Ismene S Survivable Resistance

Author : Claire Gaskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922571032

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Ismene's Survivable Resistance by Claire Gaskin Pdf

In this fourth major poetry collection, Claire Gaskin re-envisions the myth of Antigone by focusing on her sister Ismene. Assuming the voice of a contemporary Ismene, she asks us to consider what survivable resistance might look like for those who live on after tragedy? What kind of avenues are available to resist autocratic and patriarchal structures of power? How might we imagine a future that is different to our past and instigate real change at both a personal and public level? Ismene's accommodation of and respect for difference is privileged in these poems, as is her credo of care in situations that seem overwhelmingly difficult or impossible: 'remember those who love you love you still'. The poems identify and expose inner and outer silencing devices and refuse to be silenced. Powerfully evocative and cumulative in its reflective intensity, Ismene's Survivable Resistance demonstrates how creative engagement can enable connections between the seemingly fragmentary and how poetic form not only provides a crucial means to hear those who have survived abuses of power but can also be the vehicle for change.

Author : Jason Goroncy,Rod Pattenden
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666706888

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Imagination in an Age of Crisis by Jason Goroncy,Rod Pattenden Pdf

This book explores the vital role of the imagination in today’s complex climates—cultural, environmental, political, racial, religious, spiritual, intellectual, etc. It asks: What contribution do the arts make in a world facing the impacts of globalism, climate change, pandemics, and losses of culture? What wisdom and insight, and orientation for birthing hope and action in the world, do the arts offer to religious faith and to theological reflection? These essays, poems, and short reflections—written by art practitioners and academics from a diversity of cultures and religious traditions—demonstrate the complex cross-cultural nature of this conversation, examining critical questions in dialogue with various art forms and practices, and offering a way of understanding how the human imagination is formed, sustained, employed, and expanded. Marked by beauty and wonder, as well as incisive critique, it is a unique collection that brings unexpected voices into a global conversation about imagining human futures.

Author : Donna Lyon
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781615995806

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Left / Write // Hook by Donna Lyon Pdf

LEFT / WRITE // HOOK shows that sexual abuse survivors are everywhere, that trauma lives in the body, and it needs to be expressed. "By no choice of their own, survivors of childhood sexual abuse spend the entirety of their lives 'in the ring', fighting. Left / Write // Hook offers visceral insight into survivors' fierce, compelling and ultimately triumphant stories" --. Dr Joy Townsend, Learning Consent "Donna Lyon has the ability to get women to open up and reveal all, and in the process begin the journey to healing. Boxing is a violent sport, but projects like Left / Write // Hook take the violence out of it, so that it becomes therapeutic and gives you power". --Tommy Hopkins, Fitlife Boxing Club, Melbourne Australia. Fueled with the voices and lived experiences of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, whose lives and work have been positively impacted by the combination of writing and boxing, readers will experience: * a profound understanding of the complexity and depth of trauma through the lived experiences of survivors * insights into the tenacious long-term impacts of abuse and trauma on the mind, body, and spirit * personalised and collective accounts of how trauma manifests in the experiences of survivors and their sense of self * hope and courage as to the resilience and strength of survivors who live with the daily effects of their trauma * new insight into how the combination of physical, mental, and creative programs of expression are vital to healing * dozens of powerful writing prompts that unearth hidden feelings, thoughts, and beliefs to recover your true self. Learn more at: www.leftwritehook.com From Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com

Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0691094926

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Female Acts in Greek Tragedy by Helene P. Foley Pdf

Although classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic or social autonomy, the tragedies often represent them as influential social and moral forces. This work studies this apparent contradiction, showing how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore issues.

Author : Laura Levitt
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814752319

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American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust by Laura Levitt Pdf

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up possibilities for engaging these more personal and everyday legacies. Weaving in discussions of her own family stories and writing in a manner that is both deeply personal and erudite, Levitt shows what happens when public and private losses are seen next to each other, and what happens when difficult works of art or commemoration, such as museum exhibits or films, are seen alongside ordinary family stories about more intimate losses. In so doing she illuminates how through these “ordinary stories” we may create an alternative model for confronting Holocaust memory in Jewish culture.

Author : Lee McGowan,Kasey Symons
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789819955855

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Intersections of Sport and Society in Creative Writing by Lee McGowan,Kasey Symons Pdf

This edited collection is positioned at the nexus of sports, society and creative writing. In its explorations of the intersections of sports writing, analysis of literary contributions and examinations of craft, it offers rare consideration of a rich diversity of form in narratives that occur in, and as creative practice. Included in the collection are dynamic academic investigations into football writing and poetry focused on community sporting activities in Afghanistan, to those addressing the intersections of writing and boxing in the reflexive reclamation of the post-trauma self, the absence of women in the rodeo and who and what is represented in our sports shelves. This book breaks new ground in approaches to sport’s role in creative writing and what creative writing can provide in furthering our understanding of sport in society. The works in this edited book draw on a diverse range of methods to interrogate the processes, concepts and liminal spaces through an intersectional array of voices, offering analysis and insight into the application of creative writing knowledge and practice in relation to sport and its impact on wider discipline discussion and research. It is relevant to students and scholars studying and researching creative writing, sports writing, sports studies, cultural studies and sports media studies.

Author : Pauline Donizeau,Yassaman Khajehi,Daniela Potenza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350355712

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Greek Tragedy and the Middle East by Pauline Donizeau,Yassaman Khajehi,Daniela Potenza Pdf

Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th century until the present day, this book first explores the earlier phase of the development of Greek classical reception in Middle Eastern theatre. It then moves to focus on modern Arabic, Persian and Turkish adaptations of Greek tragedy both in the early post-colonial and contemporary periods in the MENA and in Europe. Case by case, this book examines how the classical sources are reworked and adapted, as well as how they engage with interculturality, hybridisation and the circulation of aesthetics and models. At the same time, it explores the implications and consequences of expressing socio-political concerns through classical Greek sources. While Muslim thinkers and translators introduced Greek philosophy – in particular Aristotle's Poetics – to the West in the Middle Ages, adaptations of Greek tragedies only appeared in the MENA region at the very beginning of the 20th century. For this reason, the development of Greek tragedy in the Middle East is difficult to disentangle from colonialism and cultural imperialism. Encompassing language differences and offering for the first time a broad approach on the Middle-Eastern reception of Greek tragedy, this book produces a renewed focus on a fascinating aspect of the classical tradition.

Author : Claire Gaskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648848124

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Eurydice Speaks by Claire Gaskin Pdf

Eurydice Speaks is a linked sonnet series echoing the voices that emerge from the Underworld. A contemporary Eurydice uses the power of language to process her constraints and losses, reflected in strategies of transformation that focus on the dynamic between iteration and change. Fragments of being and transitory insights, like broken pieces of mirror within the architecture of the sonnet, reflect and distort, to deepen, intensify and reinforce connectivity. This collection illustrates the evocative, associative and allusive power in the methods of poetry, to know and be known, to feel and be felt, to gather and cohere.

Author : Arifa Akbar
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529347531

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Consumed by Arifa Akbar Pdf

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 COSTA BOOK AWARDS: BIOGRAPHY * 'If her moving, engrossing, elegantly written memoir does not win prizes, there really is no justice in the literary world.' Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. When Arifa Akbar discovered that her sister had fallen seriously ill, she assumed there would be a brief spell in hospital and then she'd be home. This was not to be. It was not until the day before she died that the family discovered she was suffering from tuberculosis. Consumed is a story of sisterhood, grief, the redemptive power of art and the strange mythologies that surround tuberculosis. It takes us from Keats's deathbed and the tubercular women of opera to the resurgence of TB in modern Britain today. Arifa travels to Rome to haunt the places Keats and her sister had explored, to her grandparent's house in Pakistan, to her sister's bedside at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead and back to a London of the seventies when her family first arrived, poor, homeless and hungry. Consumed is an eloquent and moving excavation of a family's secrets and a sister's detective story to understand her sibling.

Author : Olga Kekis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351253963

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Hypertheatre by Olga Kekis Pdf

Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy investigates the adaptation of classical drama for the contemporary stage and explores its role as an active, polemical form of theatre which addresses present-day issues. The book’s premise is that by breaking drama into constituent parts, revising, reinterpreting and rewriting to create a new, culturally and politically relevant construct, the process of adaptation creates a 'hyperplay', newly repurposed for the contemporary world. This process is explored through a diverse collection of postmodern adaptations of Antigone, Medea, and The Trojan Women, analysing their adaptive strategies and the evidence of how these remakings reflect the cultures of which they are a part. Central to this study is the idea that each of these adaptations becomes an entirely new play, redefining its central female figures and invoking reconfigurations of femininity which emphasise individual women’s strengths and female solidarity. Written for scholars of Theatre, Adaptation, Performance Studies, and Literature, Hypertheatre places the Greek classics firmly within a contemporary feminist discourse.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231518048

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Antigone's Claim by Judith Butler Pdf

The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship—and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable life. Butler explores the meaning of Antigone, wondering what forms of kinship might have allowed her to live. Along the way, she considers the works of such philosophers as Hegel, Lacan, and Irigaray. How, she asks, would psychoanalysis have been different if it had taken Antigone—the "postoedipal" subject—rather than Oedipus as its point of departure? If the incest taboo is reconceived so that it does not mandate heterosexuality as its solution, what forms of sexual alliance and new kinship might be acknowledged as a result? The book relates the courageous deeds of Antigone to the claims made by those whose relations are still not honored as those of proper kinship, showing how a culture of normative heterosexuality obstructs our capacity to see what sexual freedom and political agency could be.

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1439557608

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The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Pdf

Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees

Author : J. Preece
Publisher : Springer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137070272

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Baader-Meinhof and the Novel by J. Preece Pdf

The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410334800

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A Study Guide for Sophocles's Antigone by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Claire Gaskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 0977578704

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A Bud by Claire Gaskin Pdf

These poems are spare, in the tradition of imagism, from haiku through to surrealism and since; and they are oblique, worked between logic and illogic. The voice, among this, is lucid to hear. It is playful and wise; its reflections take the daily things and emotions, with a background of rural Victoria in some of the imagery; and its rhythms feel fresh to a syllable. There is no modish nervousness towards language's impotence. Claire Gaskin, in a style that she formed by the mid-eighties, keeps a modernist confidence in expressiveness. The poems here have been matured from two to twenty years, with an artist's instinct not to hurry. The words seem incised on the page for a long term. A bud was shortlisted for the John Bray Prize in the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.