into the other world, there is no turning back. The door only goes one way.Being unable to return to the human realm isn't the only reason Elianna is afraid to use the enchanted key. She doesn't know what exists on the other side of the portal. No one does.What fate awaits Elianna in the other world? In a land lacking enough females, will she be wed to a fae male, given a mate and a partner? Or will she be enslaved and forced to reproduce for others in order to boost the fae population?

Frames of Remembrance
Frames of Remembrance

Author: Iwona Irwin-Zarecka

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1351519255

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What is the symbolic impact of the Vietnam War Memorial? How does television change our engagement with the past? Can the efforts to wipe out Communist legacies succeed? Should victims of the Holocaust be celebrated as heroes or as martyrs? These questions have a great deal in common, yet they are typically asked separately by people working in distinct research areas in different disciplines. Frames of Remembrance shares ideas and concerns across such divides.

The Era of the Witness
The Era of the Witness

Author: Annette Wieviorka

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780801443312

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What is the role of the survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? In this book, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, the author seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.