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Speak, Silence

Author : Kim Echlin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735240629

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WINNER OF THE 2021 TORONTO BOOK AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 EVERGREEN AWARD From the internationally bestselling and Giller-shortlisted author of The Disappeared, an astounding, poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all. It’s been eleven years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Now it’s 1999 and, working as a journalist, she hears about a film festival in Sarajevo, where she knows Kosmos will be with his theatre company. She takes the assignment to investigate the fallout of the Bosnian war—and to reconnect with the love of her life. But when they are reunited, she finds a man, and a country, altered beyond recognition. Kosmos introduces Gota to Edina, the woman he has always loved. While Gota treads the precarious terrain of her evolving connection to Kosmos, she and Edina forge an unexpected bond. A lawyer and a force to be reckoned with, Edina exposes the sexual violence that she and thousands of others survived in the war. Before long, Gota finds her life entwined with the community of women and travels with them to The Hague to confront their abusers. The events she covers—and the stories she hears—will change her life forever. Written in Kim Echlin’s masterfully luminescent prose, Speak, Silence weaves together the experiences of a resilient sisterhood and tells the story of the real-life trial that would come to shape history. In a heart-wrenching tale of suffering and loss and a beautiful illustration of power and love, Echlin explores what it means to speak out against the very people who would do anything to silence you.

Between Speaking and Silence

Author : Mary M. Reda
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791493717

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Why are students silent? Using written reflections and interviews, Mary M. Reda examines students' perceptions of speaking and being silent in a first-year composition classroom, and explores how their teachers, classroom relationships, and their own sense of identity shape their decisions to speak or be silent. By challenging many firmly held beliefs about those quiet students in the back of the classroom, Between Speaking and Silence offers the new vision that silence is not necessarily problematic.

Speaking of Silence in Heidegger

Author : Wanda Torres Gregory
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781793640048

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Speaking of Silence in Heidegger by Wanda Torres Gregory Pdf

This book charts the trajectory of Heidegger’s concept of silence by focusing on its relation to truth as the unconcealedness of being/beyng and language as disclosive sonorous saying. Wanda Torres Gregory concludes with critical reflections on the later Heidegger and proposes alternatives to his signature claims concerning silence.

Speaking to Silence

Author : Janet S. Peterman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664228804

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Speaking to Silence by Janet S. Peterman Pdf

Janet Peterman presents a variety of healing and comforting rituals that can be used in situations that are likely to be encountered in congregations but yet are not typically treated in standard liturgies. Peterman offers her reflections on the significance of rituals and includes a broad spectrum of rituals for personal use, for life in the home or at church, for use in the wider community, or for help in leading to transformation. She concludes by describing a seven-step process for creating new rituals and suggests ways to adapt existing worship materials for use in new settings. This much-needed resource will help pastors and lay leaders develop their own skills and insights for creating liturgies and rituals that provide relief, healing, and support for those in congregations who are faced with critical and life-altering situations.

Speech and Silence in American Law

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139487733

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Rather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech and silence we have to inquire into their social life and examine the occasions and practices that call them forth and that give them meaning. Among the questions addressed in this book are: who is authorized to speak? And what are the conditions that should be attached to the speaking subject? Are there occasions that call for speech and others that demand silence? What is the relationship between the speech act and the speaker? Taking these questions into account helps readers understand what compels speakers and what problems accompany speech without a known speaker, allowing us to assess how silence speaks and how speech renders the silent more knowable.

Speaking of Silence

Author : Naropa Institute
Publisher : New York : Paulist Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001293185

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Papers originally presented at Naropa Institute conferences. Bibliography: p. 319-327.

Purpose in Silence

Author : Tyrone Brown,Lyndon Brown
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1973655667

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Purpose in Silence by Tyrone Brown,Lyndon Brown Pdf

Purpose in Silence is a collection of poetry and devotional writings of two young men who are nonverbal, yet have a voice through their writings. Motor impairment and clubfeet have caused much frustration and pain in their young lives, but through these experiences, the Lord has given them a deep understanding of his purpose for them and an ability to encourage others passing through trials. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is where their strength is found, and it is the basis for much of their poetry. It is their heartfelt desire that their writings will bring honor to their Savior and a blessing to all those who read their words.

Speak, Silence

Author : Carole Angier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526634788

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Speak, Silence by Carole Angier Pdf

A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile. The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald's birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness, saving humour, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait.

A Book of Silence

Author : Sara Maitland
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Loneliness
ISBN : 9781847081513

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A deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.

Unspeakable

Author : Harriet Shawcross
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786890061

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Unspeakable by Harriet Shawcross Pdf

'Compassionate' Guardian 'Extremely affecting' Scotsman As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language. From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?

The Silence

Author : Ruth Wajnryb
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children of Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 186508512X

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A passionate and highly readable analysis of the unspoken vocabulary of trauma among families of survivors.

The Disappeared

Author : Kim Echlin
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143172819

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This story of passionate love between a Canadian and her Cambodian lover evokes their tumultuous relationship in a world of colliding values. Set against the backdrop of horrific loss, these two self-exiled lovers struggle to recreate themselves in a world that rejects their hopes. Spare, unrelenting, and moving, The Disappeared is an unforgettable consideration of love, language, justice, and memory set against the backdrop of the killing fields of Pol Pot.

Tell This Silence

Author : Patti Duncan
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587294433

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Tell This Silence by Patti Duncan explores multiple meanings of speech and silence in Asian American women's writings in order to explore relationships among race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. Duncan argues that contemporary definitions of U.S. feminism must be expanded to recognize the ways in which Asian American women have resisted and continue to challenge the various forms of oppression in their lives. There has not yet been adequate discussion of the multiple meanings of silence and speech, especially in relation to activism and social-justice movements in the U.S. In particular, the very notion of silence continues to invoke assumptions of passivity, submissiveness, and avoidance, while speech is equated with action and empowerment. However, as the writers discussed in Tell This Silence suggest, silence too has multiple meanings especially in contexts like the U.S., where speech has never been a guaranteed right for all citizens. Duncan argues that writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Mitsuye Yamada, Joy Kogawa, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Nora Okja Keller, and Anchee Min deploy silence as a means of resistance. Juxtaposing their “unofficial narratives” against other histories—official U.S. histories that have excluded them and American feminist narratives that have stereotyped them or distorted their participation—they argue for recognition of their cultural participation and offer analyses of the intersections among gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Tell This Silence offers innovative ways to consider Asian American gender politics, feminism, and issues of immigration and language. This exciting new study will be of interest to literary theorists and scholars in women's, American, and Asian American studies.

Culture and Value

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein,Heikki Nyman,Alois Pichler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Felsefe
ISBN : 9780631205715

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Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein,Heikki Nyman,Alois Pichler Pdf

Foreword to the Edition of 1977 Foreword to the 1994 Edition Editorial Note Note by Translator Culture and Value A Poem Notes Appendix:List of Sources List of Sources, Arranged Alphanumerically Index of Beginnings of Remarks Subject Index Index of Names.

Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0995716226

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Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many Women's Marches against Trump across the world. This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde's work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.