Essays And Speeches

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Crossing Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307809049

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Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Pdf

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. “[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429922974

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At the Same Time by Susan Sontag Pdf

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. She considers the works of writers from the little-known Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin, who struggled and eventually succeeded in publishing his only book days before his death; to the greats, such as Nadine Gordimer, who enlarge our capacity for moral judgment. Sontag also fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. At the Same Time, which includes a foreword by her son, David Rieff, is a passionate, compelling work from an American writer at the height of her powers, who always saw literature "as a passport to enter a larger life, the zone of freedom."

Author : Helen Keller
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547014089

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Optimism by Helen Keller Pdf

The author of this book, Helen Keller, was the first deaf, blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, and she went on to be one of the most celebrated women of the twentieth century. Her work "Optimism" is genuinely inspiring and teaches people to value the important things in our lives.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015046832922

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Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner Pdf

An essential collection of William Faulkner's mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay "On Criticism" and the beguiling "Note on A Fable." It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything from race relations and the nature of fiction to wild-squirrel hunting on his property. This is the most comprehensive collection of Faulkner's brilliant non-fiction work, and a rare look into the life of an American master.

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826488544

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Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace by Jane Addams Pdf

The pragmatist philosopher Jane Addams (1860-1935) is celebrated as the founder of Hull House, the settlement house for disadvantaged people in Chicago, where for many years she put into practice her progressive ideas for social reform. Addams was also deeply involved in international peace efforts. Remaining a pacifist throughout World War I, she was a founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Her books and essays on peace are frequently cited but long out of print and hard to obtain. Interest in Jane Addams is rapidly growing. As the American government withdraws from international treaties, her call for international law and cooperation has a new relevance. And in our increasingly dangerous world, her call for peace is being heard again. This volume contains the most complete collection ever made of Addams's essays, articles, and speeches on peace and international relations, written between 1899 and 1935. >

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525562795

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The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.

Author : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300073100

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Praise of Theory by Hans-Georg Gadamer Pdf

This collection of speeches and essays clarifies Gadamer's thoughts on the power of language, the social role and influence of science, and the idea of reason. He argues that the theoretical pursuit of truth is valuable for its own sake, and devalued when pursued explicitly for practical purposes.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781588363510

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Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner Pdf

An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material. This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the acerbic essay “On Criticism” and the beguiling “Note on A Fable.” It also contains eloquently opinionated public letters on everything from race relations and the nature of fiction to wild-squirrel hunting on his property. This is the most comprehensive collection of Faulkner’s brilliant non-fiction work, and a rare look into the life of an American master.

Author : Marcus Garvey
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486113852

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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey Pdf

This anthology contains some of the African-American rights advocate's most noted writings and speeches, among them "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World" and "Africa for the Africans."

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811218146

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Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.

Author : David Marr
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743820674

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My Country by David Marr Pdf

David Marr is the rarest of breeds: one of Australia’s most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr’s hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Country collects his powerful reflections on religion, sex, censorship and the law; striking accounts of leaders, moralists and scandalmongers; elegant ruminations on the arts and the lives of artists. And some memorable new pieces. ‘My country is the subject that interests me most and I have spent my career trying to untangle it’s mysteries.’ –David Marr.

Author : Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : India
ISBN : NYPL:33433082443346

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Essays, Speeches, Addresses and Writings, (on Indian Politics,) of the Hon'ble Dadabhai Naoroji ... by Dadabhai Naoroji Pdf

Author : Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.,Robert C. Leitz,Jesse S. Crisler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804744327

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Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.,Robert C. Leitz,Jesse S. Crisler Pdf

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has been considered by many the major African-American fiction writer before the Harlem Renaissance. This book collects essays he wrote from 1899 through 1931, the majority of which concern white racism, and political and literary addresses he made to both white and black audiences from 1881 through 1931.

Author : Virginia Hamilton,Arnold Adoff,Kacy Cook
Publisher : Blue Sky Press (AZ)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439271932

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Virginia Hamilton by Virginia Hamilton,Arnold Adoff,Kacy Cook Pdf

Twenty-six works by the distinguished children's book author illuminate the creative energy behind her artistry while speaking to a new generation of readers, introducing them to her literary vision and stunning body of writing which include Newbery Medal and National Book Award winners.

Author : Martin Luther King
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0060646918

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A Testament of Hope by Martin Luther King Pdf

"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life. These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.