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The Last Days of Ellis Island
New York, November 3, 1954: The last immigration officer of Ellis Island looks back at 45 years as gatekeeper to America.
Ellis Island
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A landmark work of history that brings the voices of the past vividly to life, transforming our understanding of the immigrant experience. Whilst living in New York, journalist Małgorzata Szejnert would often gaze out from lower Manhattan at Ellis Island, a dark outline on the horizon. How many stories did this tiny patch of land hold? How many people had joyfully embarked on a new life there — or known the despair of being turned away? How many were held there against their will? Ellis Island draws on unpublished testimonies, memoirs and correspondence from many internees and immigrants, including Russians, Italians, Jews, Japanese, Germans, and Poles, along ...
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century "migrant literature" has become central to criticism and publishing. Oana Sabo addresses previously unanswered questions about the proliferation of contemporary migrant texts and their shifting themes and forms, mechanisms of literary legitimation, and notions of critical and commercial achievement. Through close readings of novels (by Mathias Énard, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferrière, Henri Lopès, Andreï Makine, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Alice Z...
Summer Brother
Thirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father. His older brother Lucien, physically and mentally disabled, has been institutionalized for years. While Lucien's home is undergoing renovations, he is sent to live with his father and younger brother for the summer. Their detached father leaves Brian to care for Lucien's special needs. But how do you look after someone when you don't know what they need? How do you make the right choices when you still have so much to discover?
Innovation and Global Issues 4: Congress Book
It is a valuable academic work that contains full texts of the academic studies presented within the scope of Innovation and Global Issues Congress 4 in Antalya by InGlobe Academy and includes multidisciplinary studies. Turkish Innovation and Global Issues Congress 4 kapsamında sunulan akademik çalışmaların tam metinlerinin bulunduğu, multidisipliner çalışmalar içeren değerli akademik bir eserdir.
Fighters in the Shadows
The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside “the French Resistance” of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny. As Fighters in the Shadows makes clear, French resistance was part of a Europe-wide struggle against fasci...
Flor de Oro. La figlia del tiranno
La storia vera di Flor De Oro, figlia del dittatore della Repubblica Dominicana Trujillo, al centro di un caotico destino fatto di politica, amori, tradimenti, lusso e miseria, sullo sfondo di eventi che hanno sconvolto il mondo. Per più di trent’anni, dal 1930 al 1961, la Repubblica dominicana è stata dominata dal sanguinario dittatore Trujillo, el Jefe, un tiranno che ha fatto del paese il suo regno personale ricorrendo senza scrupolo a spie e assassini prezzolati. Quando viene mandata a studiare in Francia, nel prestigioso collegio di Bouffémont, Flor de Oro è solo una bambina di nove anni, triste perché viene strappata alla mamma e sbattuta all’altro capo del mondo. Del padre sa...
Queeriser l'enquête
De quelle manière se lier à l’autre en dehors des généalogies biologiques que nous impose le destin ? Comment aborder différemment la pratique cynégétique de la filature, suivre un individu et le trouver sans le pister, le traquer ? Et comment imaginer une vie sans l’enfermer dans les interprétations réifiantes que commandent les fictions patriarcales ? Cet ouvrage a pour ambition d’interroger les pratiques littéraires de l’enquête à partir de deux perspectives. Celle, d’abord, de la figure de l’enquêtrice, qui ouvre la voie à l’exploration des dimensions genrées de l’investigation et à la manière dont celle-ci permet aux femmes de se lier entre elles par la fiction. Et celle, ensuite, des liens entre littératures policière et biographique par lesquels s’articule une pensée du genre littéraire à l’aune des théories du gender.
Suite for Barbara Loden
The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. “I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. “Usually, there is a distance between representation and text, subject and action. Here that distance is completely eradicated.” It is perhaps this “miracle”—the seeming collapse of fiction and fact—that has made Wanda (1970) a cult classic, and a fascination of artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Léger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker. Suite for Barbara Loden is the magnificent result.
Vivian Maier: Obscuring the Light
Qui était Vivian Maier, cette « nounou pas comme les autres » dont on découvrit à titre posthume le talent immense de photographe ? Vivian Maier décède en 2009, à 83 ans, dans le plus grand anonymat. On redécouvre ses photos pleines d'humanité et d'attention envers les démunis et les perdants du rêve américain par hasard dans des cartons oubliés au fond d'un garde-meuble de la banlieue de Chicago. Personnalité complexe et parfois déroutante, femme libre dont le destin s’est écrit entre la France et l'Amérique, elle avait choisi de vivre les yeux grands ouverts. Vivian Maier claire obscure est le portrait par Émilie Plateau et Marzena Sowa de cette invisible photographe de génie.
