Search Results - "Memoir"

Compelling confessions the politics of personal disclosure /

Table of Contents: “…Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. …”
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This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight / by Gitin, Maria

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Personal Effects

Table of Contents: “…Scholarly memoir : an un-"professional" practice / Margaret Willard-Traub -- In the name of the subject : some recent versions of the personal / Jeffrey Gray -- Radical introspection : the personal in scholarship and teaching / Brenda Daly -- Loss, memory, and the work of learning : lessons from the teaching life of Anne Sexton / Paula M. …”
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Visceral: Essays on Illness Not as Metaphor / by Dolphin-Krute, Maia

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Personal Effects /

Table of Contents: “…Scholarly memoir : an un-"professional" practice / Margaret Willard-Traub -- In the name of the subject : some recent versions of the personal / Jeffrey Gray -- Radical introspection : the personal in scholarship and teaching / Brenda Daly -- Loss, memory, and the work of learning : lessons from the teaching life of Anne Sexton / Paula M. …”
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Personal Effects /

Table of Contents: “…Scholarly memoir : an un-"professional" practice / Margaret Willard-Traub -- In the name of the subject : some recent versions of the personal / Jeffrey Gray -- Radical introspection : the personal in scholarship and teaching / Brenda Daly -- Loss, memory, and the work of learning : lessons from the teaching life of Anne Sexton / Paula M. …”
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Visceral: Essays on Illness Not as Metaphor / by Dolphin-Krute, Maia

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Interactions with a Violent Past : Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction the "American war," post-conflict landscapes, and violent memories / Oliver Tappe and Vatthana Pholsena -- National memorial sites and personal remembrance : remembering the dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde -- National lieu de memoire vs. multivocal memories : the case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe -- War-martyr bia : commemoration and perdurability in rural Vietnam / Markus Schlecker -- Laos : living with unexploded ordnance : past memories and present realities / Elaine Russell -- War debris in postwar society : managing risk and uncertainty in the DMZ / Christina Schwenkel -- A social reading of a post-conflict landscape : Route 9 in southern Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Redefining Agent Orange, mitigating its impacts / Susan Hammond -- Aesthetic forms of post-conflict memory : inspired vessels of memory in northeast Cambodia / Krisna Uk -- Remembering old homelands : the Houay Ho Dam, the resettlement of the Heuny (Nya Heun), memory, and the struggle for places -- Ian G. …”
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Interactions with a Violent Past : Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction the "American war," post-conflict landscapes, and violent memories / Oliver Tappe and Vatthana Pholsena -- National memorial sites and personal remembrance : remembering the dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde -- National lieu de memoire vs. multivocal memories : the case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe -- War-martyr bia : commemoration and perdurability in rural Vietnam / Markus Schlecker -- Laos : living with unexploded ordnance : past memories and present realities / Elaine Russell -- War debris in postwar society : managing risk and uncertainty in the DMZ / Christina Schwenkel -- A social reading of a post-conflict landscape : Route 9 in southern Laos / Vatthana Pholsena -- Redefining Agent Orange, mitigating its impacts / Susan Hammond -- Aesthetic forms of post-conflict memory : inspired vessels of memory in northeast Cambodia / Krisna Uk -- Remembering old homelands : the Houay Ho Dam, the resettlement of the Heuny (Nya Heun), memory, and the struggle for places -- Ian G. …”
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Lewis Nordan humor, heartbreak, and hope /

Table of Contents: “…Baker -- Life as a set of games and invented stories in Lewis Nordan's fictional memoir / Marcel Arbeit -- Happiness is a warm gun : guns and love in Lewis Nordan's work / Edward J. …”
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The Surrendered : Reflections by a Son of Shining Path / by Agüero, Jose Carlos

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The Surrendered : Reflections by a Son of Shining Path / by Agüero, Jose Carlos

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Fables of the East selected tales, 1662-1785 /

Table of Contents: “…From The Arabian nights entertainments, 'translated' by Antoine Galland (1704-1715) -- 'The fable of the mouse, that was changed into a little girl' from The fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699) -- 'The history of Commladeve' from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768) -- 'The adventures of Urad' from James Ridley, Tales of the genii (1764) -- 'The history of the Christian eunuch' from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1727) -- Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 12 October 1712 -- Horace Walpole, 'Mi Li, a Chinese fairy tale' from Hieroglyphic tales (1785) -- 'A voyage to Kachemire, the paradise of Indostan' from François Bernier, A continuation of the memories of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oxenberg (1672) -- From The general history of the Mogol Empire, compiled by François Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709) -- From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M...y W...y M...e (1763) -- From Giovanni Paolo Marana, The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1694) -- From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722) -- From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1762).…”
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Global humanitarianism and media culture /

Table of Contents: “…The United States Peace Corps in the early 1960s / Agnieszka Sobocinska -- The naive republic of aid : grassroots exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir / Emily Bauman -- 'Telegenically dead Palestinians' : cinema, news media and perception management of the Gaza conflicts / Shohini Chaudhuri -- The Unknown Famine : television and the politics of British humanitarianism / Andrew Jones -- European borderscapes : the management of migration between care and control / Pierluigi Musarò -- The role of aid agencies in the media portrayal of children in Za'atari refugee camp / Toby Fricker -- Selling the lottery to earn salvation : journalism practice, risk and humanitarian communication / Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Gabriel Andrade -- Consumption, global humanitarianism and childhood / Laura Suski -- Liking visuals and visually liking on Facebook : from starving children to satirical saviours / Rachel Tavernor -- The corporate karma carnival : offline and online games, branding and humanitarianism at the Roskilde Festival / Lene Bull Christiansen and Mette Fog Olwig.…”
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Global humanitarianism and media culture /

Table of Contents: “…The United States Peace Corps in the early 1960s / Agnieszka Sobocinska -- The naive republic of aid : grassroots exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir / Emily Bauman -- 'Telegenically dead Palestinians' : cinema, news media and perception management of the Gaza conflicts / Shohini Chaudhuri -- The Unknown Famine : television and the politics of British humanitarianism / Andrew Jones -- European borderscapes : the management of migration between care and control / Pierluigi Musarò -- The role of aid agencies in the media portrayal of children in Za'atari refugee camp / Toby Fricker -- Selling the lottery to earn salvation : journalism practice, risk and humanitarian communication / Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Gabriel Andrade -- Consumption, global humanitarianism and childhood / Laura Suski -- Liking visuals and visually liking on Facebook : from starving children to satirical saviours / Rachel Tavernor -- The corporate karma carnival : offline and online games, branding and humanitarianism at the Roskilde Festival / Lene Bull Christiansen and Mette Fog Olwig.…”
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Colonial citizenship and everyday transnationalism : an immigrant's story / by Innes, Alexandria J.

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Broken Records / by Žabić, Snežana, 1974-

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A Silvan Tomkins Handbook : Foundations for Affect Theory by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Table of Contents: “…Vailima letters: correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin.--XVIII. Memoir of Fleming Jenkin. Records of a family of engineers.…”
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Sounding Like a No No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post Soul Era / by Royster, Francesca T.

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Sounding Like a No No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post Soul Era / by Royster, Francesca T.

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