Author: Eric Fischl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982431597
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Disturbing Innocence
Author: Eric Fischl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982431597
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982431597
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Rethinking America
Author: Jeff Maskovsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131725287X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
How has domestic life been reorganised to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here "at home"? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way in the United States. Encouraging a radical rethinking of what the country is today, this book highlights the connection of U.S. imperial strategies to the production of insecurity, uncertainty, and deepening inequality at home. Rethinking America also explores the instabilities and contradictions of the new imperialism from the unique vantage point of the newly emerging U.S. "homeland." Comprised of work from leading figures in the field of U.S. ethnography, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the changes taking place in the United States in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131725287X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
How has domestic life been reorganised to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here "at home"? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way in the United States. Encouraging a radical rethinking of what the country is today, this book highlights the connection of U.S. imperial strategies to the production of insecurity, uncertainty, and deepening inequality at home. Rethinking America also explores the instabilities and contradictions of the new imperialism from the unique vantage point of the newly emerging U.S. "homeland." Comprised of work from leading figures in the field of U.S. ethnography, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the changes taking place in the United States in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Framing Innocence
Author: Lynn Powell
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459603281
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Ten years ago, amateur photographer and school bus driver Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home in Ohio. The rolls contained photographs of her eight-year-old daughter Nora, including two of the child in the shower - photos that would cause the county prosecutor to arrest Cynthia, take her away in handcuffs, threaten to remove her daughter from her home, and charge her with crimes that carried the possibility of sixteen years in prison. The disturbing case would ultimately attract national attention - including stories in USA Today and on NPR - and supporters including the famed photographer Sally Mann, Katha Pollitt, and the ACLU. Framing Innocence brilliantly probes the many questions raised; when does a photograph of a naked child ''cross the line'' from innocent snapshot to child porn? What makes a photograph dangerous - the situation in which it is shot or the uses to which it might be put? When does the parent, and when does the state, know best? Written by poet Lynn Powell, a neighbor of Cynthia Stewart's, this riveting and beautifully told story plumbs the perfect storm of events and people that threatened an ordinary family in a small American town. Framing Innocence features a determined prosecutor; a fundamentalist Christian anti-porn crusader who is appointed as Cynthia's daughter's guardian; the local attorneys for whom the case would become a crucible; and the many neighbors - friends and strangers, Republican and Democrat - who come together to fight for sanity and for justice for Cynthia and her family.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459603281
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Ten years ago, amateur photographer and school bus driver Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home in Ohio. The rolls contained photographs of her eight-year-old daughter Nora, including two of the child in the shower - photos that would cause the county prosecutor to arrest Cynthia, take her away in handcuffs, threaten to remove her daughter from her home, and charge her with crimes that carried the possibility of sixteen years in prison. The disturbing case would ultimately attract national attention - including stories in USA Today and on NPR - and supporters including the famed photographer Sally Mann, Katha Pollitt, and the ACLU. Framing Innocence brilliantly probes the many questions raised; when does a photograph of a naked child ''cross the line'' from innocent snapshot to child porn? What makes a photograph dangerous - the situation in which it is shot or the uses to which it might be put? When does the parent, and when does the state, know best? Written by poet Lynn Powell, a neighbor of Cynthia Stewart's, this riveting and beautifully told story plumbs the perfect storm of events and people that threatened an ordinary family in a small American town. Framing Innocence features a determined prosecutor; a fundamentalist Christian anti-porn crusader who is appointed as Cynthia's daughter's guardian; the local attorneys for whom the case would become a crucible; and the many neighbors - friends and strangers, Republican and Democrat - who come together to fight for sanity and for justice for Cynthia and her family.
Beyond Innocence
Author: Phoebe Zerwick
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802159397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every level In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his release even as subsequent trials and appeals reinforced his sentence. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick in the Winston-Salem Journal led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Three years later, the acclaimed documentary, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, made him known across the country and brought his story to audiences around the world. But Hunt’s story was far from over. As Zerwick poignantly reveals, it is singularly significant in the annals of the miscarriage of justice and for the legacy Hunt ultimately bequeathed. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a life cut short by systemic racism, Beyond Innocence powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent person in prison and the civil death nearly everyone who has been incarcerated experiences attempting to restart their lives. Freed after nineteen years behind bars, Darryl Hunt became a national advocate for social justice, and his case inspired lasting reforms, among them a law that allows those on death row to appeal their sentence with evidence of racial bias. He was a beacon of hope for so many—until he could no longer bear the burden of what he had endured and took his own life. Fluidly crafted by a master journalist, Beyond Innocence makes an urgent moral call for an American reckoning with the legacies of racism in the criminal justice system and the human toll of the carceral state.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802159397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every level In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his release even as subsequent trials and appeals reinforced his sentence. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick in the Winston-Salem Journal led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Three years later, the acclaimed documentary, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, made him known across the country and brought his story to audiences around the world. But Hunt’s story was far from over. As Zerwick poignantly reveals, it is singularly significant in the annals of the miscarriage of justice and for the legacy Hunt ultimately bequeathed. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a life cut short by systemic racism, Beyond Innocence powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent person in prison and the civil death nearly everyone who has been incarcerated experiences attempting to restart their lives. Freed after nineteen years behind bars, Darryl Hunt became a national advocate for social justice, and his case inspired lasting reforms, among them a law that allows those on death row to appeal their sentence with evidence of racial bias. He was a beacon of hope for so many—until he could no longer bear the burden of what he had endured and took his own life. Fluidly crafted by a master journalist, Beyond Innocence makes an urgent moral call for an American reckoning with the legacies of racism in the criminal justice system and the human toll of the carceral state.
Melancholy and the Otherness of God
Author: Alina N. Feld
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739166034
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739166034
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.
The Poetry Lady
Author: Bobby Hutchinson
Publisher: Bobby Hutchinson
ISBN: 192778557X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
What does it take to heal a broken heart? For Layla, the only consolation is something that horrifies her socially conscious husband. Layla stands on a corner of Vancouver's Skid Row and recites poetry for anyone who needs it. And there, among the other broken souls, she finds not only peace, but love. A clean, sweet short romance.
Publisher: Bobby Hutchinson
ISBN: 192778557X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
What does it take to heal a broken heart? For Layla, the only consolation is something that horrifies her socially conscious husband. Layla stands on a corner of Vancouver's Skid Row and recites poetry for anyone who needs it. And there, among the other broken souls, she finds not only peace, but love. A clean, sweet short romance.
Unfading Echoes
Author: Mangala Gowri MS
Publisher: Indra Publishing
ISBN: 9384535710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
When we undergo a track of tribulations and tragedies, we treat them, on certain occasions, as a fruit of our Karma of the past. But what we do not know is that somewhere simultaneously an antiphon for all these miseries is also being designed by the forces at work. Forces we have no knowledge of. Forces defying sequences of calculations. In this novel, the two plots, destined to face each other one day, unfold in real time. They are inter-generational and see their confluence in some fateful manner.
Publisher: Indra Publishing
ISBN: 9384535710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
When we undergo a track of tribulations and tragedies, we treat them, on certain occasions, as a fruit of our Karma of the past. But what we do not know is that somewhere simultaneously an antiphon for all these miseries is also being designed by the forces at work. Forces we have no knowledge of. Forces defying sequences of calculations. In this novel, the two plots, destined to face each other one day, unfold in real time. They are inter-generational and see their confluence in some fateful manner.
Jennyfer
Author: Eva Ly
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1071510827
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Jennyer, she could not give herself up as easily as Adam to sleep. She listen to her breath and in the lunar twilight she watched her profile. When he slept, he was losing that aggressive mask that had replaced his loving smile from the first years, and she was finding the man she had loved. Then in the silence of the night, she always found him as handsome and seductive. She swallowed her years and slid as close to the edge of the bed as possible plunging her face into the pillow to feel less lonely. Enter the world of Jennyfer, a free woman: The flight of a woman.
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1071510827
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Jennyer, she could not give herself up as easily as Adam to sleep. She listen to her breath and in the lunar twilight she watched her profile. When he slept, he was losing that aggressive mask that had replaced his loving smile from the first years, and she was finding the man she had loved. Then in the silence of the night, she always found him as handsome and seductive. She swallowed her years and slid as close to the edge of the bed as possible plunging her face into the pillow to feel less lonely. Enter the world of Jennyfer, a free woman: The flight of a woman.
Monsters and the Monstrous
Author: Niall Scott
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022531
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and impermissible. Monsters from zombies to cuddly cartoon characters, emerging from sewers, from pages of literature, propaganda posters, movies and heavy metal, all are covered in this challenging, scholarly collection. This volume the third in the series presents a marvellous collection of studies on the metaphor of the monster in literature, cinema, music, culture, philosophy, history and politics. Both historical reflection and concerns of our time are addressed with clarity and written in an accessible manner providing appeal for the scholar and lay reader alike. This eclectic collection will be of interest to academics and students working in a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, film studies, political theory, philosophy and literature studies.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022531
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and impermissible. Monsters from zombies to cuddly cartoon characters, emerging from sewers, from pages of literature, propaganda posters, movies and heavy metal, all are covered in this challenging, scholarly collection. This volume the third in the series presents a marvellous collection of studies on the metaphor of the monster in literature, cinema, music, culture, philosophy, history and politics. Both historical reflection and concerns of our time are addressed with clarity and written in an accessible manner providing appeal for the scholar and lay reader alike. This eclectic collection will be of interest to academics and students working in a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, film studies, political theory, philosophy and literature studies.
Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950
Author: Robert Knopf
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300206739
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Each play is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction by the editor, and a critical essay, frequently written by the playwright, which elaborates on the play’s dramatic and aesthetic concerns. A new introduction by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten contextualizes the plays in light of recent critical developments in avant-garde studies. By examining the groundbreaking theatrical experiments of Jarry, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Artaud, and others, the book foregrounds the avant-garde’s enduring influence on the development of modern theater.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300206739
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Each play is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction by the editor, and a critical essay, frequently written by the playwright, which elaborates on the play’s dramatic and aesthetic concerns. A new introduction by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten contextualizes the plays in light of recent critical developments in avant-garde studies. By examining the groundbreaking theatrical experiments of Jarry, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Artaud, and others, the book foregrounds the avant-garde’s enduring influence on the development of modern theater.