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Children of Jonah
A unique collection of deeply moving stories by survivors of suicide attempts who decided to choose life instead. With a foreword by singer-songwriter, Judy Collins, herself a survivor of a suicide attempt
The Missionary Family
The title of this book points to a feature—the missionary family—often considered to be a distinctive of the Protestant missionary movement. Certainly the presence of missionary families in the field has been a central factor in enabling, configuring, and restricting Protestant missionary outreach. What special concerns does sending missionary families raise for the conduct of mission? What means are available for extending care and support to missionary families? These issues are the focus of the chapters in part 1 of this book. In recent years an increasing number of reports have surfaced of sexual abuse in mission settings. Some reports have been based on “recovered memories,” the...
Strange Encounters
Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism. A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch, or celebrated as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. The author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'.
Strangers at Home
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The Third Culture Kid Experience
Explores the experiences of third culture kids (TCKs), children who grow up or spend a significant portion of their childhood living abroad. Examines the nature of the TCK experience and its effect on maturity, developing a sense of identity, and adjusting to one's home country on return. Gives an understanding of the challenges and benefits of the TCK life through real-life anecdotes, and provides practical suggestions on maximizing the benefits. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Labels and Locations
Some happy occasions, like the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book to Bangladeshi-Australian author Adib Khan, the 2008 Man Booker Prize to Indian born Australian writer Arvinda Adiga, and the 2013 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction to Sri Lankan-Australian author Michele de Krester, have boosted the self-confidence of South Asian-Australian writers in Australia. South Asian diasporic communities have also been the focus for relatively small, but constantly growing, studies by anthropologists and sociologists on the interrelation of gender, race, ethnicity and migration in Australia. The terms Labels and Locations capture numerous aspects that contribute in...
Third Culture Kids
For more than a decade, Third Culture Kids has been the authority on "TCKs" - children of expatriates, missionaries, military personnel and others who live and work abroad. With a significant part of their developmental years spent outside of their passport country, TCKs create their own, unique "third" cultures. Authors Pollock and Van Reken pioneered the TCK profile, which brought to light the emotional and psychological realities that come with the TCK journey, often resulting in feelings of rootlessness and grief but also an increased confidence and ability to interact with many cultures. Through interviews and personal writings, this new, expanded edition explores the challenges and ben...
Doris Lessing
Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection reflects and explores the incredible variety of Lessing's border crossings and positions her writing in its various social and cultural contexts. Lessing crosses literal national borders in her life and work, but more controversial have been her crossings of genre borders into sci-fi and "space fiction", and her crossing of ideological borders such as moving into and out of the Communist Party and from a colonial into a post-colonial world. This timely collection also considers a number of the most interesting recent critical and theoretical approaches to Lessing's writing, including work on maternity and abjection in relation to The Fifth Child and The Grass is Singing, eco-criticism in Lessing's 'Ifrakan' novels, and postcolonial re-writings of landscape in her African Stories.
Paper Airplanes in the Himalayas
Spiritual journey of a "third culture kid" coming home. Touching experiences of one man's lonely childhood abroad and his painful re-entry into the American home and readjustment to the American culture. Refreshingly candid and sensitive.
第三文化小孩：在世界之間成長的經歷
/作者簡介/ 大衛．波洛克（David C. Pollock） 從事TCK（第三文化小孩）和成人TCK相關工作超過十年以上，這段過程中，他千里迢迢至世界各地為TCK、TCK的家長以及所屬機構辦理工作坊和論壇。 露絲．范．雷肯（Ruth E. Van Reken） 是《從未寄出的信》（Letters Never Sent）和其他著作的作者，也是全球遷徙中的家庭（Families in Global Transition）前任主席。花了超過三十年的時間周遊列國，針對「國際浪人」家庭相關的議題進行演講，並不斷地試圖理解該如何把從TCK身上學到的功課，運用於因各種原因而在不同文化世界中成長的人。 邁克爾...
