Unreliable Truths

Author : Sissy Helff
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789401208987

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While many people see ‘home’ as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past century, discussion of home and nation has been a highly complex matter, with broad political ramifications, including the realignment of nation-states and national boundaries. Against this backdrop, this book suggests that ‘home’ is constructed on the assumption that what it defines is constantly in flux and thus can never capture an objective perspective, an ultimate truth. Along these lines, Unreliable Truths offers a comparative literary approach to the construction of home and concomitant notions of uncertainty and unreliable narration in South Asian diasporic women’s literature from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Canada. Writers discussed in detail include Feroza Jussawalla, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Meera Syal, Farida Karodia, Shani Mootoo, Shobha Dé, and Oonya Kempadoo. With its focus on transcultural homes, Unreliable Truths goes beyond discussions of diaspora from an established postcolonial point of view and contributes with its investigation of transcultural unreliable narration to the representation of a g/local South Asian diaspora.

Author : Victor Methos
Publisher : Sterling Mystery Series
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1638082065

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An Unreliable Truth by Victor Methos Pdf

Two couples cut to bits near a canyon close to the Nevada border. The police pull over blood-soaked Arlo Ward not far from the site of the grisly murders; he fully cooperates with the officers, grinning through a remorseless confession dripping with gory detail. Investigators find no murder weapon, but young, awkward Arlo's confession is signed, taped, and delivered.

Author : Maureen Murdock
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1580050832

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Unreliable Truth by Maureen Murdock Pdf

Murdock explores the role of imagination in the process of writing memoirs, and suggests various ways to write a memoir, employing her own memories and other memoirs to demonstrate certain writing techniques, and providing step-by-step instructions for novice memoir writers.

Author : Fiona O'Loughlin
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780733645716

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Truths from an Unreliable Witness by Fiona O'Loughlin Pdf

Fiona O'Loughlin was raised in the generation of children who were to be seen, but not heard ... unless there were guests in the house. Then she'd watch everyone, telling stories, making each other laugh. This was where she discovered the rhythm of stories and the lubrication that alcohol leant the telling. Years later, as a mum of five, Fiona would become one of Australia's most-loved comedians, performing gigs in New York, Montreal, Singapore, London, Toronto and Edinburgh. Fiona looked like she was living her dream - but she was hiding a secret in open sight, using alcoholism as material for her comedy and using comedy as an excuse for her alcoholism. Truths from an Unreliable Witness is a fiercely honest and wryly funny memoir of melancholy, love, marriage, the loss of love and marriage, homelessness, of hotel rooms strewn with empty mini-bar bottles of vodka, of waking from a two-week coma, of putrid drug dens and using a jungle to confront yourself. It is about hitting rock bottom and then realising you are only halfway down. Ultimately, it's about hanging on to your last straw of sanity and finding laughter in the darkest of times. You may want to sit down for this...

Author : Larissa Pham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Erotica
ISBN : 1936440091

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Fantasian by Larissa Pham Pdf

An unnamed narrator's life at Yale takes a dizzying turn when she meets a girl who looks just like her. Drawn into each other's social worlds, they spiral deeper and deeper into a house of mirrors made of each other.

Author : Benjamin W. Redekop
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785275517

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Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid by Benjamin W. Redekop Pdf

Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demonstrates how a diverse array of neglected early modern thinkers turn out to have been on the right track for understanding how the mind makes sense of the world and how basic features of the human mind and cognition are related to scientific theory and practice. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and scholarship from the history of ideas, cognitive science, and the history and philosophy of science, this book helps readers understand the fundamental historical and philosophical relationship between common sense and science.

Author : Glenda Corwin
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781580053037

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Sexual Intimacy for Women by Glenda Corwin Pdf

A guide for lesbian couples to improve their levels of intimacy, providing exercises and anecdotes, covering common issues women in same-sex couples have, and discussing the intricacies of female desire.

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 0195130057

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The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology by Paul K. Moser Pdf

This reference work discusses one of the core topics of philosophy - the theory of knowledge. Connecting to virtually every other subfield, epistemology is central to mainstream philosophy. This book explains the ideas and problems of the field while avoiding overly technical detail.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literature
ISBN : MINN:31951P01178027Y

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Mosaic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11033227

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The Baptist quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. Nola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401002899

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Rescuing Reason by R. Nola Pdf

Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay of relations of power - the view of Michel Foucault? Or does our knowledge arise from "the will to power" - the view of Nietzsche? This volume sets out to critically examine the theses of those who would debunk the idea of rational explanation. The book is wide-ranging. The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny.

Author : Keith Lowe
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466842298

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The Fear and the Freedom by Keith Lowe Pdf

Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world. The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe’s follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of WWII—simultaneously one of the most catastrophic and most innovative events in history. It killed millions and eradicated empires, creating the idea of human rights, and giving birth to the UN. It was because of the war that penicillin was first mass-produced, computers were developed, and rockets first sent to the edge of space. The war created new philosophies, new ways of living, new architecture: this was the era of Le Corbusier, Simone de Beauvoir and Chairman Mao. But amidst the waves of revolution and idealism there were also fears of globalization, a dread of the atom bomb, and an unexpressed longing for a past forever gone. All of these things and more came about as direct consequences of the war and continue to affect the world that we live in today. The Fear and the Freedom is the first book to look at all of the changes brought about because of WWII. Based on research from five continents, Keith Lowe’s The Fear and the Freedom tells the very human story of how the war not only transformed our world but also changed the very way we think about ourselves.

Author : Lyn McCredden,Nathanael O'Reilly
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1742586066

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Tim Winton by Lyn McCredden,Nathanael O'Reilly Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331) and index.

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498577632

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Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing by Shilpa Daithota Bhat Pdf

This book looks at women writers from the South Asian region who negotiate Home from the vantage point of in-between space—defined through the mythical concept of Trishanku and the frameworks of migration, historical consciousness, colonialism, interracial experiences, fragmented memories, nostalgia, and hyphenated identities.

Author : Silvia Anastasijevic,Magdalena Pfalzgraf,Hanna Teichler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350374089

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The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature by Silvia Anastasijevic,Magdalena Pfalzgraf,Hanna Teichler Pdf

On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What, if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational connections articulated in it. Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book thinks through Anglophone literature not as a problematic legacy of colonial rule or as exoticizing commodity in a global literary marketplace but examines it as an inherently transcultural literary medium. Contributors provide new insights into how it facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.