Intimate Stranger

Author : Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231537919

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Intimate Strangers by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Pdf

Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their cosmopolitanism feel acceptable, inspiring radical new approaches to longstanding problems in American politics. Speaking like natives, they also exploited their foreignness to entice listeners to embrace alternative modes of thought. Intimate Strangers unpacks this "stranger ethos," a blend of detachment and involvement that manifested in the persona of a prophet for Solzhenitsyn, an impartial observer for Arendt, a mentor for Marcuse, and a victim for Said. Yet despite its many successes, the stranger ethos did alienate many audiences, and critics continue to dismiss these thinkers not for their positions but because of their foreign point of view. This book encourages readers to reject this kind of critical xenophobia, throwing support behind a political discourse that accounts for the ideals of citizens and noncitizens alike.

Author : Lillian B. Rubin
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0060911344

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Intimate Strangers is a book for every man and woman who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why it seemed so elusive. Drawing on years of research, writing, and counseling about marriage and the family, interviews with more than two hundred couples, and her own experiences, Lillian Rubin explains not just how the differences between women and men arise but how they affect such critical issues as intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, and parenting. Candid, compassionate, and insightful, Rubin's lucid examination should aid each of us in our struggle for greater personal and emotional satisfaction.

Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780980033090

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Intimate Stranger by Breyten Breytenbach Pdf

Addressed to a young writer, Intimate Stranger is an eclectic and generous work flowing with insight and wit. Breytenbach's candid and provocative reflections on reading and writing guide without guiding, open mental channels, surprise, and inspire. A stirring glimpse into the mind of an artist, Intimate Stranger is a river of experience and visions, brimming with sleights of tongue and overshifting in mood. This genre-defying gem makes manifest Einstein's assertion: "Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Author : Nayan Shah
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520950405

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Stranger Intimacy by Nayan Shah Pdf

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Fredric Brandfon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827619036

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Intimate Strangers by Fredric Brandfon Pdf

The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations since 139 BCE. For most of that time, Jewish Romans have lived in close contact with the largest continuously functioning international organization: the Roman Catholic Church. Given the church’s origins in Judaism, Jews and Catholics have spent two thousand years negotiating a necessary and paradoxical relationship. With engaging stories that illuminate the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed from the first century CE to the present in the Eternal City. Fredric Brandfon innovatively frames these relations through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of family have shaped the self-understanding of both Roman Jews and Catholics. The familial relations are lopsided, the powerful family member often persecuting the weaker one; the church ghettoized the Jews of Rome longer than any other community in Europe. Yet respect and support are also part of the family dynamic—for instance, church members and institutions protected Rome’s Jews during the Nazi occupation—and so the relationship continues. Brandfon begins by examining the Arch of Titus and the Jewish catacombs as touchstones, painting a picture of a Jewish community remaining Jewish over centuries. Papal processions and the humiliating races at Carnival time exemplify Jewish interactions with the predominant Catholic powers in medieval and Renaissance Rome. The Roman Ghetto, the forcible conversion of Jews, emancipation from the Ghetto in light of Italian nationalism, the horrors of fascism and the Nazi occupation in Rome, the Second Vatican Council proclamation absolving Jews of murdering Christ, and the celebration of Israel’s birth at the Arch of Titus are interwoven with Jewish stories of daily life through the centuries. Intimate Strangers takes us on a compelling sweep of two thousand years of history through the present successes and dilemmas of Roman Jews in postwar Europe.

Author : Carmen Ho,Gregg Schroeder
Publisher : Signal 8 Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9887794945

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Intimate Strangers by Carmen Ho,Gregg Schroeder Pdf

Family, love, friendship, acceptance-none of these pillars of happiness are certainties for LGBTQ+ people. Intimate Strangers showcases the nonfiction work of writers living life on their own authentic terms.

Author : Veronika Siegl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781501769931

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Intimate Strangers by Veronika Siegl Pdf

Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women's bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist being objectified or morally judged; and the powerful role of agents and doctors who have found a profitable niche in nurturing and facilitating other people's existential hopes. Intimate Strangers discusses these issues against the backdrop of ultra-conservatism and moral governance in Russia, the rising international popularity of the Ukrainian surrogacy market, and the pervasiveness of neo-liberal ideologies and individualized notions of reproductive freedom.

Author : Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139788625

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Intimate Strangers by Vanessa Smith Pdf

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.

Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956715091

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Intimate Strangers by B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fianc refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of society, through her own ingenuity and an encounter with researcher Dr Winter-Bottom Nanny, she is able to earn some money. Will she remain at the margins or graduate into DUST - Diamond University of Science and Technology? Immaculate learns how maids struggle to make ends meet and madams wrestle to keep them in their employ. Resolved to make her disappointments blessings, she perseveres until she can take no more.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714547381

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Intimate Strangers and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again - against the wishes of her in-laws - and to find out the secret of this man she loves yet knows so little about. A poignant tale of thwarted love, 'The Intimate Strangers' explores many of Fitzgerald's favourite themes, such as the constraints of social pressure on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories he wrote from the mid-1930s until the end of his life, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

Author : Susan Lewis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409008750

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Intimate Strangers by Susan Lewis Pdf

Investigative journalist, Laurie Forbes, is planning her wedding to Elliot Russell, when she receives a tip-off that a group of illegally smuggled women is being held somewhere in the East End of London. During her search unexpected and devastating events begin throwing her own life into chaos, so fellow journalist, Sherry MacElvoy steps in to help. Taking on undercover roles to get to the heart of the ruthless gang of human-traffickers, neither reporter can even begin to imagine what dangers they are about to face. Neela is one of the helpless Indian girls being held in captivity. Her fear is not only for herself, but her six-year-old niece, Shaila. A disfiguring birthmark has so far saved Neela from the abuse, but she knows it is only a matter of time before she is sent for - and worse, before Shaila is taken. Her desperate bids to seek outside help are constantly thwarted, until finally she, and the women with her, agree there is only one way out ...

Author : Janet Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053482728

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Intimate Stranger by Janet Wilson Pdf

In this book literary figures, family, friends, and colleagues pay tribute to Dan Davin and his contribution to literature through his own work and in fostering writers and writing.

Author : Julian W. Connolly
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110154502

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The Intimate Stranger by Julian W. Connolly Pdf

The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Nearly all of the major authors of the period - Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - used images of devils to explore issues of human temptation, sin, and guilt in a troubled world. Asking fundamental questions - where does evil come from? when does it appear in characters' lives? - these writers created a remarkable array of demonic figures, ranging from grotesque demons to handsome nihilists. This book discusses the various literary, religious, and folkloric factors that influenced the representation of the demonic, and it investigates the profound, soul-shattering effects that a personal encounter with the demonic may have on an individual's life.

Author : Matt Cohen,Wayne Grady
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053650282

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Intimate Strangers by Matt Cohen,Wayne Grady Pdf

Author : Kathleen Lawless
Publisher : Kathleen Lawless
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781989873380

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Intimate Strangers by Kathleen Lawless Pdf

She wants his body—on film Alisha King is focused on finding the perfect subject for her upcoming photography show, and suddenly there he is. Watching her watching him across the courtyard of their apartment block. The jolt through her system is instant. A sense of familiarity that makes no sense when they’ve never met. Yet he’s the one! And no matter how risky it is to trade the safety of her camera for up-close and personal with the yummy Doctor, it’s a risk worth taking. One she expects will elevate her work to a whole new level of heat. When the hot neighbor he’s seen suntanning nude on her patio asks if she can photograph him, Hanson is by turns amused and intrigued. He’s not interested in being photographed for an erotic art show, but Alisha won’t take no for an answer and he’s curious to know how far she’s willing to go. Then Alisha gets tangled into the sultry shoot with him, and things escalate out of control. Proving that sometimes the most risqué fantasies really do come to life. The provocative photos of him are a hit with the viewing public, but Hanson wants a bigger role in Alisha’s life than yesterday’s subject. His pursuit sends her into hiding, feeling safe only behind the camera lens. And this time it’s Hanson’s turn to not take no for an answer. Bound to be a hit with fans of Sylvia Day, Maya Banks and J. Kenner