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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape
Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.
Everybody's War
Organized by Médecins Sans Frontières, Everybody's War brings together academics and humanitarian practitioners from across the globe to provide a multitude of perspectives on the politics of humanitarian aid in the Syrian war.
A Last Goodbye?
What are the chances that there really is life after death, and that we may meet our friends and loved ones again beyond the grave? What is the likelihood that a benevolent God has made this possible? The author approaches these questions in a way intended to intrigue and challenge even hardened sceptics by drawing together some of the mystifying discoveries of quantum physics (explained simply for non-scientists) and curious experiences from his own life which have had a profound effect on him. This is a book for anyone who is concerned about death, or who is interested in what must be one of the most fundamental questions in life: is death the end?
The Kid from the Future, the Boy from the Past
Set in 1960s London, this tale of growing up invites readers to meet Welsh-born Georgie, a teen with special powers, and a special way with words! Georgie connects with intriguing Morgan, the Kid from the Future. This leads him and his pals – Jay, Rob, Joe, Jack, – to reveal their true selves. In a world where being gay is a crime, these lads are the vanguard of today's open society. What are the risks they take? The scrapes they get into? The violence and prejudice they encounter? A humorous coming-of-age tale. How will their parents react? What are Georgie's secret liaisons? How many insults from 'Jerry the Jackal' can they take? Is it ever right to meet violence with violence? These and many other questions are answered in this tale, as told by a very articulate, funny and brave young man.
Making Mirrors
A poetry anthology that illuminates exile and displacement. Making Mirrors began on two continents, envisioned by Palestinian poet and aid worker, Jehan Bseiso, and Becky Thompson, a US-based poet changed by months of greeting refugees after their perilous journey across the Aegean Sea. This anthology uses mirrors to reflect imagistic connections that allow us to see ourselves in each other, those on rafts and those standing on the shore, those waiting/writing in detention and those writing from places of relative safety, those who lift their children to the sky and those whose bodies are at the bottom of the sea. Making Mirrors offers a poetics of belonging—to the earth, family, and memor...
Lebano-Pathography
This book of autobiographical, autoethnographic illness narratives tackles the intersection between cultural and medical illnesses in present-day Lebanon, in relation to topical issues such as queer home, coming of age, dementia, expatriate trauma, and sexual blackmail, among others. The book’s essays are developed in the backdrop of Lebano-pathography – a dual, potentially adaptable and reusable, narrative intervention (form/method) that does not depoliticise the traumatic subject. Simultaneously, it is a body of writing (text) that seeks to illuminate the different ways one can be ill, and try to recover, in present-day Lebanon. While somatic manifestations of illness and their concomi...
Memories of memories
"Sooner or later, every person invents a story for himself that he believes to be his life." (Max Frisch) A life story is not a sum of memories seamlessly strung together, but a conglomeration of continually revised and reinterpreted retrospectives. Accordingly, this is a delicate journey back in time to who one believes oneself to be. The anecdotal travelogue is flanked by scientific miniatures that invite reflection. Stations are, for example, a naive toddler before and a serious boy in and after the war, a rebellious adolescent in the decade of the economic miracle or a dabbling adolescent in the birth years of the Federal Republic - a life story like any and yet like none. By reading it, you might learn something about yourself - or about the story you think is your life.
It's Time, in the Light to be
The author tells how she perceived the world differently from other people at an early age. She saw and felt things and entities that did not belong to the physical world. This initially frightened her until she realized that she had the gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. With sensitive words she tells about her life and experiences; for example about her deep insights through reincarnation therapy or how she accompanied people and animals in the phase of transition into the spiritual world. In her open manner, she takes the reader on her journey of healing experiences and helps them to find and live their inner light as well. "In the depth of our hearts, we all carry the desire to feel and live our inner light again."
This Is Not a Border
________________ 'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman 'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' - Suad Amiry ________________ The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, 'the power of culture over the culture of power'. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This ...
Forever Fated
When Lisa Metcalf takes a job cleaning a fairytale cottage for some extra cash, she isn't expecting to meet knight in shining armour Gareth Edwards – but what will happen when the world seems determined to drive a wedge between them? Spanning decades, Forever Fated is a story of pain, class, and family interfering with the course of true love, and that love's strength, even in the face of blood and death.
