Beloved Strangers

Author : Maria Chaudhuri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620406236

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Beloved Strangers by Maria Chaudhuri Pdf

A bright new voice from Bangladesh, in the literary tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Burnt Shadows, on finding home and self. One of Maria Chaudhuri's early memories growing up in Dhaka was planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Home was not an especially unhappy place, but in Maria's family, joy was ephemeral. With a mother who yearned for the mountains and the solitariness and freedom to pursue her own dreams and career, and a charismatic but distant father who found it difficult to express emotion, they were never able to hold on to happiness for very long. Maria studied the Holy Book and said her daily prayers, yet struggled to reconcile her inner self with her faith and her family. She dreamed, like her mother, of unstitching the seam of her life. Her neighbor, Bablu, both excited and repulsed Maria by showing her a yellowing pornographic magazine, but Mala, a girl her own age who came to work in their house, with her wise eyes and wicked smile, made Maria dizzy with longing. When she moved to New England to attend college at eighteen Maria faced new opportunities and challenges, including meeting Yameen, a man who lived in Jersey City and wooed her, but was not what he seemed... From Dhaka to Jersey City, Beloved Strangers is a candid and moving account of growing up and a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return. This unforgettable memoir will resonate with anyone carving out a place for herself in the world, straddling two cultures while trying to find a place to belong.

Author : Anne C. Rose
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674006402

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Beloved Strangers by Anne C. Rose Pdf

Interfaith marriage is a visible and often controversial part of American life--and one with a significant history. This is the first historical study of religious diversity in the home. Anne Rose draws a vivid picture of interfaith marriages over the century before World War I, their problems and their social consequences. She shows how mixed-faith families became agents of change in a culture moving toward pluralism. Following them over several generations, Rose tracks the experiences of twenty-six interfaith families who recorded their thoughts and feelings in letters, journals, and memoirs. She examines the decisions husbands and wives made about religious commitment, their relationships with the extended families on both sides, and their convictions. These couples--who came from strong Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish backgrounds--did not turn away from religion but made personalized adjustments in religious observance. Increasingly, the author notes, women took charge of religion in the home. Rose's family-centered look at private religious decisions and practice gives new insight on American society in a period when it was becoming more open, more diverse, and less community-bound.

Author : Maria Chaudhuri
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408844618

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Beloved Strangers by Maria Chaudhuri Pdf

A bright and brilliant new voice from Bangladesh 'Moving, lyrical and curious – this memoir effortlessly captures the disorientating feeling of growing up in a world that misunderstands you' Red On and on we dream, we wish, we love - no matter that the dreams come to an end, the wishes evolve or that love dissipates like dust in the wind. Perhaps, what matters only is that we have lived long enough to dream, hard enough to wish and indisputably enough to love. One of Maria's early memories growing up in Dhaka is of planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Even then, Maria couldn't quite figure out why she longed to escape. It is not that home is an unhappy place. It's just that in her family, joy is ephemeral. With a mother who yearns for the mountains, the solitude and freedom to pursue her own dreams and career, and a charismatic but distant father who finds it difficult to expresses emotion, they are never able to hold on to happiness for very long. Maria studies the Holy Book, says her daily prayers and wonders if God is watching her. She dreams, like her mother, of unstitching the seam of her life. It is her neighbour, Bablu, the Imitator of Frogs, who both excites and repulses Maria by showing her a yellowing pornographic magazine, but it is Mala, a girl her own age who comes to work in their house, whose wise eyes and wicked smile makes her dizzy with longing. When she moves to New England for university at eighteen Maria meets Yameen, a man who lives in a desperately squalid apartment in Jersey City, woos her with phone calls and a marathon night of drinking in New York bars, and is not what he seems... From Dhaka to New York, this is a candid and moving account of growing up and growing away, a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return. Beloved Strangers is an unforgettable memoir marking the arrival of a brilliant new voice from Bangladesh.

Author : Judith Pella
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : 0783884958

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Beloved Stranger by Judith Pella Pdf

Shelby Martin's whirlwind romance and spur-of-the moment wedding were exciting until Frank's shadowy past began to emerge. Her faith in her husband--and in God--is shaken to the core. Where will she find the strength to face her uncertain future? Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Witter Bynner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B4102752

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The Beloved Stranger by Witter Bynner Pdf

Author : Maria Chaudhuri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1408844621

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Beloved Strangers by Maria Chaudhuri Pdf

A bright and brilliant new voice from Bangladesh

Author : Lloyd Pratt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812247688

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The Strangers Book by Lloyd Pratt Pdf

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions, they countered the notion that a person can use a supposed knowledge of human nature to claim full understanding of any other person's life. Instead they posited that being a stranger, unknown and unknowable, was an essential part of the human condition. Affirming the unknown and unknowable differences between people, as individuals and in groups, laid the groundwork for an ethical and democratic society in which all persons could find a place. If everyone is a stranger, then no individual or class can lay claim to the characteristics that define who gets to be a human in political and public arenas. Lloyd Pratt focuses on nineteenth-century African American writing and publishing venues and practices such as the Colored National Convention movement and literary societies in Nantucket and New Orleans. Examining the writing of Frederick Douglass in tandem with that of the francophone free men of color who published the first anthology of African American poetry in 1845, he contends these authors were never interested in petitioning whites for sympathy or for recognition of their humanity. Instead, they presented a moral imperative to develop practices of stranger humanism in order to forge personal and political connections based on mutually acknowledged and always evolving differences.

Author : Peggy Webb
Publisher : Silhouette
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373088248

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Beloved Stranger by Peggy Webb Pdf

Author : Susan Evans McCloud
Publisher : Bookcraft, Incorporated
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Latter Day Saints
ISBN : 0884947610

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Beloved Stranger by Susan Evans McCloud Pdf

Author : Keren R. McGinity
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0814796346

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Still Jewish by Keren R. McGinity Pdf

Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, Keren R. McGinity describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical context. The first comprehensive history of these intermarried women, Still Jewish is a multigenerational study combining in-depth personal interviews and an astute analysis of how interfaith relationships and intermarriage were portrayed in the mass media, advice manuals, and religious community-generated literature. Still Jewish dismantles assumptions that once a Jew intermarries, she becomes fully assimilated into the majority Christian population, religion, and culture. Rather than becoming “lost” to the Jewish community, women who intermarried later in the century were more likely to raise their children with strong ties to Judaism than women who intermarried earlier in the century. Bringing perennially controversial questions of Jewish identity, continuity, and survival to the forefront of the discussion, Still Jewish addresses topics of great resonance in the modern Jewish community and beyond.

Author : Elizabeth Oldfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0263743764

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Beloved Stranger by Elizabeth Oldfield Pdf

Author : Alan Montefiore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773593435

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Philosophy and Personal Relations by Alan Montefiore Pdf

Author : Clare Boylan
Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110682858

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Beloved Stranger by Clare Boylan Pdf

When her husband of fifty years begins to slip into madness, Lily Butler turns for help to her only daughter.

Author : Eric J Sundquist
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674044142

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Strangers in the Land by Eric J Sundquist Pdf

The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century.

Author : Todd Endelman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400866380

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Leaving the Jewish Fold by Todd Endelman Pdf

The definitive history of conversion and assimilation of Jews in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to the present Between the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold—by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying. Telling the stories of both famous and obscure individuals, Leaving the Jewish Fold explores the nature of this drift and defection from Judaism in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to today. Arguing that religious conviction was rarely a motive for Jews who became Christians, Todd Endelman shows that those who severed their Jewish ties were driven above all by pragmatic concerns—especially the desire to escape the stigma of Jewishness and its social, occupational, and emotional burdens. Through a detailed and colorful narrative, Endelman considers the social settings, national contexts, and historical circumstances that encouraged Jews to abandon Judaism, and factors that worked to the opposite effect. Demonstrating that anti-Jewish prejudice weighed more heavily on the Jews of Germany and Austria than those living in France and other liberal states as early as the first half of the nineteenth century, he reexamines how Germany's political and social development deviated from other European states. Endelman also reveals that liberal societies such as Great Britain and the United States, which tolerated Jewish integration, promoted radical assimilation and the dissolution of Jewish ties as often as hostile, illiberal societies such as Germany and Poland. Bringing together extensive research across several languages, Leaving the Jewish Fold will be the essential work on conversion and assimilation in modern Jewish history for years to come.