Captivity
Author | : György Spiró |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632060493 |
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Author | : György Spiró |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632060493 |
This translation originally copyrighted in 2010.
Author | : Toi Derricotte |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1989-11-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0822978512 |
What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God.
Author | : Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735217939 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.
Author | : Mary Rowlandson |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 048613623X |
Rowlandson's famous account of her abduction by the Narragansett Indians in 1676 is accompanied by three other narratives of captivity among the Delawares, the Iroquois, and the Indians of the Allegheny.
Author | : Mary White Rowlandson |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2019-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Mary Rowlandson was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, 'The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' was published. It captures her ordeal in vivid details of its brutality. The book is considered a formative American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives.
Author | : Jews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Billy J. Stratton |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816530289 |
"Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase Mather's influence on the narrative, Stratton calls for a reconsideration of past scholarly work on the genre"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Lori Gruen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 019997800X |
Though conditions of captivity vary widely for humans and for other animals, there are common ethical themes that imprisonment raises. This volume brings together scholars, scientists, and sanctuary workers to address these issues in fifteen new essays. The first section contains chapters written by those with expert knowledge about particular conditions of captivity. The second contains chapters by philosophers and social theorists that reflect on the social, political, and ethical issues raised by captivity.
Author | : Lisa Voigt |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807831999 |
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The pr
Author | : James Strahan |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2024-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385347866 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.